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All colloquia, unless otherwise noted, are Fridays at 2pm in the Physics Building, room P-148 (WHERE?). Sponsored by SDSU Departments of Astronomy and Physics, and our student's IRA fees. Refreshments (Coffee and Cookies) are served by the Society of Physics Students at 1:30pm in P-145A.

You can subscribe yourself to the JAPC email list, follow the Physics@SDSU google calendar. There are also other Physics related seminars and colloquia at SDSU.

Current Schedule (Spring 2012): (or view the Archive below below)

Fri Feb 3rd: Dr. Jack Lissauer, NASA Ames Research Center, "Kepler's Multiple Planet Systems".

Fri Feb 10th: Prof. Tom Murphy, UCSD Physics
"The Power of Physics Estimation".

Fri Mar 16th:Dr. Quyen Nguyen Hart, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Regis University
"The Evolution of X-ray AGN and Radio Galaxies in Coma Cluster Progenitors".

Fri Apr 20th:Neil Dilley, Quantum Design, San Diego
"A Day in the Life of an Industrial Physicist".

Wed May 2nd, 11 am P-149 (NOTE UNUSUAL DATE, TIME, and LOCATION) :Prof. Volker Werner,
"Experimental challenges in lifetime and g-factor measurements and consequences in the A~100 region".

Fri May 4th: Professor Dan Stamper-Kurn, UC Berkeley
"Simulating a gravity-wave observatory with a few thousand atoms".

Spring 2011 Archive:

Fri Feb 11th: Prof. Renxin Xu, Department of Astronomy, School of Physics, Peking University "Pulsars and Quark Stars".

Fri Feb 18th: Dr. Joseph Dolan, SDSU Dept. of Astronomy
"Very Low Frequency QPO in 4U1700".

Fri Feb 25th: Prof. Alison Coil, Department of Physics and Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS), University of California, San Diego "The Morphologies and Outflow Kinematics of Star Formation Quenching".

Fri Mar 4th: None currently scheduled due to the SDSU Student Research Symposium

Fri Mar 11th: None currently scheduled due to the CSRC ACSESS forum.

Fri Mar 18th: Dr. Jeffrey Cooke, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University
"Identifying city slickers from country folk: The strange relationship between the environment of high-redshift galaxies and their spectroscopic features".

Fri Mar 25th: At 7.30pm the annual Astronomy Schopp Lecture in GMCS-333, Dr Alan Dressler, Astronomer, Carnegie Institution for Science, "The Lights of Cosmic Dawn".

Fri Apr 1st: Spring Break

Fri Apr 8th: Cancelled

Fri Apr 15th: Dr. Stephen Kane, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Caltech
"Don't Shoot the Messenger: Excluding Planetary Transits".

Fri Apr 22nd: (A Joint Aerospace-E-EM/Astronomy-Physics Colloquia) Fletcher Miller, SDSU Department of Mechanical Engineering
"Design of a High Temperature Small Particle Solar Receiver for Powering a Gas Turbine Engine".

Fri Apr 29th: Dr. Michael Bromley, SDSU Department of Physics
"A Journey from Atoms to Molecules and Back Again".

Fri May 6th: Reserved for Physics Undergraduate 498A/B thesis reports.

Tues May 31th (11 am): Dr. Shirin Enger, "Monte Carlo calculations in brachytherapy".

Mon June 6 (11 am) in P-250: Dr. Mauro Tambasco "Assessing Morphologic Complexity of Cancer Tissue to Predict Patient Survival".

Fall 2010 Archive:

Fri Sep 10th: Dr. Carl Melis, CASS, University of California, San Diego "Phoenix Giant stars: a new chapter in binary star evolution and the re-birth of planetary systems".

Fri Sep 24th: Prof. Bill Tong, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, SDSU "Sub-Doppler Hyperfine Fingerprinting at Trace-Concentration Levels By Nonlinear Laser Wave Mixing".

