Physics Colloquium, 2003-2004

Thursday Noon-1, Room 372 SEB (except where noted)

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Sept. 4	Clifford Les	Henry Ford Hospital	Time-dependent material properties of compact bone: Ovariectomized sheep, stale corn chips, and your mama
Sept. 18	Siegfried Stapf	Lehrstuhl fur Makromolekulare Chemie Aachen, Germany	Jiggling and Wiggling - Nuclear Spins as Probes of the Dynamics of Chain Molecules in Deformed Rubber
Oct. 9	Jia Li	Dept Computer Science & Engineering Oakland University	Medical Image Segmentation Based On Statistical Shape Models
Oct. 16	Darrin Hanna	Dept Computer Science & Engineering Oakland University	An Implantable BioMEMS For Filtering Pathogens From Blood Or Lymph
Oct. 23	2003 Hammerle Lecture 3:30 pm Ballroom, OC Sponsored by the School of Engineering and Computer Science	John H. Scott NASA	Discussing Fuel Cells: A NASA Perspective
Oct. 30	Florian Mertens	General Motors	Hydrogen Storage
Nov. 6	John Seeley	Dept Chemistry Oakland University	Using 2-Dimensional Gas Chromatography to Study Complex Mixtures
Nov. 13	Gopal Srinivasan	Dept Physics Oakland University	Magnetoelectric Interactions in Ferromagnetic-Ferroelectric Layered Structures
Nov. 20	Gleb Kakazei	Dept Physics Ohio State University	Dipolar Interactions and Spin Waves in Periodic Arrays of Micron-Size Magnetic Dots Studied by Ferromagnetic Resonance
Nov. 27	No colloquium Thanksgiving
Dec. 4	Gerald L. Dunifer	Department of Physics & Astronomy Wayne State University	A Novel Method for Measuring the Paramagnetic Susceptibility of a Simple Metal

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Jan. 22	Jens-Christian D. Meiners	Dept Physics University of Michigan	Biophysics with Single DNA Molecules
Jan. 29	Yang Xia	Dept Physics Oakland University	Seven Blind Mice and An Elephant: The Science of An Ancient Fable
Feb. 5	Marco Fornari	Dept Physics Central Michigan University	Piezoelectric Perovskite: Old and New Compounds
Feb. 12	Peter Hoffmann	Dept of Physics Wayne State University	Squeezing Molecules: Exploring Liquid Structure with an Atomic Force Microscope
Feb. 19	David Garfinkle	Department of Physics University of Guelph	Numerical Simulations of Gravitational Singularities
Feb. 26	No colloquium Winter Recess
March 4	Douglas Noll	Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Michigan	Better (and more Quantitative) Images of the Thinking Brain
March 5 1-2 pm	Boris Kalinikos	St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University	Hybrid Electromagnetic-Spin Waves in Ferrite-Ferroelectric Layered Structures and Their Possible Applications for Microwave Phase Shifters
March 11	Sai Kumar	Materials Engineering Research Solutions	Nanoengineered Gel as Materia Medica
March 25	Daniel Foty Co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Computer Science, Dept. Electrical and Systems Engineering, The IEEE Chapter-I, Circuits and Systems	Gilgamesh Associates	Low Temperature Operation of Silicon CMOS Technology: Revisiting an Old Idea in Need of a Fresh Start
March 30 Tuesday noon-1 386 SEB	Jose Alvarez	Dept Physics University of Michigan	Escaping From 1D : New Examples of the Dimensional Crossover
April 1	Mikko Karttunen	Laboratory of Computational Engineering Helsinki University of Technology	What Can We Learn From Biomembrane Simulations? - A Pedestrian Approach
April 8	Sidi Benzahra	Dept Physics North Dakota State University	Breakdown Of Mesons in Hot Matter
Friday April 9 11-12	Kyungwha Park	Center for Computational Materials Science Naval Research Laboratory	First-Principles Calculations on Single-Molecule Nanomagnets
Wednesday April 14 1-2 pm 187 SEB	Farhad Ghoddoussi	Dept Physics Oakland University	The Temperature-Electric Field Phase Diagram of the Smectic-C* Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
April 15	Ramamurthi Janakiraman	Dept Physics Oakland University	Induced Paramagnetism
Friday April 16 2:30-3:30	Andrey Kiselev	Dept Electrical & Computer Engineering North Carolina State University	Zeeman Effect: Fundamental Phenomenon and a Practical Tool for Nanophysics (and Newest Quantum Information Technology)
Tuesday April 20 11:30-12:30	Zhi-Feng Huang	School of Computational Science and Information Technology Florida State University	Elasticity, Instability, and Nanostructure Formation in Advanced Materials
Thursday April 22 11:30-12:30 Lake Michigan Room, OC	George Martins	National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Florida State University	Numerical Methods Applied to Strongly Correlated Systems. From Cuprates to Quantum Dots: New Challenges and Opportunities

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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