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Wednesday, November 14th 2018
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN
Speaker: Mathias Scheurer, Harvard University
Subject: Gauge theories of fluctuating antiferromagnetism for the cuprate superconductors
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Rafael Fernandes
3:35 pm:
Elementary Particle Physics Seminar
in PAN 110
To be announced
Thursday, November 15th 2018
10:10 am:
Biophysics Seminar
in PAN 120
Speaker: John Marko, Northwestern University
Subject: Single-molecule studies of protein-DNA interactions
[Abstract]
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Jett Priewe, University of Minnesota
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in B50 Tate
Speaker: John Marko, Northwestern University
Subject: Physics of chromosome folding and disentanglement
Refreshments in atrium after the Colloquium.
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Elias Puchner
Friday, November 16th 2018
12:20 pm:
Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Sajna Hameed
Subject: Neutron and X-ray scattering study of the ferro-antiferromagnetic cross-over in Y1-xLaxTiO3
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201
Speaker: Alba Grassi (SCGP Stony Brook)
Subject: A solvable deformation of Quantum Mechanics
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Brian O'Shea, Michigan State University
Subject: Connecting the first stars in the universe to the Milky Way
[Abstract]
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Daniel Rood, Department of History, University of Georgia
Subject: El Principio Sacarino: Organic Chemistry Meets Racial Capitalism in the Cuban Sugar-Mill
Refreshments served at 3:15 p.m.
4:40 pm:
Introduction to Research Seminar
in Tate 110
Speaker: Roger Rusack, University of Minnesota
Subject: Elementary Particles
Monday, November 19th 2018
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 201 Tate
Speaker: Soumyajit Mandal, Case Western Reserve University
Subject: Ultra-steep-spectrum Sources in Galaxy Clusters
Faculty Host: Thomas W. Jones
Tuesday, November 20th 2018
11:15 am:
Nuclear Physics Seminar
in Physics 301-20 Tate
Speaker: Mauricio Martinez Guerrero, North Caroline State University
1:25 pm:
Space Physics Seminar
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Aaron Breneman, University of Minnesota
Subject: To be announced.
3:00 pm:
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Xiaoyu Wang, University of Chicago
Subject: Electrical transport near an Ising-nematic quantum critical point
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Rafael Fernandes
Thursday, November 22nd 2018
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club
in Tate 301-20
No journal club, Thanksgiving Holiday
Friday, November 23rd 2018
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201
Subject: NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING
4:40 pm:
Introduction to Research Seminar
in Tate 110
Thanksgiving - there will not be a speaker this week.
Monday, November 26th 2018
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 201 Tate
Speaker: Sharan Banagiri, UMN
Subject: TBD (long duration transient searches with LIGO/Virgo)
Faculty Host: Vuk Mandic
Tuesday, November 27th 2018
11:15 am:
Nulear Physics Seminar
in Physics 301-20 Tate
Speaker: Fabian Rennecke, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Wednesday, November 28th 2018
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN
Speaker: Kimberley Hill, CEGE
Faculty Host: James Kakalios
Thursday, November 29th 2018
10:10 am:
Biophysics Seminar
in 120 PAN
Speaker: Santosh Adhikari, graduate student in Elias Puchner's lab, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Huaqing Mao, University of Minnesota
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in B50 Tate
Speaker: Marco Velli, UCLA
Subject: Parker Solar Probe: Understanding Coronal heating and Solar Wind acceleration
Refreshments in atrium after the Colloquium.
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Robert Lysak
Friday, November 30th 2018
08:00 am:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium
in Physics
Speaker: No Colloquium
12:20 pm:
Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Ezra Day-Roberts
Subject: Contrasting Ferromagnetism in FeS2 Pyrites Induced by Cobalt Doping and by Electrostatic Gating
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201
Speaker: Jaroslav Trnka (UC Davis)
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium
in Physics
Speaker: No Colloquium
4:40 pm:
Introduction to Research Seminar
in Tate 110
Speaker: Cynthia Cattell, MIFA
Monday, December 3rd 2018
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 201 Tate
Speaker: Karl Young, UMN
Subject: TBD
Faculty Host: Shaul Hanany
12:30 pm:
FTPI Seminar
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Alexander Turbiner
Subject: Choreography in (non)-Newtonian gravity
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Mikhail Shifman
Wednesday, December 5th 2018
Thursday, December 6th 2018
10:10 am:
Biophysics Seminar
in 120 PAN
Speaker: Steven Vogel, NIH/NIAAA
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Sourabh Singh Chauhan, University of Minnesota
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in B50 Tate
Speaker: Stacy McGaugh, Case Western
Refreshments in atrium after the Colloquium.
