General Colloquium Series

Fall 2005

Thursdays at 4:00 pm - Room 245 of the Physics Research Bldg. - Refreshments at 3:30 pm.

Date  Speaker  Affiliation  Title of Talk
September 15 Thomas Junk University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Searching for the Origin of Mass
September 22 Eugene Golowich University of Massachusetts  Physics of Charm Quark
September 29 Rusi Taleyarkhan Purdue University Acoustic Internal Confinement Thermo-Nuclear Fusion: Status, Challenges and Opportunities
October 6 Cagliyan Kurdak University of Michigan Diamagnetism and Persistent Eddy Currents in Quantum Hall Liquids
October 13 Peter Hoffmann Wayne State University Adventures in Nanomechanics
October 20 Alexey A Petrov Wayne State University Charm and Beauty of Quantum Chromodynamics
October 27 Joshua Frieman University of Chicago/Fermilab Probing Cosmology with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 
November 3 Caroline Morgan Wayne State University Order, Disorder, and Defects: Fabrication of High-Performance Semiconductor Systems
November 10 Lucien Hardy Perimeter Institute Generalized Probability theories and how to go beyond Quantum Theory
November 17 Hariharan Srikanth University of South Florida Spin dynamics in functional magnetic nanostructures
November 24  
 Fall Break
 
December 1 Yury Kolomensky University of California at Berkeley Electron's Weak Charge and the Weinberg Angle from Z0 to Zero 
December 8 Brian DiDonna University of Minnesota The smectic blue phase: a study in geometric frustration
December 12 
(note special date)
Jurgen Schukraft CERN Cancelled

For additional information, contact Alexey A Petrov at (313) 577-2739, Peter Hoffmann at (313) 577-4573.

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