Fri Oct 22nd: Dr. Amy Lo Northrop Grumman Space Technology (NGST), Redondo Beach, CA. "Terrestrial Exoplanet Detection with Starshades"

Fri Oct 29th: Prof. William Welsh, SDSU Department of Astronomy, "The Kepler Mission: Recent Discoveries".

Fri Nov 5th: Prof. Willie J. Padilla, Department of Physics, Boston College, "Electromagnetic Metamaterials".

Fri Nov 12th: Prof. Olga Dudko, Department of Physics, UCSD, and Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, "Pulling single molecules apart by laser tweezers, atomic force microscopes and nanopores: Theory and Experiment".

Fri Nov 26th: Thanksgiving Holiday

Fri Dec 3rd: Dr. Mark Clampin, Observatory Project Scientist, James Webb Space Telescope, Goddard Space Flight Center, "Status of the James Webb Space Telescope and its Capabilities for Exoplanet Science".

Fri Dec 10th: Last Day of Classes (no talk scheduled)

Spring 2010 Archive:

Fri Feb 19th: Prof. Jacqueline Johnson, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma. "Materials and Medicine".

Fri Mar 5th: No talk scheduled due to the SDSU Student Research Symposium

Fri Mar 12th: Dr. Petr Navratil, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory "Nuclear fusion from first principles".

Fri Mar 26th: No colloquia scheduled due to the CSRC ACSESS forum.

Fri Mar 26th: At 7.30pm the Astronomy Schopp Lecture in GMCS-333, Prof. Richard Ellis, Caltech, "From Galileo to the Thirty Meter Telescope: Four Centuries of Challenge and Scientific Discovery".

Fri Apr 2nd: Spring Break / Easter Friday

Fri Apr 9th: Prof. William Welsh, SDSU Department of Astronomy
"The Kepler Light Curve of HAT-P-7: Discovery of Ellipsoidal Variations".

Fri Apr 16th: Dr. Laurance Doyle, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA
"Detecting Circum-Binary Planets with the NASA Kepler Spacecraft".

Fri Apr 23rd: Prof. Saul Oseroff, SDSU Department of Physics
"The great skutterudite controversy".

Fri Apr 30th: Dr. Jose D'Incao, JILA, University of Colorado and NIST
"Universal Physics in Ultracold Quantum Gases: from Efimov Physics to controllable chemical reactions".

Fri May 7th: Reserved for Physics Undergraduate 498A/B thesis reports.

Fall 2009 Archive:

Fri Sep 25th: Dr. Aditi Risbud, Outreach Coordinator at The Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
"Undergraduate research opportunities at the Molecular Foundry".

Fri Oct 2nd: Dr. Meir Shimon, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego.
"CMB and Fundamental Physics".

Fri Oct 30th: Dr. Don Neill, CalTech
"UV Explorations of Galaxy Evolution".

Fri Nov 6th: Prof. Eric Hudson, University of California - Los Angeles
"Investigation of the optical transition in the ²²⁹Th nucleus: Solid-state optical frequency standard and fundamental constant variation".

Fri Nov 13th: Prof. Laura I. Cerviño, University of California - San Diego
"Real-time surface imaging in radiation therapy".

Fri Nov 20th: Prof. Allen Shafter, SDSU Department of Astronomy
"Nova Rates and Properties Across Differing Stellar Populations".

Fri Nov 27th: Thanksgiving Break

Fri Dec 4th: Prof. Michael Burin, Department of Physics, CSU San Marcos
"Rotating shear flows: from the laboratory to astrophysics".

Spring 2009 Archive:

Fri Feb 27th / Sat 28th: SDSU Student Research Symposium, in the Aztec Center. See the student's schedules here.

Fri Mar 13th: Prof. Jeffrey Alger , Depts. of Neurology and Radiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles. "Assessing Acute Stroke with Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging".

Fri Mar 20th: Dr. David Cassidy, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Riverside. "Experiments with Positronium Atoms and Molecules".

