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.
Click on the date to follow the links to more information about the speakers and their topics, where available.
If you have any questions or suggestions for seminar topics or speakers, please contact Dr. Mullen, at kieran@ou.edu or by phone at (405) 325-3961.
| Jan 14 | Classes Begin | No Seminar - First Week of Classes! |
| Jan 21 | Speaker TBA | Title TBA |
| Jan 28 | Thomas Ray
OU Zoology Dept. |
Evolution in the Digital Medium |
| Feb 4 | No Colloquium | Bob Petry's Retirement Party: 4:30 at University Club |
| Feb 11 | Rob Robson
James Cook University |
The Franck-Hertz experiment revisited: Kinetic Theory and Atomic Collisions" |
| Feb 18 | Roger Frech
OU Chemistry Dept. |
Title TBA |
| Feb 25 | Whitney Mason
Naval Research Lab |
InGaSb/InAlSb/InGaAlSb Heterojunction Based Two Color Midwave Detectors |
| Mar 4 | Peter Garnavich
Harvard University |
Supernovae and the Fate of the Universe (abstract) |
| Mar 11 | Michael Bordag
University of Leipzig |
The concept of zero point energy -- the Casimir effect 50 years later (abstract) |
| Mar 18 | No Colloquium | Spring Break! |
| Mar 25 | Christopher St. Cyr
NASA-Goddard |
Space Weather -- New Applications of Space Science (abstract) |
| Apr 1 | Arjendu Pattanayak
Rice University |
Title TBA |
| Apr 8 | Joel A. Schwartz
Hughes Space and Communications Company |
Science On A Schedule - A Physicist In Industry (abstract) |
| Apr 15 | Russell T Pack
Los Alamos National Labs |
Three-body collision contributions to atomic and molecular recombination and collision-induced dissociation (abstract) |
| Apr 22 | Herbert Weigel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
Hiding Fermions in Lumps of Mesons: Baryons as Chiral Solitons (abstract) |
| Apr 29 | Carl Bender
Washington University |
Title TBA |
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