Fall 2007 Colloquium Schedule
 
Colloquia are held Thursdays at 4:00 in 102 JFB unless otherwise noted
Refreshments Served at 3:30 in 219 JFB
 
Date Presenter Affiliation Topic
January 10, 2008 Patrick McDonald University of Toronto Probing inflation, dark matter, dark energy, etc. using the Lyman-alpha forest.
January 15, 2008
Tuesday
11:00 in 334 JFB 		William Kinney University of Buffalo From Outer Space to Inner Space: Fundamental Physics in the Age of Precision Cosmology
January 17, 2008 Daniel Apai University of Arizona Planets Around Cool Stars: Origins and Properties
January 22, 2008
Tuesday
4:00 PM in 101 JFB 		Christopher Gabel Harvard University The Study of Neurocircuitry and Neural Regeneration in C. elegans Using Femtosecond Laser Surgery
January 24, 2008 Dawn Erb Harvard-Smithsonian Mass, Kinematics, Elemental Abundances, and Gas Flows in High Redshift Galaxies
January 25, 2008
Friday
11:00 in 334 JFB 		David Kaplan MIT Nearby, Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars: Laboratories for Extreme Physics
January 29, 2008
Tuesday
TBA in 334 JFB 		Alison Coil University of Arizona Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Black Holes at z=1
January 31, 2008 Christy Tremonti University of Arizona

Gone with the Wind: Galactic Outflows Driven by Stars and Quasars and Their Impact on Galaxy Evolution

February 04, 2008
Monday
4:00 in 334 JFB 		Michael Pierce University of Wyoming Infrared Astronomy and the High Redshift Universe
February 07, 2008 TBA    
February 11, 2008
Monday
4:00 in 334 in JFB 		Laura Mersini University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Why Did the Universe Start in Such an Extraordinary State?
February 12, 2008
Tuesday
4:00 in 110 INSCC 		Arne Gennerich University of California,
San Francisco 		Molecular Mechanism of Cytoplasmic Dyenin
February 14, 2008 Fred Goldhaber Stony Brook University Looking Out to See In
February 19, 2008
Tuesday
4:00 in 110 INSCC 		Sascha De Carlo University of Colorado
at Boulder 		Surviving in the Bacterial World: ATP-Dependent Regulation of Transcription
February 21, 2008 David Chapman University of Utah Global Warming - the Facts
February 28, 2008 Niayesh Afshordi Perimeter Institute Physics Beyond the Horizon
February 29, 2008
Friday
11:00 in 334 JFB 		Ghazal Geshnizjani Perimeter Institute Cosmic Inflation Through Time
March 3, 2008
Monday
11:00 in 334 JFB 		Greg Rudnick National Optical Astronomy Observatory How Galaxies Grow: A Tale of Growth Spurts, Early Achievers, and Late Bloomers
March 06, 2008 Kyle Dawson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Decelerating and Dust Free: Dark Energy studies of Supernovae in High Redshift Clusters With the Hubble Space Telescope
March 10, 2008
Monday
11:00 in 334 JFB 		Nemanja Kaloper University of California, Davis Out of Darkness: The Quest for Λ
March 13, 2008 Frank van den Bosch Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy The Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection
March 20, 2008 Spring Break    
March 27, 2008 Shoucheng Zhang Stanford University Quantum Spin Hall Effect
April 03, 2008 Lukas Novotny University of Rochester Nanoscale Spectroscopy With Optical Antennas
April 10, 2008 Z. Valy Vardeny University of Utah Optical Probes of pi-Conjugated Semiconductors
April 17, 2008 Guang-Hong Chen University of Wisconsin Madison X-Ray Computed Tomography (CT)