Department of Physics Texas A&M University COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE   Fall 2007

    All talks 4:00 PM Thursday in room 202 Engineering Physics Building, unless othewise noted (in red)
    For location see campus MAP (search for ENPH, also called James J. Cain Building).

Also see this link to Physics Dept. general calendar (has complete abstracts where available)
Or see this page for past colloquium abstracts, and in some cases pdf files of the slides.

Department of Physics > Seminars_and_colloquia > Colloquia Fall 2007

DATE	NAME	TITLE	HOST
Thurs. Sept 13	Dr. John Gillaspy, NIST	From the Subatomic to the Astronomical: Physics Across 32 Orders of Magnitude with Highly Charged Ions	Church
Thurs. Sept 20	Don Carona, TAMU	Physics Observatory: Growth in Facilities, Teaching and Research	Belyanin
Thurs. Sept 27	Prof. Wenhao Wu, Texas A&M University	Can the Superconductor-Insulator Transition be a Duality Quantum Phase Transition?	Hu
Thurs. Oct 4	Prof. Bhaskar Dutta, Texas A&M University	23% of the universe at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)	Kamon
Thurs. Oct 11	Prof. Jogesh Pati, U. of Maryland	Quest For Unification: With Neutrino Masses Revealed Proton Decay is the Missing Link	Pope
Thurs. Oct 18	Prof. Peter Levy, NYU	An idiosyncratic survey of Spintronics: from 1963 to the present	Sinova
Thurs. Oct 25	Prof. Joseph Kapusta, University of Minnesota	Physics at RHIC	Rapp
Thurs. Nov 1	Paul Abell and Rob Landis, Johnson Space Center, Houston	Piloted Missions to Near-Earth Objects via the Crew Exploration Vehicle	Krisciunas
Mon. Nov 5	Prof. Kenneth Schafer, Louisiana State University	The Attosecond World	Welch
Thurs. Nov 8, 2:00 PM, room 501 ENPH	Prof. Mette Gaarde, Louisiana State University	How to control and optimize the generation of coherent, ultrafast XUV radiation	Welch
Thurs. Nov 8	Prof. Andy Howell, University of Toronto	Dark Energy and Type Ia Supernovae: The latest results from the Supernova Legacy Survey	L. Wang
Thurs. Nov 15	Prof. Randy Hulet, Rice University	Fermion Pairing with Ultracold Atoms	Hu
Tues. Nov 20, room 501 ENPH	Prof. Yuri Oganessian, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia	Superheavy Elements, Synthesis and Properties	Hardy
Thurs. Nov 22	- (No Colloquium) -	- (Thankgiving holiday) -	---
Thurs. Nov 29	Prof. Anatoli Polkovnikov, Boston University	Cold atoms and out of equilibrium quantum dynamics	Abanov
Thurs. Dec 6	Prof. Shamit Kachru, Stanford University	"Naturalness" in field theory, string theory, and Nature	M. Becker
Thurs. Dec 13	Prof. Louis DiMauro, Ohio State University	The attosecond era	Schuessler