Colloquium Schedule – Fall 2014 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