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

Spring 2012 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 27, 2012 9:37 am.

Date Room Title Speaker
Mon 1/23   Optical Multidimensional Fourier Transform Spectroscopy  Steven Cundiff
JILA, Nat'l. Inst.Standards & Tech & U of CO
Mon 1/30   Towards High-Performance Portable Atomic Clocks  Elizabeth Donley
NIST - Boulder
Mon 2/2    
Mon 2/6   Molecular Monolayers as Interacting Rolling Balls: Crystals, Liquid and Vapor  Vakhtang Putkaradze
Dept. of Mathematics & Biomedical Engr.
Mon 2/13 120 Engr.  Ultracold Neutral Plasma Resonant Response to Few-Cycle Radio-Frequency Pulses  Jacob L. Roberts
Dept. of Physics, CSU
Mon 2/20 120 Engr.  picoSpin: Miniature NMR Spectrometers for Fun and Profit  John Price
CU-Boulder
Mon 2/27 120 Engr.  Universal Insights into Few-Body Systems  Chris H. Greene
CU-Boulder
Mon 3/5 120 Engr.  Going Beyond the Traditional Nuclear Shell Model with the Study of Neutron-Rich (Radioactive) Light Nuclei  Fred Sarazin
Colorado School of Mines
Mon 3/19   Neutrino Mass and Mixing: The Experimental View  Eric D. Zimmerman
Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
Mon 4/2   Synthesis and Characterization of Intermetallics in the Solid-State  Robin T. Macaluso
University of Northern Colorado
Mon 4/9   Applications of Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscopy in the Study of Nanomaterials and Biopolymers  Alan Van orden
CSU Dept. of Chemistry
Mon 4/16   Fabrication and Characterization of Nanoscale Structures  Wenyong Wang
Univ. of Wyoming
Mon 4/23   Waveforms for Gravitational Wave Astronomy  Lee Lindblom
Caltech
Thurs 4/26   Quantum effects and slow waves in high intensity laser propagation  H.M. Milchberg
Univ. of Maryland
Mon 4/30   Soft Magnetic Thin Film Applications At Radio Frequencies  Masahiro Yamaguchi
Tohoku University - Japan