Fri Apr 3rd: Spring Break

Fri Apr 10th: Prof. William Welsh, Dept. of Astronomy, SDSU "The Kepler Mission To Find Earth-like Planets".

Fri Apr 17th: Prof. William Song, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Diego "Radiation Oncology Physics: Current State-of-the-Art".

Fri Apr 24th: Prof. Bruce Twarog, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas
"Using Open Clusters to Bridge the Lithium Gap".

Fri May 1st: Prof. Clifford Surko, Dept. of Physics, University of California, San Diego. "Physics with Low-energy Antimatter".

Fri May 8th: Reserved for Physics Undergraduate 498A/B thesis reports by Rita Philavanh and Stephen Swift

Fall 2008 Archive:

Fri Oct 3rd: Dr. Robert Hoy, University of California, Santa Barbara
"What can coarse-grained simulations tell us about the mechanics and dynamics of polymers?".

Fri Oct 10th: Dr. Michael Bromley, SDSU Department of Physics
"Atom interferometry; like ships in the ultracold night".

Fri Oct 17th: Prof. Orhan Nalcioglu, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine
"Magnetic Resonance Based Multimodality Imaging".

Fri Oct 24th: Prof. Manbir Singh, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California
"Novel Methodologies in Functional MRI and Diffusion Tensor Imaging to Map Human Brain Function and Connectivity".

Fri Oct 31st: Dr. Douglas Leonard, SDSU Department of Astronomy
"Seeking the Type Ia Supernova Progenitor".

Fri Nov 21st: Dr. Michael McNitt-Gray, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
"X-Ray CT Imaging as a Biomarker for Lung Cancer: Detection, Characterization and Evaluation of Treatment".

Fri Nov 28th: Thanksgiving Break

Fri Dec 5th: Dr. Amos Sharoni, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
"Properties of Complex Oxides at the nanoscale: First Order Phase Transitions through Avalanches.".

Spring 2008 Archive:

Fri Jan 25th: Dr. Jim Mitroy, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
"Bound state approaches to matter-antimatter scattering".

Fri Feb 1st: Dr. Richard J Drachman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. "Antimatter in space".

Fri Feb 8th: Dr. Ionel Stetcu, Los Alamos National Lab
"From nuclei to cold atoms and (eventually) back".

Fri Mar 14th: Dr. William Welsh, SDSU Dept. of Astronomy
"Using the Rossiter Effect to Detect Earth-size Planets".

Fri Mar 28th: Dr. Jeffrey E. McClintock, Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "Measuring Black Hole Spin: Progress, Problems and Promise ".

Fri Apr 4th: spring break

Fri Apr 25th: Prof. Guillermo Miranda, Universidad Central de Venezuela "Light and Gravity: A theory of vector gravitational waves independent of Einstein's General Theory, developing earlier ideas of Lorentz, Compton and Wheeler, and introducing the new cosmogonic concept of trio-holes.".

Fri May 2nd: Dr. Joseph Dolan, SDSU Dept. of Astronomy
"Searching for Dying Pulse Trains in RXTE Observations of Cyg X-1".

Fri May 9th: Reserved for Physics Undergraduate 498A/B thesis reports by Joseph Chambers, Jason (Hau-Jian) Liu, Kristen Mecadon, Mark Mitry, Melinda Toth

Fall 2007 Archive:

Fri Aug 31st: Dr. Werner Becker, Max-Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany
"Future optical and X-ray observatories for neutron star and pulsar studies".

Fri Sep 7th: Prof. Calvin Johnson, Dept. of Physics, SDSU
"How to Read the Universe: Science Fiction and Science".

Fri Sep 21st: Prof. Fridolin Weber, Dept. of Physics, SDSU
"The Enigmatic Innards of Neutron Stars".

Fri Oct 12th: Dr. Mark A.E. Williams, Communication Studies Dept., California State University, Sacramento
"Looking Through the Æther: Science, Rhetoric, Magic and Clear Thinking in the Mediæval and Modern Mind".

