Colloquium Schedule

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
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	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	Rufus Cone and Charles Thiel
October 14	Professor Tom Mason, Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Experimental Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California	Entropic Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Near-Equilibrium Disorder in Compressed Brownian Monolayers of Shape-Designed Platelets	Jim Wilking, Chemical & Biological Engineering, and Angela Des Jardins, MSGC
October 21	Professor Jiong Qiu, Solar Physics, Montana State University	When the Sun Becomes Dark	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	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	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	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	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	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	Building a quantum internet using rare-earth-doped crystals	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	The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes	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	The Future of Computation Public Lecture at the Museum of the Rockies 7:30 PM	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	Postcards From The Edge (of the Corona)	Charles Kankelborg
May 5	FINALS WEEK	NO COLLOQUIUM	NO COLLOQUIUM