Fall 2011
| August 22 | No colloquium |
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| August 29 |
"Student Summer Research Presentation - Part I" by Ms. Suzanne Carter, Mr. Nolan Grieves, Ms. Teresa Lackey, and Mr. Colorado Reed, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa |
| September 5 | LABOR DAY |
| September 12 |
"Student Summer Research Presentation - Part II" by Mr. Garret Funk, Mr. Ryan Hood, Mr. George Jia, Mr. Jared Moon, and Mr. Nick Rolston, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa |
| September 19 |
"The Black Hole in the Galactic Center" by Prof. Charles F. Gammie, Department of Astronomy and Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| September 26 |
"Attosecond Imaging with X-Rays" by Prof. Peter Abbamonte, Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| October 3 | No colloquium |
| October 10 |
"The Velocity of Neutrinos" by Prof. Mary Hall Reno, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa |
| October 17 |
"Status of LHC and Tevatron Higgs Searches" by Dr. Eric James, Particle Physics Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| October 24 |
"Solvent Dynamics: Governing Structure in Biological Systems" by Prof. Christina M. Othon, Department of Physics, Wesleyan University |
| October 31 | No colloquium |
| November 7 |
"Data Analysis in High Energy Physics" by Dr. Tingjun Yang, Particle Physics Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| November 14 |
"Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques for Physics" by Prof. Bernd A. Berg, Department of Physics, Florida State University |
| November 21 | THANKSGIVING RECESS |
| November 28 |
"Line-scanning Confocal Microscopy for Imaging in Human Skin" by Dr. Bjorg Larson, Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| December 5 |
"Encoding Memories in Neuronal Networks" by Prof. Carina Curto, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Spring 2012
| January 23 | No colloquium |
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| January 30 | No colloquium |
| February 6 |
"Kinetic Theory of Instability-Enhanced Collisions and Its Application to Langmuir's Paradox and the Multi-species Bohm Criterion" by Dr. Scott D. Baalrud, Space Science Center of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire |
| February 13 |
"Introduction to Faculty Research" by Profs. Michael Flatté and Usha Mallik, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa |
| February 20 |
TBA by Faculty Candidate |
| February 21 |
"The Search for New Elementary Particles at the CERN Large Hadron Collider" by Prof. Michael Peskin, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory |
| February 27 |
TBA by Faculty Candidate |
| March 5 |
TBA by Faculty Candidate |
| March 12 | SPRING BREAK |
| March 19 |
TBA by Prof. Elizabeth Freeland, Department of Physics and Engineering, Benedictine University |
| March 26 |
TBA by Prof. David Cohen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Swarthmore College |
| April 2 | |
| April 9 | |
| April 16 |
TBA by Dr. Adam Para, Computing Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| April 23 |
TBA by Prof. Elena Cáceres, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin and Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Colima |
| April 30 | Awards Colloquium |
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