Physics Colloquium, 1999-2000
Thursday Noon-1:00pm
Room 376 SEB
Fall, 1999
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Sept. 20, 1:30 PM note: Monday, Room 372 SEB |
Kevin Grazier |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech |
The Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan |
Sept. 30 |
Barbara Oakley |
SECS, Oakland University |
Look but Don't Touch: in Pursuit of Biomedical Noninvasive Pressure Sensing |
Oct. 7 |
Fang-Fang Yin |
Henry Ford Hospital |
Treatment Planning Optimization Using Fuzzy Knowledge |
Oct. 14 |
Ratna Naik |
Wayne State University |
Phase transitions in Ba(Sr)TiO3: Electrical and Optical Studies |
Oct. 21 |
Oliver Buettner |
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany |
Observation of Spin Wave Envelope Soliton Collisions in Magnetic Films |
Oct. 28 |
Beverly Berger |
Dept Physics, Oakland University |
Where's Waldo? How to Find Mixmaster Dynamics in Generic Gravitational Collapse |
Nov. 4 |
Peter X. Ma |
University of Michigan |
Creating New Tissues and Organs With Synthetic Polymeric Extracellular Matrices |
Nov. 10, 1:20 PM note: Wednesday |
Herve Hurdequint |
Universite Paris-Sud |
Magnetic Properties of Thin Films |
Nov. 11 |
Konstantin Guslienko |
Korean Institute of Advanced Studies |
Spectra of Spin Wave Excitations in Magnetic Dot Arrays |
Nov. 18 |
Dan Renusch |
Argonne National Laboratory |
Optical Characterization of Oxide Scales |
Nov. 25 |
Thanksgiving |
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Dec. 2 |
Mark.Holtz |
Texas Tech University |
Raman Mapping of Stress in Semiconductors |
Dec. 9 |
David Tomanek |
Michigan State University |
Breaking the Micron Barrier in Nanostructures |
Winter, 2000. *** Room 372 SEB ***
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| Jan. 20 | Boris Kalinikos | St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University | Self-Generation of Dark Spin Wave Solitons in Magnetic Films |
Jan. 27 |
Alexandra Lukaszew |
University of Michigan |
Epitaxial Magnetic Sensors |
Feb. 1 note: Tuesday |
Henry Schriemer |
Universiteit van Amersterdam |
Optical Confinement in Strongly Photonic Crystals |
Feb. 4, 2 PM note: Friday |
Pavel Kabos |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Spin Dynamics of Thin Film Magnetic Structures |
Feb. 8 note: Tuesday |
Vladimir Merkulov |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Materials for Electron Field Emission: Dirt or Diamond? |
Feb. 10 |
Boris Nadgorny |
Naval Research Laboratory |
Spin-Polarized Transport and a New Way of Measuring the Spin Polarization in Metals |
Feb. 15 note: Tuesday |
Alexey Bezryadin |
Harvard University |
Quantum Phase Slips and Dissipative Transition in Superconducting Nanowires |
Feb. 24 |
Ernest Behringer |
Eastern Michigan University |
Development of the Modern Optics Lab at Eastern Michigan University: Preliminary Results in Magnetic Rotation Spectroscopy and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy |
March 2 |
Winter Break |
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March 9 |
Mark Oldham |
William Beaumont Hospital |
Imaging Tumour Hypoxia Utilizing Accelerator Generated Oxygen-15 |
March 16 |
Dan Simon |
General Motors Tech Center |
Infrared Thermography Saves Dollars for General Motors |
March 23 |
APS March Meeting |
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March 30 |
Yumi Ijiri |
Oberlin College |
Exchange Biasing in Antiferromagnetic-Ferromagnetic Composite Systems |
April 6 |
Ken Elder |
Dept Physics, Oakland University |
Imbibition: The Physics of Coffee Spills |
April 11 note: Tuesday |
Ingo Direking |
Technische Universitat Darmstadt |
Topics in Liquid Crystal Research: Chirality, Polymer-Stabilization, and Smectic Layer Instabilitiess |
April 13 |
Gilbert Chapman |
Daimler-Chrysler |
Applied Physics in Materials Development and Evaluation |
A map of Oakland University can be found at www.oakland.edu/map. The building where the colloquium is held is marked "SEB" on the map (Science and Engineering Building), and Brad Roth's office is room 166 in "HHS" (Hannah Hall of Science). The best place to park is in lot 43, just off the circle drive and across from "HHS".
For more information (or if you want to GIVE a colloquium), contact Brad Roth (370-4871), roth@oakland.edu