Fri Oct 19th: Prof. Elizabeth Barton, University of California, Irvine
"Galaxy Evolution in the Lowest-Density Environments".

Fri Oct 26th: cancelled due to the San Diego fires.

Fri Nov 2nd: Prof. Carlos A.R. Sa de Melo, Georgia Tech. and Joint Quantum Institute Uni. of Maryland/NIST
"The Evolution from BCS to Bose-Einstein Condensation: Superfluidity in Metals, Neutrons Stars, Nuclei, and Ultra-Cold Atoms".

Fri Nov 9th: Prof. Bill Welsh, Dept. of Astronomy, SDSU
"Transiting Extrasolar Planets".

Fri Nov 16th: Prof. Milton Torikachvili, Dept. of Physics, SDSU
"Three birds and one Canon (or how to study phase transitions in solids using hydrostatic pressures)".

Fri Nov 30th: Prof. Al Sweedler, Dept. of Physics, Center for Energy Studies, Environmental Sciences Program, SDSU
"Energy, security and the environment: from global to local to global". (Note that the location has been moved to the North Education 60 building).

Fri Dec 7th: Reserved for Physics Undergraduate 498A/B thesis reports
by Daniel Flynn, Oliver Hamil, Joseph Hellmers and Omair Zubairi

Spring 2007 Archive:

Fri Jan 19th: Prof. Eric Sandquist, Dept. of Astronomy, SDSU
"The Inner Lives of Giant Stars".

Fri Feb 2nd: Dr. Michael Ramsey-Musolf, Caltech and University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Symmetries of the Early Universe and the Origin of Matter".

Fri Feb 9th: Prof. Mike DeMarco, Buffalo State University
"⁹⁹Ru Mossbauer Spectroscopy: The Physicist Gamma Ray Microscope used to view the Coexistence of Superconductivity and Magnetism in GdSr₂RuCu₂O₈ ".

Wed Feb 14th: (note unusual time)
Dr. Jacqueline A. Johnson, Argonne National Laboratory
"Glass Ceramics and Imaging".

Fri Feb 16th: Dr. Steven Goetsch, San Diego Gamma Knife Center
"The Role of the Medical Physicist in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery of the Brain".

Fri Feb 23rd: Dr. Mauro Tambasco, Department of Oncology, University of Calgary
"Quantitative Assessment of Tumor Malignancy Using Fractal Analysis".

Fri Mar 2nd: Dr. Usha Sinha, Department of Radiology, UCLA
"Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging and Imaging Informatics: From Data to Knowledge".

Fri Mar 9th: Dr. J. F. Dolan, Dept. of Astronomy, SDSU and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"A Far UV Luminosity Component In SS433".

Fri Mar 16th: Dr. Michael Bromley, Dept. of Physics, SDSU
"Fun with quantum numbers, matter and antimatter".

Fri Apr 6th: Prof. Donald Rehfuss, Dept. of Physics, SDSU
"The Nature of 107 and of 333".

Fri Apr 13th: Prof. Ronald Walsworth, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"Multidisciplinary Applications of State-Selected Atoms".

Fri Apr 20th: Dr. Kailash Sahu, Space Telescope Science Institute.
"Worlds in Transit".

Fri Apr 27th: Prof. Milton Torikachvili, Dept. of Physics, SDSU
"cancelled".

Fri May 4th: Reserved for 498A/B student talks

Fall 2006 Archive:

Fri Sep 8th: Dr. Jennifer L. Hoffman, University of California at Berkeley
"Polarization of Circumstellar Material Across the H-R Diagram".

Fri Sep 15th: Prof. Jorge Hirsch, UCSD
"Do superconductors violate basic laws of physics?".

Fri Oct 6th: Prof. Vladimir Gasparian, California State University, Bakersfield
"Pumping in 1D Kronig-Penney models: Without and with effects of electron-electron interaction".

Fri Oct 20: Prof. Lee Lindblom, Caltech
"Gravitational Wave Astronomy".

