Date

Speaker

Title

Feb

9

Sarah Wellons

Wesleyan University

Simulating the Growth and Quenching of Galaxies over Cosmic Time

Feb

16

Guest Speaker

Harnessing Disorder to Create Novel Functionality in Materials

*Friday,    Feb

24

Guest Speaker

*please note this talk is occuring on Friday in Exley 150

Mar

2

Guest Speaker

Exploring Low Temperature Plasma Fundamentals and State-of-the-art Technology

Mar

9

William Rees

University of British Columbia

The Future Ain't What it Used to be:  Can we 'socially construct' an orderly great simplification (or must we just let the chaos unfold)?

Mar

16

Spring Break

Enjoy

Mar

23

Spring Break

Enjoy

Mar

30

Anastassia Makarieva

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Susan Masino (co-host)

Trinity University

How Natural Ecosystems Regulate their Environment and Climate

April

6

Welcome New Majors

Introduction of the Physics Department's Newest Members

April 13

Brian Stewart

Wesleyan University

16th Annual Earth Week Rant

April 20

Robert Loew

University of Stuttgart

Cold Atoms, Ions and an Eccentric Molecule Meet a New Type of Microscope

April 27

Charles Brown

Yale University

A Probe of Band Structure Singularities with a Lattice-Trapped Quantum Gas

*Tuesday, May

2

Eric Mazur

Harvard University

Bertman Awards Celebration