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Date Speaker Affiliation Topic Host (Division)
August 1, 2006 Dr. Abigail Baird Vassar College Adolescent Neuroscience and Brain Imaging Gerd J. Kunde (P)
August 24, 2006 Jonathan Katz Subatomic Physics - LANL When Hot Water Freezes Before Cold---The Mpemba Effect  
August 31, 2006 Shlomo Havlin Bar-Ilan U Long Term Memory and Clustering in Climate and Seismic Activity  
September 7, 2006 Barry Barish Cal Tech The International Linear Collider  
September 14, 2006 Roger Blanford Stanford Electromagnetic Explosions Mike Warren (T)

September 21, 2006

Calvin Howell Duke U Measuring Dynamical Responses of Plants to Global Change Using Short-lived Radioisotopes Steve Elliott (P)
September 28, 2006 B. I. Shklovskii University of Minnesota Ion Transport in Ion Channels and Nanopores (T)
October 5, 2006 Dr. Aki Runchal ACRi-Analytic &
Computational Research, Inc.
Towards Virtual Finite Volume, Meshless, Dynamically Programmable and Problem-adaptive CFD - With Applications in Combustion and Multi-Physics Framework David B. Carrington(T)
October 12, 2006 Prof. Ralph R.B. von Frese Ohio State University GRACE Gravity Observations Target Mega-Impact in Wilkes Land, Antartica Gerd J. Kunde (P)
October 19, 2006 Stan Woosley University of Califonia, Santa Cruz Type la Supernovase: Nature's Grandest Thermonuclear Explosions Alex Heger (T)
October 26, 2006 Lars Bildsten KITP/UCSD Explosions on and in Accreting White Dwarfs: From Classical Novae to Supernovae Daniel Holz (T)
November 2, 2006 Marisol Koslowski Purdue University Plastic Deformation at Micron and Submicron Scales Mary Anne With
November 9, 2006 Charles Rosenblatt Case Western Reserve University Dancing Fluids in Artificially Controlled Gravity Kai Kadau (T)
November 15, 2006 No Colloquium
November 23, 2006 Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30, 2006 No Colloquium
December 7, 2006 Wolfgang Bauer Michigan State University Smashing Nuclei in Search of Phase Transitions-Fragmentation and the Power-law Around Us Kris Kwiatowski(P)
December 14, 2006 Hank Ashbaugh Tulane University

Scaled Particle Theory and the Length Scales of Hydrophobicity

(P)
To be held in the MSL Auditorium
December 21, 2006 No Colloquium
December 28, 2006 LANL Closed
         
January 4, 2007 No Colloquium
January 11, 2007 Dan Barth University of Colorado Fast Electrical Oscillations in Sensory Cortex: Implications for Feature Binding, Modulation, and a
New Clock Speed for Neural Computation
John George (P)
January 18, 2007 No Colloquium
January 25, 2007 Dr. Franz Baudenbacher
Vanderbilt LTS SQUID Microscopy: A Leap in Sensitivity? Chris Carr (P)
February 1, 2007 Dr. Harvey Gould LBNL Experiments to Detect a Permanent Electric Dipole Moment, Laser Trapping and Cooling, Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy Michael DiRosa (P)
February 8, 2007 Marina V. Rodnina University of Witten/Herdecke Germany Transient-State Kinetic Analysis of the Ribosome Reaction Pathway Kevin Sanbonmatsu (T)
February 15, 2007

Postponed—to be rescheduled
Richard Friesner

Columbia University Localized Orbital Corrections: A new approach to obtaining quantitative accuracy in DFT thermochemistry calculations Enrique Batista (T)
February 22, 2007 Professor Alex Vardy UCSD Old Problems and New Results in Coding Theory M. Chertkov (T)
March 1, 2007 Richard Packard
UC Berkeley Superfluid Josephson Weak Links: Physics and Applications Greg Swift (T)
March 8, 2007        
March 15, 2007 Professor Ju Li Ohio State University Shear Localization Lengthscale in Metallic Glasses (P)
March 22, 2007 S.A. Cohen Princeton RMFo-formed collisionless high-b plasmas: Yesterday, today and tomorrow Alan Glasser (T)
March 29, 2007 Earl Scime West Virginia University Evolution of Remotely Measured Inner
Magnetospheric Ion Temperatures During a Geomagnetic Storm
John Kline (P)
April 5, 2007 Miles Blencowe Dartmouth Quantum Electromechanical Systems Eddy Timmermans (T)
April 12, 2007 Scott Blanchard Cornell Medical College Imaging Conformational Dynamics of the Ribosome Using Single-Molecule FRET A. Balatsky (T)
April 19, 2007 Vaclav Vitek University of Pennsylvania Non-planar dislocation cores: A ubiquitous phenomenon controlling mechanical properties of materials Marc Cawkwell (T)
April 26, 2007 Philippe Odier Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France An Experimental Dynamo in a Highly Turbulent Flow Bob Ecke (T)
May 3, 2007 Gabriel Kotliar Rutgers Understanding Strong Correlation Effects in the Actinide Series Jian-Xin Zhu (T)
May 10, 2007 Volker Burkert Jefferson Laboratory   Gerd Kunde (T)
May 17, 2007 Dan Green FNAL Large Hadron Collider  
May 24, 2007 Ira M. Longini, Jr. University of Washington Controlling pandemic influenza: Uses of stochastic simulation and estimation models Kai Kadau (T), Timothy Germann (X)
May 31, 2007 Akio Kitao University of Tokyo Polymorphic Supercoiling Mechanism of Bacterial Flagellar Filament and Hook Kevin Sanbonmatsu (T)
June 7, 2007 Gerry Garvey LANL Scientific Opportunities with a Rare-Isotope Facility in the United States - The NAS/NRC Report William Louis (P)
June 14 tbd tbd Latest results from MiniBoone William Louis (P)
         
         
         
 
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