Colloquia |
Fall 2007 |
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| August 27 |
No colloquium |
| September 3 |
LABOR DAY |
| September 10 |
"In Search of the Heliopause with Voyagers 1 and 2" by Prof. Donald A. Gurnett, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa |
| September 17 |
"Mn in GaAs Studied by X-STM: A Single Impurity to Ferromagnetic Layers" by Prof. Paul Koenraad, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology |
| September 24 |
"What I Did Last Summer" by Mr. David Nelms, Mr. Robert Null, Ms. Michelle Potts, Mr. Mark Smalley, Mr. James Wetzel, and Ms. Catherine Whiting, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa |
| October 1 |
No colloquium |
| October 8 |
"Superconducting Quarks: Condensed Matter in the Heavens" by Prof. Mark Alford, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis |
| October 15 |
No colloquium |
| October 22 |
"Slow Light in Semiconductor Heterostructures" by Prof. John Prineas, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa |
| October 29 |
"Density Functional Theory: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" by Prof. Kieron Burke, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine |
| November 5 |
"Ab Initio Solutions of the Properties of Light Nuclei" by Prof. James P. Vary, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University |
| November 12 |
"Nuclear Forces & the Destiny of the Universe" by Dr. Robert B. Wiringa, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory |
| November 19 |
THANKSGIVING RECESS |
| November 26 |
"Turbulent Liquid Metal Dynamo Experiments" by Prof. Cary Forest, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| December 3 |
No colloquium |
| December 10 |
"Physics of Disk Drives - Spintronics, Magnetism, and Materials" by Dr. Olle Heinonen, Seagate Technology |
Spring 2008 |
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| January 23 |
"Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era: The New Picture of High Energy Afterglows" by Dr. Abraham D. Falcone, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University |
| January 28 |
"Semiconductor Spintronics: Just the Facts" by Prof. Nitin Samarth, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University |
| February 4 |
"The NuSTAR Satellite Mission: Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus" by Dr. Jason E. Koglin, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University |
| February 11 |
"Soft X-ray Spectroscopy of Diffuse and Compact Objects" by Dr. Randall L. McEntaffer, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado |
| February 13 |
"Gamma-Ray Polarimetry: A New Window on Extreme Physics in the Cosmos" by Dr. Peter F. Bloser, Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire |
| February 18 |
No colloquium |
| February 25 |
"Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulent Transport in Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas" by Dr. Paolo Ricci, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| February 28 |
"Three-dimensional Quasi-static Magnetospheric Modeling" by Dr. Sorin G. Zaharia, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| March 3 |
"Momentum Transport From Magnetic Fluctuations in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas" by Dr. Fatima Ebrahimi, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| March 6 |
"Kinetic Turbulence in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas" by Dr. Gregory G. Howes, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley |
| March 10 |
No colloquium |
| March 13 |
"The Million-degree Solar Corona: How Can It Get So Hot?" by Dr. Chung-Sang Ng, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire |
| March 17 |
SPRING BREAK |
| March 24 |
No colloquium |
| March 31 |
No colloquium |
| April 7 |
"How Stable are the Solitons" by Prof. Surajit Sen, Department of Physics, The State University of New York, Buffalo |
| April 14 |
"Measuring the Thickness of Saturn's F Ring: Ring-Plane Crossings from Earth and Cassini" by Prof. Britt Scharringhausen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Beloit College |
| April 21 |
No colloquium |
| April 28 |
No colloquium |
| May 5 |
Awards Colloquium |
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