University of Alabama, Department of Physics and Astronomy
2009/10 Colloquia

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held in room 227 at 3:45pm (coffee at 3:30)

Fall Semester 2009

Sep 4
New date!
Spintronics: Nanoscience and Nanoelectronics (abstract)
Joint Physics Colloquium/MINT Seminar, 2:00pm, Bevill 101
Hideo Ohno
Sep 9 Intro to Faculty Research I Keel, Mankey, Williams
Sep 16 Intro to Faculty Research II Buta, Sarker, Stancu
Sep 23 Intro to Faculty Research III Clavelli, Hardee, Mryasov
Sep 30 Serving the Physics Research Community
through Advanced Cyber Infrastructure
John McGowan, UA CIO
Oct 7 LHC: Cosmology at the Microscopic Scale (abstract) Paul Padley, Rice U.
Oct 14 N/A N/A
Oct 19
Monday!
Controlling Magnetism with Light (abstract)
Bevill 101 @ 3:45 pm (usual time)
Theo Rasing, Radboud University
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Oct 28 The Global Positioning System - A Utility for the Whole World Thomas Gaussiran, UT Austin
Applied Research Labs
Nov 4 N/A N/A
Nov 11 High Temperature Superconductivity Sanjoy Sarker, UA
Nov 18 Constraints on the Type Ia Supernova Progenitors from GOODS (abstract) Louis Strogler, WKU
Dec 2 The Iron Age of Superconductivity (abstract) David Singh, ORNL

Spring Semester 2010

Jan 13 Covariant Density Functional Theory: Framework and Applications to Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics (abstract) Anatolijs Afanasjevs, MSU
Jan 20 The Neutron Files: Gold Crystals and Other Hidden Treasure Heinz Nakotte, NMSU
Jan 27 Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos (abstract) James Beatty, OSU
Feb 3 N/A N/A
Feb 10 N/A N/A
Feb 17 Reverse-Engineering Cosmic Particle Accelerators (abstract) Brian Humensky, Enrico Fermi Institute
Feb 24 N/A N/A
Mar 1
Monday!
The Race for the Higgs Boson (A Tevatron Perspective) (abstract) Craig Group, Fermilab
Mar 3 Closing in on the Higgs Boson (abstract) Lidija Zivkovic, Columbia University
Mar 8
Monday!
On the Hunt for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider (abstract) Kevin Black, Harvard University
Mar 10 Hunting for the Origins of the Cosmic Rays (abstract) Pat Toale, Penn State
Mar 22
Monday!
The Hunt for Dark Matter with Superheated Liquids (abstract) Ilan Levine, IU South Bend
Mar 24 Searching for the Identity of Dark Matter (abstract) Lauren Hsu, Fermilab
Mar 29
Monday!
Searching for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider (abstract) Conor Henderson, CERN
Mar 31 N/A N/A
Apr 7 Preparations for First Physics with ATLAS (abstract) Adam Gibson, University of Toronto
Apr 12
Monday!
TBA TBA
Apr 21 N/A N/A
Apr 28 N/A N/A