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Tuesday, August 29th 2017
3:35 pm:
Thesis Defense in TBD
Speaker: Melanie Galloway, University of Minnesota
Subject: To be announced
This is the public portion of Ms. Galloway's thesis defense.
Tuesday, September 5th 2017
12:20 pm:
Space Physics Seminar in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Nicole Vilmer, Paris Observatory - Meudon
Faculty Host: Lindsay Glesener
Thursday, September 7th 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Kazunori (Bish) Ishibashi, Nagoya U.
Friday, September 8th 2017
12:30 pm:
Cosmological Seed Magnetic Field from Inflation in Tate Hall
Speaker: Bharat Ratra (Kansas State U.)
Subject: TBA
[Abstract]
Monday, September 11th 2017
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar in Tate 201-20
Speaker: Kelley Hess, Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town
Faculty Host: Liliya L.R. Williams
Tuesday, September 12th 2017
12:20 pm:
Space Physics Seminar in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Andrew Inglis, NASA/Goddard
Subject: Characterizing discrete power in solar flares and the magnetosphere using the AFINO algorithm.
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Lindsay Glesener
Wednesday, September 13th 2017
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 110 PAN in Physics
Speaker: Xinxin Cai
Subject: Magnetoresistance oscillations and the half-flux quantum state in mesoscopic Sr2RuO4
Faculty Host: Vlad Pribiag
Thursday, September 14th 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Terry Jones
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: Jeremy Mans, University of Minnesota
Subject: TBA
Friday, September 15th 2017
08:00 am:
Untitled in Physics room 101
Speaker: Sarah Vigeland, U. Wisconsin, Madison
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: TBA
Subject: TBA
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium in Tate Lab of Physics and Astronomy 101
Speaker: Sarah Vigeland, U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Faculty Host: Vuk Mandic
Wednesday, September 20th 2017
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 110 PAN
Speaker: Natalia Drichko, Johns Hopkins University
Faculty Host: Natalia Perkins
Thursday, September 21st 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Evan Tyler and Pat Kelly
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: Yan Song, University of Minnesota
Subject: TBA
Friday, September 22nd 2017
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: TBA
Subject: TBA
Wednesday, September 27th 2017
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 110 PAN
Speaker:  Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Faculty Host: Martin Greven
7:00 pm:
2017 Misel Lecture in Memorial Hall, McNamara Alumni Center
Speaker: Wendy L. Freedman
Subject: THE UNIVERSE CONTINUES TO REVEAL SURPRISES
[Abstract]
Thursday, September 28th 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Matt Gomer
3:35 pm:
Misel Lecture Colloquium in Physics
Speaker: Wendy L. Freedman
Subject: A NEW CALIBRATION OF THE HUBBLE CONSTANT
[Abstract]
Friday, September 29th 2017
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: Kiel Howe (Fermilab)
Subject: TBA
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium in Tate 101
Speaker: Leo Singer, NASA/Goddard
Wednesday, October 4th 2017
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 110 PAN
Speaker: Tobias Gulden, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
Faculty Host: Alex Kamenev
Thursday, October 5th 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Chris Nolting
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: David Kaiser, MIT
Subject: TBA
Faculty Host: Michel Janssen
Friday, October 6th 2017
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: TBA
Subject: TBA
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium in Tate 101
Speaker: Anna Nierenberg, Ohio State U
Faculty Host: Liliya L.R. Williams
Thursday, October 12th 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Qi Wen and John Phillips
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: Clem Pryke, University of Minnesota
Subject: TBD
Friday, October 13th 2017
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Subject: TBA
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium in Tate 101
Speaker: Eliza Kempton, Grinnell College
Faculty Host: Liliya L.R. Williams
Wednesday, October 18th 2017
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 110 PAN
Speaker: Joe Orenstein, UC Berkeley
Faculty Host: Martin Greven
Thursday, October 19th 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Trevor Knuth
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: Paula Heron, University of Washington
Subject: TBD
Faculty Host: Kenneth Heller
Friday, October 20th 2017
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: Stefania Gori, (U. Cincinnati)
Subject: TBA
Wednesday, October 25th 2017
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 110 PAN
Speaker: Cindy Regal, University of Colorado-Boulder
Faculty Host: Clement Pryke
Thursday, October 26th 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Micaela Bagley
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: Cindy Regal, University of Colorado-Boulder
Subject: TBA
Faculty Host: Clement Pryke
Friday, October 27th 2017
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: TBA
Subject: TBA
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium in Tate 101
Speaker: Stuart Bale, Berkeley Space Science Lab.