Fri Nov 3: Prof. Jeff Davis, Dept. of Physics SDSU
"Encoding Diffractive optical elements onto liquid crystal displays".

Fri Nov 17: Prof. Calvin Johnson, Dept. of Physics, SDSU
"Archimedes Goes Nuclear".

Spring 2006 Archive:

Tuesday May 9 SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE, 7:30 pm in North Education 60
Prof. Kim Griest, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, UCSD
Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Please note, free parking will be reserved in Parking Structure 1 on levels 1, 2 and 3.

Fri Apr 14: Dr. Alfred B. U'Ren, Department of Optics CICESE [Ensenada Institute for Scientific Research and Higher Education]
"Conditional preparation of pure, ultrashort single photon wavepackets".

Fri Apr 7, 4 pm Schopp Lecturein PA-216 (note special time and place):
Prof. Mike Brown, Caltech, "The Tenth Planet (and Friends)".

Fri Mar 31 : Dr. J. Schaffner-Bielich, CANCELLED.

Fri Mar 24: Prof. Alejandro Frank, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM
"Nuclear Forecasting as Pattern Recognition: Can we predict Nuclear Masses?".

Mon Feb 27, 4 pm in PA-216: (note special date, time, and place):
J. F. Dolan, Lab. for X-Ray Astrophysics, NASA GSFC
"Millisecond X-Ray Pulses from Cygnus XR-1".

Fri Feb 24: Prof. Ivan Schuller, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, UCSD, and Rich Wargo (UCTV-UCSD)
"Making of a Scientific Movie".

Fri Feb 17: Prof. George Fuller, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, UCSD
"Neutrinos: Nature's Stealthy Agents of Disorder and Creation".

Fri Feb 3: Clare Yu, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine
"The Transportation System Inside a Living Cell".

Fri Jan 27: Prof. Fridolin Weber, Dept of Physics, SDSU
"Cosmic Cannibals".

Fall 2005 Archive:

September 16: Prof. Jorge Hirsch, Dept of Physics, UC San Diego
"Superconductors, Tao balls, and macroscopic atoms: could a 70-year old theory be wrong?" (click for abstract)".

September 30: Prof. Raymond E. Goldstein, Dept of Physics and BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona,
"The Physics of Multicellularity".

October 7: Dr. W. Erich Ormand, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
"Nuclear Physics from Scratch".

October 14: Prof. Matt Anderson, Dept. of Physics, SDSU,
"TBA".

October 21: Prof. Bill Welsh, Dept. of Astronomy, SDSU,
"The Mars Exploration Rover Mission".

October 28: Clare Yu, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine,
CANCELLED.

November 4: Prof. Tom Murphy, UC San Diego,
"Shooting the Moon: Getting Serious about Gravity".

November 11: Rick Rothschild, UC San Diego,
"Al-26 Production in the Galaxy, especially in OB Associations".

November 18: CANCELLED

December 9: Prof. Jan Chaloupka, Dept of Physics, William & Mary,
"Atoms in Intense Laser Fields: the photoelectric effect under extreme conditions".

Spring 2005 Archive:

Fri, Feb 25, 2005: Dr. Robin Santra, Harvard-Smithonian Center for Astrophysics
"Clusters in XUV Radiation Fields".

Mon, Feb 21, 2005: Dr. Lincoln Carr, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Achieving a Superfluid Pairing Transition in an Atomic Fermi Gas".

Fri March 4, 2005: Dr. Anatoli Afanasjev, Dept of Physics, University of Notre Dame
"Nuclei at the Limits".

Mon, March 7, 2005: Dr. Paul Miller, Brandeis University
"Memory systems in the brain: modeling short-term and long-term processes".

Fri, Mar 11, 2005: Prof. Edward F. Guinan, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Villanova University,
"Seeing Double in the Local Group Galaxies - What we can learn from Extragalactic Eclipsing Binaries".

Fri May 6, 2005: Prof. Mark Alford, Dept of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis
"Superconducting Quarks".

