Colloquium Schedule

Fall 2007

The Department schedules a colloquium series, with talks every week during the academic year. Unless otherwise noted, they take place in room 227 of Gallalee Hall, starting at 3:45 p.m. (with refreshments beginning about 3:15).

Day	Speaker		Home institution	Title of talk	Remarks
August
22
29	PH & AY Faculty		UA	Introduction to Faculty Research: Bill Butler, Stan Jones, Gary Mankey, Andreas Piepke
September
5	PH & AY Faculty		UA	Introduction to Faculty Research: Lou Clavelli, Bill Keel, Tim Mewes, Pieter Visscher
12	Robert Preece		UAH	What are Gamma-Ray Bursts?
19	Ryoichi Kawai		UAB	Beyond the Second Law of Thermodynamics
26	Rich Miller		UAH	Astrophysics with the Moon
October
3
10		Abdulnasser Bhargouty	NASA-MSFC	Cosmic Rays Physics and the Space Radiation Challenge
17		Rajan Gupta	Los Alamos National Lab	Real time construction/simulation of the global energy system at multiple scales and software tools for public engagement
18 (7:30 pm, Thursday 127 Biology.)		Rajan Gupta	Los Alamos National Lab	Energy for all in the 21st century (UA News Release)	*Special Lecture!* *Alabama* *Perspectives on Sustainability and Climate Change lecture series*
26 (3:30 pm, Friday)		Renato Dupke	University of Michigan	Direct and Indirect Assessment of Intracluster Gas Dynamics	*Note non-standard day and time!*
31		Lloyd Bumm	Univ. of Oklahoma	Flat Gold Nanoparticles: Atomically-Flat Substrates for Surface Science and Molecular Plasmonics
November
7
15 (2:00 pm Thursday 200 Gallalee)	Michael Mallary		Seagate Research	Our Improbable Universe The Evolution of Primordial Energy into Mind	*Note non-standard day and time!*
21				*No colloquium - Thanksgiving*
28	Marco Cavaglia		Univ. of Mississippi	Present and Future of LIGO
December
5
12	Yaroslaw Bazaliy		University of South Carolina	Magnetic Dynamics in Planar Spin-Transfer Devices

Spring 2008

Day	Speaker	Home institution	Title of talk	Remarks
January
9	Roger Blandford	Stanford University	Physics and Astrophysics from the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST)
16
23
30
February
6
13
25 (3:45 pm Monday)	Rupak Mahapatra	UC-Santa Barbara	Recoiling Against the Dark Universe: CDMS Dark Matter Search	*Note non-standard day and time!*
27	Kai Zuber	Oxford University	Who am I? Neutrinos' identity crisis
March
5	Michael Stamatikos	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Exploring Gamma-Ray Burst Astrophysics via a Correlated Broad-Band and Multi-Messenger Paradigm
7 (1:30 pm Friday)	Albert Fert (2007 Nobel Laureate)	Université Paris-Sud	The Present and Future of Spintronics	*Note non-standard day and time!*
10 (3:45 pm Monday)	Dawn Williams	Penn State University	IceCube - The Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole
12	Donna Pierce	Mississippi State	Understanding Cometary Atmospheres
19			*No colloquium - Spring Break*
26	Nathaniel Bowden	Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab	Nuclear Reactor Safeguards using Compact Antineutrino Detectors
April
2	Nikoleta Theodoropoulou	Michigan State University	Spin Transfer Torque and Dynamics in Magnetic Nanopillars
9	Dipangkar Dutta	Mississippi State University	Through the Looking Glass: Measuring the Weak Charge of the Proton
16
23
30
May
7

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