An informal seminar for first year graduate students.

Wednesdays, 5pm in Phys1219.
Refreshments will be served in the Toll Room,
at 4:30pm before the talk.

Date	Speaker	Title
Jan. 30	Richard Berg	The Physics IQ test and the Lecture Demonstration facility This seminar will be held in the Physics 1410 lecture hall.
Feb. 6	Tom Cohen	Creation of particle-antiparticle pairs by electric fields in vacuum  and in matter
Feb. 13	Julie McEnery & Steve Ritz, NASA/Goddard	Studying the high-energy universe with  the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST)   (placeholder title)
Feb. 20	Zakaria Chacko	Symmetry as a Guide to New Physics
Feb. 27	Brad Conrad	Organic electronics and other random walks
Mar. 5	Alessandra Buonanno	Gravitational waves (placeholder title)
Mar. 12	Dan Lathrop	Singular implosions, explosions, and nonlinear collapse
Mar. 19	SPRING BREAK
Mar. 26	Michael Fuhrer	Graphene (placeholder title)
Apr. 2	Arpita Upadhyaya	Biophysics of cell movements
Apr. 9	Dennis Drew	High temperature superconductivity (placeholder title)
Apr. 16	TBA
Apr. 23	Johnpierre Paglione	Massive electrons at ultra-low temperatures (placeholder title)
Apr. 30	Kaustubh Agashe	Extra dimensions and particle physics
May 7	Steve Rolston	AMO & JQI    (placeholder title)

Syllabus

Guidelines for speakers

TA:  Prabin Adhikari, Room  4219 Physics, Phone x56073, prabin@umd.edu

Faculty organizers:
Dennis Drew, Room 2333, x56146, hdrew@umd.edu
Ted Jacobson, Room 4117, x56020, jacobson@umd.edu