Leonard Sander (University of Michigan)

"Dynamics of Invasion of Highly Malignant Brain Tumors"

Puragra Guhathakurta (University of California, Santa Cruz)

"The Extended Stellar Halo of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy and its Dwarf Satellites: Results from the SPLASH Survey"

David Ceperley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Is Helium a "Supersolid"?"

Roland Wiesendanger (Institute of Applied Physics and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center Hamburg, University of Hamburg)

"New Horizons in Condensed Matter Physics by Local Probe Techniques"

Ani Aprahamian (University of Notre Dame)

"The Origin of the Heavy Elements"

Murray Gibson (Argonne National Laboratory)

Colloquium jointly sponsored by the Physics and Astronomy Department and CMSS; on Thursday, 4:10 pm, Walter Hall 245.

"Imaging with x-rays at the nanoscale"

Special Colloquium

Venki Ramakrishnan, College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Alumnus 2006 (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)

"The Ribosome: The cell's protein factory and how antibiotics sabotage it."

Dan Hammer (Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania)

Neil Gehrels (Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA/GSFC)

"Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries with the Swift Mission"

No colloquium: Department Awards Ceremony