Department of Physics & Astronomy

Colloquia

Unless otherwise noted, Colloqia are held Wednesdays 3:45-4:45 in Galallee room 227.
Coffee and cookies are available starting at 3:30.

A list of past colloquia is also available.

Click on the title to see the abstract.

Spring 2013

Date Title / Abstract
Speaker
Jan 9 Ultracold molecules - New frontiers in quantum and chemical physics
Jun Ye
JILA, NIST, and University of Colorado
Jan 16 No colloquium

Jan 23 Kepler's Exoplanets and Astrophysics: What the publications didn't tell you …
Steve Howell
NASA Ames
Jan 30 RR Lyrae Stars in M31, M32, and M33
Ata Sarajedini
Florida
Feb 6 Magnetic Thin Films and Multilayers: Fabrication and Analysis
Gary Mankey
Alabama
Mar 11 Constraining Cosmological Models with Massive Galaxy Clusters
Adam Mantz
Chicago
Mar 13 Exploration of Magnetic Crystals: Macroscopic Investigation to Topographical Nanoengineering
Deepak Singh
NIST/Maryland
Mar 18 Charge transport and dynamics in nanomaterials and their interfaces
Girriraj Jnawali
Columbia
Mar 20 The Higgs Boson – Latest Results from the Large Hadron Collider
Nick Hadley
Maryland
Mar 27 No colloquium - Spring Break

Apr 1 The Impact of Secular Features on the Evolution of Disk Galaxies
Preethi Nair
Space Telescope Institute
Apr 3 Emergent magnetic properties in hybrid nanostructures: scratching the surface for new physics
Hariharan Srikanth
South Florida
Apr 8 Studying baryon physics with galaxy groups and clusters
Ming Sun
Eureka Scientific
Apr 10 Tuning Electrical and Optical Properties of 2D Atomic Crystals
A.K.M. Newaz
Vanderbilt
Apr 15 Galaxy Evolution in the Thermal Era
Rik Williams
Carnegie Observatories
Apr 17 Understanding Galaxy Evolution with Massive Starburst Galaxies
Hai Fu
UC-Irvine
Apr 22 From new materials to devices for the future: the interface matters
Dipanjan Mazumdar
Tennessee
Apr 24 Optical Spectroscopy and Phonon Self-Energy Renormalizations in Carbon Materials
Paulo Araujo
MIT
May 1 No colloquium - Finals Week

Fall 2012

Date Title / Abstract
Speaker
Aug 29 Annual Introductions
Update on the Mars Curiosity mission

Ray White
Sep 5 Faculty Research Mini-Colloquia:
The PhysTEC program at UA
 
 
 
The Double Chooz neutrino experiment

 
J.W. Harrell
Patrick Leclair
Penni Wallace

Jerry Busenitz
Sep 12 Faculty Research Mini-Colloquia:
The age-metallicity relationship of stars in MUGS galaxy simulations
 
The CMS Experiment and the Activities of the CMS Group at UA


Jeremy Bailin
 
Paolo Rumerio
Conor Henderson
Sep 26 Double Beta Decay: EXO-200 and Beyond
Andreas Piepke
UA
Oct 3 Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics: Going Forward
Frank de Lucia
Ohio State
Oct 10 New Insights Into Hydrogen (water) at the Lunar Poles
Rich Miller
University of Alabama-Huntsville
Oct 17 Walking with Paleozoic Tetrapods: An Astronomer's Journey into Alabama's Remote Past
Ron Buta
UA
Oct 24 Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopic Measurement of Greenhouse Gases
Joseph T. Hodges
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Oct 31 True Color: QCD Measurements with D0 at the Tevatron Collider
Michael Strauss
University of Oklahoma
Nov 7 Through the Looking Glass: Matching Observational Diagnostics with Simulations of Star Formation
Stella Offner
Yale
Nov 14 The Luster of Pt
Sergey Urazhnin
Emory
Nov 21 Thanksgiving holiday

Nov 28 Muon Cooling and Future Muon Facilities
Dan Kaplan
Illinois Institute of Technology

Abstracts

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