Spring 2015
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
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Jan. 22 |
"Investigation of modern photon, electron and proton radiotherapy technologies for
pediatric and breast cancer patients" |
Rui Zhang | Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center & LSU | Wayne Newhauser |
| Jan. 29 | "Instrumentation driven science for unraveling emergent phenomena" |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | John Ditusa and Ward Plummer | |
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Feb. 2 |
"Early Prediction of Clinical Outcome in Cervical Cancer during Radiation Therapy" |
Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University | Wayne Newhauser | |
| Feb. 5 | "Heating in atomic- and molecular-scale junctions" |
Rice University | Ilya Vekhter | |
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Feb 10 |
"Use of PET for proton therapy verification and hybrid nanoparticles" |
Jongmin Cho | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center | Wayne Newhauser |
| *Canceled* Feb. 12 |
"Quantum Fluctuations and Phase Transitions" |
The Ohio State University | Ilya Vekhter and Phil Adams | |
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| Feb. 26 | ||||
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*Canceled* |
"DANCEing with the Stars: Neutron Capture and the Stellar Origins of the Heavy Elements" |
Aaron Couture | Los Alamos National Lab | Jeff Blackmon |
| March 12 | "Hysteresis, Avalanches, and Slow Relaxation: Complex non-equilibrium spin dynamics
in a simple Zeeman-limited superconductor" |
Philip Adams | 51Âþ» | Ilya Vekhter |
| March 19 | "Thirty Meter Telescope: The Next Generation of Ground Based Optical/Infra Red Observatory" |
Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory Corp. | Robert Hynes | |
| March 26 | "The miracle of molecules: quantum magnetism in ultracold matter" |
Rice University | Jonathan Dowling | |
| April 2 | "Manipulation of Phonon and Spin Dynamics at the Nanoscale" |
University of Maryland | Jiandi Zhang | |
| April 16 | "Quantum Gravity Comes of Age" |
University of Florida | Ivan Agullo | |
| April 23 | "The quantum and classical world of atomic spins on surfaces" |
Jiandi Zhang | ||
| April 30 | "Direct Detection of Dark Matter: From Microphysics to Observational Signatures" |
University of Louisiana - Lafayette | James Matthews | |
| May 7 | "Implications to High Tc Superconducting Mechanism from Iron-Based Superconductors" |
Purdue University | Rongying Jin |