Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2009
Thursdays - 4:00 pm in Nielsen Hall 170
Coffee and cookies are served at 3:30pm in the Nielsen Hall Atrium.
The Physics and Astronomy colloquium is a forum for invited scientists to present modern research in a fashion accessible to those with a background in physics, but who are not experts in the field. Talks are aimed at a graduate level.
If you have suggestions for colloquium speakers, please contact David Branch, at branch@nhn.ou.edu or by phone at (405) 325-3961.
| Date/Host | Speaker/Institution | Title/Abstract |
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| August 27 | No speaker - first week of classes | |
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| Sept. 3 | Bob Kehoe | (abstract) |
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Host: Brad Abbott |
Southern Methodist University | |
| Sept. 10 | Salahuddin Ahmad | Medical Physics and the Department of Radiation Oncology at OUHSC (abstract) |
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Host: Greg Parker |
OU Health Sciences Center | |
| Sept 17 | Samuel Meek | Guiding, Decelerating, and Trapping Polar Molecules on a Chip (abstract) |
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Host: Neil Shafer-Ray |
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society | |
| Sept. 24 | Angela Speck | Cosmochemistry and Astrominerology: from the Big Bang to Life (abstract) |
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Host: Dick Henry |
University of Missouri | |
| Oct. 1 | Asantha Cooray | The Cosmic Infrared Background (abstract) |
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Host: Yun Wang |
University of California at Irvine | |
| Oct 8 | Will Burgett | Pan-STARRS: the Next Generation in Survey Astronomy Has Arrived (abstract) |
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Host: David Branch |
University of Hawaii | |
| Oct 15 | Ravi Sankrit | Astrophysics and Astrochemistry with SOFIA (abstract) |
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Host: Dick Henry |
SOFIA Science Center/USRA | |
| Oct 22 | Mark Raizen | Comprehensive Control of Atomic Motion (abstract) |
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Host: Neil Shafer-Ray |
University of Texas at Austin | |
| Oct 29 | Yong Chen | Graphene: Adventures of a Condensed Matter Experimentalist with "High Energy" Physics (abstract) |
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Host: Kieran Mullen |
Purdue University | |
| Nov. 5 | Marc Seigar | New Approaches for Determining the Dark Matter Content of Spiral Galaxies (abstract) |
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Host: Karen Leighly |
University of Arkansas at Little Rock | |
| Nov 12 | Jacek Furdyna | Making Semiconductors Ferromagnetic: Opportunities and Challenges (abstract) |
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Host: Mike Santos |
University of Notre Dame | |
| Nov 19 | Brett McKinney | Surfing Gene Networks (abstract) |
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Host: Deborah Watson |
University of Tulsa and Laureate Institute for Brain Research | |
| Nov. 26 | No speaker - Thanksgiving Break | |
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| Dec. 3 | Ian Roederer | Characterizing the Chemistry of the Milky Way Halo (abstract) |
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Host: John Cowan |
University of Texas at Austin | |
| Dec 10 | Boris Kayser | Are We Descended from Heavy Neutrinos? (abstract) |
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Host: Chung Kao |
Fermilab |