Fri, April 22, 2005: Dr. Vesa Junkkarinen, ???
"Chemical Abundances in Quasars".

Fri, April 29, 2005: Prof. Salomon Itza, Dept. of Physics, SDSU
"A linear approach to what prospective elementary school teachers understand about energy".

Wed, 4 May 2005 SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE
Prof. Fridolin Weber, Dept of Physics SDSU
"Albert Einstein's Life and Science."

Fri, June 2005: Dr. Michael Bromley, Charles Darwin University, Australia
"Matter wave propagation through microstructured waveguides".

Fall 2004 Archive:

Fri Dec 3 2004: Prof. George Schmiedeshoff, Occidental College,
"Alpha-Uranium and its Superconductivity".

Fri Nov 19 2004: Prof. Umesh Garg, University of Notre Dame, "TBA".

Wed Nov 17 2004 at 3 pm. (note unusual date and time), Dr. Gene Milone, University of Calgary, Alberta "The promise of GAIA for binary star studies --- and a boon for ground-based observatories".

Fri Nov 12 2004 Dr Gregory Meisner, Materials and Processes Lab, GM Research & Development Center
"Hydrogen Storage Materials and Measurements"

Wed Nov 10 2004 at 3 pm. (note unusual date and time): Dr. Neal Turner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
"How Black Hole Accretion Disks Stay Cool"

Fri Nov 5 2004 Prof. Herbert Levine, Dept of Physics / Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UCSD
"The Physics of Dictylostelium Aggregation"

Fri Oct 29 2004: Yang Yang Li, Material Science and Engineering, UCSD
"Porous Silicon Photonics Crystals for Templating and Drug Delivery"

Fri Oct 22 2004: 2 p.m. (usual time) Prof. Matthew Anderson, Dept. of Physics, SDSU
"Those Wacky Photons"

Fri Oct 22 2004: 11 a.m. (note unusual time) Prof. Carlos A. R. Sa de Melo, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Super-Colossal Magneto-Resistive Effect"

Fri Oct 15 2004: Prof. Arlette Baljon, Dept. of Physics, SDSU
"Heterogeneous Dynamics in Thin Films of Glassy Polymers"

Fri Oct 1 2004: Prof. Gary Peterson, Dept. of Geology, SDSU
"Atmospheres and Oceans of the Terrestrial Planets"

Fri Sep 17 2004: Prof. Fridolin Weber, Dept of Physics, SDSU
"Strangeness in Nuclear and Astro Physics"

Spring 2004 Archive:

Jan 15 3:30 pm (note special date and time) Piotr Popowski, MPI for Astrophysics, Garching
"Non-microlensing applications of microlensing surveys: Galactic extinction"

January 30 Chris Sterken, University of Brussells TBA

April 16 (2:00 pm usual time) Oscar Bernal, CSULA
"Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and the compund URu2Si2"

April 16, 3:00 pm P-148 (Notice special time) Fred Ringwald, CSU Fresno
"Amateur Instrumentation: Are We Professionals Being Left Behind? (Instruments and Science Programs at Fresno State's Campus Observatory)"

Monday, April 19 (note special date), Saul Oseroff, SDSU Physics,
"Still some interesting physics in "simple" systems?" 2 p.m. P-148

April 23 Albert Migliori, LANL
"Elastic collapse in plutonium 'invar'"

April 30 Kleinfeld, UCLA, TBA (2:00 pm usual time)

April 30, 3:00 pm P-148 (Notice special time.) Ned Wright, UCLA
"MAPping the Universe"
April 30, Schopp Lecture GMCS 333 at 7:30PM (Note special time and place), Ned Wright, UCLA,
"Observing the Origin of the Universe" (Popular lecture on WMAP and CMB)

May 7, time and place TBA: Cyndi Froning, CASA, University of Colorado
"Studying Disk Accretion and Outflows: FUV Spectroscopy of Compact Binary Systems"

Fall 2003 Archive:

September 26 Arlette Baljon, SDSU
"How does a polymeric film pull away from a surface?"

