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Colloquium Schedule


 

2008 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. 17 Umstadter Roger Kirby, UNL "Nanoscale Magnetism: Physics and Applications"
Jan. 24      
Jan. 31 Bloom David Z. Besson, Univ. of Kansas "Catching Neutrinos in the Antarctic Icecap"
Feb. 7 Binek Michel J.F. Pleimling,
Virginia Tech		 "Aging Phenomena in Magnetic Systems"
Feb 14 Claes Gregory Snow, UNL "We Know Where They're Coming From! - Recent Physics Results from the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory"
Feb. 21 Leslie-Pelecky Kathie Newman, U. Notre Dame "Lessons on Climate and Curriculum for Physics"
Feb. 28 Shadwick Carl Schroeder, LBNL "Laser-Plasma Accelerators with Applications to Coherent Radiation Sources"
Mar. 20   SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK
Mar. 24 HEP Ronald Moore, Fermilab "Tevatron Run 2: Rise of the Machines"
Mar. 27 HEP Thomas Wright, Fermilab "Searching for Higgs Bosons at the Tevatron"
Mar. 31 HEP Kevin Lannon, Fermilab "Digging Up Top and Higgs at the Tevatron"
Apr. 3 HEP Ilya Kravchenko, MIT "B Physics at CDF: What It Takes to Make a Flagship Measurement at a Collider Experiment"
Apr. 9 HEP Don Lincoln , Fermilab "The Physics of Generations: The Next Layer in the Cosmic Onion "
Apr. 10 Batelaan Cliff Surko,
Univ. of California - San Diego		 "Physics with Low-Energy Antimatter"
Apr. 14 HEP Ben Brau, Fermilab "Using Leptons and Bosons to Search for New Physics in Hadron Collisions"
Apr. 17 Gruverman Olga Shenderova, International Technology Center "Detonation Nanodiamond & Onion-like Carbon: Synthesis, Properties & Applications"
May 1 Claes Philip Mannheim, University of Connecticut "Dark Matter and Dark Energy - Fact or Fiction?"