Unless noted otherwise, Physics Colloquia are held at 4:00 pm
in Cox 206.
Refreshments are served from 3:30 to 4:00 outside of Cox 110.
To arrange a meeting with a colloquium speaker during their visit, please contact the corresponding host.
Monday, September 4
Labor Day Holiday, no colloquiumMonday, September 11
Dean LeePhysics Department, North Carolina State University
Cold dilute neutrons -- A new type of superfluid?
Monday, September 18
Paul HuffmanPhysics Department, North Carolina State University
Search for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron
Monday, October 2
Jackie KrimDepartment of Physics, North Carolina State University
Atomic Scale Friction and Microscale Machines: These Squeaky Wheels will get no Grease.
Monday, October 9
Brand FortnerPhysics Department, North Carolina State University
Digital Video Authentication: A Novel Approach
Monday, October 16
George SeidelHosts: Robert Golub
Department of Physics, Brown University
Low Temperature Particle Detectors: Tools for Physics and Astronomy
Monday, October 23
Sonke JohnsenHost: Karen Daniels
Department of Biology, Duke University
Lighted camouflage, the color of night, cataracts, and invisible fish: the relevance of optics to biology
Monday, October 30
Ken KraneHost: Albert Young
Department of Physics, Oregon State University
Measuring Neutron Capture Cross Sections of Radioactive and Stable Nuclei by Activation:
An Undergraduate Research Program
Monday, November 6
Lewis JohnsonHost: Michael Paesler
Physics Department, Florida A&M University
Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)
Monday, November 13
Bradley MeyerHosts: David Brown, John Blondin
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University
Neutron-Burst Nucleosynthesis and Implications for Stellar Evolution and Formation of the Solar System
Monday, November 20
Gregory CookHost: David Brown
Physics Department, Wake Forest University
Inspiral, merger and ring-down of equal-mass black-hole binaries
Monday, November 27 - SPECIAL LECTURE - NOTE LOCATION - Williams Hall, Room 2215
Michael PaeslerDale E. Sayers Lecture
Department of Physics, NC State University
The Glass Computer