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 |
The Enabling Products and Systems for Alternative Fuel Vehicles |
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Sept. 22 note: Friday, 1:30 202 Dodge Hall |
Breaking Stuff: Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Elastic Systems |
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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 |
Radiation Fractionation and Normal Tissue Injury. Physics Competes with Biology |
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Oct. 12 |
Dept. Physics & Astronomy, University of Toledo |
The Interactions of DNA and its Ligands |
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Oct. 20 note: Friday, 1:30 co-sponsored by Sigma Xi |
Dept. Physics, Penn State University |
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Oct. 26 |
No Physics Colloquium. Instead, attend the 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 |
Dept. Physics, Wayne State University |
An Unusual Superconducting Phenomenon: The Paramagnetic Meissner Effect |
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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 |
Dept. Chemistry, Wayne State University |
Correlation of Macromolecular Architecture with Ultra-fast Photo-dynamics |
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Nov. 16 |
Dept. Physics & Astronomy, Bowling Green State University |
The Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy and the Formation of the Galactic Halo |
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Nov. 23 |
Thanksgiving |
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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 |
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 |
Dept. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State University |
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Feb. 22 |
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March 8 |
Quantitative In Situ Correlation Between Microscopic MRI and Polarized Light Microscopy Studies of Articular Cartilage |
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March 22 |
Dept. Physics, University of Michigan |
Dark Matter and Dark Energy in Cosmology |
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March 29 |
Dept. Mathematics, Oakland University |
A Numerical Method for the Simulation of Nuclear Contaminant Transport in Porous Media |
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April 5 |
Zackery Belanger |
Computer Simulations of Collapsing Universes |
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April 12 |
High Resolution Magnetic Brain Imaging |
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April 19 |
Joe Mantese |
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