Department of Physics

School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

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Colloquia / Public Lectures

Spring 2013 Colloquia Schedule:
Wednesdays @ 4:15 pm
SLC 1.102

Coffee and cookies @ 4 pm

Our department colloquium is a forum for invited scientists to present modern research in a fashion accessible to those with a background in physics, but who are not experts in the field. Talks are aimed at the graduate level.

If you have questions about colloquium, please contact Dr. Anton Malko.

Date/Host

Speaker/Institution

Title/Abstract

January 30
   

February 6

 

 

February 13
Host: Prof. Phillip Anderson

Prof. Yue Deng

Investigation of Energy Input Uncertainty and Physical Processes in the Upper atmosphere Using Numerical Models

February 20
Host: Prof. Phillip Anderson

Dr. Noe Lugaz, University of New Hampshire

Tracking and Simulating Solar Eruptions Between the Sun and the Earth

February 27
Host: Prof. Chuanwei Zhang

Prof. Carlos Sa de Mello, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA

A Century of Superfluidity: from Mercury to Neutron Stars, from Nuclei to Ultra-cold Atoms

March 4

Host: Prof. Mustapha Ishak

Dr. Michael Kesden

New York University

New astrophysical probes of black-hole spin

March 6
Host: Prof. Mustapha Ishak

Dr. Xingang Chen

University of Cambridge, UK


Primordial Non-Gaussianity and Fundamental Physics in the Very Early Universe

March 13

No Colloquium – Spring Break

 

March 20

Host: Prof. Phillip Anderson

Dr. Lunjin Chen

University of California Los Angeles

Recent advances in plasmaspheric hiss research

March 27
Host: Prof. Mark Lee

Dr. Wei Pan, Sandia Nat’l Labs

Bloch Oscillations in Two-Dimensional Antidot Arrays

April 3

No Colloquium

 

April 8

Host: Prof. Phillip Anderson

Dr. Hui Zhang

Geophysical Institute, University of Fairbanks, Alaska

Hot Flow Anomaly: Explosions at the Earth's Bow Shock

April 10
Host: Prof. Phillip Anderson

 

Reserved Space Science Search

April 17
Host: Prof. Phillip Anderson

Dr. Jichun Zhang 

 Ion injection into the inner magnetosphere

April 24

Host: Prof. Lindsay King

Dr. Mustafa Amin

University of Cambridge, UK

Whispers from the Big Bang

May 1

Host: Prof. Chuanwei Zhang

Prof. Yi Gu

Washington State University

Minority Carrier Transport in Semiconductor Nanowires Studied by Scanning Probe Microscopy

 

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  • Updated: February 1, 2013
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