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Department News and Colloquium

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium at CSU Long Beach

Students Research Presentations I & II

Students enrolled in PHYS-496, 691, 697, 698 and those who wish to present their research
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CSU Long Beach

Monday, May 6, 2013
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
11:15am, PH2-110

(Refreshments served at 10:45 am, HSCI-224)


Fig: The Hall of Science at California State University

Students engaged in research activities during the semester will be reporting on their work. All undergraduate and graduate students and all faculty are invited to join and hear about the progress and achievements of fellow students and colleagues.

It is also an opportunity to end the semester together in an informal setting!

See the colloquium schedule and its archive of previous talks

Time and Place

Colloquia are scheduled to start Mondays at 11:15am sharp in Peterson Hall 2, Room 110 (PH2-110, map). Refreshments are served from 10:45am to 11:05am in Room HSCI-224 (next to the department office) and everyone is invited to mingle with faculty and students!

Coordinator:

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!

Academic Year 2012-2013

Spring 2013

Date Title Speaker and Affiliation
January 28 CSULB Students Research Presentations S.E.Grefe and S.Hedges CSU Long Beach
February 4 High Temperature Superconductivity: Taming Serendipity L. H. Greene, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
February 11 Holographic QCD: Insights and Applications J. Day, U. of Graz, Austria
February 18 CSULB Students Presenting their Research W. Klink, U. of Iowa
February 25 Strain Induced Quantum Hall States in Graphene S. Haas, USC
March 4 Effect of Gravity and Finite Temperature on the Decay of the False Vacuum L.C. Loveridge, Pierce College
March 11 Graphene Koans B.C. Regan, UCLA
March 18 No Colloquium (APS March Meeting) NA
March 25 X-Ray Microscopy at a Synchrotron - Large Machines and Small Devices H. Ohldag, SLAC
April 1 SPRING BREAK
April 8 Heavy Electrons and Superconductivity Z. Fisk, UC Irvine
April 15 The Physics of Wall Street J.O. Weatherall
Wednesday,
April 17		 TBA J. Mather, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics
April 22 Studying Gravity to Defying Gravity: A Physicist in Aerospace Sam Waldman, SpaceX
April 29 The Search for Majorana Modes in Solid-State Systems R. Lutchyn, Microsoft Station Q
May 6 Student Presentations I Students of CSU Long Beach
May 8 Student Presentations II Students of CSU Long Beach

Colloquia Schedule

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