Fall 2013
Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
Sept. 5 | "Quantum Spins, Real Rotations and a 1913 Ramanujan Conjecture" Abstract |
A. Ravi P. Rau | LSU Physics & Astronomy |
Juhan Frank |
Sept. 12 | "Measurements of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays from the Pierre Auger Observatory" Abstract |
James Matthews | LSU Physics & Astronomy |
Juhan Frank |
Sept. 19 | "X-ray Bursts, Palladium Oceans, and Cold Fusion - The Strange World of Accreting
Neutron Stars" Abstract |
Hendrik Schatz | Michigan State University and JINA |
Jeff Blackmon and Catherine Deibel |
Sept. 26 | "Quantizing Gravity: Atoms of Geometry and Possible links to Observation" Abstract |
Seth Major | Hamilton College | Jorge Pullin |
Oct. 3 | 'Superconductivity and Magnetism: Enduring Frenemies" Abstract |
David J. Singh | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Mark Jarrell |
Oct. 10 | "Breakup of the H2 Molecule by Ultrashort XUV Laser Radiation: A Time-Dependent Treatment" Abstract |
Xiaoxu Guan | Drake University | Kenneth Schafer |
Oct. 17 |
"Black Hole Battery" Abstract |
Janna Levin | Columbia University | Gabriela Gonzalez |
Oct. 24 | "Light Echoes from Luminous Transients - An Exploration of Asymmetries and Time Evolution" Abstract |
Douglas Welch | McMaster University | Geoff Clayton |
Oct. 31 | "Testing Particle Physics at the Inflationary Scale in a Finite Universe" Abstract |
Sarah Shandera | Pennsylvania State University | Ivan Agullo |
Nov. 7 | "Physics and Astrophysics with Gravitational Observations" Abstract |
Emanuele Berti | University of Mississippi | Parampreet Singh |
Nov. 14 | "Black Hole Curiosities" Abstract |
Pablo Laguna | Georgia State University | Parampeet Singh |
Nov. 21 | "Exchange bias and other emergent magnetic phenomena in hybrid nanostructures" Abstract |
Hariharan Srikanth | University of South Florida | Shane Stadler |
Nov. 28 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |||
Dec. 5 |