Department of Physics Spring 2012 Colloquia will be presented typically twice a month on Tuesdays at 3:30pm in PHYS 104 with refreshments served there beginning at 3:15pm. In addition, more focused, technical seminars of interest to smaller groups may be scheduled any day of the week and held in the PIC seminar room (PHYS 209), PHYS 112, or other venues.

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DateSpeakerInstitutionTitle 17 January Dr. T. Dupuy Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics The Stars at Night are Small and Faint 24 January Dr. F. Olness Southern Methodist University Higgs on the Horizon: A collection of interesting puzzles for the LHC 7 February Dr. V. Drachev Purdue University Progress in plasmonic nanophotonics: fundamentals and applications 14 February Dr. P. Pradhan Northwestern University Optical Spectroscopic Techniques to measure Mesoscopic to Nanoscopic Light transport Properties of weakly disordered Media 21 February Dr. F. Seo Hampton University Optical Nanomaterials for Photonic Applications

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March

Dr. S. Cummer Duke University Cloaking Light and Sound

13

March

Dr. F. Robicheaux Auburn University Antihydrogen Trapped 19-25 March Spring Break 22-24 March TS APS Angelo State University San Angelo, Texas

3

April

Dr.Alexander Shik University of Toronto Carrier Transport and Optics in Semiconductor Nanowires and
Nanorods

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April

Dr. Zygmunt (Karol) Gryczynski TCU Nanophotonics and Biomedical Diagnostics

Note: Unscheduled weeks are available for research groups to hold guest seminars. Please contact Michelle Rumer for room reservations.