Physics Colloquium, 2005-2006

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

 

Fall, 2005 

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Sept. 8

Andrei Slavin

Dept. Physics,

Oakland University

Spin Wave Mode Excited by Spin-Polarized Current in a Magnetic

Nano-Contact is a Standing Self-Localized Wave Bullet

Sept. 15

Scott Pratt

Dept. Physics, Michigan State University

Melting the Vacuum with Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Sept. 22

George Martins

Dept. Physics,

Oakland University

Transport Properties of Strongly Correlated Electrons in Quantum Dots Using a Simple Circuit Model

Sept. 29

Yuri Sikorski

Science and Mathematics Dept., Kettering University

Use of Femto-Second Lasers for

Fabrication of Photonic and Micro-Fluidic Devices

Oct. 6

Valeri Petkov

Dept. Physics, Central Michigan University

Structure of Nanocrystals by X-ray Diffraction

Oct. 13

Meigan Aronson

Dept. Physics, University of Michigan

Quantum Criticality and Zero Temperature Phase Transitions

Oct. 21

Friday

Yunzhi Wang

Materials Science and Engineering,

Ohio State University

Microscopic Phase Field Modeling of Shear-Dominated Processes during Phase Transformation and Plastic Deformation

Oct. 27

Sung Chung

Dept. Physics, Western Michigan University

Strong Size Dependence of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Josephson Junction Arrays

Nov. 3

James Ewing

Henry Ford Hospital

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures of Cerebral Physiology

Nov. 10

Brad Roth

Dept. Physics,

Oakland University

Artifacts, Assumptions, and Ambiguity: Pitfalls in Comparing Experimental Results to Numerical Simulations When Studying Electrical Stimulation of the Heart

Nov. 17

No colloquium

 

 

Nov. 24

No colloquium

Thanksgiving

 

 

Nov. 29

Tuesday, noon, 225 HHS

Anton Persikov

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Molecular Basis of Collagen Triple-Helix Stability and Collagen Diseases

Dec. 1

George Stan

National Institutes of Health

Protein Folding with a Little Help: Annealing Action of the Chaperonin Biological Nanomachine

Dec. 6

Tuesday, noon, 225 HHS

Jianwei Shuai

University of California, Irvine

Intracellular Calcium Signals: Towards a Biologically Realistic Computational Approach

Dec. 8

Sungchul Hohng

Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The Advance in Single-Molecule Techniques and Their Biological Applications

 

 

Winter 2006

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Jan. 5

Quan Jiang

Department of Neurology,

Henry Ford Hospital

MRI and Treatment of Stroke

Jan. 12

Mohamed Laradji

Dept. Physics, University of Memphis

Transbilayer Asymmetry in the Lipid Distribution and Stability of Nanoscale Lipid Domains

Jan. 19

Jay Burmeister

Wayne State University

Neutrons - The "Other" Baryon (Neutron Applications in Radiation Oncology)

Jan. 26

Jiani Hu

Wayne State University

Improving Tumor Diagnosis with Glu, Gln and Cho Metabolites

Feb. 2

 

 

 

Feb. 9

Aaron Miller

Dept. Physics, Albion College

No Photon Left Behind: Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Photon Counters

Feb. 16

Boris Kalinikos

St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Generation of Chaotic Spin Wave Pulses in YIG-film Based Active Devices

Feb. 23

Siegfried Stapf

RWTH Aachen University

 

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Monitoring of Complex Fluid Motion: From Floating Droplets to Swirling Grains

March 2

No colloquium

Winter Recess

 

 

March 9

in: 93 SEB

Samuel Moukouri

Dept. Physics,

University of Michigan

A Renormalization Group Study of a Quantum Phase Transition in Coupled Spin Chains

March 16

No colloquium

APS March Meeting

 

 

March 23

in: 93 SEB

Yang Xia

Dept. Physics, Oakland University

What is in common, from Mozzarella Cheese to Tubeless Siphon?

March 30

 

 

 

April 6

William Pratt

Dept. Physics, Michigan State University

Spin-Polarized Electron Transport in Magnetic Multilayers:

The Physics of the Read Head in your Hard Drive and Magnetic RAM

April 13

Frans Pretorius

Dept. Physics, University of Alberta

Simulation of a Black Hole Collisions

April 20

G B Stephenson

Materials Science Division,

Argonne National Lab

X-ray Studies of Ferroelectricity in Ultrathin Films

 

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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