Spring 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 April 30, 2009 8:46 am.
| Date |
Room |
Title |
Speaker |
| Mon 1/26 |
|
The Optical Frequency Comb: A Remarkable Tool for Metrology, Science, and Medical Diagnostics |
John L. (Jan) Hall JILA, CU Boulder, and NIST |
| Mon 2/2 |
|
The Aspherical Universe: Probing Circumstellar Geometry with Polarimetry and Numerical Modeling |
Jennifer Hoffman Univ. of Denver, Physics & Astronomy |
| Mon 2/9 |
|
Studying Polymers with Fields |
David Wang CSU, Chemical & Biological Engineering |
| Mon 2/16 |
|
Holographic Data Storage at InPhase Technologies |
Kevin Curtis InPhase Technologies |
| Mon 2/23 |
|
Electronic Phase Transitions at High Pressures: A Challenge to Experimentalists & Theoreticians |
B. K. Godwal Univ. of California, Berkeley |
| Mon 3/2 |
|
Current and future technologies for breast cancer detection |
R. Edward Hendrick School of Medicine, Northwestern Univ., Emeritus |
| Mon 3/9 |
|
Femtosecond Dynamics, Multidimensional Spectroscopy, and Harvesting Sunlight |
David Jonas CU Boulder, Chemistry and Biochemistry |
| Mon 3/23 |
|
Multiple Exciton Generation, Charge Carrier Dynamics, and Solar Energy Conversion in Electronically Coupled Films of PbSe Nanocrystals |
Matthew Beard National Renewable Energy Lab |
| Mon 3/30 |
|
Grain Boundaries in Thin-Film Solar Cells |
James Sites CSU, Physics |
| Mon 4/6 |
|
Channels and Pores in Nanoscale Biophysics |
Diego Krapf CSU, Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| Mon 4/13 |
|
The Elusive Quantum Spin Liquid |
Michael Hermele CU Boulder, Physics |
| Mon 4/20 |
|
Oxide Nanoelectronics on Demand |
Jeremy Levy U. Pittsburgh, Physics & Astronomy |
| Mon 4/27 |
|
Tunable Thermal Hysteresis in Magnetic Multilayers: Superheating and Supercooling |
Robert Camley UCCS, Physics |
| Mon 5/4 |
|
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SAXS but Were Afraid to Ask |
Mark van der Woerd CSU, Biochem & Mol Bio |