Each semester, the School of Physics invites a variety of speakers to come share their exciting research with students and faculty at Georgia Tech. All students and faculty are invited.

If you have questions, or would like to set up an appointment with a speaker, please contact Samantha King. For colloquium speakers and colloquium topic suggestions, please contact Turgay Uzer, Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, or Zhigang Jiang.

All lectures are on Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. in Howey Physics Lecture Room 5 (UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED). The reception will be held at 2:30 p.m. in Howey N201.

Fall 2009 Schedule

08/17	First Day of Fall 2009 Classes
08/19	Mei-Yin Chou, Chair: Annual School of Physics Gathering
08/26 JOINT LECTURE WITH SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS	Abhay Ashtekar, Dept. of Physics, Penn State, "Big Bang and the Quantum" (P. Laguna). Location: Boggs B-6A
09/02	Ken Brown, Georgia Tech Chemistry and Biochemistry, "Quantum Information and Atomic Physics for Chemistry" (M. Chapman)
09/07	Official School Holiday
09/09	Jason Burke, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Laboratory, "Quest for the world's first nuclear clock" (A. Kuzmich)
09/16 JOINT LECTURE WITH COLLEGE OF SCIENCES AND MRSEC	Walter de Heer, Georgia Tech Physics, "Epitaxial Graphene: Designing a new electronic material" (M.-Y. Chou). Location: Marcus Nanotechnology Building Conference Room
09/30	Mark Shattuck, The City College of New York, "Granular Equilibrium: Shaken, Not Stirred" (M. Schatz)
10/03 - 10/06	Fall Student Recess
10/14	Robert Whetten, Georgia Tech Chemistry and Biochemistry, "Molecular Metallurgy: Principles & Promise" (W. de Heer)
10/21	Michael Fogler, UC San Diego, "One-dimensional traffic woes from antiquity to present day" (Z. Jiang)
10/28	Rene Ong, UCLA, "Particle Astrophysics at Very High Energies" (I. Taboada)
11/04	Oleg Lavrentovic, Kent State University, "Dynamics of liquid crystal colloids studied by 3D microscopy" (A. Fernandez-Nieves)
11/11	Marianna Safronova, Univ. of Delaware, "Atomic calculations for furture technology and study of fundamental problems" (A. Kuzmich)
11/18	W. David Kulp, Georgia Tech Physics, "Exploring the Chart of Nuclides: The Applications and Science of Radioisotopes" (Host: T. Uzer)
11/26 - 11/27	Official School Holiday
12/02	David Hu, Georgia Tech School of Mechanical Engineering, "Limbless locomotion: how snakes use friction to move" (A. Fernandez-Nieves)
12/07 - 12/11	Final Exams
12/12	End of Term
01/11	Classes Begin Spring Term 2010

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