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Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Fall 2016          

NOTE: All colloquia will be held on THURSDAY at 3:30 PM in Rm. 109 Nicholson, unless otherwise indicated.

Date Title of Talk Speaker Speaker's Institution Host

Sept. 2 Friday 10am

435 Nicholson

Major Results from the Exploration of the Pluto System  Abstract Southwest Research Institute Geoff Clayton

Sept.2 Friday 2pm

Hill Memorial Library

Max Goodrich Distinguished Lecture Series: The Exploration of Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons

Abstract   

Flyer

NASA’s New Horizons Mission / Southwest Research Institute

Geoff Clayton

Sept. 8

 Stability at saddles of potentials 

Abstract

A. R. P. Rau

  Department of Physics & Astronomy,

Louisiana State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø

Juhan Frank

Sept. 15

Changing his Mind at the Speed of Thought: Einstein's Failed Attempts to Undiscover Gravitational Waves  

Abstract

¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Arkansas Jorge Pullin

Sept. 22

       
Sept. 29

Complexity of Entanglement in Quantum Computation and Macroscopic Quantum Orders

Abstract

¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of New Mexico Mark Wilde
Oct. 6 Fall Holiday


Oct. 13

 Twisting the Quantum

Abstract

NIST(National Institute of Standards and Technology) Jonathan Dowling

Oct. 20

 Rogue Waves on Pulsating White Dwarf Stars Abstract  ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Manos Chatzopoulos 
Oct. 27 Quantum Trajectories, Decoherence, and What One MIGHT Read from the Environment. Abstract ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Auckland, New Zealand Jonathan Dowling

Nov. 3

Digital
Media Center Theater

Hundred Years of General Relativity: A Global Perspective   Abstract Pennsylvania State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø   Ivan Agullo 
Nov. 10

Gravitational Wave Memory

Abstract

   Oakland ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø  Param Singh
Nov. 17 JWST: An Observatory Beyond the Moon    James Webb Space Telescope
 Juhan Frank
Nov. 24 Thanksgiving Holiday      

Room 130 Nicholson Hall

5-6:30 PM

Nov. 30

Wednesday

Hearne Eminent Lecture Series

Deciphering the beginnings of the Universe: latest results and open questions

Jorge Pullin
Dec. 1

Cosmology after Planck

Abstract

 Jorge Pullin

 

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