Upcoming Departmental Colloquia

Stephen Maran
American Astronomical Society
Galileo to Hubble and Beyond
NAU Wettaw Lecture Hall (Bldg 88, Rm 139), Thursday, October 2, 2008, 7:00 PM

Colloquia Sponsored Jointly by Lowell Observatory, NAU Physics & Astronomy and the US Naval Observatory

Previous Departmental Colloquia

David E. Trilling
University of Arizona
Characterizing Planetary Systems --- Ours and Theirs --- with the Spitzer Space Telescope
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 4:00 PM
(Refreshments at 3:45 PM)

Yancy Shirley
University of Arizona
Developing an Evolutionary Sequence for the Earliest Stages of Star Formation
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Thursday, March 6, 2008, 4:00 PM
(Refreshments at 3:45 PM)

Eric Mamajeck
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Where to Study Planet Formation? The Nearest, Youngest Stars
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 4:00 PM

Angela Speck
University of Missouri
The Nature of Stardust: Astromineralogy and Circumstellar Dust Around Evolved Stars
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, March 3, 2008, 4:00 PM

Nate McCrady
UCLA
Young Massive Clusters: Building Blocks of Galaxies
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Thursday, February 28, 2008, 3:00 PM

Rosemary Killen
University of Maryland
Mercury: The Exosphere
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 4:00 PM

Ralph V. Chamberlin
Arizona State University
Stretched Exponential Relaxation and NanoThermodynamics
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, April 16, 2007, 4:00 PM

Emmanuel Haven
University of Essex
Quantum Physics and Financial Economics: an Overview of Possible Connections
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, 2 April 2007, 4:00 PM

Kingshuk Majumdar
Berea College
Ultracold Bosons in an Optical Lattice
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 4:00 PM

Ewelina Hankiewicz
Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Columbia
New Avenues to Computational Technology: Novel Spin Transport Effects at the Nanoscale
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, 26 February 2007, 4:00 PM

Kristopher E. Andersen
Naval Research Laboratory
Nanoscale Collective Quantum Effects: Electric Polarization in Clusters and Thin Films
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Tuedsay, 20 February 2007, 4:00 PM

David Koerner
NAU Physics & Astronomy
Astrobiology Looks at Young Earth Creationism
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 233), Monday, 15 February 2007, 7:30 PM

Keran O'Brien
NAU Physics & Astronomy
From Nuclear Tests to Cosmic Bombardment
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, 12 February 2007, 4:00 PM

Kristin Klaybor
NAU Physics & Astronomy
Masters of Applied Physics Intern at Lowell Observatory
Seasonal Variability of the Albedo Spectra of Titan, Uranus, and Neptune
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 4:00 PM

Gary Bowman
NAU Physics & Astronomy
The Classical Limit and Decoherence in Bohm's Theory
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Wednesday, 23 August 2006, 3:00 PM

Vidvuds Ozolins
UCLA
First-Principles Studies of Materials for On-Board Hydrogen Storage
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Thursday, April 13, 2006, 4:00 PM

Don Howard
University of Notre Dame
Einstein's Path to his Miracle Year, 1879-1905
NAU Liberal Arts (Bldg 18, Rm 135), Monday, April 3, 2006, 7:00 PM

Don Howard
University of Notre Dame
Albert Einstein as a Philosopher of Science
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, April 3, 2006, 4:00 PM

Brother Guy Consolmagno
Vatican Observatory Research Group
The Real Galileo Affair and its Effects on Church/Science Relations
Monday, March 27, 2006, 7:00 PM

Brother Guy Consolmagno
Vatican Observatory Research Group
Meteorite Porosity and Asteroid Structure: Are Asteroids Fluffy?
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, March 27, 2006, 4:00 PM

Ralph Baierlein
NAU Physics & Astronomy
The Many Faces of E=mc²
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, March 13, 2006, 4:00 PM

Gus Hart
NAU Physics & Astronomy
Evolutionary Approach for Determining First-principles Model Hamiltonians
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, March 6, 2006, 4:00 PM

