Physics Colloquium Series, Fall 2008 and beyond

Usual Time and Place » Thursday: 4:15 p.m. / Rockefeller 301

Unusual times or locations are noted in red.

Coordinator: Philip Taylor, Department of Physics
Date Speaker Title Host
Aug 26 Tuesday Kimberly Wiefling
Wiefling Consulting
[Entrepreneuship colloquium] The Possibilities Toolbox: Surprising Revelations Ed Caner
Aug 28 Severance Hall: 4:30 p.m. David Quammen
Convocation
Sept 4 David Koltick
Purdue University
The Search for Special Nuclear Material Using Particle Physics Techniques Alex Bolozdynya
Sept 11 David Griffiths
Reed College
Critical Dipoles and Singular Potentials Yvette Cendes
Sept 18 Robert W. Brown
Case Physics
CWRU Theory Passes Fermilab Test 30 Years Later
Sept 25 5:00 PM location TBA Judge John E. Jones III
Darwin Celebration Lecture
Oct 2 Sambandamurthy Ganapathy
SUNY Buffalo
Oct 9 Anna Balazs
University of Pittsburgh
Designing Self-Propelled Polymeric Capsules and Gels Brian Kubera
Oct 16 Eric Herbst
OSU
[joint colloquium with Astronomy]
Oct 23
Oct 30 Alan M. Nathan
UIUC
Baseball and Physics: An Intersection of Passions Bob Brown
Oct 31 Friday: 4:30 p.m. Special event (not a colloquium)
Remembering Stefan Machlup
Nov 6 De Grace Hall 312: 4:30 p.m. Robert Hazen
Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins
Nov 13 Alexei Sokolov
Univ. of Akron
Philip Taylor
Nov 20
Dec 4 Daniel Boyanovsky
University of Pittsburgh
Shining (some) light on dark matter Brian Kubera