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.
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 29 | Dowben | Betsy Howe University of Nebraska |
Departmental Safety Colloquium |
| FRIDAY Sept. 13 |
Centurion | Ralph Ernstorfer Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin |
Non-equilibrium Structural Dynamics and Phase Transitions in Solids |
| Sept. 26 | Fabrikant | Richard Mabbs Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
Anion Photodetachment Imaging: Electron-Neutral Molecule Interactions from Anion Precursors |
| Oct. 3 | Shadwick | John Goree University of Iowa |
The First Measurement of Spatially-Localized Viscous Heating |
| Oct. 10 | Gruverman | Lane Martin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
The Science and Engineering of Functional Complex Oxide Thin Films |
| Oct. 17 | Umstadter | Martin Centurion | Ultrafast Imaging of Molecules |
| FRIDAY Nov. 1 |
Starace | Lars Madsen | Elements of Theoretical Strong-Field and Attosecond Physics |
| Nov. 7 | Fabrikant | Qing-Bin Lu University of Waterloo, ON |
Global Climate Change and Atmospheric Ozone Depletion: Understanding and Perspective from a Physicist |
| MONDAY Nov. 11 |
Binek | Masashi Sahashi Tohoku University |
Study on Magnetoelectric Effect in Thin Film Cr2O3 Sesquioxide and Electrical Switching of HEX and Residual Magnetization |
| Nov. 21 | Starace & Batelaan |
Carlos Trallero Kansas State University |
From Atoms to Solids: Mapping Structure with Electrons |
| Nov. 28 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| Dec. 5 | Dominguez | Joao Guimaraes da Costa Harvard |
The Standard Model and the Higgs Boson at the LHC |
| Dec. 12 | Physics & Astronomy Holiday Party | ||
| Dec. 26 - Jan. 1 | UNL Holiday Break | ||
| Jan. 16 | Umstadter | Jerry Seidler University of Washington |
Escape Trajectories from Traditional Condensed Matter |
| FRIDAY Jan. 31 249 JH |
Lee | Dr. Rebecca Harbison | The Smallest Free Particles in Saturn’s Rings |
| Feb. 27 | Centurion | Derek Wann University of York |
Electron Diffraction – From Time-Averaged to Time-Resolved Experiments |
| March 14 | Timothy Gay University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Why Isn't God Ambidextrous? | |
| March 20 | Kovalev | Kirill Shtengel University of California, Riverside |
Anyonics: Designing exotic circuitry with non-Abelian anyons |
| March 23-30 | UNL Spring Break | ||
| April 10 | Binek | Wolfgang Kleemann University of Duisburg-Essen |
Novel States and Functions of Magnetic and Polar Solids at the Nanoscale |
| TUESDAY April 15 |
Lee | Robert Pappalardo JPL, California Institute of Technology |
The Hidden Ocean of Europa: Exploring a Potentially Habitable World **This is a joint colloquium of the Department of Physics & Astronomy, the School of Biological Sciences, and the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. |
| April 17 | Batelaan | David Griffiths Reed College |
Hidden Momentum |
| May 1 | Hong | Jun Zhu Penn State University |
Graphene Plus |