Colloquium Schedule

In front of Barnard Hall (EPS) at

4:10 PM in place of Colloquium

Hannah Gilroy

Professor John J. Neumeier

MSU Department of Physics

http://www.physics.montana.edu/people/faculty/neumeier-john.html

High-Resolution Thermal Expansion of Single-Crystalline H₂O Ice

Professor Dana Longcope

MSU Department of Physics

http://www.physics.montana.edu/people/faculty/longcope-dana.html

http://solar.physics.montana.edu/dana/

http://solar.physics.montana.edu/sol_phys/

The still-unsolved Physics puzzle revealed by the Great American eclipse

Professor Yves Idzerda

MSU Department of Physics

http://www.physics.montana.edu/people/faculty/idzerda-yves.html

http://www.physics.montana.edu/magnetism/research/index.html

Professor Kevin Repasky

MSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

http://www.ece.montana.edu/directory/faculty/1524511/kevin-repasky

Diode-laser-Based Remote Sensing of the Lower Troposphere

Dr. David Nidever

MSU Department of Physics

Professor Nico Yunes

MSU Department of Physics and Extreme Gravity Institute (XGI)

http://www.physics.montana.edu/people/faculty/yunes-nicolas.html

http://www.physics.montana.edu/gravity/index.html

http://www.montana.edu/xgi/

http://www.physics.montana.edu/research/astrophysics/astro-msu.html

The Problems with Einstein's Gravity

Professor Randy Babbitt

MSU Department of Physics and MSU Spectrum Lab

http://www.physics.montana.edu/people/faculty/babbitt-randall.html

Professor Neil Cornish

MSU Department of Physics and Extreme Gravity Institute (XGI)

http://www.physics.montana.edu/people/faculty/cornish-neil.html

http://www.physics.montana.edu/gravity/index.html

http://www.montana.edu/xgi/

Dr. Richard Epstein

University of New Mexico

ThermoDynamic Films, LLC

https://optics.unm.edu/people/faculty/richard-i.-epstein.html

Professor Anton Vorontsov

MSU Department of Physics

http://www.physics.montana.edu/avorontsov/index.html

Special Stibitz Award American Computer Museum Presentations

http://compustory.com/

by

Dr. Michelle Simmons, Scientia Professor of Physics, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, The University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia

http://www.cqc2t.org/biography/98

and

Dr. Mark B. Ritter, Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY

NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION - Procrastinator Theater

Quantum Computing

Silicon Quantum Computation by Dr. Michelle Simmons

Why Quantum Computers Promise Computational Advantage by Dr. Mark B. Ritter

Professor Shannon Willoughby and Keith Johnson

MSU Department of Physics

http://www.physics.montana.edu/people/faculty/willoughby-shannon.html

Improving the epistemological beliefs of non-STEM majors towards science

Please note our return to Barnard/EPS 103

Prof. Thomas Sotiriou

Professor of Gravitational Physics

School of Mathematical Sciences & School of Physics and Astronomy

University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

http://thomassotiriou.wixsite.com/challenginggr

http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&ln=en&p=find+a+sotiriou%2C+t&of=hb&action_search=Search&sf=earliestdate&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0

Professor Prasanta Bandyopadhyay

MSU Department of History & Philosophy

http://www.prasantasbandyopadhyay.com/default.html

http://www.prasantasbandyopadhyay.com/Publications/publications.htm

Professor Sachiko Tsuruta

MSU Department of Physics

Dr. Knut Olsen,National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, AZ

https://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/kolsen/

Dr. Davide Gerosa, NASA Einstein Fellow

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Testing relativity with past and future supernova explosions

SPECIAL DAY, TIME, AND LOCATION

Thursday, February 15, 3:10 PM

Roberts Hall 310

Patric Holmvall

Chalmers University of Technology

Professor Amy Reines, Professor Loren Acton, Professor Anton Vorontsov, and Professor Brian D’Urso, MSU Department of Physics

http://www.physics.montana.edu/people/faculty/index.html

Professor Kent Yagi

Theoretical Astrophysics, Gravity and Cosmology, Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

http://www.phys.virginia.edu/People/personal.asp?UID=ky5t

Professor Gail Zasowski

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

http://www.physics.utah.edu/~zasowski/

http://www.physics.utah.edu/~zasowski/research.html

Nobel Laureate - Professor W. E. Moerner

Harry S. Mosher Professor, Department of Chemistry and Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics

Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA 94305

Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Biophysics, Nanophotonics

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2014/moerner-facts.html

http://web.stanford.edu/group/moerner/WEM.html

http://web.stanford.edu/group/moerner/research.html

https://chemistry.stanford.edu/people/w-e-moerner

The Story of Photonics and Single Molecules, from Early FM Spectroscopy in Solids, to Super-Resolution Nanoscopy in Cells and Beyond

Special Date & Time

Professor Patrik Callis

MSU Department of Chemistry

http://www.chemistry.montana.edu/people/callis-patrik.html

http://www.chemistry.montana.edu/callis/index.html

Friday Lecture in Gaines Hall 101, 4:10 PM[BROKEN LINK]

This is the initial lecture in the Callis Symposium, which continues on Saturday in the Hager Auditorium, Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University[BROKEN LINK]

Professor Laura Blecha

Department of Physics.University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~lblecha/

Modeling the gravitational-wave and electromagnetic signatures of massive black hole binaries

Robert Walker

MSU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Leader of Montana Collaborative Ph.D. Program in Materials Science

http://www.chemistry.montana.edu/people/walker-rob.html

http://www.chemistry.montana.edu/rawalker/index.html

http://www.chemistry.montana.edu/rawalker/people/rwalker.html

http://www.mtmatsci.org/

Looking at Molecules in Hard to See Places:  Optical Studies of Membrane Partitioning and High Temp Energy Conversion Chemistry

Vivienne F. Baldassare

Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University

New Haven, CT

http://www.viviennebaldassare.com/

http://www.viviennebaldassare.com/research/