U of Alabama, Department of Physics and Astronomy
2008/09 Colloquia

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held in room 227 at 3:45pm with coffee at 3:30

Aug 27 Intro to Faculty Research Williams, Mankey,Keel,Clavelli
Sep 3 Intro to Faculty Research II Stancu, Mewes, LeClair,Buta
Sep 10 Materials Design for Spintronics     (abstract) Bill Butler, UA
Sep 24 The EXO double beta decay experiment: a status report     (abstract) Andreas Piepke, UA
Oct 1 Fine Tuning and Fundamental Physics     (abstract) John Donoghue, U Mass
Oct 8 Interaction of Solar and Stellar Winds with the Interstellar Medium     (abstract) G.P. Zank,  CSPAR and Dept. of Physics, UAH
Oct 15 Building Disk Galaxies in a Violent Universe     (abstract) Sheila Kannappan, U of North Carolina
Oct 22 Dark Energy and the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe     (abstract) Bob Scherrer,  Vanderbilt
Nov 19 New approaches for determining the dark matter content in spiral galaxies     (abstract) Marc Seigar, U of Arkansas, LR
Dec 3 Laser and Aerosol Processes in the Synthesis of Calcium Phosphate Bioceramics     (abstract) Renato Camata, UAB
Jan 21 postponed     Jack Gunion, UC Davis
Jan 28 Multi-messenger studies of gamma-ray bursts     (abstract) Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Tech
Feb 11 Adventures in Physics Outside the Laboratory     Judy Franz, APS
Feb 25 Development of a Toggle MRAM Chip     (abstract) David Abraham, IBM
March 4 Uncloaking the dark universe with cosmological numerical simulations     (abstract) Darren Reed
March 6 Primordial Supernovae and the Assembly of the first Galaxies     (abstract) Daniel Whalen, Los Alamos
March 9 Fundamental Constants in the Standard Model and Beyond (A Journey from Particle Physics to Astrophysics)     (abstract) Xavier Calmet, Louvain
March 11 Basics and Applications of Artificial Magnetic Patterns     (abstract) Arno Ehresmann, U. Kassel
March 13, 2:00pm Origins of Galaxy Bimodality - the UV Perspective     (abstract) Samir Salim, NOAO, Tucson
March 25 Beyond the Standard Models: Quantum Space-time and Cosmological Implications     (abstract) Harold Steinacker, U. Vienna
March 27 Searching for the Dark Matter Particle     (abstract) Yudi Santoso, U. Durham
April 1 New physics and its opportunity at future experiments     (abstract) Nobuchika Okada, KEK, Japan
April 3 New methods of precision cosmology:
Success and Challenges of Gravitational Lensing Measurements     (abstract)
Marina Shmakova, Stanford
April 8 The Quest to Find Intermediate-Mass Black Holes     (abstract) Jimmy Irwin, U. Michigan
April 15 Black holes and neutron stars in globular star clusters     (abstract) Tom Maccarone, Southhampton
April 16, 3:45pm Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows: theory and observations     (abstract) Alin Panaitescu, Los Alamos
April 24, 2:00pm Triaxial galaxies and dark matter halos     (abstract) Glenn van de Ven, IAS