Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Colloquia are normally held on Fridays from 4:10 - 5 PM in Barnard Hall/EPS 103. A Reception for the Speaker with refreshments served begins at 3:45pm in the Barnard second floor atrium. 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 2017 | |||
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Date | Speaker | Title and Link to Abstract pdf | Host |
September 1 | Physics Undergraduate Student Welcome Barbeque |
In front of Barnard Hall (EPS) at 4:10 PM in place of Colloquium |
Hannah Gilroy |
September 8 |
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 |
Rufus Cone |
September 15 |
Professor Dana Longcope MSU Department of Physics http://www.physics.montana.edu/people/faculty/longcope-dana.html |
The still-unsolved Physics puzzle revealed by the Great American eclipse |
Rufus Cone |
September 22 |
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 |
Using the Electron Spin | Rufus Cone |
September 29 |
Professor Kevin Repasky MSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering http://www.ece.montana.edu/directory/faculty/1524511/kevin-repasky http://www.montana.edu/krepasky/research.html |
Rufus Cone | |
October 6 |
Dr. David Nidever MSU Department of Physics |
Using Big Data to Understand Galaxies in our Neighborhood | Nico Yunes |
October 13 |
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.physics.montana.edu/research/astrophysics/astro-msu.html |
Rufus Cone | |
October 20 |
Professor Randy Babbitt MSU Department of Physics and MSU Spectrum Lab http://www.physics.montana.edu/people/faculty/babbitt-randall.html http://www.spectrum.montana.edu/ |
Applied Rare Earth Spectroscopy | Rufus Cone |
October 27 |
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.physics.montana.edu/research/astrophysics/astro-msu.html |
The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy | Rufus Cone |
November 3 |
Dr. Richard Epstein University of New Mexico ThermoDynamic Films, LLC https://optics.unm.edu/people/faculty/richard-i.-epstein.html |
Optical cryocoolers: from physical principles to functional prototypes | Bennett Link |
November 10 | VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY - OFFICES CLOSED | NO COLLOQUIUM | NO COLLOQUIUM |
November 17 |
Professor Anton Vorontsov MSU Department of Physics http://www.physics.montana.edu/avorontsov/index.html http://www.physics.montana.edu/avorontsov/research.html |
Superfluid Helium-3 in tight spaces | Rufus Cone |
November 24 | THANKSGIVING- OFFICES CLOSED | NO COLLOQUIUM | NO COLLOQUIUM |
December 1 |
Special Stibitz Award American Computer Museum Presentations 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 |
Silicon Quantum Computation by Dr. Michelle Simmons Why Quantum Computers Promise Computational Advantage by Dr. Mark B. Ritter |
George Keremedjiev and Rufus Cone |
December 8 | |||
December 15 | FINAL EXAMINATION WEEK | NO COLLOQUIUM | NO COLLOQUIUM |
Spring Semester 2018 | |||
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Date | Speaker | Title and Link to Abstract pdf | Host |
January 12 |
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 |
Rufus Cone |
January 19 |
Prof. Thomas Sotiriou Professor of Gravitational Physics School of Mathematical Sciences & School of Physics and Astronomy University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK |
Strong gravity and fundamental physics | Nico Yunes |
January 26 |
Professor Prasanta Bandyopadhyay MSU Department of History & Philosophy http://www.prasantasbandyopadhyay.com/default.html http://www.prasantasbandyopadhyay.com/Publications/publications.htm |
Hawking's Premature Obituary for Philosophy | Yves Idzerda & Rufus Cone |
February 2 |
Professor Sachiko Tsuruta MSU Department of Physics http://www.physics.montana.edu/people/faculty/tsuruta-sachiko.html |
The Temperature of Neutron Stars – Past, Current and Future | Rufus Cone |
February 9 |
Dr. Knut Olsen,National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, AZ https://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/kolsen/ https://www.noao.edu/staffdir/knut-olsen.php |
A Tale of Two Galaxies | David Nidever |
February 15 |
Dr. Davide Gerosa, NASA Einstein Fellow California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~dgerosa/ |
Testing relativity with past and future supernova explosions SPECIAL DAY, TIME, AND LOCATION Thursday, February 15, 3:10 PM Roberts Hall 310 |
Nico Yunes |
February 16 |
Patric Holmvall Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden |
Mesoscopic superconductivity: A bridge between topology and symmetry breaking | Anton Vorontsov |
February 23 |
Professor Amy Reines, Professor Loren Acton, Professor Anton Vorontsov, and Professor Brian D’Urso, MSU Department of Physics |
Research Frontiers within Physics at MSU | Yves Idzerda |
March 2 | Canceled by speaker | Canceled by speaker | Canceled by speaker |
March 9 |
Professor Kent Yagi Theoretical Astrophysics, Gravity and Cosmology, Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA |
Probing Fundamental Physics with Compact Binaries: Current and Future | Nico Yunes |
March 16 | SPRING BREAK | STUDENT HOLIDAY | STUDENT HOLIDAY |
March 23 |
Professor Gail Zasowski Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT |
New Tools for Galactic Archaeology from the Milky Way | David Nidever |
March 30 | UNIVERSITY DAY | STUDENT HOLIDAY | STUDENT HOLIDAY |
Thursday, April 5, 4:30 Special Date & Time |
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 |
Special Date & Time |
Rufus Cone |
April 6 |
Professor Patrik Callis MSU Department of Chemistry |
Friday Lecture in Gaines Hall 101, 4:10 PM[BROKEN LINK] |
Mary Cloninger, Head, MSU Department of Chemistry |
April 13 |
Professor Laura Blecha Department of Physics.University of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
Modeling the gravitational-wave and electromagnetic signatures of massive black hole binaries |
Amy Reines |
April 20 |
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 |
Rufus Cone | |
April 27 |
Vivienne F. Baldassare Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University New Haven, CT |
Finding and characterizing active massive black holes in dwarf galaxies | Amy Reines |
May 4 | FINAL EXAMINATION WEEK | NO COLLOQUIUM | NO COLLOQUIUM |