Spring 2014
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
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Jan. 15 |
"Emerging Technologies in Breast Imaging Abstract |
Stephen J. Glick | University of Massachusetts Medical School | Wayne Newhauser |
| Jan. 16 | "Studying Structure and Function at the Atomic Level" Abstract |
Linda Young | Argonne National Laboratory | Mette Gaarde |
| PUBLIC LECTURE - Jan. 17 |
"X-ray Lasers - No Longer Science Fiction" Hill Memorial Library - 10:00 AM |
Linda Young | Argonne National Laboratory | Sponsored by the Disginguished Traveling Lecturer Program of the APS Div. of Laser Sciences |
| Jan. 23 | "Kepler Circumbinary Planets" Abstract |
William Welsh | San Diego State University | Juhan Frank |
| Jan. 30 | "Clinical Research using the Monte Carlo Method" Abstract |
Uwe Titt | The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center | Wayne Newhauser |
| Feb. 6 | "Applications of Radiation Physics to Electron Beam Therapy Research" Abstract |
Robert Carver | Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center | Wayne Newhauser |
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| Feb. 27 | "New Horizons in Ab Initio Theory of Atomic Nuclei" Abstract |
Tomas Dytrych | LSU Physics & Astronomy |
Jerry Draayer |
| March 6 | "Nuclei-fueled Cosmos in the Era of Petascale Supercomputing" Abstract |
Kristina Launey | LSU Physics & Astronomy |
Jerry Draayer |
| Special Colloquium - March 11 - Rm. 109 Nich 3:30 PM |
"Making Structured Metals Transparent to White Light" Abstract |
Ru-wen Peng | National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures & Nanjing University |
Rongying Jin |
| March 13 | "Strange Bedfellows: Superconductivity Enabling Magnetism" Abstract |
Ilya Vekhter | LSU Physics & Astronomy |
Mark Jarrell |
| March 20 | "The Uncertainty Principle in the Presence of Quantum Memory" Abstract |
Mario Berta | California Institute of Technology | Mark Wilde |
| March 27 | ||||
| April 3 | "Living on the edge of stability: How do we understand the limits of the nuclear landscape?" Abstract |
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and University of Oslo |
Jeff Blackmon | |
| Special Colloquium - April 4 - DMC Theatre 10:00 AM |
"Computing in Science Education. Integrating a Computational Perspective in the Basic
Science Education" Abstract |
Morten Hjorth-Jensen | National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and University of Oslo |
Jeff Blackmon |
| April 10 | ||||
| Way | Spring Break | |||
| April 24 | "Heavy Element Synthesis in the Universe" |
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz | University of California, Santa Cruz | Gabriela Gonzalez |
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Special Colloquium |
"Nonlinear Optics at the Nanoscale" |
Eric Mazur | Harvard University | John DiTusa |
| May 1 | "Topological Defects in Hexagonal Manganites: from Multiferroics to Cosmology" |
Weida Wu | Rutgers University | Jiandi Zhang |
| May 8 | "Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From Clocks to Computers" |
Ana Maria Rey | JILA, University of Colorado |
Daniel Sheehy |