Physics Colloquium, 2005-2006
Thursday
Noon-1, Room 372 SEB (except where noted)
Fall, 2005
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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Sept.
8 |
Dept. Physics,
Oakland
University
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Spin Wave Mode Excited by
Spin-Polarized Current in a Magnetic Nano-Contact is a Standing
Self-Localized Wave Bullet |
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Sept. 15 |
Dept. Physics, Michigan State University
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Melting
the Vacuum with Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions |
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Sept.
22 |
Dept. Physics,
Oakland
University
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Transport Properties
of Strongly Correlated Electrons in Quantum Dots Using a Simple Circuit Model |
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Sept.
29 |
Use of Femto-Second Lasers for Fabrication of Photonic and Micro-Fluidic Devices |
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Oct. 6 |
Dept. Physics, Central Michigan University |
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Oct. 13 |
Quantum Criticality and Zero Temperature Phase
Transitions |
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Oct.
21 Friday |
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Oct.
27 |
Strong Size Dependence of the
Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Josephson Junction Arrays |
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Nov. 3 |
James Ewing |
Henry Ford Hospital |
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures
of Cerebral Physiology |
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Nov. 10 |
Dept. Physics,
Oakland
University
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Artifacts,
Assumptions, and Ambiguity: Pitfalls in Comparing Experimental Results to
Numerical Simulations When Studying Electrical Stimulation of the Heart |
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Nov. 17 |
No colloquium |
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Nov. 24 |
Thanksgiving |
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Nov.
29 Tuesday, noon, 225 HHS |
Molecular Basis of Collagen Triple-Helix Stability and Collagen Diseases |
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Dec.
1 |
Protein Folding with a Little Help:
Annealing Action of the Chaperonin Biological Nanomachine |
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Dec.
6 Tuesday, noon, 225 HHS |
Jianwei Shuai |
University of California,
Irvine |
Intracellular
Calcium Signals: Towards a Biologically Realistic Computational Approach |
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Dec.
8 |
Sungchul Hohng |
Univ. Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign |
The Advance in
Single-Molecule Techniques and Their Biological Applications |
Winter
2006
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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Jan. 5 |
Quan Jiang |
MRI and Treatment of Stroke |
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Jan. 12 |
Transbilayer
Asymmetry in the Lipid Distribution and Stability of Nanoscale Lipid Domains |
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Jan.
19 |
Neutrons - The
"Other" Baryon (Neutron Applications in Radiation Oncology) |
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Jan. 26 |
Jiani Hu |
Wayne State University |
Improving Tumor Diagnosis
with Glu, Gln and Cho Metabolites |
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Feb.
2 |
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Feb. 9 |
Aaron Miller |
No Photon Left Behind:
Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Photon Counters |
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Feb. 16 |
St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, St.
Petersburg, Russia |
Generation of Chaotic Spin
Wave Pulses in YIG-film Based Active Devices |
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Feb. 23 |
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Monitoring of Complex Fluid Motion: From Floating Droplets to Swirling Grains |
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March 2 |
No colloquium Winter Recess |
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March
9 in: 93 SEB |
A Renormalization
Group Study of a Quantum Phase Transition in Coupled Spin Chains |
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March 16 |
No colloquium APS March Meeting |
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March
23 in: 93 SEB |
Dept.
Physics, Oakland University
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What is in
common, from Mozzarella Cheese to Tubeless Siphon? |
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March
30 |
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April 6 |
William Pratt |
Spin-Polarized Electron
Transport in Magnetic Multilayers: The Physics of the Read
Head in your Hard Drive and Magnetic RAM |
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April
13 |
Simulation of a Black Hole Collisions |
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April 20 |
G B Stephenson |
Materials Science Division, Argonne National Lab |
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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