Nadine Barlow
NAU Physics & Astronomy
Secondary Cratering on Mars: Implications for Surface Ages and Martian Meteorites
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, February 20, 2006, 4:00 PM

Poul Jessen
University of Arizona, Optical Sciences Center
A Brief Introduction to Quantum Information and Computation
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, February 6, 2006, 4:00 PM

Gary Miller
Naval Research Laboratory
NAU Physics & Astronomy Alumnus
Fabrication and Characterization of Specialized Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, December 5, 2005, 4:00 PM

Oriana Bretschger
University of Southern California
Dept. of Materials Science and Geobiology
NAU Physics & Astronomy Alumna
Microbal Fuel Cells: Power, Performance Factors and Microbal Physiology
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, December 5, 2005, 3:00 PM

Gary Bowman
NAU Physics & Astronomy
Gedanken Experiments and the Relativity of Simultaneity
A Physical and Personal Perspective on Albert Einstein and Time
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, 14 November 2005, 4:00 PM

Stuart Lindsay
Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
What Can a Physicist Contribute to Biology
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, October 31, 2005, 4:00 PM

Ned Wright
UCLA Physics & Astronomy
What's New In Cosmology
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, 17 October 2005, 4:00 PM

Erich Varnes
University of Arizona, Dept. of Physics
Searching for New Physics at High Energy
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, October 3, 2005, 4:00 PM

Stephen Tegler
NAU Physics & Astronomy
Physical Properties of Kuiper Belt Objects
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, September 26, 2005, 4:00 PM

Reinhold Rennekamp
University of Applied Sciences, Dresden
Analytical Electron Microscopy
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Thursday, September 22, 2005, 4:00 PM

Gus Hart
NAU Physics & Astronomy
Ordering Tendancies in the Binary Alloys of Rh, Pd, Ir and Pt
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, 12 September 2005, 4:00 PM

Alan B. Whiting
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Results of the Local Group Dwarf Hunt
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 218), Friday, 22 April 2005, 4:00 PM

Gary Schmidt
University of Arizona
Cooking With Gauss: The Designer Kitchen of Magnetic Funnels and Siphons In Close Binary Systems
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 218), Monday, 18 April 2005, 4:00 PM

Fiona Hoyle
Widener University
Voids and Void Galaxies in Redshift Surveys
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 218), Monday, 28 February 2005, 4:00 PM

Nancy Currie
NASA Astronaut
Free Public Lecture
NAU Wettaw Building (Bldg 88, Rm 110), Friday, 25 June 2004, 7:30 PM

Ranabir Dutt
Visva Bharati University, India
SUSY QM - A Novel Factorizatoin Method in Quantum Mechanics
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 218), Thursday, 24 June 2004, 4:00 PM

James P. Lewis
Brigham Young University
Dynamically Amorphous Character of Electronic States in DNA:
Does DNA make a good molecular wire?
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 233), Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 4:00 PM

Larry Soderblom
USGS
Robot Geologists on Mars
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 218), Thursday, 4 December 2003, 6:00 PM
(Pizza & Soda at 5:30 PM)

Volker Blum
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The Cluster Expansion Method: Accurate Energetics for 2^N Atomic Configurations on a Lattice
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Friday, 5 September 2003, 3:00 PM

Lawrence H. Tanner
Bloomsburg University
Late Triassic Impacts and Extinctions: Sudden Death or Slow Agony?
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Friday, 7 March 2003, 4:00 PM

David Cole
Northern Arizona University
Of What Value is Physics Education Research? A Vision!
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Wednesday, 12 February 2003, 4:00 PM

Rudy Sirochman
University of Southern Mississippi
Physics and Science Education Research Illustrated Through Three Projects
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, 10 February 2003, 4:00 PM

Richard Shand
NAU
Are There Halophilic (Salt-Loving) Microorganisms on Mars?
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Friday, 7 February 2003, 4:00 PM

Ching-Tang Liu
Temple University
Quantitative Reasoning-Based Science Curriculum in Middle Schools: Is it possible?
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Thursday, 6 February 2003, 4:00 PM

Mark James
Kansas State University
Learner-Generated Analogies as Pedagogical Tools for Conceptual Change
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, 3 February 2003, 4:00 PM

