"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms." --George Wald

Fall 2009 Colloquia
Department of Physics, Colorado State University

Unless otherwise noted, all Physics colloquia are held in the Hammond Auditorium, Engineering AR120, which is the lecture hall on the first floor of the Physics Addition on the south side of Engineering between the D and E wings.

All lectures begin at 4:00 unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are available ten minutes before the lecture, in the "Physics Foyer" (a.k.a. "The Site of the Foucault Pendulum") to the east of the Hammond Auditorium. For more information contact the Department at 970-491-6206.

The information below was last updated November 5, 2009 11:35 am.

Date Room Title Speaker
Mon 8/24   Crystals, Polymers, Lithography...Oh my! - Towards Integrating Optical Systems onto a Single Chip  Martha-Elizabeth Baylor
University of Colorado at Boulder
Mon 8/31   Ice, Smoke and Clusters in the Earth's Mesosphere  Jörg Gumbel
Stockholm University
Mon 9/7   No Speaker -- Labor Day 
Mon 9/14   Formation of rocky planets in the Solar System and elsewhere  Dr. Sean Raymond
CASA, University of Colorado at Boulder
Mon 9/21   Extraordinary Magnetoresistance Devices  Dr. Bruce A. Gurney
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Mon 9/28   Postponed until Nov 2  Dr. Adrian Feinguin
Univeristy of Wyoming
Mon 10/5   Electrical Impedance Tomography  Dr. Jennifer Mueller
Colorado State University
Mon 10/12   SOURCES AND SINKS OF CO2 DEDUCED FROM ATMOSPHERIC GASES  Dr. Scott Denning
Colorado State University
Mon 10/19   Gigabit, Teravolt, Petabyte  Dr. Ken Bloom
University of Nebraska
Mon 10/26  

Holey Fibers and Nanotubes!

Advances for Fiber Lasers and Fiber Laser-Based Frequency Combs

 
Dr. Brian Washburn
Kansas State University
Mon 11/2   Exotic paired states of Fermi gases in optical lattices
**Note the Start Time has been shifted this week to 4:30 pm** 
Dr. Adrian Feiguin
University of Wyoming
Wed 11/4   Solution of the 35-Year-Old Far-From-CMC Existence Problem for the Einstein Constraint Equations  Dr. Mike Holst
University of California, San Diego
Mon 11/9   Timekeeping for Tomorrow: Atomic Clocks using Ultracold Atoms in an Optical Lattice  Dr. Andrew Ludlow
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Mon 11/16   TBA  Dr. Jinke Tang
University of Wyoming