| Date |
Fall 2014 – Colloquium Information |
| Sept. 10, 2014 |
Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, Debt, and Energy Consumption
Prof. Victor Yakovenko, UMCP |
| Sept. 17, 2014 |
Engineered Nanostructures for Plasmonics-Based Spectroscopy
Prof. Oded Rabin, UMCP |
| Sept. 24, 2014 |
Driving Commercial Applications and Exploring Scientific Questions with Reactive Multilayer Foils
Prof. Tim Weihs, Johns Hopkins University |
| Oct. 1, 2014 |
Schrödinger’s Rainbow: The Renaissance in Quantum Optical Interferometry
Prof. Jonathan Dowling, Louisiana State University |
| Oct. 8, 2014 |
What More Do I Need Besides Grades, Test Scores & The Right Courses For Success in a STEM Field?
Prof. William E. Sedlacek, UMCP |
| Oct. 15, 2014 |
Decoherence of a non-equilibrium spin qubit
Prof. Xuedong Hu, University at Buffalo |
| Oct. 22, 2014 |
High-throughput computational design of photo-active materials
James P. Lewis, WVU |
| Oct. 29, 2014 |
Light Management in Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics
Prof. Susanna Thon, JHU |
| Nov. 5, 2014 |
CALIPSO Cloud, Ocean and Land Measurements
Prof. Yongxiang Hu, NASA Langley |
| Nov. 12, 2014 |
Neutral and Ion Mass Spectrometers for the LADEE and MAVEN Missions
Mehdi Benna, NASA Goddard |
| Nov. 19, 2014 |
“Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in Stellar Homicide”
Prof. Suvi Gezari , UMD |
| Nov. 26, 2014 |
Thanksgiving Break |
| Dec. 3, 2014 |
Tidal heating and the interior structure of the Moon
Prof. Sander Goossens, CRESST/UMBC/NASA GSFC |