2016-2017 Colloquia Schedule

Unless otherwise indicated, colloquia are presented in Jorgensen Hall room 136 on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. during Fall and Spring semesters. Refreshments will precede colloquia on the first floor of Jorgensen Hall near the vending area at 3:30 p.m. For further information, please call the Physics & Astronomy Department at 402-472-2770.

Past Colloquia Schedules: ♦2015-20162014-20152013-20142012-2013


HEP Faculty Search



TBD

Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016

Host: Gregory Snow


HEP Faculty Search



TBD

Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016

Host: Gregory Snow


Annual Safety Training, August 25 at 4:00 p.m. in Jorgensen Hall 136

Physics & Astronomy Faculty



Departmental Safety Colloquium

Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016

Host: Peter Dowben


HEP Faculty Search



TBD

Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016

Host: Gregory Snow


HEP Faculty Search



TBD

Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016

Host: Gregory Snow


Experiment apparatus

Bruno deHarak

Illinois Wesleyan University

Some photons, an electron, and an atom

Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016

Host: Tim Gay


Diagram of detection of Pluto's atmosphere as Pluto occults the Sun

Nathaniel Cunningham

Nebraska Wesleyan University

The success of New Horizons: NASA’s first mission to Pluto

Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016

Host: Don Umstadter


Diagram of x-ray and laser pulses flowing into jet of molecules

Anne Marie March

Argonne National Laboratory

X-ray snapshots of molecules in motion

Nebraska Champions Club
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Given as part of the WoPhyS Conference


Ruihua Cheng

Indiana University-Purdue University

Fabrication and Characterization of Magnetic Heteronanostructures – Knowing the world at the nanoscale

Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016

Host: Peter Dowben


A LWFA and plasma based compact radiation source

Min Chen

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

From laser plasma wakefield acceleration to table top radiation source

Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016

Host: Don Umstadter


Samindranath Mitra

Dr. Samindranath Mitra

Editor, Physical Review Letters

Physics after the lab and the desk: Your work in Physical Review Letters

Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016

Host: Xia Hong


Diagram of electron collision data

Klaus Bartschat

Drake University

Electron Collisions – Experiment, Theory, and Applications

Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016

Host: Tim Gay


Saturn with full view of rings

Philip Nicholson

Cornell University

Saturn's Rings and Icy Moons from Cassini

Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017

Host: Rebecca Harbison


Multi-Scale Interfaces Design in Solids modeling

Jian Wang

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Achieving Atomic-level Design of Structures and Properties of Materials by Tailoring Interfaces in Solids

Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017

Host: Peter Dowben


Photos of nanomaterial in increasing scale from 10 μm to 2nm

Peter Sutter

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

2D Materials: From Macroscopic Perfection to Emerging Nanoscale Functionality

Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017

Host: Evgeny Tsymbal


HEP Faculty Search



TBD

Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017

Host: Ken Bloom


HEP Faculty Search



TBD

Thursday, Mar. 2, 2017

Host: Ken Bloom


HEP Faculty Search



TBD

Thursday, Mar. 9, 2017

Host: Ken Bloom


HEP Faculty Search



TBD

Tuesday, Mar. 14, 2017

Host: Ken Bloom


HEP Faculty Search



TBD

Thursday, Mar. 16, 2017

Host: Ken Bloom