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Welcome to the Physics & Astronomy Colloquium!
Colloquia are scheduled on Mondays at 11:00am in Peterson Hall 2, Room 110 (PH2-110, map). Refreshments are served at 10:50am in the room.
Monday February 6, 2012
11am in PH2-110
Gravitational Waves, A Window on the Universe
Jay Marx
LIGO, Caltech
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a facility dedicated to the detection of cosmic gravitational waves and pioneering of the new field of gravitational wave astronomy. This talk will describe the nature of gravitational waves, possible astrophysical sources of detectable gravitational waves such as merging pairs of black holes and neutron stars, supernovae and the big bang, how LIGO works, the current status of LIGO, and future plans for LIGO. Prospects for a coordinated international network of gravitational wave detectors that will function as a global gravitational wave telescope will also be described.
See the colloquium schedule and its archive for previous talks.
For information and suggestions about the colloquium please contact the colloquium coordinator:
Prof. Andreas Bill,
Phone: (562) 985-8616,
Email: abill@csulb.edu
Directions to Campus
- Access to Campus
- Campus Maps
- Parking on campus: contact the coordinator of the colloquium. If not reachable, call the department office (562) 985-7925. If none of these are available at the time you need information, call (562) 985-4146 or go to the drive-through information booth at the main campus entrance (on Beach Drive, near the crossing to Bellflower).
- Walk (or ask for a ride on an on-campus shuttle) to the department office: Hall of Sciences, Room 220 (HSCI-220). The coordinator will provide the necessary informations.
- Any question or problem: call the colloquium coordinator or the department office (562) 985-7925.
Colloquia Sponsors:
We acknowledge with gratitude donations and support from the following present sponsors:
- H.E. and H.B. Miller
- Benjamin Carter
- The American Physical Society
- Anonymous
We also acknowledge with gratitude our past donors: The Forty-Niner Shops, Inc., The Northrop Grumman Foundation, Sandra Dana, Anonymous.
If you wish to support the Colloquium, please contact the colloquium coordinator or the department chair. Thank you!
Colloquia Schedule
Academic Year 2011-2012
May 9 |
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Students presentations |
May 7 |
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Students presentations |
April 30 |
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Richard Scalettar, UC Davis |
April 23 |
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Z. Hlousek, J. Kiessel, T. Gredig, C. Kwon, CSU Long Beach |
April 16 |
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Daniel Scanderbeg, UC San Diego |
April 9 |
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Michele Vallisneri, JPL |
April 2 |
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TBA |
March 19 |
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James Feagin, CSU Fullerton |
March 12 |
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Clare Yu, UC Irvine |
March 5 |
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Dana Backman, NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory |
February 27 |
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Doug Singleton, CSU Fresno |
February 20 |
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Vladimir Kresin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
February 13 |
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Butch Miller, Raytheon |
February 6 |
Gravitational Waves, a New Window on the Universe |
Jay Marx, LIGO, Caltech |
January 30 |
Not Yet the Last to Lay the Old Aside |
Virginia Trimble, UC Irvine |
Friday, December 16 |
Gaia, a Mission to Map our Galaxy |
L. Eyer, Geneva observatory, Switzerland |
Wednesday, December 7 |
Radiometric Dating as a Reliable Clock of Geology |
Z. Pecskay, Inst. of Nuclear Research, Debrecen, Hungary |
December 5 |
Students presentations II |
Students enrolled in 698, 697, 691, 496. |
November 30 |
Students presentations I |
Students enrolled in 698, 697, 691, 496. |
November 21 |
Pure Spin Currents: Discharging Spintronics |
Axel Hoffmann, Argonne Natl. lab. |
November 14 |
Surface Plasmon Resonance: Instrumentation and Applications to Studies of Electrode Reactions and Detections of Biomakers. |
Feimeng Zhou, CSU Los Angeles |
November 7 |
Topological Non-Abelian Anyons and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect |
Michael Peterson, CSU Long Beach |
October 31 |
Results from the First Two Years of the Large Hadron Collider |
Beate Heinemann, UC Berkeley |
October 24 |
Superconductivity in Synthetic Metals |
Stuart Brown, UCLA |
October 19 |
Science & Discovery - Life of a Scientist |
Charles Townes, UC Berkeley |
October 17 |
Mid-Infrared Variability of Orion Protostars using Spitzer |
Susan Terebey, CSU Los Angeles |
October 10 |
Physics of the Sun |
Werner Däppen, USC |
October 3 |
Physics Education, Interactive Engagement, and Technology: Understanding the Complexity of the Classroom |
Edward Price, CSU San Marcos |
September 26 |
Three-Dimensional Magnetic Field Line Reconnection Involving Magnetic Flux Ropes and Current Sheets |
Walter Gekelman, UCLA |
September 19 |
High School Physics Standards: A Nationwide Comparison |
Kathryn Beck, Bolsa Grande High School & Teacher in Residence at CSU Long Beach |
September 12 |
Meet & Mix |
Members of the department |
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Thesis Presentation
Electronic Properties of Graphene Multilayers and Graphite Thin Films
Julius de Rojas, CSU Long Beach
Thursday, August 26, 2010, 11am PH2-110
Colloquium
Meet & Mix!
Information session for undergraduate & graduate students of the department
Monday Sept. 13, 2010, 11am PH2-110
The Physics Department wishes everyone a good and productive summer!
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