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Colloquium Schedule

   

Time and location: Tuesdays at 4:10 pm in Webster B17 on the Pullman campus of Washington State University, unless otherwise noted.

Come meet the speaker over coffee & cookies at 3:45 pm in Concourse on the Ground floor.
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U of I colloquia
Date
 
Speaker and Talk Title
Host

January 15

Geri Richmond , Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, title: At the Water's Edge: Understanding Environmentally Important Processes at Aqueous Surfaces JTD
January 22 Igor Kuskovsky, Queens College of CUNY, New York, title:The Optical Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Quantum Dots


YG

January 29 Charles Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Lab
title: Colloids a Model System to Explore Complex Matter with Competing Interactions

DB
January 31
Thursday
Bogdan Damski, Los Alamos National Lab
title:Dynamics of quantum phase transitions in ultracold atomic gases

DB
February 5 Sumanta Tewari, Department of Physics,
University of Maryland
title: ''Phenomenological Theory of Non-Collinear Magnetic States in Multiferroics''

DB
February 7
Thursday
Chuanwei Zhang, Department of Physics,
University of Maryland
title:Topology, Statistics, and Universal Quantum Computation in Ultra-cold Atomic Gases

DB
February 12 Cynthia Olson Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Lab
title:
Local probes at the nanoscale: Avalanches, melting, and jamming transitions

DB
February 14
Thursday
Daniel McIntosh, Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
title:
"Exploring Galaxy Evolution with Modern Surveys''

GW
February 19
12 pm
Andy Boden, Michelson Science Center, California Institute of Technology
title:
Spying on Young Stars (at High Angular Resolution)


GW

February 19
4 pm

Inna Ponomareva, Department of Physics,
University of Arkansas
title:
Design and modeling on nanoscale through computer simulations

DB
February 21
Thursday
Denis Ullmo, University of Paris, Orsay, France
title:
"Many-body physics and quantum chaos in mesoscopic systems "

ST
February 26 Adrienne Juett, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
title:
The Wonderful Universe of Low Mass X-ray Binaries

GW

February 28
Thursday

Thomas Puzia, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics,
Victoria, BC
title:
Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems: The Swiss-Army Knives of Astrophysics

GW

March 11

Spring Break

 

March 18

Oksana Ostroverkhova, Department of Physics,Oregon State University title: Organic (opto)electronic materials: understanding charge carrier dynamics
MK
March 25 Larry Sorensen, Department of Physics, University of Washington title: Brain Physics: New Signals from the Brain
MM
April 3

Thursday
Mark Jarrell, Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, title: Massively Parallel Simulations of the Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors
MDM
April 8 Graduate Student MiniColloquium, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Washington State University
title: Three Great Talks

JTD
April 17

Thursday
Brad Gibson, Centre for Astrophysics, University of Central Lancashire, title: Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud?
MDM
April 22 Elisha Polomoski, Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, title:The Cosmic Dust Cycle
GW
April 24

Thursday
Sergej Flach, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany , title: Localizing energy through nonlinearity and discreteness - from order to disorder
MDM
May 6

Achamveedu Gopakumar, School of Physics and Astronomy, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, title: Inspiral dynamics of compact binaries: its applications


GW
 
                         
 

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