Unless otherwise indicated, colloquia are presented in Jorgensen Hall room 136 on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. during Fall and Spring semesters. Refreshments will precede colloquia on the first floor of Jorgensen Hall near the vending area at 3:30 p.m. For further information, please call the Physics & Astronomy Department at 402-472-2770.
Past Colloquia Schedules: ♦2015-2016 ♦2014-2015 ♦2013-2014 ♦2012-2013
HEP Faculty Search
TBD
Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016
Host: Gregory SnowHEP Faculty Search
TBD
Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016
Host: Gregory Snow![Annual Safety Training, August 25 at 4:00 p.m. in Jorgensen Hall 136](images/TrainingAnnouncement.png)
Physics & Astronomy Faculty
Departmental Safety Colloquium
Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016
Host: Peter DowbenHEP Faculty Search
TBD
Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016
Host: Gregory SnowHEP Faculty Search
TBD
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016
Host: Gregory Snow![Experiment apparatus](images/DeHarak.png)
Bruno deHarak
Illinois Wesleyan UniversitySome photons, an electron, and an atom
Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016
Host: Tim Gay![Diagram of detection of Pluto's atmosphere as Pluto occults the Sun](images/Cunningham.png)
Nathaniel Cunningham
Nebraska Wesleyan UniversityThe success of New Horizons: NASA’s first mission to Pluto
Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016
Host: Don Umstadter![Diagram of x-ray and laser pulses flowing into jet of molecules](images/Marchdiagram.png)
Anne Marie March
Argonne National LaboratoryX-ray snapshots of molecules in motion
Nebraska Champions Club
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Given as part of the WoPhyS Conference
Ruihua Cheng
Indiana University-Purdue UniversityFabrication and Characterization of Magnetic Heteronanostructures – Knowing the world at the nanoscale
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016
Host: Peter Dowben![A LWFA and plasma based compact radiation source](images/MChen.png)
Min Chen
Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityFrom laser plasma wakefield acceleration to table top radiation source
Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016
Host: Don Umstadter![Samindranath Mitra](images/SamindranathMitra_medium.jpg)
Dr. Samindranath Mitra
Editor, Physical Review LettersPhysics after the lab and the desk: Your work in Physical Review Letters
Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016
Host: Xia Hong![Diagram of electron collision data](images/Bartschat.png)
Klaus Bartschat
Drake UniversityElectron Collisions – Experiment, Theory, and Applications
Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016
Host: Tim Gay![Saturn with full view of rings](images/Nicholson.png)
Philip Nicholson
Cornell UniversitySaturn's Rings and Icy Moons from Cassini
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017
Host: Rebecca Harbison![Multi-Scale Interfaces Design in Solids modeling](images/Technical_JianWang.jpg)
Jian Wang
University of Nebraska–LincolnAchieving Atomic-level Design of Structures and Properties of Materials by Tailoring Interfaces in Solids
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017
Host: Peter Dowben![Photos of nanomaterial in increasing scale from 10 μm to 2nm](images/Sutter.png)