Physics Colloquium Schedule: Spring 2008

All talks are open to the public and will be held on the CSU-Fresno Campus in room 162 of McLane Hall and at a usual time of 3:00 P.M. unless otherwise noted. For more information about any of these presentations, please contact the Department of Physics at 559-278-2371.

Date and Time:

Speaker:

Title of Talk:

Friday, Jan. 25th  3:00 PM

McLane 162

Dr. Yannis Proestos

CSU Fresno

Studying the thermal properties of the large-NC bound state
spectrum of 2D supersymmetric gauge field theory,
using SDLCQ

Friday, Feb. 1st  3:00 PM

McLane 162

Stephen Minter

UC Merced

Production and Detection of Gravitational Radiation by Means of
a Two-Body Superconducting System

Friday, Feb. 8th 3:00 PM

McLane 162

Dr. Yongsheng Gao

CSU Fresno

Road to discovery at ATLAS/LHC

Friday, Feb. 29th 3:00 PM

McLane 162

Dr. Douglas Singleton

CSU Fresno

Hawking Radiation 101  

Friday, March 7th 3:00 PM

McLane 162

Dr. Emil Akhmedov

ITEP, Moscow

Cosmological constant problem and quantum instability
of deSitter space

Friday, March 14th 3:00 PM

McLane 162

Dr. Philip Mannheim

University of Connecticut

Einstein’s Incredible Legacy

Friday, March 28th 3:00 PM

McLane 162

Dr. Anil Sharma

Long Beach Memorial Medical Center

 Brachytherapy - from direct source application to image-guided approach

 

Friday, April 4th  3:00 PM

McLane 162

Dr. Manfred Bucher

 

CSU Fresno

Universal model of superconductivity

Friday, April 11th  3:00 PM

McLane 162

Thesis defense

Mr. Daniel Tennant

and

Mr. William Whitaker

CSU Fresno

Scattering of light in Born-Infeld electrodynamics

 

and

 

Resistive plate chamber online data quality monitoring for CMS at CERN

 

Thursday, April 17th 5:30 PM

McKee-Fisk 208

Note Special Time/Place

Joint CS/Physics Seminar

Dr. David Wolpert

NASA Ames Research Center

A Predictive Theory of games

Friday, April 18th 3:00 PM

McLane 162

Joint CS/Physics Seminar

Dr. David Wolpert

NASA Ames Research Center

Recent developments on the physical limits of inference

Friday, April 25th  3:00 PM

McLane 162

 Dr. Vladimir Folomeev

 

Institute of Physics of National Academyof Sciences,

Kyrgyz Republic

 

Models of Dark Energy

Friday, May 2nd 3:00 PM

McLane 162

Student Talks

Various Topics

 

If you are interested in giving a presentation or would like more detailed information about the above, please contact:

Dr. Douglas Singleton
CSUF Dept. of Physics
2345 E San Ramon Ave
M/S MH37
Fresno CA 93740-8031
559-278-2523