October 10 -- Victor Kagalovsky
"Various facets of Chalker-Coddington network model"

October 24 -- Calvin Johnson, SDSU Physics
"Boing! Boing! The bouncing nucleus"

November 14 -- Art Young, SDSU Astronomy
"Rolling and Sliding and Swinging and Falling: The Experiments of Galileo in the Light of Contemporary Physics"

November 21 -- R. Phillips, Caltech
"Mechanics of DNA Packing and Ejection in Viruses"

November 24 - Special Seminar - Joseph F. Dolan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"Short Timescale Microvariability of AGNs in the UV" Note special date.

December 5 D. Gelino, UCSD.
"Determining the Masses of Compact Objects in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries"

December 8 (Monday) Note special date: Prof. Jishnu Dey, Azad Physics Centre, Dept. of Physics, Maulana Azad College, Calcutta, India.
"Are there high density stars with deconfined u, d, s quarks?"

December 12 Bill Welsh, SDSU Astronomy
"Introduction to Astrobiology"

Spring 2003 Archive:

1/27/2003 (Monday) P-149 2 pm. Dr. Norbert Schorghofer, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology
"Nonlinear interactions in fluids"

1/31/2003 P-148 2 p.m. Dr. Lev Kaplan, University of Washington
"Quantum chaos: wave function structure, localization, and transport in generic systems"

2/3/2003 (Monday) P-149 2 p.m. Dr. Raph Hix. Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"Core Collapse Supernovae: Understanding the Deaths of Massive Stars"

2/7/2003 P-148 2p.m. Dr. Fridolin Weber, University of Notre Dame
"Computational Studies in Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics"

2/10/2003 (Monday) P-149 2 pm. Dr. Vivian Incera. SUNY -Fredonia
"Dynamical Symmetry Breaking: A two-way journey from small to large scales"

2/14/2003 P-148 2 p.m. Dr. Michael Biehl, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Wuerzburg
"Modeling and simulation of epitaxial crystal growth"

2/28/2003 John Tomsick UCSD/CASS
"X-ray Jets in Black Hole Binary Stars"

3/7/2003 Milton Torikachvili, SDSU Physics TBA

3/14/2003 Don Kurtz, University of Central Lancashire, UK
"Probing the 3rd dimension: the rapidly oscillating Ap stars"

3/21/2003 Art Young, SDSU/Astronomy
"Reasons for the Seasons: How to Bar-B-Q a chicken properly".

3/24/2003 Paolo Sibani, Chair, Department of Physics University of Southern Denmark
"Exploring complex energy landscapes in physics, chemistry and combinatorial optimization".

3/28/2003 Sheldon Schultz, UCSD Physics Dept.
"Negative Index Materials, How, What, and Why"

4/11/2003 Robert Byer, Stanford University

4/18/2003 Eric Sandquist, SDSU/Astronomy
"Old Star Cluster M67"

4/25/2003 William Tong, SDSU/Chemistry

5/2/2003 Robert Boyd, Univ. of Rochester
"Nonlinear Optical Physics"

5/9/2003 Jerry Orosz, SDSU/Astronomy
"Stellar mass blackholes (they go snarf in the night)".

Fall 2002 Archive:

9/6/02 Speaker: Prof. Keith Horne, St. Andrews
"Echo-mapping of black hole accretion disks"

9/13/02 Speaker: Dr. Joe Dolan, NASA
"Pauli's Only Mistake"

9/20/02 Speaker: Allen Shafter, SDSU Astronomy Dept.
"On the Spatial Distribution, Population, and Rate of Novae in the Galaxy"

9/27/02 Speaker: Prof. Fred Ringwald, Cal. State Fresno Dept. of Physics
"Observing Nova Shells with Hubble Space Telescope"

10/4/02 Speaker: Prof. Arlette Baljon, SDSU Physics Dept.
"Structure-Property relationships in molecularly thin films"

