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

DATE	NAME	TITLE	HOST
Mon. Jan 14	Prof. Alexander Sergeev, Inst. Applied Physics, Russian Acad. Sciences	Development of Petawatt laser facilities in Russia and their applications	Kocharovskaya
Thurs. Jan 17	David Sandison, Sandia National Laboratory	Driving Micromachines from Ideas to Impact - a National Security Perspective	Teizer
Tues. Jan 22	Dr. Richard Cavanaugh, University of Florida	The LHC and CMS: Probing the Great Questions of Particle Physics and Cosmology	Toback
Thurs. Jan 24	Dr. Kaixuan Ni, Yale University	Searches for New Physics with Underground Xenon Detectors	White
Mon. Jan 28	Dr. Andrew Ivanov, UC Davis	The Truth?.. And Nothing but the Truth?.. The Top Quark as a Gateway to New Physics	Toback
Weds. Jan 30, 2 PM Room 501 ENPH	Dr. Rupak Mahapatra, UC Santa Barbara	Recoiling against the Dark Universe: CDMS Dark Matter Search	White
Thurs. Jan 31	Professor Carlos Villarreal, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	Vacuum fluctuations and Casimir forces	Fulling
Mon. Feb 4	Dr. Christopher Mauger, CalTech	Neutrino flavor-mixing - news from the frontier	Webb
Thurs. Feb 7	Prof. John Gladysz, Dept. of Chemistry, TAMU	A Chemist's Quest for Molecular Gyroscopes	Fry
Tues. Feb 12	Dr. Brian Rebel, Fermilab	Neutrino Oscillation Experiments - Past, Present and Future	Webb
Thurs. Feb 14	Prof. John Schwarz. CalTech	Connecting String Theory to the Real World	Pope
Thurs. Feb 21	Dr. David Larbalestier, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory	POSTPONED to Apr. 24	McIntyre
Thurs. Feb 28	Professor Lew Cocke, Kansas State University	Using Short-pulse Lasers to Probe Time-Dependent Motion in Molecules	Schuessler
Thurs. Mar 6	Prof. Andrew Strominger, Harvard University	String Theory, Black Holes and the Fundamental Laws of Nature	M. Becker
Thurs. Mar 13	---	(No Colloquium)	(Spring Break holiday)
Thurs. Mar 20	Prof. Vsevolod Gantmakher, Russian Academy of Science	Canceled due to visa delays	Naugle
Fri. Mar 21 2 PM	Dr. Leo Hollberg, NIST	Cold Atoms and Fast Lasers for Precision Measurements	Sokolov
Mon. Mar 24	Dr. Ingmar Hartl, IMRA America Inc.	High Power Optical Frequency Combs: Ultracoherent Light Sources for High Field Physics	Sokolov
Thurs. Mar 27	Professor Alexander Finkelstein, TAMU	Metal-Insulator Transition in Disordered Two-Dimensional Electron Systems (Anderson transition in the presence of electron-electron interactions)	Hu
Thurs. Apr 3	Prof. Lijun Wang, Director, Max-Planck Research Group Optics and Imaging	Precision Measurement of Gravity, Time and Applications	Schuessler
Thurs. Apr 10	Prof. Douglas Natelson, Rice University	Single-molecule junctions: electronic and optical properties	Sinova
Thurs. Apr 17	Prof. Ilya Gruzberg, University of Chicago	Stochastic geometry in nature: fractals and multifractals and how to study them	Abanov
Thurs. Apr 24	Dr. David Larbalestier, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory	Can the Cuprate Superconductors or MgB2 Replace Niobium in Materials for Superconducting Magnets?	McIntyre
Tues. May 13	Dr. Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Max Planck Inst. Quantum Optics	Attosecond physics: Tracking electronic processes with sub-100-attosecond resolution	Sokolov
Thurs. May 15	Dr. Andre Staudte, National Research Council of Canada	Steering Electrons With Light - A Collision Physics Perspective On Attosecond Technology	Sokolov
Thurs. May 22	Dr. Mikhail Belkin, Harvard University	Quantum cascade lasers - bridging the THz gap with semiconductor lasers	Sokolov