Physics Colloquium 2002-2003

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Sept. 5	Robert Mann	Dept. Physics University of Waterloo	A New Look at the Oldest Problem in Physics
Sept. 12	Ken Elder	Dept. Physics Oakland University	Modeling Elasticity with Phase Field Crystals
Sept. 19	Wendy Zhang	Dept. Mathematics Oakland University	Evolution Of Crystal Morphology Under Surface Diffusion
Sept. 23 Monday, 12 noon	Joe Trodahl	Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand	Sea Ice, Insulating the Earth's Polar Oceans
Oct. 3	Uma Venkateswaran	Dept. Physics Oakland University	Carbon Nanotubes
Oct. 10	Mohamed Zohdy	Electrical and Systems Engineering Department Oakland University	Applied Nonlinear and Chaotic Systems and their Control
Oct. 17	Victor S. L'vov	Dept. of Chemical Physics Weizmann Institute of Science	Quasi-Gaussian Statistics of Two Dimensional Turbulence
Oct. 24	Chitra Rangan	Dept. Physics University of Michigan	Quantum search algorithm in a Rydberg atom
Oct. 31	Abraham Liboff	Dept. Physics Oakland University	Magnet Therapy: Physics and Fancy
Nov. 7	Herve Hurdequint	Universite Paris-Sud Orsay, France	Ferromagnetic Resonance in Purely Metallic Magnetic Thin Films
Nov. 7	2002 Hammerle Lecture 3 pm, Meadow Brook Theatre sponsored by the School of Engineering and Computer Science
Nov. 18 Monday, 12 noon	Siegfried Stapf	Lehrstuhl fur Makromolekulare Chemie Aachen, Germany	Multiscale Investigations to Fluid Dynamics in Structured Media --- NMR Techniques Tailored for Reaction Engineering Processes
Nov. 21	Nikolas Provatas	Materials Science and Engineering McMaster University	Multi-Scale Modeling of Microstructure Formation
Nov. 28	No colloquium Thanksgiving
Dec. 5	James Warren	Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science National Institute of Standards and Technology	Phase Field Modeling of Microstructure Formation

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

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Jan. 30	Eric Poisson	Dept. Physics University of Guelph	Wave Propagation in Curved Spacetime: Hearing the Shape of a Black Hole and the Geometry of the Universe
Feb. 6	Boris Kalinikos	St.Petersburg Electrotechnical University St.Petersburg, RUSSIA	Ferrite-Ferroelectric Thin Film Stuctures and Their Microwave Properties
Feb. 11 Tuesday	Steve Liebling	Natural Science Division Long Island University	Modeling Black Holes: Formation and Dynamics
Feb. 13	Mark Miller	Jet Propulsion Lab	Numerical Relativity: General Relativistic Simulations of Gravitational Wave Sources Containing Neutron Stars and Black Holes
Feb. 18 Tuesday 364 SEB	Lior Burko	Physics Department University of Utah	Black Hole Singularities and a New Kind of Critical Phenomena
Feb. 20	Yasushi Mino	Dept. Physics Washington University	Observing Gravity Waves
Feb. 27	No colloquium Winter Recess
March 6	No colloquium APS March Meeting
March 13	open
March 20	Denise Kirschner	Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology The University of Michigan Medical School	Using Mathematics to Predict Immune Regulatory Mechanisms During Infection With Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
March 27	Stuart Tessmer	Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State University	Novel Scanning Probe Measurements of a 2D Electron System
April 3	Peter Erdi	Center for Complex Systems Studies Kalamazoo College	Neurodynamical System Theory
April 3 2 pm, 386 SEB	Paul Callaghan	Victoria University of Wellington Wellington, New Zealand	Rheology, Magnetic Resonance and Soft Matter
April 10	Sudha Srinivas	Department of Physics Central Michigan University	First-Principles Investigations of Metal Clusters
April 17	Timothy Chupp	Department of Physics University of Michigan	Laser Polarized Noble Gases