Spring 2008 Physics Colloquia
| Lecturer: | Professor Alexander Sergienko |
| From: | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Physics, Boston University |
| Topic: | "Quantum Entanglement in Secure Communications and in Ultra-Precise Measurement for Nanophotonics and Biomedical Applications" |
| Date: | Friday, May 2, 2008 4:00 - 5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmit Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Mario Marconi |
| From: | NSF Engineering research Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology, Colorado State University |
| Topic: | "Table top extreme ultraviolet lasers: new opportunities in holographic nano-imaging and nanopatterning" |
| Date: | Friday, April 4, 2008 4:00 - 5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmit Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Young K. Bae |
| From: | Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education |
| Topic: | "Ultrahigh Pressure Shock Phenomena Induced by Impact of Large Clusters and Molecules" |
| Date: | Friday, March 21, 2008 4:00 - 5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmit Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Hans Moosmuller |
| From: | Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education |
| Topic: | "Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education" |
| Date: | Friday, February 29, 2008 4:00 - 5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmit Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Juergen Eckert |
| From: | Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Topic: | "Modes of binding of molecular hydrogen in porous materials for hydrogen storage" |
| Date: | Friday, February 22, 2008 4:00 - 5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmit Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Rodney J. Mason |
| From: | CEO - Research Applications Corp. |
| Topic: | "ePLAS and its Application to Short Pulse Laser-Matter Interactions and Pulse Power" |
| Date: | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:30pm |
| Location: | SAGE Building/NTF Meeting Room Third Floor - Room 341 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Andrew N. Cleland |
| From: | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Topic: | Mechanical quantum resonators: A proposal to create and detect single phonons in a bulk mechanical resonator |
| Date: | Friday, February 1, 2008 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmit Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Col. Michael E. Donovan |
| From: | Acting Assist. Deputy Administrator, Office of ICF and the NIF Project |
| Topic: | ICF Ignition & High Yield Campaign |
| Date: | Thursday, January 24, 2008 2:00pm |
| Location: | NTF Sage 310 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Alexander P. Shevelko |
| From: | P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia |
| Topic: | EUV Spectroscopy of Plasmas Created in the Final Anode-Cathode Gap of the High Current Pulsed Generator “Z-Machine” (SNL) |
| Date: | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:00pm-4:00pm |
| Location: | NTF Sage 310 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. David Meyerhofer |
| From: | University of Rochester - Laboratory for Laser Energetics |
| Topic: | OMEGA EP Laser System: Status and Progress |
| Date: | Monday, December 3, 2007 9:00am-10:00am |
| Location: | NTF Sage 310 |
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| Lecturer: | Alex Aguilar |
| From: | Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Topic: | Spectoscopic studies relevant to the development of EUV lithography light source models |
| Date: | Friday, November 13, 2007 2:00-3:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Rubin H Landau |
| From: | Department of Physics, Oregon State University |
| Topic: | Computational Physics as a Better Model for Physics Education |
| Date: | Friday, November 13, 2007 2:00-3:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Bernard Zygelman |
| From: | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| Topic: | Atomic Physics of the Dark Age Universe |
| Date: | Friday, November 9, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Thomas Sanford |
| From: | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Topic: | An overview of the Dynamic Hohlraum X-Ray source at Sandia National Laboratories |
| Date: | Friday, October 19, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Brian Keller |
| From: | BioZone Laboratories, Inc. |
| Topic: | Novel Liposomes |
| Date: | Friday, October 5, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Farhat N. Beg |
| From: | Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego |
| Topic: | Electron Transport Experiments on ‘Nail’/Cone-Wire Targets Using High Intensity Short Pulse Lasers (~2x1020 Wcm-2) |
| Date: | Friday, September 28, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Michael Kaplan |
| From: | University of California, Davis |
| Topic: | Why Does Extreme Rainfall Occur on the Leeside of the Sierra Nevada and Can We Simulate and Forecast It? |
| Date: | Friday, September 21, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Gerhard Bauer |
| From: | University of California, Davis |
| Topic: | Stem cell research and its life saving applications |
| Date: | Friday, September 14, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Dolores Bozovic |
| From: | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Topic: | The active process and spontaneous oscillations in hair cells of the inner ear |
| Date: | Friday, September 7, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. M. Ya. Amusia |
| From: | Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University & Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute |
| Topic: | "Fullerene shell as a resonator and amplifier for processes in endohedral atoms" |
| Date: | Friday, May 18, 2007 2:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Bruno Bauer |
| From: | University of Nevada, Reno |
| Topic: | "Pathways to Fusion Energy", part of the Chemistry-Physics High School Award ceremony and talk |
| Date: | Friday, May 17, 2007 5:30pm |
| Location: | Schulich Lecture Hall 2 (SLH 2) |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. David Kilcoyne |
| From: | Advanced Light Source, Division of Berkley Lab |
| Topic: | Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy at the Advanced Light Source |
| Date: | Friday, April 13, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Dan Stamper-Kurn |
| From: | University of Nevada, Reno |
| Topic: | Dynamics of a magnetic quantum fluid |
| Date: | Friday, April 6, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Reinhard Bruch |
| From: | University of Nevada, Reno |
| Topic: | The Journey into the Nano-Cosmos |
| Date: | Friday, March 30, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. L. John Perkins |
| From: | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Topic: | Inertial Confinement Fusion and the Path to Fusion Energy |
| Date: | Friday, March 16, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Jack Harris |
| From: | Yale University |
| Topic: | Thermal and quantum fluctuations in micromechanical systems |
| Date: | Friday, March 9, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Dmitri Budker |
| From: | UC Berkeley, Physics and Nuclear Science Division, LBNL |
| Topic: | Two different zeros: searching for temporal variation of the fine-structure "constant" and a for photons in an anti-symmetric state |
| Date: | Friday, March 3, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Nan Yu |
| From: | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology |
| Topic: | Atom interferometry in space for fundamental science and practical applications |
| Date: | Friday, February 23, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. R. Paul Drake |
| From: | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Topic: | Laboratory Astrophysics at High Energy Density |
| Date: | Tuesday, February 22, 2007 2:30-3:30pm |
| Location: | Sage building conference room, NTF |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Uri Feldman |
| From: | Artep Inc. and E.U. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC |
| Topic: | The Plasma Properties of Solar Flares (Tmax~3x107 K): Observational Results. |
| Date: | Friday, February 16, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Len Zane |
| From: | Physics Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| Topic: | The Paradox of the Shrinking Space Ship |
| Date: | Friday, February 9, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Viatcheslav Kokoouline |
| From: | Physics Department, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL |
| Topic: | Theory of dissociative recombination of tri-atomic ions relevant for interstellar chemistry. |
| Date: | Friday, February 2, 2007 4:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | Goudsmidt Conference Room, LP 208 |
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| Lecturer: | Dr. Tatsuhumi Nakamura |
| From: | Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan |
| Topic: | High energy particle generation by laser-cone interaction |
| Date: | Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 10:30 a.m. |
| Location: | Sage building conference room, NTF |
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