Events

Aug

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

August 24, 2016, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Description

ADVISOR: Dr. Pengwang Zhai TITLE: Radiative Properties of Oceanic particles ABSTRACT: The single and multiple scattering properties of hydrosols both play an important role in ocean optics....

View Event Details for PhD Proposal: Lipi Mukherjee

Aug

Location

Physics

Date & Time

August 18, 2016, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Description

The Physics Department will have a 10-day orientation program for all new PhD students from August 18 - 31, 2016. A schedule of the orientation activities is here.

View Event Details for Physics Dept New Grad Student Orientation: August 18 - 31

May

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

May 18, 2016, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Description

ADVISOR: Dr. Eileen Meyer TITLE: Testing the IC/CMB Model of Extended X-ray Emission for Large Scale Quasar Jets with the Fermi/LAT ABSTRACT: It has been observed with the Chandra X-ray...

View Event Details for PhD Proposal: Peter Breiding

May

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

May 4, 2016, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: The Life and Work of Emmy Noether ABSTRACT: Emmy Noether was once referred to by Albert Einstein as the most important woman in the history of mathematics, and though her work is widely...

View Event Details for 2016 Joseph F. Mulligan Memorial Lecture

Apr

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

April 27, 2016, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: The Wave of the Future ABSTRACT: On September 14, 2015, gravitational waves were detected directly for the first time. This event, and the promise of much more to come as detectors...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Cole Miller

Apr

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

April 27, 2016, 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Description

ADVISOR: Dr. Todd Pittman TITLE: Interaction of nanofiber-guided light with a warm atomic vapor ABSTRACT: Systems allowing controllable photon-atom interactions are becoming increasingly...

View Event Details for Ph.D. Defense: Daniel Jones

Apr

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

April 25, 2016, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Description

ADVISOR: Dr. James Franson TITLE: Effects of Amplification on Macroscopic Entangled States ABSTRACT: Quantum information is a rapidly growing field with several important practical...

View Event Details for PhD Proposal: Richard Brewster

Apr

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

April 20, 2016, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: LIGO, GW1509014, and the Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy ABSTRACT: The recent detection of gravitational wave GW150914 from a binary black hole system has begun the era of...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Gregory Harry

Apr

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

April 20, 2016, 8:00 am – 10:00 am

Description

ADVISOR: Dr. T. Jane Turner TITLE: Physical Conditions in the X-ray Emission-Line gas in the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 ABSTRACT: Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) reside in the centers of many...

View Event Details for Ph.D. Defense: Neetika Sharma

Apr

Location

Physics : 401

Date & Time

April 13, 2016, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

TITLE: Optical microscopy and spectroscopy of single molecules and single plasmonic gold nanoparticles ABSTRACT: Optical signals provide unique insights into the dynamics of nano-objects and...

View Event Details for Colloquium: Michel Orrit

Department of Physics

College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Department of Physics

Events

PhD Proposal: Lipi Mukherjee

Physics Dept New Grad Student Orientation: August 18 - 31

PhD Proposal: Peter Breiding

2016 Joseph F. Mulligan Memorial Lecture

Presented by Catherine Rossbach

Colloquium: Cole Miller

Ph.D. Defense: Daniel Jones

PhD Proposal: Richard Brewster

Colloquium: Gregory Harry

Ph.D. Defense: Neetika Sharma

Colloquium: Michel Orrit

Presented by Catherine Rossbach

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