Fall 2014
Date/Host | Speaker/Institution | Title/Abstract | Room |
September 3 Host: Michael Kesden | Dr. Will Newton Texas A&M Commerce | Into the Mantle of the Neutron Star: Probing Super(con)densed Matter under Extreme Conditions | HH2.402 |
September 10 Host: Lloyd Lumata | Dr. Wei Chen UT Arlington | Nanoparticle-based Photodynamic Therapy and Photothermal Therapy for Cancer Treatment | FN2.102 |
September 17 Host: Michael Kesden | Dr. Louis Strigari Indiana | Galactic Searches for Dark Matter | FN2.102 |
September 24 Host: Jason Slinker | Dr. Chris Sorensen Kansas State | Of Soot and Sunflowers | FN2.102 |
October 1 Host: Chuanwei Zhang | Dr. Di Xiao Carnegie Mellon | Valleytronics in Two-dimensional Crystals | FN2.102 |
October 8 Host: Michael Kesden | Dr. David Sand Texas Tech | Unveiling the Physics and Progenitors of Cosmic Explosions with the FLOYDS robotic spectrographs | FN2.102 |
October 15 Host: Michael Kesden | Dr. Milos Milosavljevic UT Austin | The Complex Physics of Star Formation: Reading the Relics from the Dawn of Galaxies | FN2.102 |
October 22 Host: Lindsay King | Dr. Alex Barreira Durham | Cosmological Constraints on Theories of Modified Gravity | HH2.402 |
October 29 Host: Michael Kesden | Dr. Pavel Nadolsky SMU | Strong Interactions of Elementary Particles in the Higgs Era | PHY1.202 |
November 5 Host: Lloyd Lumata | Dr. Matthew Lewis UT Southwestern | Emerging Biomedical Imaging Modalities: Ultrasound Tomography and Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging | FN2.102 |
November 7 Host: Bob Glosser | Dr. Shriram Ramanathan Harvard | Metal-insulator Transitions and Adaptive Matter | FN2.102 |
November 12 Host: Chuanwei Zhang | Dr. Xiao Li UT Austin | Beautiful Landau Levels | FN2.102 |
November 19 Host: Mustapha Ishak | Dr. Scott Dodelson Fermilab, Univ. of Chicago | Extending the Reach | FN2.102 |
November 26 | No colloquium - Fall Break | ||
December 3 Host: Michael Kesden | Dr. Jodi Cooley SMU | In Pursuit of Dark Matter: Recent Results from the SuperCDMS Experiment | FN2.102 |
December 5 Host: Anvar Zakhidov | Dr. Matthew White Johannes Kepler University | Photovoltaics for Large-scale Power Generation | ECSS2.412 |
December 10 Host: Anvar Zakhidov | Dr. Chun Hung Lui MIT | Shedding Light on Two-dimensional Electrons in Graphene and Beyond | JO3.516 |