Physics Colloquium, 2000-2001

Thursday Noon-1:00 pm

Room 372 SEB (except where noted)

Fall, 2000

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Sept. 14

note: 185 SEB

Srinivasan Venkatesan

  Ovonic Technology

  The Enabling Products and Systems for Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Sept. 22

note: Friday, 1:30

202 Dodge Hall

Martin Grant

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Breaking Stuff: Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Elastic Systems

Sept. 29

note: Friday, 1:30

Sergei Demokritov

** Cancelled **

  University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Brillouin Light Scattering from Spin Waves in Patterned Magnetic Films

Oct. 5

Elwood Armour

 William Beaumont Hospital

    Radiation Fractionation and Normal Tissue Injury. Physics Competes with Biology

Oct. 12

Scott Lee

 Dept. Physics & Astronomy, University of Toledo

The Interactions of DNA and its Ligands 

Oct. 20

note: Friday, 1:30

co-sponsored by Sigma Xi

Peter Eklund

  Dept. Physics, Penn State University

  Will The Real Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Please Stand Up?

Oct. 26

No Physics Colloquium. Instead, attend the

2000 Hammerle Lecture

at 3:00 in Meadow Brook Theatre

sponsored by the School of Engineering and Computer Science

  Hammerle lecturer: Brian Greene

  2000 Hammerle Lecturer: Explaining The Elegant Universe

Nov. 2

Lowell Wenger

Dept. Physics, Wayne State University

  An Unusual Superconducting Phenomenon: The Paramagnetic Meissner Effect

Nov. 3

note: Friday, 1:30

Vasil Tyberkevich

Department of Radiophysics, T. Shevchenko Kiev National University, Kiev, Ukraine

Interaction of Spin Wave Solitons with Localized Parametric Pumping

Nov. 9

Theodore Goodson

  Dept. Chemistry, Wayne State University

  Correlation of Macromolecular Architecture with Ultra-fast Photo-dynamics

Nov. 16

Andy Layden

  Dept. Physics & Astronomy, Bowling Green State University

  The Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy and the Formation of the Galactic Halo

Nov. 23

Thanksgiving

   

Nov. 30

Joanne Woestman

  HEV Drive Systems, Ford Motor Company

  Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Dec. 1

note: Friday, 1:30

386 SEB

Igor Rojdestvensky

University of Umea, Sweden

A Two-dimensional Many Body System With Competing Interactions as a Model for Segregation of Photosystems in Thylakoids of Green Plants

Dec. 7

Michael B. Sharpe

  William Beaumont Hospital

  Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer: New Technologies and New Opportunities

 

Winter, 2001

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Jan. 16

note: Tuesday

Konstantin Guslienko Korea Institute of Advance Studies Vortex Displacement in Magnetic Cylindrical Particles Under the Influence of In-Plane Magnetic Field

Jan. 18

Shane Stadler

   Naval Research Laboratory

  Using Soft X-Rays to Study the Electronic and Magnetic Structures of Buried Interfaces

Jan. 30

note: Tuesday

Ruslan Prozorov

 University of Illinois

Unconventional Behavior of the Magnetic Penetration Depth in Unconventional Superconductors

Feb. 1

Qihuo Wei

  Wayne State University

 Some Physics and Applications of nm-Micron Colloidal Particles

Feb. 6

note: Tuesday

Luis Balicas

Florida State University

Evidence For a Superconducting State in an Antiferromagnetic Organic Isolator at Very High Magnetic Fields

Feb. 16

note: Friday, 1:30

Pablo Laguna

  Dept. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State University

Grazing Collisions of Black Holes

Feb. 22

Mikko Haataja

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Strained Heteroepitaxial Film Continuum Model

March 8

Yang Xia

Dept. Physics, Oakland University

    Quantitative In Situ Correlation Between Microscopic MRI and Polarized Light Microscopy Studies of Articular Cartilage

March 22

Katie Freese

  Dept. Physics, University of Michigan

  Dark Matter and Dark Energy in Cosmology

March 29

Anna Spagnuolo

  Dept. Mathematics, Oakland University

  A Numerical Method for the Simulation of Nuclear Contaminant Transport in Porous Media

April 5

Zackery Belanger

Dept. Physics, Oakland University

 Computer Simulations of Collapsing Universes

April 12

Norman Tepley

Dept. Physics, Oakland University

   High Resolution Magnetic Brain Imaging

April 19

Joe Mantese

Delphi Auto

  Polarization-Graded Ferroelectrics: The Dielectric Analogues of Semiconductor Junction Devices

 

To see the Physics Colloquium Series from last year (1999-2000), click here

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