Physics Department Colloquium Calendars  (Physics 691R)

 

Date

 Name Email From Field (page) Sent
Info?		 Lunch, Dinner? Title Prospectus Host
Jan  4 Calvin Candland calvincandland@msn.com,  (801-607-2217) Alliant Technologies (retired)     y n,n
Applied Research Employment in National Defense
x Colton
Jan 11 Judith Rasband judith@conselle.com Conselle Institute of Image Management Image Management (page) na n,n Cashing In On Dressing Up x Christensen
Jan 18 Jani Radebaugh jani_radebaugh@byu.edu BYU Planetary Science (page) na n,n The Surface of Titan from eight Years of Cassini Spacecraft Observations x Christensen
Jan 25   Saveez Saffarian saffarian@physics.utah.edu Utah Biophysics (page) y y,

Exploring the Biophysics of Virus Formation

 x Christensen
Feb  1 Lawrence Crum lac@apl.washington.edu Washington Acoustics (page) y y,y The Use of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound to Induce Tissue Ablation x Gee
Feb  8 Kensall D. Wise wise@umich.edu Michigan  EE & CS  (page) y y,y

Wireless Integrated MicroSystems:

Revolutionizing the Gathering of Information 

 x Allred
Feb 15 Marshall Hart marshall.Hart@gmail.com Raytheon Missile Systems     y y,y Physicists in Industry x Hart
Feb 22 John S. Lewis jsl@email.arizona.edu Arizona (emeritus) Planetary Science (page),(page) y ?,?     Migenes?
Feb 29 Paula Wamsley pwamsley@ball.com Ball Aerospace AMO   y ?,?     Bergeson
Mar  7 Steven Jones profsjones@gmail.com BYU (retired) Alternative Energy Sources (page) na n,n Alternative Energy:  History and Prospects x na
Mar 14 Wendy Adams Wendy.Adams@Colorado.edu Colorado Acoustics?           Gee
Mar 21 Ephraim Fischbach ephraim@purdue.edu Purdue High-Energy Physics (page)         Durfee?
Mar 28 Oleg Starykh ostarykh@gmail.com Utah Astrophysics (page) y        
Apr  4 John Pask pask1@llnl.gov LLNL CM           Gus Hart
Apr 11 Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. greenslade@kenyon.edu Kenyon College Science History (page) Physics and Art X Merrill?

Possible Speakers:        Teppo Jouttenus, Finland (will be here visiting), theoretical particle physics, 8/5/11, (Steve Turley)
                                                   David Awschalom, UCSB, awsch@physics.ucsb.edu, spintronics & quantum computing, 9/20/11, (John Colton),  (page)
                                             

Fall 2012

Date

 Name Email From Field (page) Sent Info? Lnch? Title Prospectus Host
Aug 29 Patrick Ross RossPW@nv.doe.gov National Securitiy Technologies Plasma           Spencer
Sep  5                    
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Sep 19                    
Sep 26                    
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Nov 28                    
Dec  5                    

Possible Speakers:  Tim Leishman

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Fall 2009

Date

 Name Email From Field Sent Basic Info? Title Prospectus Host
Sep  2 Rob Davis davis@byu.edu BYU CM na Templated Fabrication on the Micro- and Nanoscale ´ na
Sep  9 Bill Pitt pitt@byu.edu BYU Chem Eng na Ultrasound for Drug Delivery ´ na
Sep 16 Ryan Camacho* camacho@caltech.edu Caltech Photonics ´ Moving Mirrors with Light: The Physics of Cavity Opto-Mechanics ´ Durfee
Sep 23 Vidvuds Ozolins vidvuds@ucla.edu UCLA AMO ´ Designing Hydrogen Storage Materials Using First-Principles Computation ´ Gus Hart, asst. by Hess
Sep 30 Bern Kosicki kosicki@verizon.net MIT (Lincoln Lab) Imaging ´ Novel Detector Technology for Challenging Time-Dependent Imaging Applications ´ Stokes
Oct  7 Ben Pratt-Ferguson* bpratt-ferguson@raytheon.com Raytheon Engn ´ Physics in Industry, A Personal Perspective ´ Nielsen
Oct 14 Herman Batelaan hbatelaan2@unl.edu Nebraska Theory ´ A Strong Future for a
Weak Quantum Effect		 ´ Van Huele
Oct 21 Phil Colton jpcolton@comcast.net US State Dept. Career ´ The Atom, its Benefit and Challenges ´ Sommerfeldt Hirschmann
Oct 28 Victor Migenes vmigenes@physics.byu.edu BYU Astronomy na MASER Emission Toward Planetary Nebulae ´ na
Nov  4 Denise Stephens denise_stephens@byu.edu BYU Astronomy na Is Pluto a Planet? ´ na
Nov 11  Niki Brimhall niki.brimhall@gmail.com BYU, Utah Plasma na Extreme Ultraviolet Polarimetry with Laser-Generated High-Order Harmonics: Characterization of Copper and Uranium ´ Peatross
Nov 18 Brian Mazzeo bmazzeo@ee.byu.edu BYU E&C Engn ´ EM Measurements of Biological Systems ´ Van Huele
Dec  2 Jacob Fugal* fugal@ucar.edu NatlCtrAtmRes Atm ´ Looking at Clouds with HOLODEC 2 ´ Christensen
Dec  9 Sara M. Vaiana sara.vaiana@asu.edu ASU CM, Bio ´ Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins, Diabetes and Amyloid Diseases: New Insights from Physics ´ Colton