10/11/02 Speaker: Dr. Peter Chen, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
"A New Telescope Technology"

10/18/02 Speaker: Prof. Matt Anderson, SDSU Physics Dept.
"Material ablation with ultrashort laser pulses"

10/25/02 Speaker: Dr. Mike McElfresh, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

11/1/02 Speaker: Prof. Calvin Johnson, SDSU Physics Dept.
"How to Weigh a Neutrino"

11/8/02 Speaker: Prof. Doug Smith, UCSD Physics Dept.
"Dynamics of Single DNA Molecules"

11/15/02 Speaker: Prof. Andy Young, SDSU Astronomy Dept.
"Green Flashes and Mirages"

11/22/02 Speaker: Prof. Seth Putterman, UCLA Physics Dept.
"SONOLUMINESCENCE: THE STAR IN A JAR"

12/6/02 Speaker: Prof. Herb Shore, SDSU Physics Dept.

Spring 2002 Archive:

2/4/2002: Prof. Herbert Levine, Department of Physics, University of California San Diego
"Biological Applications of Pattern-Formation Physics"

2/11/2002: Prof. Steven Gross, Department of Physics, University of California Irvine
"How do cells create and maintain order: A biophysical look at molecular motors"

2/18/2002: Prof. Galen Pickett, Department of Physics, California State University Long Beach
"Self-Assembly in Branched and Charged Polymers"

2/25/2002: Prof. Paola Cessi, Physical Oceanography Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
"Delayed oscillations in the mid-latitude climate system"

3/4/2002: Prof. Kim Griest, Department of Physics. Uiversity of California San Diego
"The Dark Matter of the Universe"

3/11/2002: Prof. Katherine McCall, Department of Physics, University of Nevada Reno
"Cold Neutrons: The Perfect Way to Study Hot Rocks?"

3/25/2002: Prof. Richard Haskell, Department of Physics, Harvey Mudd College
"Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT): A non-invasive imaging technique for biological tissue"

4/8/2002: Prof. Jose P. Rodriguez, Department of Physics, California State University Los Angeles
"Vortex Dynamics in the Mixed Phase of High-Temperature Superconductors"

4/15/2002: Dr. Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center
"Nanotechnology Overview"

4/22/2002: Prof. Giovanni Zocchi, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles
"Intermediate states in the melting transition of DNA oligomers"

4/29/2002: Dr. Maria Caponi, TRW Inc.
"Hydrodynamic Models Relevant to Remote Sensing of the Ocean"

Fall 2001 Archive:

9/24/2001: Prof. Matt Anderson, Department of Physics, San Diego State University
"Measuring Ultrashort Laser Pulses in a Noisy World"

10/1/2001: Prof. Bjarne Andresen, Öersted Laboratory, Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics Copenhagen, Denmark
"Global Optimization Using Simulated Annealing and Statistical Mechanics"

10/8/2001: Prof. Jon Lawrence, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine
"The Coherent Fermi Liquid State of Intermediate Valence Compounds"

10/15/2001: Prof. Graham Oberem, Department of Physics, California State University San Marcos
"Research as a Guide to Improving Student Learning in Introductory Physics Courses"

10/22/2001: Dr. Francisco Solis, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University
"How to build a theory for DNA condensation"

10/29/2001: Prof. Joseph F. Dolan, Department of Astronomy, SDSU and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"Dying Pulse Trains: Another Test of General Relativity"

11/5/2001, Prof. Douglas E. MacLaughlin, Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside
"Death of a paradigm: non-Fermi-liquid metals?"

11/12/2001: Dr. Stefano Spagna, Quantum Design, San Diego, CA
" Microfabricated Silicon Layers for Torque Magnetometry"

11/26/2001: Prof. William Welsh, Department of Astronomy, San Diego State University
"Mapping Quasar Black Holes Environments with Light Echoes"

12/3/2001: Prof. Arlette Baljon, Department of Physics, San Diego State University
"Contact time dependence of adhesive energy"

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Last updated: 10th April 2011