Thursdays - 4:00 pm in Nielsen Hall 211

Coffee and cookies are served at 3:30pm in the first floor of Nielsen Hall.

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.

 

Aug 24	Speaker TBA  OU	Topic TBA
Aug 31	Neil Shafer-Ray OU	Adventures in atomic and molecular interactions: Resonances, impostors, and picosecond pictures. (abstract)
Sep 7	Brian Fields University of Illinois	Testing Cosmology With Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (abstract)
Sep 14	Michael Edmunds Cardiff University	The dust cycle in galaxies (abstract)
Sep 21	Daniel Proga  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Outflows from Luminous Accretion Disks (abstract)
Sep 28	A. Cameron  Harvard University	Extinct radioactivities, core collapse supernovas, jets, and the R-process (abstract)
Sep 29	Eileen Friel NSF	Astronomy and Physics at the NSF (abstract)
Oct 3 (Tues.)	Sheena Murphy OU	The Quantum Hall Effect, Quantum Percolation and The Big Picture (abstract)
Oct 5	Mike Strauss OU	Probing the Structure of the Proton at the Fermilab Tevatron (abstract)
Oct 12	Dudley Herschbach  Harvard University	Roundabout with Molecules: turning molecular pinwheels into oriented pendula; slowing molecules with a contrary whirligig. (abstract)
Oct 19	Floyd Davis Cornell	Topic TBA
Oct 26	Eric Cornell JILA	Topic TBA
Nov 2	N. W. Reay FNAL	Results from DONUT: First direct evidence of the tau neutrino (abstract)
Nov 3	George Smoot Lawrence Berkeley Labs	MAXIMA and BOOMERANG observations of the cosmic microwave background
Nov 9	Zvi Bern UCLA	Quantum Chromodynamics and the Coming Grandioise Physics (abstract)
Nov 16	Vernon Barger University of Wisconsin	The Neutrino Odyssey (abstract)
Nov 23	Thanksgiving Vacation	No Seminar
Nov 30	Keith B. MacAdam Univ. of Kentucky	Collisions of Rydberg Atoms with Charged Particles (abstract)
Dec 7	Paolo Mazzali Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste	Topic TBA