

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 20 | Classes Begin | No Seminar - First Week of Classes! |
| Aug 27 | Michael Santos
OU |
InSb Quantum Wells |
| Sep 3 | Dwight E. Neuenschwander
Southern Nazarene University |
Engaging Society's "Hidden Physicists" (abstract) |
| Sep 10 | Elizabeth Gwinn
UCSB |
Surprises in 2D transport (abstract) |
| Sep 17 | Bruce Twarog
University of Kansas |
The Origin and Evolution of the Milky Way (abstract) |
| Sep 24 | Hong Liu
Radiology Department, University of Virginia |
Medical Imaging of Cancer |
| Oct 1 |
K. S. Babu
OSU |
Neutrino Masses and the Path to Unification (abstract) |
| Oct 8 |
Greg Hall
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Tuning in Molecular Motion with FM Spectroscopy. (abstract) |
| Oct 15 |
Alex Zaslavsky
Brown University |
Strain Effects in Semiconductor Nanostructures. |
| Oct 22 |
James Tsang
IBM |
Switching induced picosecond light pulses from CMOS gates and its use in characterizing integrated circuits (abstract) |
| Oct 29 |
Joshua Wurman
University of Oklahoma |
Radar Studies of Tornadoes and Hurricanes |
| Nov 5 |
Paul McEuen
UC Berkeley |
Carbon Nanotubes - A New Class of One Dimensional Conductors (abstract) |
| Nov 12 |
Timothy Beers
Michigan State University |
The Nature of the Early Universe as Revealed from Studies of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars |
| Nov 19 |
Kenneth Heller
University of Minnesota |
"I Understand the Physics, I Just Can't Solve the Problems" - Teaching Introductory Physics Through Problem Solving. (abstract) |
| Nov 26 | Thanksgiving Vacation
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No Seminar |
| Dec 3 |
Tom Gramila
Penn. State University |
Coulomb Drag |
If you have any questions or suggestions for seminar topics or speakers, please contact Dr. Mullen, at kieran@phyast.nhn.ou.edu or by phone at (405) 325-3961.