 

Winter 2010

Date

 Name Email From Field (page) Sent Info? Title Prospectus Host
Jan  6 John Lupton lupton@physics.utah.edu Utah - Physics & Astr CM (page) ´ Watching Excitons on the Move ´ Colton
Jan 13 Solai Jeyakumar sjk@astro.ugto.mx U. of Guanajuato Astro (page) ´ Evolution of Young Radio Sources and the Effects of Environment ´ Migenes
Jan 20 John Ellsworth jee@byu.edu BYU - Physics & Astr Nuclear Astro (page) na (mis)Adventures in Vacuum Electrodynamics ´ na
Jan 27 Orest G. Symko orest@physics.utah.edu Utah - Physics & Astr Low T (page) ´ Beautiful and Practical Patterns ´ Hess
Feb  3 Scott Sommerfeldt & Kent Gee scott_sommerfeldt@byu.edu,
  kentgee@byu.edu		 BYU - Physics & Astr Acoustics (page)
 (page)		 na Both Good and Great: On the Contributions
of Carl Eyring and Harvey Fletcher		 ´ na
Feb  10 Kyle Dawson kdawson@physics.utah.edu Utah - Physics & Astr Obs Cosmology (page) ´ Probing Cosmological Expansion with Distant Supernovae x Joner
Feb 17 Jonathan Weinstein jdweinstein@unr.edu U of Nevada - Reno Plasma (page) ´ Cryogenic Atoms for Quantum Information & Cold Chemistry ´ Bergeson
Feb 24 T. C. Shen tcshen@cc.usu.edu Utah State - Physics Nano (page) ´ Nanotechnology in Nature ´ Davis
Mar  3 David Hatch dhatch@wisc.edu U of Wisconsin Plasma (page) ´ Small Scale Turbulence in Fusion Plasmas ´ Grant Hart
Mar 10 Fabrizio Pinto fabrizio.pinto@verizon.net  InterStellar Technologies Corporation Theory (page) ´ Quantum vacuum engineering: the long road from Epicurean hooked atoms to nanodevices actuated by empty space ´ Christensen
Mar 17 Mario Perez mario.perez@nasa.gov NASA Astro (page) ´ NASA: The Exoplanet Exploration Program Story ´ Joner
Mar 24 Eric Hirschmann eric_hirschmann@byu.edu BYU - Physics & Astr Theory (page) ´ NS, GRB, and GW:  Texting Astrophysics ´ na
Mar 31 Edward Guinan* edward.guinan@villanova.edu Villanova Astro (page) ´ The Once and Future Sun: Effects of the Young Sun's Strong X-ray-UV & Plasma Fluxes on the Young Earth and Terrestrial Planets ´ Moody
Apr  7 Jack Weyland WEYLANDJ@byui.edu BYUI - Physics General (page) ´ Hollywood's Greatest Science Bloopers ´ Christensen
Jun 16 Roger Cozoil rcoziol@astro.ugto.mx Deparmtne of Astronomy, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico Astro   ´ A new diagnostic diagram for exoplanets and an estimation of their habitability ´ Migenes

Other invitations issued:  Jani Radebaugh, BYU, jani@lpl.arizona.edu  10/14/09                                                 *Note that this colloquium will be jointly sponsored by the Department of Geology.
                                        Summer Rupper, BYU, summer_rupper@byu.edu  10/20/09                                       
                                        Jim Steenburgh, U of Utah, jim.steenburgh@utah.edu  10/27/09 (declined)
                                        (David McKenna wants to invite the national ΣΠΣ president.

