Nielsen Hall

Homer L. Dodge Department
of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Oklahoma

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
August 27 No speaker - first week of classes
Host:
Sept. 3 Bob Kehoe (abstract)
Host:
Brad Abbott
Southern Methodist University
Sept. 10 Salahuddin Ahmad Medical Physics and the Department of Radiation Oncology at OUHSC (abstract)
Host:
Greg Parker
OU Health Sciences Center
Sept 17 Samuel Meek Guiding, Decelerating, and Trapping Polar Molecules on a Chip (abstract)
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)
Host:
Dick Henry
University of Missouri
Oct. 1 Asantha Cooray The Cosmic Infrared Background (abstract)
Host:
Yun Wang
University of California at Irvine
Oct 8 Will Burgett Pan-STARRS: the Next Generation in Survey Astronomy Has Arrived (abstract)
Host:
David Branch
University of Hawaii
Oct 15 Ravi Sankrit Astrophysics and Astrochemistry with SOFIA (abstract)
Host:
Dick Henry
SOFIA Science Center/USRA
Oct 22 Mark Raizen Comprehensive Control of Atomic Motion (abstract)
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)
Host:
Kieran Mullen
Purdue University
Nov. 5 Marc Seigar New Approaches for Determining the Dark Matter Content of Spiral Galaxies (abstract)
Host:
Karen Leighly
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Nov 12 Jacek Furdyna Making Semiconductors Ferromagnetic: Opportunities and Challenges (abstract)
Host:
Mike Santos
University of Notre Dame
Nov 19 Brett McKinney Surfing Gene Networks (abstract)
Host:
Deborah Watson
University of Tulsa and Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Nov. 26 No speaker - Thanksgiving Break
Host:
Dec. 3 Ian Roederer Characterizing the Chemistry of the Milky Way Halo (abstract)
Host:
John Cowan
University of Texas at Austin
Dec 10 Boris Kayser Are We Descended from Heavy Neutrinos? (abstract)
Host:
Chung Kao
Fermilab

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