Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2016 - Spring 2017
Colloquia are normally held on Fridays from 4:10 - 5 PM in Barnard/EPS 103. A Reception for the Speaker with refreshments served begins at 3:45pm in the Barnard second floor attrium. All Departments and off-campus guests are welcome to attend. Come and join us for coffee or tea and cookies and interesting speakers!
For further information contact the MSU Physics Department at 994-3614
| Fall Semester 2016 | |||
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| Date | Speaker | Title and Link to Abstract pdf | Host |
| September 16 | Professor Christoph Simon, Physics and Astronomy, Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Canada | Quantum optics for quantum networks, fundamental tests, and biology |
Rufus Cone and Charles Thiel |
| September 23 | Dr. Rodney Viereck, Director, Space Weather Prediction Testbed, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, Colorado | What is Space Weather and Who Cares? A perspective from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center[BROKEN LINK] | Aki Takeda and Jiong Qiu |
| September 30 | Peter Lu, Department of Physics and SEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Universal Gelation of Particles with Short-ranged Attraction |
Jim Wilking, Chemical & Biological Engineering, and Angela Des Jardins, MSGC |
| October 7 | Professor Andrei Faraon, Applied Physics, Material Science and Medical Engineering,
Nanoscale and Quantum Optics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California |
Quantum light-matter interfaces based on rare-earth-doped crystals and nano-photonics[BROKEN LINK] |
Rufus Cone and Charles Thiel |
| October 14 |
Professor Tom Mason, Physics and Astronomy, |
Jim Wilking, Chemical & Biological Engineering, and Angela Des Jardins, MSGC | |
| October 21 | Professor Jiong Qiu, Solar Physics, Montana State University | Rufus Cone | |
| October 28 | Dr. Maria D. Kazachenko, Space Sciences Lab, University of California, Berkeley, CA | Electric Fields on the Sun: How Can We Determine Them and Why Should We Care? | Jiong Qiu |
| November 4 | Professor Ioannis (John) Roudas, Professor and Gilhousen Telecommunications Chair, Montana State University | Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) optical communication systems[BROKEN LINK] | Rufus Cone |
| November 11 | UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY | NO COLLOQUIUM | NO COLLOQUIUM |
| November 18 | Professor Paul Gannon, Chemical and Biological Engineering, High-Temperature Materials Laboratory, and Materials Science Ph.D. Program, Montana State University | High Temperature Corrosion in Energy Systems[BROKEN LINK] | Rufus Cone |
| November 25 | THANKSGIVING | NO COLLOQUIUM | NO COLLOQUIUM |
| December 2 | Dr. Randy Reibel, Blackmore Sensors and Analytics, Inc., Bozeman, MT | Blackmore Sensors and Analytics, Inc. Company and Technology Overview: Low Cost, High Performance Lidar Systems | Rufus Cone |
| Spring Semester 2017 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Title and Link to Abstract pdf | Host |
| Thursday, January 19 |
Dr. Christopher Smallwood, JILA & University of Michigan NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND TIME - 4:30 – 5:20 PM |
Exploring Excitons in Solids with Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy | Randy Babbitt |
| Monday, January 23 |
Dr. Galan Moody, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Boulder, Colorado NOTE SPECIAL DATE |
2D Spectroscopy of 2D Materials: Deciphering the Quasiparticle Zoo in Atomically Thin Semiconductors | Randy Babbitt |
| Thursday, January 26 |
Dr. Pankaj Jha, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California NOTE SPECIAL DATE |
Harnessing Quantum Science at the Nanoscale with Engineered Materials | Randy Babbitt |
| January 27 |
Dr. James Klimchuk,NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Why is the Solar Corona So Hot? | Dana Longcope |
| Monday, January 30 |
Dr. Brian D'Urso, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania NOTE SPECIAL DATE |
Quantum Nanomechanics for Precision Gravitational Measurements[BROKEN LINK] |
Randy Babbitt |
| Thursday, February 9 |
Dr. Paul Barclay, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary and IQST/NINT Nanoscale Optics, University of Calgary NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND TIME - 4:30 – 5:20 PM |
Nanophotonic optomechanical devices: towards coupling photons, phonons and spins Joint OpTeC and Physics Colloquium |
Rufus Cone and Charles Thiel |
| Monday, February 13 |
Dr. Sebastien Guillot, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile |
From the core to the crust — probing the interior of neutron stars with observations[BROKEN LINK] |
Neil Cornish |
| Tuesday, February 14 | Dr. Tyler Neely, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia |
Superfluid flow and turbulence in configured Bose-Einstein condensates |
Rufus Cone |
| Wednesday, February 22 | Dr. Tian Zhong, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California | Rufus Cone | |
| February 24 |
Yves Idzerda, John Neumeier, Dana Longcope, Nico Yunes |
Research Thrusts in the Department of Physics | Yves Idzerda and Nico Yunes |
| Monday, February 27 |
Dr. Joseph Neilsen, MIT Kavli Institute, Cambridge, MA |
The Ins and Outs of Black Holes | Neil Cornish |
| Thursday, March 2 | Dr. Anne Lohfink, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK | An Observational View of the Physical Processes on the Doorstep of Supermassive Black Holes | Neil Cornish |
| Monday, March 6 | Dr. Amy Reines, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Arizona | Neil Cornish | |
| Wednesday, March 8 | Dr. Nicholas J. Borys, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley CA |
Exploring the exciton landscape of 2D atomically thin semiconductors in energy, space and time |
Rufus Cone |
| March 17 | SPRING BREAK | STUDENT HOLIDAY | STUDENT HOLIDAY |
| March 24 | Professor Nicholas P. Stadie, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, MSU |
Energy Storage on Carbon-Based Surfaces: in Pores and within the Bulk |
Rufus Cone |
| March 31 | Dr. Mark B. Ritter, Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY | Quantum Simulation with Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics | Rufus Cone |
| March 31 | Dr. Mark B. Ritter, Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY | Rufus Cone | |
| April 7 | Dr. Mike Obland, NASA Langley Research Center | The NASA ACT-America Mission: Chasing Carbon Across America | David Klumpar |
| April 14 | UNIVERSITY DAY | STUDENT HOLIDAY | STUDENT HOLIDAY |
| April 21 | Dr. Jun Ye, Fellow of JILA, Fellow of NIST, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado | Atomic clock and quantum matter | Rufus Cone |
| April 28 | Dr. Craig DeForest, Sr. Program Manager-R&D, Space Studies Department, Space Science & Engineering Division, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado |
Charles Kankelborg |
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| May 5 | FINALS WEEK | NO COLLOQUIUM | NO COLLOQUIUM |