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ISU Physics Department Colloquium ScheduleColloquium 

Fall 2016    Schedule

Aug. 22 Dr. Mark TranstrumBrigham Young University, Model Reduction and Effective Theories in Physics, Biology, and Beyond
   
Aug. 29 Nicolas Woolstenhulme, Idaho National Laboratory, The Past Present, and Future of Transient Testing in Idaho
   
Sept. 5 Labor Day, No Colloquium
   
Sept. 12 Dr. Dallin Durfee, Brigham Young University, The Physics of Musical Scales
   
Sept. 19 Dr. Elizabeth Jeffrey, Brigham Young UniversityWhite Dwarfs, Star Clusters, and the Lives and Deaths of Stars
   
Sept. 26 Dr. George Imel, Idaho State University, Experiences at the Transient Reactor Test Facility
   
Oct. 3 Dr. Dan Dale, Idaho State University, Studies of Prompt Diagnostic Signatures of Nuclear Detonations with MeV Electron Beams
   
Oct. 10 Dr. Darin RagozzineBrigham Young UniversityExoplanetary Systems: Overview and New Results
   
Oct. 17  Dr. Craig Sangster, University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Nuclear Physics with Big Lasers
   
Oct. 24 Dr. Haiming Wen, Idaho State UniversityNano Science and Engineering in Nuclear – What Can We Do?
   
Oct. 26 Dr. Jeffrey Bennett, Big Kid ScienceGlobal Warming Demystified, The Science, The Consequences, and The Solutions (and why conservatives and liberals can all agree), SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM 5:30 - 6:30 pm in PS 140
   
Oct. 31 Joe GiglioIdaho National Laboratory, Radioisotope Power Systems
   
Nov. 7 Dr. Joel Miller, University of Utah, Organic-Based Magnets: New Chemistry and New Materials for This Millennium
   
Nov. 14
Dr. Mahbub Khandakar, Idaho State University, The Proton Radius Puzzle
   
Nov. 21 Thanksgiving Break, No Colloquium
   
Nov. 28 Dr. Oscar Varela, Utah State University, The World From a Ten-Dimensional Viewpoint
   
Dec. 5 Dr. Tony Forest, Idaho State UniversityA Measurement of the Down Quark Polarization Fraction in the Nucleon



Spring 2017    Schedule

Jan. 9
Colloquium Canceled

 
Jan. 16
Martin Luther King Day, No Colloquium

 
Jan 23
Colloquium Canceled

 
Jan. 30
Michael Glazoff, Idaho National LaboratoryMorphological Analysis and Its Applications in Materials Science and Engineering


Feb. 6
Dr. Michael Gericke, University of Manitoba, The QWeak Experiment: A Search for Physics Beyond the Standard model via A Measurement of the Proton's Weak Charge

 
Feb. 13
Dr. Maria Rodriguez, Utah State UniversityCracking Einstein's Equations: Higher-Dimensional Black Holes

 
Feb. 20
President's Day, No Colloquium
   
Feb. 27 Dr. Pearl SandickUniversity of UtahMixing It Up: New Results in Dark Matter

 
Mar. 6
Dr. Yunrong Zhu, Idaho State UniversityEfficient Solvers for Some Partial Differential Equations in Physics

 
Mar. 13
Dr. Kate Scholberg, Duke University, Neutrinos From the Sky and Through the Earth

 
Mar. 20
Spring Break, No Colloquium

 
Mar. 27
Dr. Michael Ware,  Brigham Young University, Photo Emission by Individual Electron Wave packets in Strong Laser Fields 

 
Apr. 3
Dr. Byung Kim, Boise State University, Direct Observation of Chain-Like Water Structures by Atomic Force Microscopy

 
Apr. 10
Dr. Eric Held, Utah State UniversityFluid/Kinetic Modeling of ITER Plasmas
   
Apr. 17 Dr. Graeme Milton, University of Utah, Cloaking: Where Science Fiction Meets Science
   
Apr. 24 Dr. Leslie Kerby, Idaho State UniversitySerpent Research at Idaho National Laboratory


Unless specifically mentioned, all talks will be at 4:00 pm on Mondays in PS 108.
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