Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2013
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 questions about colloquium, please contact Dick Henry, at henry@nhn.ou.edu or by phone at (405) 325-3961.
| Date/Host | Speaker/Institution | Title/Abstract |
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| Jan 17 | No colloquium - first week of classes | (abstract) |
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| Jan 24 | Raphael Pooser | Quantum Imaging Below The Diffraction Limit In Real Time (abstract) |
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Host: Alberto Marino |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Jan 31 | Robin Cote | Ultracold Physics and its Applications: from Chemistry to Quantum Information to Astrophysics (abstract) |
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Host: Eric Abraham |
University of Connecticut | |
| Feb 7 | Igor Zutic | Putting Spin in Lasers (abstract) |
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Host: Ian Sellers | SUNY-Buffalo | |
| Feb 14 | Danny Marfatia | Physics of Massive Neutrinos (abstract) |
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Host: Howie Baer |
University of Kansas | |
| Feb 21 | Greg Rudnick | The Transformation of Galaxies in Dense Environments over Cosmic Time (abstract) |
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Host: Dick Henry |
University of Kansas | |
| Feb 28 | Rick Kessler | The Long and Tortuous Road to Precision Measurements of Dark Energy Properties with Type Ia Supernovae (abstract) |
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Host: Yun Wang |
University of Chicago | |
| March 7 | Dimitri Poplavskyy | Silicon Ink Technology for High Efficiency c-Si Solar Cells (abstract) |
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Host: Ian Sellers |
DuPont-Innovalight | |
| March 14 | Kevin Covey | The Evolution of Stellar Angular Momentum from Myrs to Gyrs (abstract) |
Host: John Wisniewski |
Lowell Observatory |
| March 21 | No colloquium - spring break | (abstract) |
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| March 28 | No Colloquium | (abstract) |
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| April 4 | Justin Crepp | The TRENDS High-Contrast Imagining Program (abstract) |
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Host: John Wisniewski |
University of Notre Dame | |
| April 11 | Dean Townsley | Explosive Thermonuclear Runaways in Helium Layers on White Dwarf Stars (abstract) |
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Host: Muk Kilic |
University of Alabama | |
| April 18 | Jennifer Hoffman | Stellar Archeology: Probing Stellar Mass Loss with Interacting Supernovae (abstract) |
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Host: John Wisniewski |
University of Denver | |
| April 25 | Greg Madejski | The Fermi Observatory View of the Gamma-ray Sky (abstract) |
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Host: Karen Leighly |
Stanford University | |
| May 2 | Fardin Kheirandish | Electromagnetic Field Quantization In The Presence Of Static And Rotating Magnetodielectric Medium (abstract) |
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Host: Kim Milton |
University of Isfahan, Iran |