Sunday, 29 Mar 2015
Performance: Two Rooms
The two rooms of the title are a windowless cubicle in Beirut where an American hostage is being held by Arab terrorists and a room in his home in the United States, which his wife has stripped of furniture so that symbolically she can share his ordeal. The wife is goaded by unforeseen developments to speak out against government policy and, in so doing, triggers the tragic series of events that brings the play to its startling conclusion.
Monday, 30 Mar 2015
Avoided Ferromagnetic Quantum Criticality: State-of-the-Art & Future Opportunities
Dmitry A. Sokolov Max Planck Institute of Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
Wednesday, 01 Apr 2015
Neutron Scattering Study of Low Energy Spin Excitations in the FeTe/Se Superconductors
Zhijun Xu University of California, Berkeley
Friday, 03 Apr 2015
Astronomy Seminar
Living with a Giant; The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (Rich Schuler, Iowa State University)