Fall 2010

Date

 Name Email From Field (page) Sent Info? Title Prospectus Host
Sep  1 Gus Hart gus.hart@gmail.com BYU - Physics & Astr CM (page) na A random walk through basic biophysics ´ na
Sep  8 David Long  long@ee.byu.edu BYU - Elec & Comp Eng Remote Sensing (page) na Microwaves, Icebergs, and Climate x na
Sep 15 Jean-Francois Van Huele vanhuele@byu.edu BYU - Physics & Astr Theory Qntm Mech (page) na Spinning an Entangled Tale: a Story of Quantum Dynamics, Quantum Foundations, and Quantum Information x na
Sep 22 David A. Hostutler  David.Hostutler@kirtland.af.mil USAF - Kirtland AFB AMO - lasers yes Diode pumped alkali lasers - an overview ´ Durfee
Sep 29 Michael H. Bartl bartl@chem.utah.edu Utah - Chem,  Phys & Astr Nano (page) yes Bioinspired Three-Dimensional Photonic Band Gap Crystals ´ Campbell
Oct  6 Christoph M. Boehme  boehme@physics.utah.edu Utah - Physics & Astr CM (page) yes Spin electronics for materials spectroscopy ´ Colton
Oct 13 Dan Werthimer danw@ssl.berkeley.edu California - Berkeley SETI (page) no IS ANYBODY OUT THERE? The Search for ET with help from Eight Million Volunteers ´ Christensen
/Blakley
Oct 20 D. Harold McNamara harold_mcnamara@byu.edu BYU - Physics & Astr Astro (page) na Variable Stars in Star Cluster and Galaxies ´ na
Oct 27 David Blackstock dtb@mail.utexas.edu U of Texas Acoustics (page) yes Parametric Array: A Novel Application of Nonlinear Acoustics ´ Gee
Nov  3 Andrew Ludlow andrew.ludlow@nist.gov NIST AMO (page) yes Making Better Atomic Clocks ´ Durfee
Nov 10 Alex Cronin cronin@physics.arizona.edu U of Arizona AMO (page), yes New Atom Interferometry Measurements of Atomic Properties. ´ Durfee
Nov 17 Alvin Benson bensonal@uvu.edu UVU - Physics Geophysics (page) no Macroscopic Field Physics: Changing the Spin and Finding the Right Vibrational Node ´ Christensen
Dec  1 Bonnie Andersen BonnieM@uvu.edu UVU - Physics Acoustics (page) yes Modes of Bottle-Shaped Thermoacoustics Engines ´ Van Huele
Dec  8 Dan Shrum dshrum@energysolutions.com EnergySolutions Hydrogeology   The Science of Clive ´ Christensen

 Other invitations issued:  Maarten Schmidt, Caltech (emeritis), astronomy, mxs@astro.caltech.edu, 2/19/10
                                          Deborah Jin, U. of Colrado, ?, deborah.jin@Colorado.EDU, ? (to be contacted by Durfee)                    

Winter 2011

Date

 Name Email From Field (page) Info→? Title Prospectus Host
Jan  5 Wayne Peterson wayne_peterson@physics.byu.edu BYU Demos (page) yes A Glimpse at the Wonderworld of Classroom Physics Demonstrations x na
Jan 12  Joel Fajans  joel@physics.berkeley.edu UC Berkeley Plasma (page) yes How to Create and Trap Antihydrogen x Grant Hart
Jan 19 Cort Johnson cnjohns@sandia.gov Sandia NL Atomic   yes Magnetoencephalography with Fiber-Coupled Atomic Magnetometers x Allred
Jan 26 Eugene Mishchenko mishch@physics.utah.edu  Utah CM Theory (page) yes Many-body effects in the quasipartilce and collective properties of graphene x Colton
Feb  2 Clark Goble clark@amanochocolate.com Amano Artisan Chocolate Business (page) yes Physics Meets Chocolate x Neilsen
Feb  9 Ryan P. O'Hayre rohayre@mines.edu Colorado School of Mines Metallurgical & Materials Engineering (page) yes

Electrochemistry for Energy Conversion

 x Davis
Feb 16 Chris Schwartz christian.schwartz@utah.com Utah Atmospheric Sciences (page) yes Co-occurrence statistics of tropical tropopause layer cirrus with lower cloud layers as derived from CloudSat and CALIPSO x Christensen
Feb 23 M. Bugrahan Oktay oktay@physics.utah.edu Utah Lattice QCD (page) yes Computer Simulations in Particle Physics x Peatross
Mar  2 Adam Johnston ajohnston@science.weber.edu Weber State Science Ed (page) (page) yes
Physics Education:  Promise, Purpose, and Problems
 x Merrill
Mar  9 Ben Bromley bromley@physics.utah.edu Utah Astrophysics (page) yes Planet Formation x Migenes
Mar 16 Rainer Grobe grobe@phy.ilstu.edu Illinois State U Laser Optics (page) yes Visualization of Quantum Field Theoretical Processes x Peatross
Mar 23 Derek Thomas derekcthomas@gmail.com U of Texas at Austin Acoustics na yes Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere: Nonlinear Dynamics and Acoustic Propagation in Large Clusters of Interacting Bubbles x Gee?
Mar 30 Darin Ragozzine darin.ragozzine@gmail.com Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Astrophysics (page) yes Systems with Multiple Transiting Planets: the Kepler Space Telescope Strikes Exoplanetary Gold x Stephens
Apr  6 Dan Whalen dwhalen@lanl.gov Carnegie Mellon U Astrophysics na yes Finding the First Cosmic Explosions x Moody
Apr 13 Manuel Berrondo manuel_berrondo@byu.edu BYU AMO (page) yes

