Physics & Astronomy - Valparaiso University

: Fall 2012 Schedule Welcome (8/24)All Neils Picnic (8/31)Student Summer Research I (9/07)Have We Harnessed the Higgs? (9/14)Student Summer Research I (9/21)Ultracold 1D Gases in Optical Lattices (10/5)Science & Religion in 17th Century England (11/2)Kress Lecture (11/8)

Fall 2012 Colloquium Schedule

DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION AND TOPIC
8/24/12	Dr. Stan Zygmunt	Valparaiso University, Department of Physics and Astronomy “Welcome!”
8/31/12	---------------	Neils Science Center Fall Picnic Picnic information
9/07/12	Summer Research Students	Valparaiso University, Department of Physics and Astronomy “Summer Undergraduate Research in Physics & Astronomy at Valparaiso University”
9/14/12	Dr. Jay Dittman (VU `92)	Neils Colloquia on Innovative Science (NCIS) Series Baylor University, Department of Physics “Have we Harnessed the Higgs? Discovery of a New Boson at the Large Hadron Collider”
9/21/12	Summer Research Students	Valparaiso University, Department of Physics and Astronomy “Summer Undergraduate Research in Physics & Astronomy at Valparaiso University”
9/28/12	Dr. Ka Yee C. Lee	NCIS Series University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry “The Physics of Breathing: Wrinkle-to-fold transitions in lung surfactants and other elastic sheets”
10/05/12	Dr. Aaron Reinhard (VU `03)	Homecoming Colloquium Department of Physics, Otterbein University “Ultracold 1D Gases in Optical Lattices”
10/12/12	Dr. Richard Kuhn	NCIS Series Purdue University - Lafayette, Department of Biology “A molecular and structural dissection of alphavirus replication”
10/19/12	---------------	NO COLLOQUIUM --Fall Recess from Classes
10/26/12	Dr. Weiguo Andy Tao	NCIS Series Purdue University, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology “Sorting Information in the Proteome World”
11/02/12	Dr. Kathering Calloway	Valparaiso University, Christ College “God's Scientists: Science and Religion in Seventeenth Century England”
Thursday 11/08/12 7:30-8:30 pm	Dr. Chris Corbally, S.J.	Kress Lecture Series, Public Lecture Vatican Observatory Research Group “Heroic Galileo?”
11/09/12	Dr. Chris Corbally, S.J.	NCIS Series Vatican Observatory Research Group “The Plot Thickens for Lambda Bootis Stars”
11/16/12	---------------	NO COLLOQUIUM --Thanksgiving Recess from Classes
11/23/12	---------------	NO COLLOQUIUM --Thanksgiving Recess from Classes
11/30/12	Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Senior Students	Valparaiso University, Department of Physics and Astronomy “Senior Research Projects”
12/07/12	Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Senior Students	Valparaiso University, Department of Physics and Astronomy “Senior Research Projects”