Colloquium Schedule, Spring 2008

All talks will be held on Thursday, except where noted, at 4:30 P.M. in Room 58 Exley Science Center with refreshments at 4:10 P.M., Room 58 (Foyer) Exley Science Center.

Date

Speaker

Title

January
31st
Exley 150
4:15
"Focus the Nation"

Panel : Policy Responses
 State Senator John W. Fonfara
 State Representative Jim O'Rourke
 Marc Eisner, Wesleyan University
 Roger Smith, Connecticut Climate Coalition
 Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
 Climate Change: The Challenges, Consequences, and Solutions

Other "Focus the Nation" events at  Wesleyan
February
7th
Canceled Due to Illness!
Sorry
Professor Harold Baranger
Duke University
Canceled
Interactions and Interference in Electronic Nanostructures
14th  Dr. Andrew
Kortyna,
Lafayette College
"Electron-Atom Scattering Near Threshold using a Tunable-Laser Photoelectron Method."
21st
Canceled Due to Illness!
Sorry
Bruce M. Boghosian
Department of Mathematics
Tufts University
Canceled. To be rescheduled
"A Dynamical Systems Description of Turbulence"
28th Dr. Kenneth Stalder
Senior Staff Scientist
AntroCare Corporation
Sunnyvale, California
" Some Physics and Chemistry of Plasmas in Liquids and Their Surgical
Applications"
abstract
March
6th
13th Spring Break!
20th
27th Antonio Garcia-Garcia
Princeton University
Department of Physics
"Anderson localization: fifty years old and still growing"
abstract
April
3rd Professor Hui Cao 
Yale, Applied Physics
Active Photonic nanomaterials: from disordered to periodic structures
abstract
10th
17th
24th Brian Stewart
Wesleyan Physics
Brian Stewart's 1st Annual Earth-Week Rant
May
1st David Pine
Center for Soft Matter Research
Department of Physics
New York University

Bertman Lecture
"Random organization in periodically driven systems"

Abstact

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