Physics Colloquium, 2006-2007

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

Fall, 2006 

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Sept. 7	Ranjit Pati	Dept Physics, Michigan Technological University	Molecular Spintronics: Fundamental Issues and Opportunities
Sept. 14	Graduate Student Welcome Meeting
Sept. 21	Gavin Lawes	Dept Physics & Astronomy, Wayne State University	Coupled Magnetism and Ferroelectricity in Multiferroic Oxides
Sept. 28	Nicolle Zellner	Dept Physics, Albion College	Impacts in the Earth-Moon System and How They Affect Life on Earth
Oct. 5	Sanjay Khare	Dept Physics & Astronomy, University of Toledo	Some Examples of Theory and Computation in Nano-science
Oct. 12	Brad Roth	Dept Physics, Oakland University	Painless Defibrillation
Oct. 19	Neb Duric	Karmanos Cancer Institute	Detection of Breast Cancer with Ultrasound Tomography: First Results with the Computed Ultrasound Risk Evaluation (C.U.R.E) Prototype
Oct. 26	Ken Elder	Dept Physics, Oakland University	Phase Field Crystal Modeling in Material Science
Nov. 2	Nigel Goldenfeld	Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Patterns, Universality and Computational Algorithms
Nov. 9	Arunava Gupta	Center for Materials for Information Technology, University of Alabama	Half-Metallic Oxides for Spintronics
Nov. 16	Phillip Duxbury	Dept Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University	Characterization and Control of Nanoparticle Structure and Dispersion
Nov. 23	No Colloquium Thanksgiving
Nov. 31	Presentations by Undergraduate Students taking Introductory Physics		Undergraduate Research Festival
Dec. 1 Friday	Alain Karma	Dept Physics, Northeastern University	Nonlinear Dynamics of Cardiac Arrhythmias

Winter 2007

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Jan. 5 Friday	S. O. Demokritov	Institute of Applied Physics, Muenster University	Bose-Einstein Condensation of Quasi-Equilibrium Magnons at Room Temperature under Parametric Pumping
Jan. 11
Jan. 18	Xiaoxu Han	Dept Mathematics, Eastern Michigan University	Cancer Molecular Pattern Discovery by Nonnegative Matrix Factorization based Subspace Kernel Clustering
Jan. 25
Feb. 1
Feb. 8	Vasil Tiberkevich	Dept Physics, Oakland University	Nano-Sized Microwave Oscillators Based on Spin-Torque Effect in Magnetic Multilayers
Feb. 22	Hani Sabbah	Director of Cardiovascular Research, Henry Ford Hospital	Novel Device-Based Therapies for the Treatment of Heart Failure
March 1	No colloquium Winter Recess
March 8	No colloquium APS March Meeting
March 20 Tuesday 376 SEB	Roman Kuranov	Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Medical Branch	Optical Coherence Tomography: Principals and Applications
March 21 Wednesday	Olga Dudko	Mathematical & Statistical Computing Laboratory, National Institutes of Health	Extracting Rates and Activation Free Energies from Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy
March 22 SEB 168	Steve Rehse	Dept Physics & Astronomy, Wayne State University	Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS): a Future Super Star of Atomic Spectrometry and its Application to Biological Systems
March 23 Friday	Guoqiang Li	College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona	Novel Electro-Optic Devices and Systems for Biomedical Applications
March 26 Monday	Pawel Pomorski	Dept Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario	Simulating Matter on the Nanoscale: Interplay Between Quantum and Classical Dynamics Methods
March 29	Evgeniy Khain	The Michigan Center of Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan	Complex Growth Patterns of Invasive Brain Tumors
April 5 SEB 168	Jagdeesh Bandekar	Dow Automotive	Role of Spectroscopy in Bio-Molecular Structure and Conformation
April 12	Katsuyo Thornton	University of Michigan	Evolution of Complex Microstructures
April 19	Zhi-Feng Huang	Dept Physics & Astronomy, Wayne State University	Spatial-Temporal Pattern Evolution in Soft Matter: Nanoscale and Beyond

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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