Spring 2008
Physics
& Astronomy Colloquium
Room 411, Thornton Hall (unless
otherwise noted)
4:05 PM (refreshments at 3:50)
[Talks in Thornton 429 begin at 4:00; refreshments at 3:45]
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1/28
2/4 Patricia Lee,
NIST, Quantum Information Processing with Atoms and Ions
2/6 Adam Bolton,
U. of Hawaii, Direct Mass Measurements of Massive Elliptical Galaxies
2/11 (No talk
this week.)
2/15 Martin Huber,
U. Colo. Denver; Cosmology at 50 mK -- The Cryogenic Search for Dark
Matter
2/18 Alison Coil,
U. of Arizona, Galaxies, Dark Matter and Black Holes at z=1
2/22 Weining Man,
Princeton University, Photonic Quasicrystals & Random Ellipsoid
Packings
2/25 Andisheh Mahdavi,
U. of Victoria, Dark and Luminous Matter in Clusters of Galaxies
2/27 David Pooley,
U. of Wisc. Madison, Zooming in on Quasar Emission Regions through
Gravitational Lensing
2/29 (colloquium cancelled)
3/3 Laura R. Benedetti,
LLNL, Testing Solar System Astronomy in a Physics Laboratory
3/5 Seung-Kyun Lee,
Princeton U., Femtotesla Magnetometry with Superconducting and Atomic
Sensors
3/10 Thomas Puzia,
Hertzberg Inst. of Astrophysics, Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems
3/17
3/24 Spring Break
3/31 Cesar Chavez Holiday
4/7 colloquium cancelled
4/14
4/21 Jason Kalirai,
UCO/Lick Observatory, Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes
4/28 Monica Kress,
San Jose State, Searching for Meteorites in Antarctica
5/5
5/12 Jonathon Langton,
UCSC, Atmospheric Dynamics on Unevenly Irradiated Jovian Planets
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