Week |
Date |
Name |
Affiliation |
Title/Topic |
Comments/Host |
0 |
Tuesday 28-Aug-2007 |
Alain Herve Former Technical Coordinator of the CMS Experiment |
CERN, Geneva Switzerland | Experience Gained from the Construction, Test, and Operation of the Large 4-Tesla Superconducting Coil for the CMS Experiment at CERN | Steve Baumgartner/Phil Heitzenroeder Ext. 3043 |
1 |
5-Sep-2007 | No colloquium scheduled - Students just returning | |||
2 |
12-Sep-2007 | Erik Winfree Associate Professor |
California Institute of Technology, Computer Science & Computation and Neural Science, Pasadena, CA | Programming the DNA World | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
3 |
19-Sep-2007 | John Sheffield, Senior Fellow | University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN - Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment | What About Fusion Reactors? | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
4 |
26-Sep-2007 | Prof. Ian Dobson | University of Wisconsin, Madsion Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Cascading Failure, the Risk of Large Blackouts, Criticality, and Self-Organization | Stefan Gerhardt, Ext. 2823 |
5 |
3-Oct-2007 | Prof. Edward W. Felten | Princeton University, Computer Science and Public Affairs | Electronic Voting: Danger and Opportunity | Steve Baumgartner, Ext. 2820 |
6 |
10-Oct-2007 | Sergey Macheret, Senior Staff Aeronautical Engineer | Revolutionary Technology Programs, Lockheed Martin, Palmdale, CA | Weakly Ionized Plasmas for Aerospace Applications | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
7 |
17-Oct-2007 | Prof. Stewart Prager | University of Wisconsin, Madison - Department of Physics, Madison, Wisconsin | The Reversed Field Pinch: Progress from Fusion to Astrophysics | Stefan Gerhardt, Ext. 2823 |
8 |
24-Oct-2007 | Dr. Peter Barker | University College London, U.K. | Controlling the Motion of Atoms and Molecules with Intense Optical Fields | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
9 |
31-Oct-2007 | Prof. Michael A. Lieberman | University of California, Berkeley - Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Berkeley, CA | Nanoelectronics and Plasma Processing-- The Next Fifteen Years and Beyond | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
10 |
7-Nov-2007 | APS-DPP MEETING - November 12-16, 2007, Orlando, Florida |
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11 |
14-Nov-2007 | ||||
12 |
21-Nov-2007 | Thanksgiving Holiday |
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13 |
28-Nov-2007 | Frank J. Owens, Senior Research Physicist | Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny, New Jersey | Carbon Nanotube Polymer and Metal Composites | Steve Baumgartner, Ext 2820 |
14 |
5-Dec-2007 | Prof. Joel Fajans | University of California, Berkeley | Antimatter Plasmas and Antihydrogen Production and Trapping | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
15 |
12-Dec-2007 | Prof. Brian W. Kernighan | Princeton University, Computer Sciences Department, Princeton, New Jersey | Millions, Billions, Zillions: Why (In)numeracy Matters | Steve Baumgartner, Ext. 2820 |
16 |
19-Dec-2007 | Christmas and New Year's Holidays |
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17 |
26-Dec-2007 | ||||
18 |
2-Jan-2008 | ||||
19 |
9-Jan-2008 | ||||
20 |
16-Jan-2008 | Taik-Soo Hahm, Principal Research Physicist | Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton, New Jersey |
Recent Progress in Understanding Tokamak Core Turbulence and Transport | Stefan Gerhardt, Ext. 2823 |
21 |
23-Jan-2008 | No colloquium scheduled |
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22 |
30-Jan-2008 | Dr. Peter Frumhoff, Director of Science and Policy & Chief Climate Scientist |
Union of Concerned Scientist, Cambridge, Massachusetts | Confronting Climate Change in New Jersey and the Northeast: Science, Impacts and Solutions | Stefan Gerhardt, Ext. 2823 |
23 |
6-Feb-2008 | Prof. Frank von Hippel | Princeton University, Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton, New Jersey | A Global Cleanout of Nuclear-weapon Materials | Stefan Gerhardt, Ext. 2823 |
24 |
13-Feb-2008 |
Mark J. Kushner, Dean | Iowa State University, College of Engineering | Achieving Selectivity in Plasma Material Processing: Addressing the Physics While Still Making a Profit | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
25 |
20-Feb-2008 | Masaaki Yamada & Russel Kulsrud | PPPL & Princeton University, Astrophysical Sciences Department | Magnetic Reconnection: Recent Progress in Theory and Experiment | Stefan Gerhardt, Ext. 2823 |
26 |
27-Feb-2008 | Prof. Dennis Whyte | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science & Fusion Center, Cambridge, MA | The Challenges of Plasma-surface Interactions for ITER and Beyond | Stefan Gerhardt, Ext. 2823 |
27 |
5-Mar-2008 | Prof. Karl M. Krushelnick | University of Michigan, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS), Ann Arbor, MI | Magnetic Fields in High Intensity-Laser Produced Plasmas | Stefan Gerhardt, Ext. 2823 |
28 |
12-Mar-2008 | Prof. Iain Couzin | Princeton University, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Collective motion and decision-making in animal groups | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
29 |
19-Mar-2008 | Prof. Lev Tsendin | St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia | Electron Kinetics in Glows | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
30 |
26-Mar-2008 | Dr. Valery Godyak - CANCELLED | Maxwell Prize Winner; Retired, OSRAM Sylvania, Inc. | Tentative Title: Research and Development Gas Discharge Lamps | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
31 |
2-Apr-2008 | Sherwood Conference - March 30 - April 2, 2008 - Boulder, CO |
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32 |
9-Apr-2008 | Barry C. Barish, Emeritus Professor | California Institute of Technology, LIGO Laboratory | The Global Design Effort for the International Linear Collider | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
33 |
16-Apr-2008 | Francis F. Chen, Prof. Emeritus | University of California, Los Angeles Electrical Engineering Department |
The Complicated Physics of Helicon Discharges | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
34 |
23-Apr-2008 | Laura Cadonati Assistant Professor |
Univeristy of Massachusetts, Physics Department, Amherst, MA | LIGO: A Journey Towards Gravitational Wave Astronomy | Stefan Gerhardt, Ext. 2823 |
35 |
30-Apr-2008 | Dr. Linn F. Mollenauer | Bell Telephone Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (Retired) | Solitons in Optical Fibers for Telecommunications | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
36 |
7-May-2008 | Prof. Sergei Krasheninikov | University of California, San Diego Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering |
Dust in Magnetic Fusion | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
37 |
14-May-2008 | Earl Marmar Senior Research Scientist |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) |
Alcator C-Mod - Recent Results and Near-term Plans | Stefan Gerhardt, Ext. 2823 |
38 |
21-May-2008 | Victor Malka | Research Director at CNRS, Paris, France | Principle and Applications of Electron Beams Produced with Laser Plasma Accelerators | Stefan Gerhardt, Ext. 2823 |
39 |
28-May-2008 | Dr. B. Grant Logan | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA | Heavy Ion Direct Drive Fusion | Igor Kaganovich, Ext. 3277 |
40 |
4-Jun-2008 | Prof. Tullis C. Onstott | Princeton University, Department of Geosciences | The Search for Dark Life in the Universe | Stefan Gerhardt, Ext. 2823 |
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