• 27 March: Colloquium by Benjamin Oppenheimer, Leiden Observatory
  "Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations: Forming realistic galaxies while distributing heavy elements throughout the intergalactic medium"
  4-5 PM, Olin 105; refreshments to follow in PHYS 116
  
  
• 3 April: Colloquium by University of Denver graduate students
  Dain Bassett: "Thermal properties of low-temperature microcalorimeters"
  Stephen Ray: "Biophysical approaches to human genetic disease: ADSL deficiency as a model"
  4-5 PM, Olin 105; refreshments to follow in PHYS 116
  
  
• 10 April: Colloquium by Jason Underwood, University of Denver
  "Electron-tunneling refrigerators: A simpler route to millikelvin temperatures"
  4-5 PM, Olin 105; refreshments to follow in PHYS 116
  
  
• 13-16 April: APS April Meeting, Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
  The APS April Meeting gathers particle physicists, nuclear physicists, and astrophysicists to share new results and insights.
  
  
• 15 April: Special public talk by Lisa Randall, Harvard University
  "Truth and beauty and other scientific misconceptions"
  7 PM, Davis Auditorium, Sturm Hall
  Dr. Randall will speak at DU in conjunction with the April APS meeting in Denver, in honor of her receipt of the American Institute of Physics Andrew Gemant Award. The lecture is free and open to the public. There will be a book signing after the talk and live physics demos courtesy of SPS. For more information, see our event page.
  
  
• 24 April: Colloquium by Geraldine Peters, University of Southern California
  "Accretion structures in Algol-type and related binary stars"
  4-5 PM, Olin 105; refreshments to follow in PHYS 116
  
  
• 1 May: Colloquium by Aki Takigawa, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institute of Washington
  "Anisotropic condensation and evaporation of circumstellar dust grains: New probe for evaluating dust forming history from IR spectroscopy"
  4-5 PM, Olin 105; refreshments to follow in PHYS 116
  
  
• 6 May: Colloquium by University of Denver graduate students
  Alex Dixon: "Charge carrier mobility in organic photovoltaic devices"
  Kathy Geise: "Spectrally-polarized features in epsilon Aurigae in and out of eclipse"
  Aaron Worley: "Identification of cosmic ray electrons in the tracking region of space borne instruments"
  4-5 PM, Olin 205; refreshments to follow in PHYS 116 (note unusual day and location)
  
  
• 8 May: Dissertation defense by Ajaya Sigdel, University of Denver
  "Oxide semiconductors for organic opto-electronic devices"
  1-3 PM, Nagel 102 (note unusual time and location)
  
  
• 8 May: Dissertation defense by Alexa Hart, University of Denver
  "Celestial paleontology: the legacy of dying stars"
  4-5 PM, Olin 105; refreshments to follow in PHYS 116
  
  
• 13 May: Colloquium by University of Denver graduate students
  Jared Burde: "Effective binding energy and the adsorption of polyatomics on carbon surfaces"
  Xin Jiang: "Admittance spectroscopy on different molecular weight of P3HT and band structure study of inverted organic photovoltaic device"
  Sarah Mason: "The change in thermal conductance of amorphous silicon nitride due to long wavelength phonon scattering"
  4-5 PM, Olin 205; refreshments to follow in PHYS 116 (note unusual day and location)
  
  
• 20 May: Colloquium by Brian Green, Leah Huk, and Lucas Sawle, University of Denver
  4-5 PM, Olin 105; refreshments to follow in PHYS 116
  
  
• 22 May: Colloquium by Alex Hojem, Richard Pearson, and Rachael Tomasino, University of Denver
  4-5 PM, Olin 205; refreshments to follow in PHYS 116 (note unusual day and location)
  
  
• 29 May: Colloquium by Geoff Diederich, Rebecca Rattray, Manisha Shrestha, and Devin Wesenberg, University of Denver
  4-5 PM, Olin 105; refreshments to follow in PHYS 116
  
  

In 2010, we were privileged to host Dr. Eric Mazur from Harvard University as a Marsico Visiting Scholar. Click below to watch Dr. Mazur's Marsico presentation, "Confessions of a Converted Lecturer," which he gave at DU on October 15, 2010.