Spring 2015
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host | 
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                            Jan. 22  | 
                        
                        "Investigation of modern photon, electron and proton radiotherapy technologies for
                           pediatric and breast cancer patients" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Rui Zhang | Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center & LSU | Wayne Newhauser | 
| Jan. 29 | "Instrumentation driven science for unraveling emergent phenomena" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Zahid Hussain | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | John Ditusa and Ward Plummer | 
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                            Feb. 2  | 
                        
                        "Early Prediction of Clinical Outcome in Cervical Cancer during Radiation Therapy" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Zhibin Huang | Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University | Wayne Newhauser | 
| Feb. 5 | "Heating in atomic- and molecular-scale junctions" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Douglas Natelson | Rice University | Ilya Vekhter | 
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                            Feb 10  | 
                        
                        "Use of PET for proton therapy verification and hybrid nanoparticles" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Jongmin Cho | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center | Wayne Newhauser | 
| *Canceled* Feb. 12  | 
                        
                        "Quantum Fluctuations and Phase Transitions" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Nandini Trivedi | The Ohio State University | Ilya Vekhter and Phil Adams | 
| Feb. 19 | ||||
| Feb. 26 | ||||
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                            *Canceled*  | 
                        
                        "DANCEing with the Stars: Neutron Capture and the Stellar Origins of the Heavy Elements" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Aaron Couture | Los Alamos National Lab | Jeff Blackmon | 
| March 12 | "Hysteresis, Avalanches, and Slow Relaxation: Complex non-equilibrium spin dynamics
                           in a simple Zeeman-limited superconductor" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Philip Adams | Louisiana State University | Ilya Vekhter | 
| March 19 | "Thirty Meter Telescope: The Next Generation of Ground Based Optical/Infra Red Observatory" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Warren Skidmore | Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory Corp. | Robert Hynes | 
| March 26 | "The miracle of molecules: quantum magnetism in ultracold matter" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Kaden Hazzard | Rice University | Jonathan Dowling | 
| April 2 | "Manipulation of Phonon and Spin Dynamics at the Nanoscale" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Min Ouyang | University of Maryland | Jiandi Zhang | 
| April 16 | "Quantum Gravity Comes of Age" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Richard Woodard | University of Florida | Ivan Agullo | 
| April 23 | "The quantum and classical world of atomic spins on surfaces" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Andreas Heinrich | IBM Almaden Research Center | Jiandi Zhang | 
| April 30 | "Direct Detection of Dark Matter: From Microphysics to Observational Signatures" Abstract  | 
                        
                        James B. Dent | University of Louisiana - Lafayette | James Matthews | 
| May 7 | "Implications to High Tc Superconducting Mechanism from Iron-Based Superconductors" Abstract  | 
                        
                        Jiangping Hu | Purdue University | Rongying Jin |