Fall 2011

August 22 No colloquium    
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    
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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