Faculty Host: J. Woods Halley
Friday, December 7th 2018
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201
Speaker: K. S. Babu (Oklahoma State U.)
Subject: Fermion masses, proton decay and the strong CP problem in SUSY SO(10)
[Abstract]
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Tracy Clarke, Naval Research Lab
Subject: To be announced
4:40 pm:
Introduction to Research Seminar
in Tate 110
Speaker: Paul Crowell, Condensed Matter
Monday, December 10th 2018
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 201 Tate
Speaker: Rich Ormiston, UMN
Subject: TBD (Machine Learning and LIGO)
Faculty Host: Vuk Mandic
Wednesday, December 12th 2018
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in Physics
Speaker: Brian Skinner, MIT
Faculty Host: Boris Shklovskii
Friday, December 14th 2018
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Rafaella Margutti, Northwestern University
Subject: To be announced
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium
in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Rafaella Margutti, Northwestern University
Subject: To be announced
Friday, January 18th 2019
4:40 pm:
Introduction to Research Seminar
in Tate 110
Speaker: Marvin Marshak, Particle physics
Friday, January 25th 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
4:40 pm:
Introduction to Research Seminar
in Tate 120
Speaker: Jochen Mueller, Biophysics
Wednesday, January 30th 2019
1:30 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN
Speaker: Turab Lookman, Los Alamos National Lab
Faculty Host: Martin Greven
Thursday, January 31st 2019
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in B50 Tate
Speaker: Roger Steuwer, U of Minnesota
Subject: From tFrom the Old to the New World of Nuclear Physics, 1919-1939he Old to the New World of Nuclear Physics, 1919-1939
Refreshments in atrium after the Colloquium.
Faculty Host: Michel Janssen
Friday, February 1st 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Speaker: Asher Berlin (SLAC)
Subject: TBA
4:40 pm:
Introduction to Research Seminar
in Tate 120
Speaker: Vincent Noireaux, Biophysics
Friday, February 8th 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
4:40 pm:
Introduction to Research Seminar
in Tate 120
Speaker: Shaul Hanany, Cosmology
Friday, February 15th 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Speaker: Andrew Long (U. Michigan)
Subject: TBA
4:40 pm:
Introduction to Research Seminar
in Tate 120
Speaker: Bharat Jalan, CEMS
Friday, February 22nd 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Wednesday, February 27th 2019
1:30 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN
Speaker: Joerg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Faculty Host: Rafael Fernandes
Friday, March 1st 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Speaker: Ken Van Tilburg (IAS/New York U.)
Subject: TBA
Friday, March 8th 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Friday, March 15th 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Friday, March 22nd 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Speaker: SPRING BREAK -- No seminar
Friday, March 29th 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Wednesday, April 3rd 2019
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in Physics
Speaker: Graeme Luke, McMaster University
Faculty Host: Martin Greven
Thursday, April 4th 2019
10:10 am:
Biophysics Seminar
in 120 PAN
Speaker: Sara Walker, Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, ASU
Friday, April 5th 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Friday, April 12th 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Speaker: Erich Poppitz (U. Toronto)
Subject: TBA
Friday, April 19th 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Friday, April 26th 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Speaker: Grant Remmen (UC Berkeley)
Subject: TBA
Wednesday, May 1st 2019
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN
Speaker: Jack Harris, Yale University
Subject: TBD
Faculty Host: Paul Crowell
Thursday, May 2nd 2019
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in B50 Tate
Speaker: Jack Harris (Yale University)
Subject: TBD
Refreshments in atrium after the Colloquium.
Faculty Host: Paul Crowell
Friday, May 3rd 2019
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 201-20
Wednesday, September 25th 2019
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN
Speaker: Scott Crooker, Los Alamos National Lab
Faculty Host: Paul Crowell
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