Department of Physics & Astronomy

Are you curious about space? Do you wonder about what you can see in the night sky? If so, bring your questions and come to the ISU Planetarium to learn more. Shows are at 7 pm and 7:30 pm and are suitable for all ages. Weather permitting a star-gazing session will be held after dark. Free tickets for the shows will be available at the door starting at 6:45 pm. Seating is limited.

"The Outcome of the LHC Search for the Higgs Boson"

Monday, 25th Feb 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0005

Dr. Tom LeCompte (Argonne National Lab)

GEANT, HEP and Supercomputers

Tuesday, 26th Feb 2013 @ 3:00 pm in Physics Hall, Room 19,

Dr. Tom LeCompte, Argonne National Laboratory

Ultrafast Terahertz Spectroscopy of Nonlinear Metamaterials: From Probe to Control

Thursday, 28th Feb 2013 @ 4:10 pm in PHYSICS Hall Room 5

Liang Luo Graduate student, Jigang Wang's group

"Illuminating the Cosmic Frontier with Gamma Rays"

Monday, 4th Mar 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0005

Amanda Weinstein (Iowa State University)

"Physics of Complex Materials"

Monday, 11th Mar 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0005

Dr. Evgenii Levin (Ames Lab/US DOE/ISU)

Anderson Localization Across the Metal-Insulator Transition of Interface of Ag-doped Ag/Si(111)-(â3Ã-â3)R30

Thursday, 14th Mar 2013 @ 4:10 pm in PHYSICS Hall Room 5

Yuanyuan Tang

"Protein Structure-Function and its Application to the Evolution of Biological Hydrogen Production"

Monday, 25th Mar 2013 @ 2:10 pm in Physics 18/19

Dr. Buz Barstow (Harvard Medical School)

"A Research-validated Approach to Transforming Upper-division Physics Courses"

Monday, 25th Mar 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0005

Dr. Steven Pollock (University of Colorado, Boulder)

NMR study of re-entrant antiferromagnetic property in a high-T_c pnictide LaFeAsO_(1-x)H_x, and the related topics

Thursday, 28th Mar 2013 @ 4:10 pm in PHYSICS Hall Room 5

Naoki Fujiwara Graduate School of Human & Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

[Fe II] Emission Tracing Dense Jets for Intermediate-Mass Protostars in Carina

Friday, 29th Mar 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Room 3

Talk by Megan Reiter, University of Arizona graduate student

Planetarium Show

Friday, 29th Mar 2013 @ 7:00 pm in ISU Planetarium, Physics Hall

"Metamaterials"

Monday, 1st Apr 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0005

Dr. Thomas Koschny (Ames Laboratory)

Science of Rock 'n' Roll - Single Molecule and Nanoparticle Imaging in Biophysical, Surface, and Photocatalysis Studies

Thursday, 4th Apr 2013 @ 4:10 am in PHYSICS Hall Room 5

Ning Fang Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University

The Brites-Constellation Project: Entering a New Era of Nanosatellite Astrophysics ... or ... Why I'm heading to the Great White (French) North

Friday, 5th Apr 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Room 3

Talk by Herbert Pablo, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University

"Physics at the Dawn of the LHC Era: Implications of Searches for New Physics at the LHC"

Monday, 8th Apr 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0005

Dr. Jay Wacker (SLAC Nat'l Labs/Stanford University)

The Implications of the Higgs Discovery for Supersymmetry

Tuesday, 9th Apr 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 18/19

Professor Jay Wacker, Stanford University

"Inclusive hadron production in DIS off heavy nuclei at small-x"

Thursday, 11th Apr 2013 @ 4:10 pm in A401 Zaffarano Hall

Dajing Wu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, ISU

Adaptive Genetic Algorithm Method for Crystal Structure Prediction

Thursday, 11th Apr 2013 @ 4:10 pm in PHYSICS Hall Room 5

K. M. Ho Ames Laboratory - US DOE and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA

Extra-Disk Starbursts: Star Formation Triggering in Interacting Galaxies

Friday, 12th Apr 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Room 3

Talk by Beverly Smith, Department of Physics and Astronomy, East Tennessee State University

