Colloquium Schedule

Colloquia are held on Fridays from 4:10 - 5 PM in EPS 103. A Reception for the Speaker with refreshments served begins at 3:45pm in the EPS 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 2015
Date	Speaker	Title and Link to Abstract pdf	Host
August 28	Professor Bern Kohler, MSU Department of Chemistry, Photophysics and Photochemistry by Ultrafast Spectroscopy	DNA’s Day in the Sun: How the Double Helix Avoids Photodamage	Rufus Cone
September 4	Dr. Larry Johnson, President of Montana Photonics Industry Alliance and Founder, former President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of ILX Lightwave Corporation	How to Be a Part of Montana’s Growing Photonics Industry	Rufus Cone
September 11	Dr. Mike Simmonds, Quantum Design, Inc	Physics and the Art of Instrument Design: An Inquiry into Creativity (with apologies to Robert Pirsig)	John Neumeier and Rufus Cone
September 18	Professor Robert C. Maher, P.E.,Department Head, MSU Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering andAffiliate Professor of Music Technology, MSU School of Music	Found Sound: Recording Studio, National Park, Courtroom	Rufus Cone
September 25	Professor Prasanta Bandyopadhyay, MSU Department of History & Philosophy; Publications	Who is Afraid of Simpson’s Paradox?	Shannon Willoughby
October 2	Professor Mats Selen, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	The Evolution of Intro Physics at the University of Illinois	Anton Vorontsov
October 9	Professor Stephen W. Sofie, MSU Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and Deputy Director of the Materials Science Ph.D. Program	Nanomaterials at High Temperatures: Overcoming Thermal Induced Coarsening of Metal Electro-catalysts	Rufus Cone
October 16	Dr. Kris Merkel, President and CEO, S2 Corporation	Wideband RF Spectrum Sensing & Big Data Search at S2 Corporation and MSU Spectrum Lab	Rufus Cone
October 23	Dr. Chris Mundy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Material Synthesis and Simulation Across Scales (MS3) Initiative	The role of an accurate description of local structure to inform our understanding of nucleation and assembly in the condensed phase	Hugo Schmidt, Department of Physics; Patrik Callis, Department of Chemistry, and Rob Walker, and Erik Grumstrup, Department of Chemistry and Materials Science Ph.D. Program
October 30	Professor Aleksander Rebane, MSU Department of Physics and Rebane Research Laboratory	Femtosecond 2-photon spectroscopy: are two better than one?	Rufus Cone
November 6	Professor David Macaluso, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Montana and the Montana University System Materials Science Doctoral Program	Elvis, John Wayne, and Quantum Plasmon Resonances – Where Dead Stars and Engineered Nanomaterials Collide	Rufus Cone
November 13	NO COLLOQUIUM THIS DATE	NO COLLOQUIUM THIS DATE	NO COLLOQUIUM THIS DATE
November 20	Regents Professor Gordon Brittan, MSU Department of History & Philosophy	Wittgenstein, Mach, and I	Rufus Cone
November 27	THANKSGIVING
December 4	NO COLLOQUIUM THIS DATE
December 11	FINALS WEEK

Spring Semester 2016
Date	Speaker	Title and Link to Abstract pdf	Host
January 15	Henry Fu, University of Nevada Reno	Viscous constraints on microscale propulsion and approach	Anton Vorontsov, MSU Physics, and Jim Wilking MSU Chemical & Biological Engineering and Center for Biofilm Engineering
January 22	Dr. Marina Battaglia, Studying Solar Flares, at FHNW - Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Institute of 4D Technologies Windisch, Switzerland	An X-Ray View of Solar Flares	Dana Longcope and David McKenzie
January 29	Professor Erik Grumstrup, MSU Department of Chemistry, Grumstrup Research Group,and Materials Science Ph.D. Program	Optoelectronics at the Nanoscale: Ultrafast Electron Dynamics of Complex Materials	Rufus Cone
February 5
February 12	Christopher Pankow, Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University	Rapid Multi-messenger Astronomy with Gravitational-Wave Interferometers	Katerina Chatziioannou
February 19	Professor James Skinner, Joseph O. Hirschfelder Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Member of the National Academy of Sciences	The mystery of water and its condensed phases Letters and Science Distinguished Speakers Series	Rob Walker and Erik Grumstrup, MSU Department of Chemistry, and Rufus Cone, MSU Department of Physics
February 26	Professor Stephen Hill, Department of Physics, Florida State University and Fellow of the American Physical Society Director of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Electron Magnetic Resonance Program	High-Field Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Studies of Molecular Nanomagnets	Hugo Schmidt, Yves Idzerda, and Rufus Cone
March 4	Dr. Yi-Kuo Yu, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health	Quantum magnetism in low dimensions: an intriguing phenomenon connecting biology with physics	John Neumeier
March 11
March 18	SPRING BREAK	STUDENT HOLIDAY	STUDENT HOLIDAY
March 24	Dr. Elizabeth Goldschmidt, Quantum Information Science, U.S. Army Research Lab	Single Photons for Quantum Information	Rose Ahlefeldt, Rufus Cone, and Charles Thiel
March 25	UNIVERSITY DAY	STUDENT HOLIDAY	STUDENT HOLIDAY
April 1	Professor David Dickensheets, MSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus on optical instrument and microdevice development and Director of Montana Microfabrication Facility	From Microfluidics and MEMS to Nanostructured and Bio-derived Materials: What’s New in Nanotechnology at Montana State University	Rufus Cone
April 8	Canceled due to conflict for speaker	Canceled	Canceled
April 15	George Seielstad, author of Dawn of the Anthropocene - Humanity's Defining Moment Free download to Kindle	From Mathematical to Physical Universe	Angela Des Jardins
April 22	Katherine de Kleer, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley	The Volcanism, Atmosphere, and Tidal Heating of Io	Angela Des Jardins