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Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Winter 2008

Colloquia are held at 4:00 PM in L211, of the Technological Institute. Colloquia are free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public. Click on a speakers name for more details about the speaker, and on the title for an abstract and the speaker's schedule.

Any questions or concerns about the colloquium page please email Grant Darktower .


Friday, Jan. 18	Vikki Meadows Caltech	Fred Rasio	Planetary Environmental Signatures of Habitability and Life
Friday, Jan. 25	Allan MacDonald University of Texas	Anupam Garg	Exploring Carbon Flatland
Friday, Feb. 1	Chris Hammel Ohio Sate	Anupam Garg	Scanned Probe Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Magnetoelectronics
Friday, Feb. 8	Jim Sauls Norhtwestern University	Anupam Garg	Superconductivity BCS Pairing from 10-9 to 10+9 K
Friday, Feb. 15	Leonid Glazman Yale University	Anupam Garg	Electron Relaxation in Imperfect Metals
Friday, Feb. 22	Bruce Draine Princeton University	Giles Novak	Dust masses, Dust composition, and Starlight Intensities in Nearby Galaxies
Friday, Feb. 29	Steve Granick University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Pulak Dutta	Physics at the Edge-Soft Matter and its Interfaces
Friday, Mar.7	William Kath Northwestern University	Adilson Motter	Experimentally-Constrained Computational Models of CA1 Pyramidal Neurons
Friday, Mar.14	Alan Nathan, UIUC	Michael Schmitt	Physics and Baseball: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too

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