Physics Colloquium, 2007-2008

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

Fall, 2007 

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Sept. 13	Stephen Robinson	Henry Ford Hospital	The Inverse Problem in MEG and the Minimum-Variance Beamformer
Sept. 20	Society of Physics Students Meet & Greet
Oct. 4	Clement Burns	Physics Dept, Western Michigan University	X-ray Studies of Electronic Interactions in Expanded Metals
Oct. 11	Brian Marples	Department of Radiation Oncology, William Beaumont Hospital	Radiation Biology, Clinical Radiotherapy and Risk Assessments: A Resurgence of Interest
Oct. 18	Eugene Kim	Dept Physics, University of Windsor	From the "Theory of Dirt" to the "Theory of Everything" in a Carbon Nanotube
Oct. 25	Jeff Hoyt	McMaster University	From Atoms to Dendrites
Nov. 1	Cameron Reed	Dept Physics, Alma College	Dissecting a 20^th-Century Revolution: A Simple Model for the Physics of the Critical Mass of a Nuclear Weapon
Nov. 8	Simon Billinge	Department of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University	Materials Structure in the Nano-world: The Nanostructure Problem and Some Efforts to Solve it
Nov. 15	Keith Riles	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	The Hunt for Gravitational Waves: Latest Results from LIGO
Nov. 22	No Colloquium Thanksgiving
Nov. 29	Luis Hernandez	Functional MRI Laboratory, University of Michigan	Arterial Spin Labeling in Functional MRI
Dec. 6	Chris Pearson	Dept. of Computer Science, Engineering Science, and Physics, University of Michigan-Flint	Morphological Evolution and Surface Reconstruction in Strained III-V Semiconductor Films

Winter 2008

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Jan. 17	Alexei Tkachenko	Dept. Physics, University of Michigan	Nanoparticles With Key-Lock Interactions: From Self-Assembly to Drug Delivery
Jan. 24
Jan. 31	Michael Falk	Dept. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan	Do Glasses Have a Structural Temperature?
Feb. 7
Feb. 14	George Wilson	Radiation Biology, William Beaumont Hospital	Biologically Adapted Radiation Treatment
Feb. 21	Donald Morelli	Dept Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Michigan State University	Research on New Thermoelectric Materials: from Seeds to Saplings
Feb. 28	No colloquium Winter Recess
March 6 SEB 337	Eugene Surdutovich	Dept Physics, Oakland University	Physics of Hadron-Beam Cancer Therapy
March 13	No colloquium APS March Meeting
March 20 SEB 337	Maksym A. Popov	National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv	Surface Magnetostatic Oscillations in Ferromagnetic Resonators of Elliptic Cross-Section
March 27
April 3 SEB 337	Constantine Demetropoulos	Harold W. Gehring, M.D. Center for Biomechanics and Implant Analysis, William Beaumont Hospital	Uses of 6 Passive Degree of Freedom Pure Moment Testing in Orthopaedics Biomechanics: Testing Methodology and Implementation
April 10	Ernie Pan	Dept. of Civil Engineering, The University of Akron	Some Fundamental Problems in Layered Magnetoelectroelastic Structures
April 17	Mark Dykman	Dept. Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Metastable Decay Via Quantum Activation

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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