Department of Physics Texas A&M University COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE   Fall 2008

    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 2008

DATE	NAME	TITLE	HOST
Thurs. Sep 11	Prof. Bhaskar Dutta, TAMU	Precision Cosmology at the Large Hadron Collider	Hu
Weds. Sep 17	Prof. Alexei Safonov, TAMU	LHC: A New Era Has Just Started	Allen
Thurs. Sep 18	Prof. Saskia Mioduszewski, TAMU	Probing High-Temperature QCD Matter	Hu
Thurs. Sep 25	Prof. Milivoj Belic, Texas A&M University - Qatar	Dancing Light: Counter-propagating Beams in Photonic Crystals	Hu
Thurs. Oct 2	Prof. Kevin Lehmann, U. Virginia	Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Helium Nanodroplets	Fry
Thurs. Oct 9	Prof. M. Suhail Zubairy, TAMU	Beyond the Rayleigh limit in optical lithography	Scully
Fri. Oct 10, 3 PM Room 501 ENPH	Prof. Vsevolod Gantmakher, Inst. of Solid State Physics, Russian Acad. Science	Experimental studies of superconductor-insulator transitions	Wu
Thurs. Oct 16	Prof. Vsevolod Gantmakher, Inst. of Solid State Physics, Russian Acad. Science	Metal-insulator transition in high density electron gas ("chemical" or "two-step" localization)	Wu
Fri. Oct 17, 3 PM Room 501 ENPH	Prof. Vsevolod Gantmakher, Inst. of Solid State Physics, Russian Acad. Science	Critical magnetic field in marginal superconductors	Wu
Thurs. Oct 23	Prof. Lifan Wang, TAMU	Is Dome A, Antarctica the Best Site for Ground-Based Astronomy?	Hu
Thurs. Oct 30	Prof. Jack Bass, Michigan State University	Giant Magnetoresistance: Electron Spin Matters	Saslow
Thurs. Nov 6	Prof. Ildar Gabitov, U. of Arizona	Ambidextrous Light in a Nonlinear Left-Handed World	Lyuksyutov
Thurs. Nov 13	Prof. Karl Gebhardt, U. of Texas	How to Profit from the Inflationary Universe	Papovich
Thurs. Nov 20	Prof. Mark Lemmon, TAMU	One summer in the Martian Arctic	Papovich
Thurs. Nov 27	(No Colloquium)	(Thanksgiving holiday)	---
Thurs. Dec 4	---	No colloquium; go to Herschbach lecture	---
Thurs. Dec 11	Prof. Philip Stamp, U. British Columbia	Large-Scale Quantum Phenomena, and the Decoherence Enigma	Finkelstein