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<div><font color="#000080"><b>Old Dominion University</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000080"><b>Department of Physics</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#E36C0A"><b>Fall Colloquium Series</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#17365D" size="5"><b>Tuesday October 18, 2011</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#E36C0A" size="5"><b>"Using Atomic Physics to Create the Coldest Plasmas Ever"</b></font></div>
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<font color="#1F497D" size="5" face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>Dr. Steve Rolston</b></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#1F497D" size="5" face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>University of Maryland/JQI<br>
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<div><font size="3"> <font size="4">Plasma is the most ubiquitous state of matter in the universe, ranging in temperatures from 15 million K in the core of the sun to 200 K in the ionosphere, and densities of 10^30 cm^-3 in a white dwarf to 1 particle per cm^-3.
Using laser cooling and photoionization, we can now create neutral plasmas in the lab, orders of magnitude colder, down to sub-Kelvin temperatures. In this talk I will discuss some of the features of these novel plasmas, ranging from three-body recombination
collisions that are used to make anti-hydrogen, to collective modes and the effects of magnetic fields.</font></font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Presentation: Physical Sciences Building II 1100 @ 3:00 pm</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Refreshments: 1st Floor Atrium @ 2:30 pm</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">More details at <a href="http://www.physics.odu.edu"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.physics.odu.edu</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="4">All are Welcome<font size="3">!</font></font></div>
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