Physics Colloquium
Friday, November 7
4pm - 5pm
Small Hall, Room 111
Gianpaolo Carosi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL); Title of Talk: The Hunt for Dark Matter Axions
    Physics & Geology Colloquium
    Monday, November 10
    4pm - 5pm
    Small Hall, Room 110
    Dan Millison, P.E., P.G./Transcendergy, L.L.C. Title of Talk: Saving the Forest and the Trees: A Conceptual Model of Sustainable Coal
      CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR
      Tuesday, November 11
      2pm
      Small Hall, Room 122
      Alessandro Principi, Department of Physics and Astronomy (University of Missouri) Title of talk: "Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in clean graphene layers."
        Physics Seminar
        Thursday, November 13
        2pm
        Small Hall, Room 122
        Chris Bouchard (W&M) Title: The CKM Matrix Element Vub and Bs ? K l ?
          Xin Ma: Applied Science Dissertation Defense
          Friday, November 14
          2:30pm - 5pm
          Tucker Hall, Room 310
          Xin Ma, Applied Science Ph.D. Defense, Title: "Optical Characterization of Ferromagnetic and Multiferroic Thin-Film Heterostructures."
            Physics Colloquium
            Friday, November 14
            4pm - 5pm
            Small Hall, Room 111
            W. Vincent Liu (University of Pittsburgh), Title of Talk: Topological orbital bands: from optical lattices to oxide interfaces
              Careers in Physics seminar
              Monday, November 17
              12pm
              Small Hall, Room 233
              Speaker: Dr. Russell "Buzz" Wincheski
                Condensed Matter Seminar
                Tuesday, November 18
                2pm
                Small Hall, Room 122
                Dr. Driss Badiane, College of William and Mary, Title of Talk: "Nonequilibrium properties of topological and multiterminal Josephson junctions"
                  Geology Departmental Seminar
                  Wednesday, November 19
                  4pm
                  McGlothlin-Street Hall, Room 219
                  Dr. Qamar Shams from the NASA Langley Research Center discusses the "Internal and external dynamics of our planet" and talks about recent technological advances for monitoring Earth's environmental systems.
                    Physics Seminar
                    Thursday, November 20
                    9:30am
                    Small Hall, Room 122
                    Paulo Bedaque, from the University of Maryland, who will discuss "Neutron stars, sound speed bounds and hypernuclei?."
                      Ekaterina V. Mastropas: Physics Dissertation Defense
                      Thursday, November 20
                      1pm
                      Small Hall, Room 122
                      Ekaterina V. Mastropas , Final Oral Examination for the Ph. D. Degree, Title: "Some Properties of Meson Excited States from Lattice QCD."
                        Physics Colloquium
                        Friday, November 21
                        4pm
                        Small Hall, Room 111
                        Dr. Markus Diefenthaler (University of Illinois-Urbana) Title of Talk: "The E-906/SeaQuest Experiment at Fermilab" Open to the public.
                          College offices closed
                          Wednesday, November 26
                          All day
                          Location not specified
                          No classes scheduled.