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

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