Spring 2008 Colloquia
Department of Physics, Colorado State University
Unless otherwise noted, all Physics colloquia will be held in the Hammond Auditorium, Engineering AR120, which is the new lecture hall on the first floor of the Physics Addition on the south side of Engineering between the D and E wings.
All lectures are to begin at 4:00 unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be 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 May 1, 2008 11:13 am.
| Date | Room | Title | Speaker |
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| Mon 2/4 | Spintronic biochips for biomolecular recognition detection | Prof. Paulo Freitas Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal |
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| Mon 2/11 | Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS): A Future Super Star of Atomic Spectrometry and Its Application to Bacteria Identification | Prof. Steve Rehse Wayne State Univ. |
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| Mon 2/18 | Linewidth of a Nonlinear Spin-Torque Auto-Oscillator | Prof. Andrei Slavin Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan |
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| Mon 2/25 | The Misuse of Quantum Mechanics | Prof. Victor J. Stenger Univ. of Hawaii and the Univ. of Colorado |
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| Mon 3/3 | Detecting Trends in the Upper Atmosphere: Physical Challenges | Dr. Betsey Weatherhead Univ. of Colorado at Boulder |
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| Thurs 3/6 | LSC 220 4 p.m. |
Latest results from the Pierre Auger Observatory | Miguel Mostafa University of Utah |
| Mon 3/10 | The extreme universe: astronomy and particle physics with VHE gamma rays | Amanda Weinstein University of California Los Angeles |
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| Mon 3/24 | We Are Not in a Climate Crisis | Dr. William M. Gray Colorado State University |
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| Mon 3/31 | Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at Homestake | Kevin T. Lesko Univ. of California at Berkeley |
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| Mon 4/7 | Astrophysical Discovery Within the Student's Reach: Variable Star Phenomena | Dr. Eric Craine Global Network of Astronomical Telescopes, Tucson, AZ |
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| Mon 4/14 | Patterned Nanomagnetic Bits and Devices | Dr. Bruce Terris Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, CA |
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| Mon 4/21 | A First Step Toward a New Architecture for a Li-ion Battery | Dr. Amy Prieto Dept. of Chemistry, CSU |
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| Mon 4/28 | The Line Solitions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili II Equation | Sarbarish Chakravarty UCCS |
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| Mon 5/5 | The Use of Muons for Sensitive Tests of Subatomic Physics and Astrophysics | Dr. Fred Gray Regis University, Denver |