"The Glue That Binds Us All -- Probing Gluonic Matter with the World's First Electron-Ion Collider"

Monday, 15th Apr 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0005

Dr. Thomas Ullrich (Brookhaven National Lab)

Unitarity and vacuum stability constraints on the couplings of color octet scalars

Wednesday, 17th Apr 2013 @ 4:10 pm in A401, Zaffarano Hall

Mr. Han Phoon, Iowa State University

Mass Estimates for the Young Stars in NGC 6334

Friday, 19th Apr 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Room 3

Research talk by Sarah Willis, ISU Astronomy Graduate Student and Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

"Parity Violation and Anomaly-induced Transport in Super-dense Matter"

Monday, 22nd Apr 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0005

Dr. Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National Lab)

High-strain-rate mechanical characterization of nanomaterials via micro-ballistics

Thursday, 25th Apr 2013 @ 4:10 pm in PHYSICS Hall Room 5

Jae-Hwang Lee Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University

"Quantum Femtosecond Magnetism"

Monday, 29th Apr 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0005

Dr. Jigang Wang (Iowa State University)

Mass loss with and without planets - Then and Now

Friday, 3rd May 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Room 3

Talk by Lee Anne Willson, ISU Physics and Astronomy faculty

The "Standard" Model of Cosmology...and Open Questions

Monday, 26th Aug 2013 @ 4:10 am in Physics 0003

Dr. Bharat Ratra (Kansas State University)

Characterizing a New Kind of Planet: Low-Mass Low-Density Exoplanets

Monday, 9th Sep 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0003

Jonathan Fortney (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)

Surface excess in liquid surfaces: alcohol and salt solutions

Thursday, 12th Sep 2013 @ 4:10 pm in PHYSICS Hall Room 3

Doseok Kim Department of Physics, Sogang University

Planetarium Shows - Backyard Astronomy

Friday, 13th Sep 2013 @ 6:15 pm in ISU Planetarium, Physics Hall

Are you curious about space? Do you wonder about what you can see in the night sky? If so, bring your questions and come to the ISU Planetarium to learn more. The first show, starting at 6:30 pm will be 20 minutes and for kids. Shows at 7 pm and 7:30 pm and are suitable for all ages. Free tickets for the shows will be available at the door starting at 6:15 pm. Seating is limited.

Tuning the Mechanics of Cell Adhesion

Monday, 23rd Sep 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0003

Sanjeevi Sivasankar (Iowa State University)

Ab-initio calculations of bound and unbound nuclei in the Berggren basis: The No Core Gamow Shell Model

Thursday, 26th Sep 2013 @ 4:10 pm in A401 Zaffarano Hall

Dr. George Papadimitriou, University of Arizona

Dynamics of skyrmions in metallic chiral magnets

Thursday, 26th Sep 2013 @ 4:10 pm in PHYSICS Hall Room 3

Zhi-seng Lin Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Spin Phenomena in Elastic Scattering of 6He and 8He off Protons

Thursday, 3rd Oct 2013 @ 4:10 pm in A401 Zaffarano Hall

Prof. Charlotte Elster,<\b> Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Ultrafast carrier dynamics in the thin films of the topological insulator Bi2Se3
Thursday, 3rd Oct 2013 @ 4:10 pm in PHYSICS Hall Room 3
Yuri Glinka Research Assistant Professor West Virginia University

Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: A Growing Frontier of "Pure and Applied" Theoretical Physics
Monday, 7th Oct 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0003
Royce Zia (Virginia Tech & Iowa State University)

Planetarium Shows
Friday, 11th Oct 2013 @ 6:15 pm in ISU Planetarium, Physics Hall
Are you curious about space? Do you wonder about what you can see in the night sky? If so, bring your questions and come to the ISU Planetarium to learn more. The first show, starting at 6:30 pm will be 20 minutes and for kids. Shows at 7 pm and 7:30 pm and are suitable for all ages. Free tickets for the shows will be available at the door starting at 6:15 pm. Seating is limited.