Faculty Host: Cynthia Cattell
Wednesday, November 1st 2017
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 110 PAN
Speaker: Shivaji Sondhi, Princeton University
Faculty Host: Fiona Burnell
Thursday, November 2nd 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Tony Young and Hugh Dickinson
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: Shivaji Sondhi, Princeton University
Subject: TBD
Faculty Host: Fiona Burnell
Friday, November 3rd 2017
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: Mark Hertzberg (Tufts U.)
Subject: TBA
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium in Tate 101
Speaker: Ori Fox, Space Telescope Science Institute
Monday, November 6th 2017
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar in Tate 201-20
Speaker: Vihang Mehta, UMN
Faculty Host: M. Claudia Scarlata
Wednesday, November 8th 2017
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 110 PAN
Speaker: Emil Yuzbashyan, Rutgers University
Faculty Host: Alex Kamenev
Thursday, November 9th 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Avery Garon and Larry Rudnick
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: Stan Brodsky, SLAC
Subject: Novel Features of Quantum Chromodynamics
Faculty Host: Keith Olive
Friday, November 10th 2017
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: Stan Brodsky (SLAC)
Subject: Supersymmetric features of Hadron Physics and other Novel Properties of QCD from Light-Front Holography and Superconformal Quantum Mechanics
Wednesday, November 15th 2017
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 110 PAN
Speaker: Cory Dean, Columbia University
Subject: Bilayer graphene
Faculty Host: Boris Shklovskii
Thursday, November 16th 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Huaqing Mao
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: Cory Dean, Columbia University
Subject: From 3D to 2D and Back Again
Faculty Host: Boris Shklovskii
Friday, November 17th 2017
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: TBA
Subject: TBA
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium in Tate 101
Speaker: Anne Jaskot, Smith College
Faculty Host: M. Claudia Scarlata
Thursday, November 23rd 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: No Journal Club - Thanksgiving holiday
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: There will be no colloquium this week due to Thanksgiving
Friday, November 24th 2017
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: NO SEMINAR (THANKSGIVING)
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium in Tat 101
Speaker: No colloquium - Thanksgiving Holiday
Thursday, November 30th 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Vihang Mehta and Tom Jones
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: Philip Kim, Harvard University
Subject: TBD
Fall 2017 Van Vleck Lecturer
Friday, December 1st 2017
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: TBA
Subject: TBA
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium in Tate 101
Speaker: Shea Brown, U of Iowa
Faculty Host: Lawrence Rudnick
Monday, December 4th 2017
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar in Tate 201-20
Speaker: Larry Rudnick, UMN
Wednesday, December 6th 2017
08:00 am:
Untitled in Physics
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 110 PAN
Speaker: Mark Bowick, KITP, Santa Barbara
Faculty Host: Boris Shklovskii
Thursday, December 7th 2017
12:05 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Sharan Banagin and Claudia Scarlata
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: Mark Bowick, KITP Santa Barbara
Subject: Fragile Objects: The Hard Science of Soft Matter
Faculty Host: Boris Shklovskii
Friday, December 8th 2017
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: Matthew Johnson (Perimeter Institute and York University)
Subject: TBA
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium in Tate 101
Speaker: Jeremy Webb, Indiana U
Faculty Host: Liliya L.R. Williams
Friday, December 15th 2017
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate
Speaker: TBA
Subject: TBA
Friday, December 29th 2017
2:00 pm:
Thesis Defense in M10 library
Speaker: Pamela Sooriyan, University of Minnesota
Subject: Dose enhancement in bone due to the 16O(γ,n)15O reaction
This is the public portion of Ms. Sooriyan's thesis defense. Her thesis advisor is John Broadhurst.
[Abstract]
Thursday, January 25th 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Thursday, February 1st 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Thursday, February 8th 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Thursday, February 15th 2018
08:00 am:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Thursday, February 22nd 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: Erez Berg (University of Chicago)
Subject: TBD
Faculty Host: Paul Crowell
Thursday, March 1st 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in 50 Tate
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Thursday, March 8th 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in Physics
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Thursday, March 15th 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in Physics
Subject: There will be no colloquium this week due to Spring Break
Wednesday, March 21st 2018
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 110 PAN
Speaker: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT
Subject: TBD
Faculty Host: Vlad Pribiag
Thursday, March 22nd 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in Physics
Speaker: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT)
Subject: TBD
Faculty Host: Paul Crowell
Thursday, March 29th 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in Physics
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Thursday, April 5th 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in Physics
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Thursday, April 12th 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in Physics
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Thursday, April 19th 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in Physics
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Thursday, April 26th 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in Physics
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Thursday, May 3rd 2018
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in Physics
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD

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