Physics Colloquia Titles and Speakers
Friday, 5 December 2014
The Two-Body Problem a Century After Einstein
Dr. Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash, School of Physics & Astronomy, Cardiff University
Friday, 21 November 2014
LSST: Physicists and Astronomers of the World, Unite!
Dr. Željko Ivezić, Professor of Astronomy/LSST Project Scientist, University of Washington
Friday, 14 November 2014
The Promise and Perils of Proton Therapy in the War on Cancer
Dr. Brian Tonner, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center (Tampa, FL)
Friday, 24 October 2014
A Galactic Scale Gravitational Wave Observatory
Dr. Maura McLaughlin, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University
Friday, 17 October 2014
The Creation of Bosons, Fermions, Gravitational Perturbations and Waves in the Expanding Universe
Dr. Leonard Parker, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UW-Milwaukee, Dept. of Physics
Friday, 10 October 2014
Some Recent Novelties in Magnetism: Metamagnetism, Nonlinear Response and Multiferroics
Dr. Pradeep Kumar, Department of Physics, University of Florida
Friday, 26 September 2014
Galaxy Transformation and the Evolution of the Gas Content of Galaxy Groups
Dr. Eric M. Wilcots, Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison
Friday, 12 September 2014
The Energy Lens: Some Thoughts on Teaching and Learning About Energy from Third Grade to College
Dr. Roger Tobin, Professor and Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University
Friday, 5 September 2014
My Adventures in the Stratosphere
Jean Creighton, Director – UWM Manfred Olson Planetarium
Friday, 18 July 2014
Searching for Gravitational Waves With Pulsar Timing Arrays
Justin Ellis, UWM Physics PhD Candidate
Friday, 15 May 2014
Mapping Dynamic Nature of Molecular Machines that constitute Life
Dr. Peter Schwander, Senior Scientist, UW-Milwaukee
Friday, 12 May 2014
Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction, Protein Dynamics and Drug Recovery
Dr. Steffan Lindert, Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Pharmacology, University of California-San Diego
Friday, 9 May 2014
The Physics of the Games Cancer Plays
Dr. Robert H. Austin, Professor, Department of Physics, Princeton University
Thursday, 8 May 2014
Mechanics and Dynamics of Protein Structures
Dr. Zhong Ren, CEO-Renz Research
Friday, 2 May 2014
Simulating Cosmic Reionization
Dr. Nick Gnedin, Professor at the University of Chicago & Scientist at Fermilab
Friday, 25 April 2014
Probing Complex Materials One Atom at a Time by a Combination of Theory and Microscopy
Dr. Sokrates T. Pantelides, University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy & Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, and Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Friday, 18 March 2014
The Einstein@Home Search for Gravitational Waves and Neutron Stars
Dr. Bruce Allen, Professor, Albert Einstein Institute (Hanover, Germany)
Friday, 28 March 2014
Feedback-Regulated Star Formation on Galactic and Cosmological Scales
Dr. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Northwestern University
Friday, 7 March 2014
Real-time Imaging of Light-induced Reactions: From Strong-field Physics to Ultrafast Photochemistry
Dr. Arten Rudenko, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics (James Macdonald Lab), Kansas State University
Friday, 31 January 2014
Quantum Gravity and the Observable Universe
Dr. Ivan Agullo, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University