Department of Physics
The Joseph and Sophia Konopinski Colloquia Series, Fall 2007
Wednesdays 4:00 pm in Swain West 119 ( Tea at 3:30 pm in SW113)

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Date
Speaker
Topic*

August 29
Introductory Tea 3:30-4
Speaker from 4-5

Josh Long, Indiana University
Host: Mike Snow

Introductory Tea
Tests of the inverse square law at the millimeter scale and below

September 5 Hal Evans, Indiana University
The busy b: Beauty physics at the Tevatron
September 12
Jainendra Jain, Penn State
Host: Gerardo Ortiz
Composite fermion quantum liquid: A new paradigm for collective behavior
September 19 Dave Baxter, Indiana University
Host: Dobrin Bossev
The Low Energy Neutron Source—Recent developments and future opportunities
September 26
Prof. Jorge Pullin,
Louisiana State University (LSU)

Host: Gerardo Ortiz
Quantum mechanics with real clocks
October 3 Steven Elliot, Los Alamos National Lab
Host: Chuck Horowitz

Double beta decay and the neutrino

October 10 Bill Louis, Los Alamos National Lab
Host: Rex Tayloe
Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model with neutrinos

October 17

Michael Nieto, Los Alamos National Lab
Host: Chuck Horowitz

Search for a solution of the Pioneer anomaly

October 24
Joint Astronomy/
Physics
Colloquium

Neta Bahcall, Princeton University
Host: Caty Pilachowski

Weighing the Universe

October 31

Prof. Jason Ho, Ohio State University
Host: Gerard Ortiz

Cold atoms: The next generation
November 7 Christopher Morris, Los Alamos National Lab
Host: Chen-Yu Liu
Charged particle radiography
November 14
   
November 21
Thanksgiving Break
November 28 Professor O.W. Greenberg,
University of Maryland

Host: Alan Kostelecky
The discovery of color; a personal perspective.
December 5 Edward Kearns, Boston University
Host: Mark Messier
Proton decay

* NOTE: Italics for topic only and regular type for formal title

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