Consensus and Frustration
in Emergent Systems

 x na

 

Fall 2011

Date

 Name Email From Field (page) Sent Info? Lnch? Title Prospectus Host
Aug 31 Jay Mace jay.mace@utah.edu Utah Atmospheric Sciences (page) yes y The Advent (and Demise?) of a New Era in Cloud Remote Sensing From Space x  Christensen
Sep  7 Shane Larson s.larson@usu.edu Utah State Gravitational Waves (page) yes y PROBING THE COSMOS WITH LIGHT AND GRAVITY: Multi-messenger astronomy in the gravitational wave era x  Neilsen
Sep 14 Jay Irvine jay_irvine@byu.edu BYU Career Placement (page) yes n Preparing yourself to find a professional career opportunity in today’s  competitive job market na na
Sep 21 Eric Hunter eric.hunter@utah.edu Nat'l Ctr for Voice & Speech Acoustics (page) no n

A Case Study of Gordon B. Hinckley: Using Acoustics of Coupled Systems to Track Indicators of Health and Aging in 48 years of BYU Speeches

 x  Leishman
Sep 28  Josh Holt Josh.Holt@nrel.gov National Renewable Energy Laboratory Solar Cells (page) yes y Organic Photovoltaics and the Nanotube Niche x  Davis
Oct  5 (HC week) Peter Milonni pwm@lanl.gov U of Rochester Quantum Optics (page) yes y  Casimir Effects  x  Peatross
Oct 12 Inese Ivins iii@physics.utah.edu Utah Astronomy (page) no y  Cosmic Building Blocks -- Stellar Insights x   Migenes
Oct 19 David Neilsen david.neilsen@byu.edu BYU Theoretical (page) na n Black Holes in Your Bathtub x    na
Oct 26 Raymond Shaw rashaw@mtu.edu Michigan Tech Atmospheric (page) yes y How Do Clouds Rain? Building a “Gas Kinetic Theory” for Cloud Droplets x     
Nov  2 Richard Vanfleet richard_vanfleeet@byu.edu BYU CM (page) na n Chemically Ordered Metal Alloys x na
Nov  9 Norman Tolk norman.tolk@vanderbilt.edu Vanderbilt AMO (page) yes, phone y Using Coherent Acoustic Phonons to Probe Damage Induced Defect Concentrations Leading to Optoelectronic Structure Modifications x  Peatross
Nov 16 Alan Wall alantwall@gmail.com BYU Acoustics   yes n Of Microphones, Measurements, and Military Jets: Acoustic holography of the F-22 Raptor x Gee
Nov 30 Matt Turner mdturner@phys.washington.edu U of Washington     yes   Quantum Weak-value Amplification for Torsion-balance Experiments X Durfee
Dec  7 Anil Seth aseth@astro.utah.edu Utah Astronomy (page) yes y   The Formation of Galaxy Nuclei x   Moody

Other invitations issued:  Mingzhong Wu, Colorado State U, mwu@lamar.colostate.edu, CM (nanomagnetism), 1/21/11, (cgc, find host), invited for Fall, (page)  (need to
                                                         establish date)
                                      Kirk Sorensen, invited for Winter (Bret Hess)
                                      Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, MIT, enectali@mit.edu, Astrophysics, 10/27/10 ate Univ (cgc)
                                               Jason Chaffetz, US Congress, Contact agent: Karilyn.Henshaw@mail.house.gov, Government Science Policy (cgc)
                                      Bailey Hsu, Taiwan, Don't know email yet, Theory, 11/15/10 (Van Huele)  (Hold 3/16 and 3/30 for him.) (Jean-Francois will contact
                    
Possible invitees:          Ivan Smalyukh, Condensed Matter ( ), Ivan.Smalyukh@colorado.edu, see
                                              http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/04d5e88b1ba19aad353c269e85dfe214.html for award, (page)
                          Paul Hewitt, , Education, pghewitt@conceptualphysics.com, (suggested by Duane Merrill; he will contact)