First thoughts

This blog is a place for people in the Ohio University Physics & Astronomy Department to blog about interesting talks they've heard recently, hot news in science, the tribulations of life as a physicist (or astronomer...) etc. etc. To provide some sort of structure we will try to talk each week about the Departmental Colloquium, the schedule for which can be found at http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~phillips/Colloquium/colloquium.html. For those of you who are not familiar with the blog's title, to speak "colloquially" means to not use proper English. This is an attempt at humour, given the blog's Colloquium orientation. But more generally it means that informal discussion is encouraged. So please, go ahead, make a comment, even if it's only brief. Or it's critical. The goal is to have a decent online discussion about interesting physics.