Materials, Energy and Life: The State of the Art of High Magnetic Field Research
Monday, 14th Oct 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0003
Greg Boebinger (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

Electrons from open heavy flavor decays in Cu+Cu collisions at RHIC
Wednesday, 16th Oct 2013 @ 4:10 pm in A401 Zaffarano Hall
Dr. Nicole Apadula, State University of New York, Stony Brook

The Physics and Cosmology of TeV Blazars
Monday, 21st Oct 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0003
Philip Chang (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

49 Years of the Higgs Boson
Wednesday, 23rd Oct 2013 @ 4:10 pm in A401, Zaffarano Hall
Dr. David Atwood, Iowa State University

Magnetic anisotropy: fundamentals and applications
Thursday, 24th Oct 2013 @ 4:10 pm in PHYSICS Hall Room 3
Vladimir Antropov Ames Lab

Temporal Dynamics within Networks of Neurons
Monday, 28th Oct 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0003
Rhonda Dzakpasu (Georgetown Univ)

Simultaneous Detection of Organics Leading to Spatial and Temporal Multidimensional Chemical Imaging (MDCI)
Tuesday, 29th Oct 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Molecular Biology Building 1414
Prof. Carol Hirschmugl University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Gap symmetry and Nodal structure of iron-based superconductors
Thursday, 31st Oct 2013 @ 4:10 pm in PHYSICS Hall Room 3
Maxim Khodas Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Univ. of Iowa

A-F star mysteries as revealed by the NASA Kepler spacecraft
Friday, 1st Nov 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0003
Joyce Guzik (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Visualizing Viruses Inside and Outside the Host Cells
Monday, 4th Nov 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0003
Wah Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine)

Planetarium Shows
Friday, 8th Nov 2013 @ 6:15 pm in ISU Planetarium, Physics Hall
Are you curious about space? Do you wonder about what you can see in the night sky? If so, bring your questions and come to the ISU Planetarium to learn more. The first show, starting at 6:30 pm will be 20 minutes and for kids. Shows at 7 pm and 7:30 pm and are suitable for all ages. Free tickets for the shows will be available at the door starting at 6:15 pm. Seating is limited.

Dilatometry and High-Pressure Experiments: Past, Present, and Future
Monday, 11th Nov 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0003
James S. Schilling Washington University and George Schmiedeshoff Occidental College

Fermion production in gauge theories
Tuesday, 12th Nov 2013 @ 4:10 pm in A401 Zaffarano Hall
Dr. Florian Hebenstreit, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University

Quantum criticality of the heavy-fermion antiferromagnet YbAgGe
Wednesday, 13th Nov 2013 @ 4:10 am in ROOM 18 PHYSICS
George Schmiedeshoff Occidental College

Pressure-driven magnetic and structural transitions in the 122-pnictides
Thursday, 14th Nov 2013 @ 4:10 pm in PHYSICS Hall Room 3
Michael Widom Carnegie Mellon University

Ghostly Impostors: The Glowing Magnetospheres of Massive Stars
Friday, 15th Nov 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Room 0003
Richard Townsend (Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin Madison)

Computational study of model Hamiltonians for the iron-based superconductors
Thursday, 21st Nov 2013 @ 4:10 pm in PHYSICS Hall Room 3
Elbio R. A. Dagotto Department of Physics University of Tennessee and Materials Science and Technology Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Terahertz Dynamics and Control in Complex Materials
Monday, 2nd Dec 2013 @ 4:10 pm in Physics 0003
Richard Averitt (Boston University)

Using disorder as a probe of superconducting order parameter
Thursday, 5th Dec 2013 @ 4:10 pm in PHYSICS Hall Room 5
Vivek Mishra Argonne National Laboratory

High Energy Physics as Part of a Science Community
Tuesday, 10th Dec 2013 @ 3:00 pm in Physics 18/19
Rik Yoshida (Argonne National Lab)

Planetarium Shows
Friday, 13th Dec 2013 @ 6:15 pm in ISU Planetarium, Physics Hall
Are you curious about space? Do you wonder about what you can see in the night sky? If so, bring your questions and come to the ISU Planetarium to learn more. The first show, starting at 6:30 pm will be 20 minutes and for kids. Shows at 7 pm and 7:30 pm and are suitable for all ages. Free tickets for the shows will be available at the door starting at 6:15 pm. Seating is limited.