The Physics & Astronomy colloquia below were presented during the 2012-2013 academic year and are listed here for reference. For further information please call the Department of Physics and Astronomy at 402-472-2770. Presentations from the current academic year can be found on the 2017-2018 Colloquia listing.
Fall 2012
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 30 | Snow | Ilya Kravchenko University of Nebraska |
Discovery of the Higgs-like boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN |
| Sept. 6 | Ducharme | Ron Synowicki J.A. Woollam Co., Inc. |
Polarization on the Prairie: The History of Early Polarimetry and Ellipsometry in Nebraska, 1900-1920 |
| Sept. 13 | Centurion | Matthias Kling Kansas State University |
Controlled Electron Acceleration from Nanoparticles and Clusters |
| Sept. 20 | Gay | Nick Martin University of Kentucky |
Electron and Photon Impact Autoionization of Helium |
| Sept. 27 | Binek | Micky Holcomb West Virginia University |
Magnetoelectric Interfaces, Synchrotrons and Lasers |
| Oct. 5 | Lee | Ruckman Lecture | |
| Oct. 11 | Hong | Zhigang Jiang Georgia Institute of Technology |
Landau Level Spectroscopy of Graphene and Graphite |
| Oct. 25 | Bloom | David Gerdes University of Michigan |
Exploring Nature's Dark Secrets: Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey |
| Nov. 8 | Centurion | Mike Bogan SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory |
The Next Decade of Single Particle Diffraction with X-Ray Lasers: Opportunities in Structural Biology and Climate Science |
| Nov. 15 | Gay | Michael Schulz Missouri University of Science and Technology |
The Overlooked Role of Projectile Coherence in Atomic Fragmentation Processes |
| Nov. 22 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| Nov. 29 | Don Umstadter University of Nebraska |
Probing Matter with Extreme Light | |
| Dec. 6 | Luat Vuong Queens College of CUNY |
Demonstrations of Photo-Induced Magnetism in Metallic Nanocolloids Using Sunlight and Fridge Magnets |
Spring 2013
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 10 | Snow | Betsy Howe University of Nebraska |
Departmental Safety Colloquium |
| Jan. 25 | Gruverman | Prof. Scott Cambridge |
The Renaissance of Ferroelectric Memories |
| Jan. 31 | Snow | Bharat Ratra Kansas State University |
"Standard" Model of Cosmology ... and Open Questions |
| CANCELLED Feb. 21 |
Fabrikant | Richard Mabbs Washington University |
Anion Photodetachment Imaging: Probing Parent Orbitals and Electron-Molecule Interactions |
| Feb. 25 | CMP | Jason Haraldsen Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Understanding the Magnetic Ground States for Improper Multiferroic Materials |
| Feb. 28 | CMP | Pouyan Ghaemi Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Graphene: The Elastic Playground of Novel Electronic Phases |
| March 7 | CMP | Tanmoy Das Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Intermediate Coupling Model of Correlated Systems |
| March 8 | Big Red Experience | Dan Claes University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
Just What the Heck is a Higgs Boson?! |
| March 11 | CMP | AKM Newaz Vanderbilt University |
Tuning Electrical and Optical Properties of 2D Atomic Crystals |
| March 14 | CMP | Alexey Kovalev University of California, Riverside |
Spin Mechanics: From Single Molecule Magnets to Majorana Fermions |
| March 21 | Spring Break | ||
| March 25 | CMP | Xiaohang Zhang Magnetic Materials Group, NIST |
One to Two, or to Nothing: Superconducting Spectroscopy for the Study of Electronic States |
| March 28 | Binek | Hari Srikanth University of South Florida |
Tunable Microwave Response and Other Emergent Magnetic Properties in Hybrid Nanostructures |
| March 29 4:00 JH 136 |
CMP | Xiaoshan Xu Bryn Mawr |
Single Phase Magnetoelectric Multi-Ferroics: From Mechanism to Applications |
| April 1 | CMP | Eundeok Mun National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos |
Magnetic Field Tuned Quantum Criticality of Heavy Fermion System YbPtBi |
| April 11 | Gay | John Hall JILA |
Five Decades of Lasers, Six Decades of Progress, and a Proposed Space Experiment to Test Einstein’s Assumptions |
| April 19 | Lee | Susan Benecchi Carnegie Institution |
Solar System Archaeology: What we Learn from Small Bodies in our Solar System |
| April 19 | Gruverman | Seungbum Hong Argonne National Laboratory |
Visualization and Manipulation of Polarization and Screen Charges |
| April 19 Public Talk 7:00 PM Union Auditorium |
Lee | Susan Benecchi Carnegie Institution |
The New Horizons Mission: Pluto and Beyond |
| April 25 | Dowben | Jiandi Zhang Louisiana State University |
Why are Ultrathin Films of Metallic Oxides Nonmetallic? |