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Colloquium Schedule


 

 

2009 Spring Semester Colloquia

Unless otherwise indicated, colloquia will be presented in Brace Lab, Room 211, on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. during Fall and Spring semesters. Refreshments will precede colloquia in Brace Lab, Room 201, at 3:30 p.m. For further information please call the Department of Physics and Astronomy at (402) 472-2770.

Date Host Speaker Title
Jan. 15   Aaron Dominguez, University of Nebraska, Lincoln "Using Silicon Trackers To Do High Energy Physics"
Feb. 5 Lee Terry Oswalt, Florida Institute of Technology "Digging in the Stellar Graveyard: What White Dwarf Stars Tell Us about the Age of the Universe"
Feb. 12 Tsymbal Xianglin Ke, Pennsylvania State University "Geometrically Frustrated Magnets: Dirty & Artificial Spin Ice"
WEDNESDAY
Feb. 18 		Tsymbal Sergei Urazdhin, West Virginia University "Current-Induced Excitations in Magnetic Bilayers: Why Does the Polarizer Behave Differently From the Free Layer?"
Feb. 19 Gay Elizabeth McCormack, Bryn Mawr "The Detection and Analysis of Long-Range States of Molecular Hydrogen"
TUESDAY
Feb. 24 		Starace Hiromichi Niikura, National Research Council of Canada & The Japan Science and Technology Agency "Attosecond Re-Collision Dynamics"
Feb. 26 Starace Wen Li, University of Colorado & NIST "Probing Coupled Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics Using Coherent Electrons and X-rays"
MONDAY
Mar. 2 		Starace Martin Centurion, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics "Ultrafast Imaging of Plasma and Molecular Dynamics Using Electron Pulses"
Mar. 5 Starace Valery Milner, University of British Columbia "Coherent Scattering with Incoherent Light: New Specroscopy with Ultra-Short Laser Pulses"
MONDAY
Mar. 9 		Starace Gretchen Campbell, JILA and University of Colorado-Boulder "Probing Quantum Coherence and Ultracold Collisions with a 87 Strontium Optical Lattice Clock"
Mar. 19   NO COLLOQUIUM SPRING BREAK
Mar. 26   TBA  
Apr. 2 Binek Beatriz Roldan,
University of Central Florida		 "Atomic Vibrations in Metal Nanostructures"
Apr. 9 Gay Gordon Berry , University of Notre Dame & Mary Hynes-Berry, Erikson Institute for Early Childhood Development-Chicago "Science Literacy: Milton Meets Einstein"
Apr. 16 Adenwalla David Keavney, Argonne National Laboratory "Imaging of Magnetization Dynamics Using X-Ray Microscopy"
Apr. 30 Snow Heidi Schellman, Northwestern University "Recent Hot Physics Results from Fermilab"