Spring 2015 Colloquia

Department of Physics

Spring 2015 Colloquia

All colloquia are held at 4:30 p.m. in CW 102 unless otherwise stated.

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
1/26	Uwe Bergmann	Stanford	U. Thumm	Going ultra-short and ultra-bright - The science and applications of the world's first X-ray free electron laser
2/2	Chris Polly	Fermilab	T. Bolton	Muon g-2 and the quest for TeV scale physics
2/9	Artem Rudenko	K-State	A. Chakrabarti	Imaging dynamics of small quantum systems with light
2/16	Punit Prakash	K-State	J. Schmit	Technologies for conformal image-guided thermal therapy of cancer: challenges and opportunities
2/23	Hongxing Jiang	Texas Tech	A. Chakrabarti	Special Public Lecture on the Nobel Prize in Physics: History and development of efficient blue LEDs for lighting
3/2	Herman Batelaan	Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln	U. Thumm	Controlled double slit electron diffraction
3/9	Daniel Stern	JPL	A. Chakrabarti	Neff Lecture (Town Hall, Leadership Studies): Highlights from the NuSTAR Satellite
3/10	Daniel Stern	JPL	G. Horton-Smith	Surprising New Insights into Quasars from the WISE Satellite
3/16	Spring Break
3/23	Michael Wittman	Univ. of Maine	E. Sayre	Investigating Teacher Knowledge of Energy, Students' Ideas, and Pedagogical Strategies
3/30	Martin Muschol	Univ. of South Florida	J. Schmit	What Can Soft Condensed Matter Physics Tell Us about Alzheimer's Disease?
4/6	Arvinder Sandhu	Univ. of Arizona	V. Kumarappan	Attosecond spectroscopy to study electron dynamics in complex systems
4/13	Regina Demina	Univ. of Rochester	T. Bolton	Does Nature respect (gauge) symmetry? (Higgs boson discovery and beyond)
4/20	Risa Wechsler	Stanford Univ.	G. Horton-Smith	The Dark Universe from Cosmological Surveys
4/27	Michael Brooks	Author, Columnist, New Statesman, Consultant, New Scientist	A. Chakrabarti	Peterson Lecture (Hemisphere Room, Hale Library) Welcome to Wonderland: Making sense of life in a quantum universe
5/4	Mary Rezac	K-State Chem Engineering	E. Sayre	Solute transport through polymers: Manipulating structure-property-performance relationships for desired results
5/11	Mark Boland	Univ. of Melbourne	A. Chakrabarti	Special Oz-to-Oz Colloquium in CW 144/145 Blinded by the Light: Science and Art at the Australian Synchrotron

Colloquium Committee

Ellie Sayre (Chair), Glenn Horton-Smith, Bharat Ratra, Uwe Thumm, Gary Wysin and Nicoleta Ploscariu

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