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. 28 | Dowben | Betsy Howe University of Nebraska |
Departmental Safety Colloquium |
| Sept. 4 | Ken Bloom University of Nebraska |
Higgs Boson. Now What? | |
| Tuesday Sept. 16 |
Dominguez | Frank Hartmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Silicon Sensors in High Energy Physics Experiments |
| Oct. 2 | Snow | Stefan Fliescher University of Minnesota |
Detection of B-mode Polarization at Degree Scales using BICEP2 |
| Oct. 9 | Hong | David Lederman West Virginia University |
Interface Physics in Hybrid Materials |
| Oct. 16 | Starace | David Crandall | Why Should You Care About Nuclear Fusion? |
| Oct. 23 | Xu | Thomas Ward Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Observation and control of electronic phases in strongly correlated oxides |
| Nov. 6 3:30pm |
Enders | Amber Boehnlein SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory |
Large-scale data-intensive physics computing WoPHY conference talk at the Champions Club |
| Nov. 27 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| Dec. 24-Jan. 2, 2015 | UNL Holiday Shutdown | ||
| Jan. 22 | Anthony Starace University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Using Attosecond XUV and Electron Pulses to Control and Image Electronic Motion | |
| Jan. 29 | Umstadter | John Palastro Naval Research Laboratory |
Modeling of ultrashort pulse laser-matter interactions |
| Feb. 5 | Grouverman | Yachin Ivry MIT |
Ferroic domain switching is scale dependent: the hidden role of nano ferroelastic domains |
| Feb. 12 | Dowben |
David Pappas NIST |
Role of Materials in Quantum Information Systems Co-sponsored by NCMN and Dept. of Physics & Astronomy |
| Feb. 26 | Batelaan | Uwe Thumm Kansas State University |
Attosecond time-resolved photoelectron emission from atoms and surfaces: the photoeffect revisited |
| March 9 | Tim Gay University of Nebraska -Lincoln |
Why Isn’t God Ambidextrous? | |
| March 12 | Bloom | Michael Strauss University of Oklahoma |
Measurements of the Properties of a Higgs Boson using the ATLAS Detector at the LHC |
| March 16 | Yan Sen Xi’an jiaotong University |
Simultaneous Structural Change in Ferromagnetic Transition | |
| March 19 | Enders | Ludwig Bartels University of California, Riverside |
2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide (MoS2, MoSe2, etc.) Films: Transport, Optical Characterization, and Growth on Dielectric/Ferroelectric Substrates Co-sponsored by NCMN and Dept. of Physics & Astronomy |
| March 22-29 | Spring Break | ||
| April 2 | Batelaan | Peter Milonni Los Alamos National Lab |
Optical Forces and the Momentum of Light |
| April 7 | Claes | Matthias Schröder Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) |
The Search for MSSM Higgs-bosons at CMS |
| April 8 | Nebraska Union Auditorium | Dan Claes | Nebraska Lecture: What the Heck is a Higgs Boson? |
| April 9 | Shadwick | Jonathan Wurtele University of California, Berkeley and LBNL |
Trapping and Probing Antihydrogen |
| April 23 | Dowben | Michael Flatté University of Iowa |
Room-temperature electronic spin correlations: towards spin-coherent technologies Cosponsored by NCMN and Dept. of Physics & Astronomy |