Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2010

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 Chung Kao, at kao@ou.edu or by phone at (405) 325-3961.



Date/Host Speaker/Institution Title/Abstract
Jan 21 No colloquium - first week of classes (abstract)
Host:
Jan 28 Colloquium cancelled - ice storm (abstract)
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Feb 4 Yuri Gershtein The Large Hadron Collider and the Dawn of Discovery Decade (abstract)
Host:
Howie Baer
Rutgers University
Feb 11 Reginald Dufour Spitzer Space Telescope Observations of Sulfur and Neon Abundances in Extragalactic H II Regions (abstract)
Host:
Dick Henry
Rice University
Feb 18 Gregory Earle Small Satellite Solutions to Problems in Near--Earth Space Science (abstract)
Host:
David Branch
University of Texas at Dallas
Feb 25 Jim Shaffer Long Range, Cold Rydberg Atom Molecules and Interactions (abstract)
Host:
OU
Mar 4 Jens-Uwe Grabow Spectroscopy of "Large" Molecules on Earth and Elsewhere (abstract)
Host:
Neil Shafer-Ray
Hannover University
Mar 11 Nickolas Solomey The Main Injector Particle Production Experiment (E907/P960) at Fermilab (abstract)
Host:
Brad Abbott
Wichita State University
Mar 18 No colloquium - spring break (abstract)
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Mar 25 Pat Lukens The Collider Detector at Fermilab as a B Physics Experiment (abstract)
Host:
Phil Gutierrez
Fermilab
Apr 1 Thomas Miller Studies of Electron Attachment to Stable Molecules and Radicals, Ion-ion Neutralization, and Electron-catalyzed Reactions at Thermal Energies (abstract)
Host:
Greg Parker
Boston College and the Air Force Research Laboratory
Apr 8 Wolfgang Schleich Factorization of Numbers, Schroedinger Cats, and the Riemann Hypothesis (abstract)
Host:
Jim Shaffer
University of Ulm
April 15 Stuart Raby The Puzzle of Charge and Mass (abstract)
Host:
Joshua Sayre
Ohio State University
April 22 (abstract)
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April 29 Mike Strauss Seeing Color in Black and White: Recent QCD Measurements at the Tevatron Collider (abstract)
Host:
OU
May 6 Bharat Ratra The Standard Model of Cosmology and Open Questions (abstract)
Host:
Yun Wang
Kansas State University