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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]

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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