Stephen C. Tegler
NAU
On The Ragged Edge
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 218), Thursday, 23 January 2003, 6:00 PM

Nadine Barlow
NAU
Impact Craters as Indicators of Water on Mars
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Friday, 17 January 2003, 4:00 PM

Robert D. Young
Illinois State University
Physics and Protein Science
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, 25 November 2002, 4:00 PM

James Head
Raytheon
Hydrocode Simulations of the Fragmentation and Ejection of Lunar and Martian Meteorites
NAU Liberal Arts (Bldg 18, Rm 135), Friday, 1 November 2002, 4:00 PM

Bryan Bates
Coconino Community College
Archeo-Astronomy
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 218), Thursday, 17 October 2002, 5:30 PM
(Sponsored by the Northern Arizona Astronomy Association)

Ed Anderson
NAU
Helioseismology
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 218), Thursday, 18 April 2002, 6:00 PM

Eileen V. Ryan
New Mexico Highlands University
Catastrophic Collisions: The Formation of Asteroid Families
NAU Liberal Arts (Bldg 18, Rm 135), Thursday, 4 April 2002, 4:00 PM

David Koerner
University of Pennsylvania
Searching for Giant Planets around Red and Brown Dwarfs
NAU Liberal Arts (Bldg 18, Rm 135), Monday, 1 April 2002, 4:00 PM

Angela Speck
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
The Life Cycle of Dust: Birth Around Evolved Stars
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Thursday, 28 March 2002, 4:00 PM

William Romanishin
University of Oklahoma
Quasars: The Brightest Lights in the Universe
NAU Liberal Arts (Bldg 18, Rm 135), Friday, 1 February 2002, 4:00 PM

William Romanishin
University of Oklahoma
Out Past Neptune: Exploring a Newly Discovered Region of the Solar System
NAU Liberal Arts (Bldg 18, Rm 135), Thursday, 31 January 2002, 4:00 PM

David Koerner
University of Pennsylvania
Habitability in the Cosmos
NAU Liberal Arts (Bldg 18, Rm 135), Tuesday, 29 January 2002, 3:00 PM

David Koerner
University of Pennsylvania
Extra-Solar Rings and the Disk Planet Connection
NAU Liberal Arts (Bldg 18, Rm 135), Monday, 28 January 2002, 4:00 PM

Nadine Barlow
University of Central Florida
How to Select A Great Landing Site on Another World
NAU Liberal Arts (Bldg 18, Rm 135), Friday, 25 January 2002, 3:00 PM

Nadine Barlow
University of Central Florida
Solis Planum, Mars: The "Oasis Hypothesis" Revisited
NAU Liberal Arts (Bldg 18, Rm 135), Thursday, 24 January 2002, 4:00 PM

Alice Bean
University of Kansas
Experimental Particle Physics with the D0 Detector at Fermilab
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 218), Tuesday, 20 November 2001, 4:00 PM

Nicholas Devereux
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
A Decade of Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 218), Thursday, 15 November 2001, 6:00 PM
(Sponsored by the Northern Arizona Astronomy Association)

Alex Umantsev
NAU Physics & Astronomy
Dendritic Structure: A New Paradigm in the Physics of Complex Systems
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Thursday, 15 November 2001, 4:00 PM

Nestor J. Zaluzec
Argonne National Laboratory
TelePresence Collaboration: Evolving a New Paradigm for Conducting Research and Education
NAU Cline Library (Sceening Rm A), Friday, 19 October 2001, 11:00 AM
(Joint ITS and Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium)

Russ Lavery
NAU
Gravitational Lensing Due to Large Objects in the Universe
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 218), Thursday, 18 October 2001, 6:00 PM
(Sponsored by the Northern Arizona Astronomy Association)

Nestor J. Zaluzec
Argonne National Laboratory
From Ants to Atoms: Introduction to and Applications of Electron Microscopy
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Thursday, 18 October 2001, 4:00 PM

Gus Hart
NAU
Computer-based Alloy Modeling and Design
NAU Physical Sciences (Bldg 19, Rm 321), Monday, 15 October 2001, 4:00 PM