Colloquium Series

To help you grow as a physicist, astronomer, or engineer, we have colloquium series several times a semester.

The series gives you a chance to get away from the classroom setting, hear from people in the business, and see what’s been done elsewhere. We usually bring in about a dozen speakers a semester. Speakers include government scientists and professors at other universities. 

The colloquium is required, and you do get credit for it. Grad students have to attend three series, undergraduates, one or two.

To make sure you've soaked it all in, we require that you give a presentation at the end of each semester about what you learned. In the fall, you will do an oral presentation, and in the spring, you will do a poster board presentation. These exercises will develop your presentation skills, which is essential in this discipline.

Spring 2012 Colloquium Series Please join us for our physics and astronomy related seminars. All seminars take place in Cooper Physical Science Building (CP), room 144, and begin at 3:30 p.m. (unless noted otherwise). Refreshments are served at 3:15 p.m. in CP 108. Please call 765-285-8860 for further information.
Date	Speaker	Topic
January 19	Gerardo Ortiz, Indiana University	Basic Notions of Topological Quantum Matter
January 26	Roberto Ramos, Indiana Wesleyan University	Sub-Kelvin Quantum Tunneling Studies in MgB2 Josephson Junctions
February 2	Yong Joe, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University	Emergence of Molecular Electronics: Charge Transport in DNA (Faculty Sabbatical Presentation)
February 16	Paul Gestwicki, Department of Computer Science, Ball State University	Games, Fun, and Learning
February 23	Eric Mandell, Bowling Green State University	Graphene Cores in Graphitic Stardust
March 20	Prabhakar Pradhan, Northwestern University	Optical Spectroscopic Techniques to Measure Mesoscopic to Nanoscopic Light Transport Properties of Weakly Disordered Media
March 22	Margaret Hanson, University of Cincinnati	Improving Mass and Age Estimates of Stellar Clusters, Near and Far
March 26	Antonio Cancio, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University	Random Walks in Search of the “Divine" Functional
March 28	Eric Hedin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University	Spintronics Research
March 29	Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University	The Challenges of Spreading and Sustaining Research-Based Instruction in Undergraduate Physics
April 13	Anil Kandalam, McNeese State University	Nanoclusters: A Bridge Across Disciplines
April 19	Earle Luck, Case Western Reserve University	Abundance Trends in the Milky Way
April 26	SPS Banquet	Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research Presentations