Department of Physics Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2008


All colloquia are held in 100 Willamette unless otherwise noted.
Coffee, tea, and cookies begin at 3:40pm in the atrium.

Speakers: Maps and directions to the Department of Physics can be found here.

Graham Kribs is the organizer of the Fall 2008 colloquia.

Date Speaker Title Host
Wednesday, Oct 1
7:30pm
Bill Phillips
NIST
Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe
Public Lecture, 150 Columbia
Graham Kribs
Thursday, Oct 2
4:00pm
Bill Phillips
NIST
Atom Optics with BEC Graham Kribs
Thursday, Oct 9
4:00pm
Steve Kevan
University of Oregon
State of the Department (local)
Thursday, Oct 16
4:00pm
Graham Kribs
University of Oregon
Dark Matters (local)
Thursday, Oct 23
4:00pm
Steven van Enk
University of Oregon
Detecting Entanglement: Theory and Practice (local)
Thursday, Oct 30
4:00pm
Jim Schombert
University of Oregon
The Age of Galaxies (local)
Thursday, Nov 6
4:00pm
John Seo
Fermat Capital Management
Fibonacci, Fermat, and Finance: How a Biophysicist
Built a Multi-Billion Dollar Catastrophe Bond Fund
after Re-Reading the Foundations of Modern Finance
Steve Hsu
Thursday, Nov 13
4:00pm
Richard Taylor
University of Oregon
Snowflakes, Stress and Semiconductors:
Do You See a Pattern Here?
(local)
Thursday, Nov 20
4:00pm


(canceled)
Thursday, Nov 27
4:00pm
Happy Thanksgiving

(no colloquium)
Thursday, Dec 4
4:00pm
Lucas Illing
Reed College
Chaos and Synchronization in Delay-Systems Dan Steck