COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
AY 08-09 Colloquium Chair: Almut SchroederAll colloquia take place at 4:30 pm in Smith 110, unless otherwise noted.
SUMMER 2009 July 7 Tues "Torque and Magnetization Measurements on Heavy Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn5"
Abstract
Hong Xiao
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Carmen Almasan
3:30 p.m. Room 137 SRL
July 14 Mon "Magnetization and transport study of strongly disordered weak itinerant ferromagnets"
Abstract
Sara Ubaid Kassis
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Almut Schroeder
2:00 p.m. Room 137 SRL
July 24 Fri "Spin Fluctuations and non-Fermi liquid behavior close to a quantum critical point in CeNi2Ge2"
Abstract
Bilal Zoghbi
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Almut Schroeder
11:00 a.m. Room 137 SRL
July 27 Mon "Crystal Growth and Charge Carrier Transport in Liquid Crystals and Other Novel Organic Semiconductors"
Abstract
Chandra Pokhrel
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Brett Ellman
3:00 p.m. Room 137 SRL
Aug. 3 Mon "The Interplay Between Magnetism and Superconductivity in Strongly Correlated Material"
Abstract
Tao Hu
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Carmen Almasan
2:00 p.m. Room 137 SRL
SPRING 2009 TBA Thurs "Liquid Crystal Alignment at Surfaces with Anisotropic Morphology"
Abstract
Dena Agra-Kooijman
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Satyen Kumar
Feb 12 Thurs "Liquid crystals and other partially ordered materials in solid pharmaceuticals"
Abstract
Prof. Evgenyi Shalaev
Groton Laboratories
Pfizer Inc
Contact person: Satyen Kumar
Feb 19 Thurs "Parton distribution modifications and hadron production in d+Au nuclear collisions"
Abstract
Adeola Adeluyi
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: George Fai
Feb 26 Thurs "Electroconventive patterns in nematic liquid crystals"
Abstract
Gyanu Acharya
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Jim Gleeson
March 5 Thurs "Gravitational Waves and Multimessenger Astrophysics"
Abstract
Prof. Szabolcs Marka
Department of Physics
Columbia University
Contact person: George Fai
April 9 Thurs "From Heavy-Ion Collision to Positron Emission Tomography"
Abstract
Prof. Yiping Shao
Department of Imaging Physics
University of Texas
Contact person: Declan Keane
April 16 Thurs "X-ray Study of Mesomorphism of Bent-Core and Chromonic Mesogens"
Abstract
Leela Joshi
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Satyendra Kumar
FALL 2008 Sept 4, 4:30pm Thurs "Influence of cooperativity on the protein folding mechanism"
Abstract
Xianghong Qi
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: John Portman
Sept 11 Thurs "P-wave Pairing with Mismatched Fermi Surfaces Close to Feshbach Resonance"
Abstract
Renyuan Liao
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Khandker Quader
Sept 18 4:00pm Thurs "Phase transitions and disorder: From Harris criterion to infinite randomness and smearing"
Abstract
Prof. Thomas Vojta
Department of Physics
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Contact person: Almut Schroeder
Oct 9 Thurs "Nuclear matter at high temperatures: from large scale numerical simulations to heavy ion collisions"
Abstract
Prof. Peter Petreczky
Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Contact person: George Fai
Oct 16 Thurs "Modeling the physics of polymer fuel cell membranes"
Abstract
Prof. Phil Taylor
Department of Physics
Case Western Reserve University
Contact person: Elizabeth Mann
Oct 23 Thurs "Structure and Interactions of Fully Hydrated, Fluid Phase Lipid Membranes with HIV Peptide and Cholesterol Additives"
Abstract
Prof. Stephanie Tristram-Nagle
Biological Physics Group, Physics Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Contact person: Edgar Kooijman
Nov 6 Thurs "Controlling Vortices in Superconductors: Ratchets and Qubits"
Abstract
Prof. Britton Plourde
Department of Physics
Syracuse University
Contact person: John Portman
Nov 13 Thurs "Novel solid-state coolers based on thermoacoustic principles"
Abstract
Matt Hilt
Penn State
Contact person: Bryon Anderson
Nov 20 Thurs "The role of student characteristics in the learning of force and motion concepts"
Abstract
Prof. Sue Ramlo
Department of Engineering and Science Technology
University of Akron
Contact person: Declan Keane
Dec 11 Thurs "Quark Dynamics and Constituent Masses in Heavy Quark Systems"
Abstract
Nicholas Souchlas
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Peter Tandy
SUMMER 2008 July 10, 4pm Thurs "What constitutes the 'Broader Impact' of research and how to make it strong?"
Abstract
Prof. Satyendra Kumar
Department of Physics and Research and Graduate Studies
Kent State University
July 16, 2:30pm Wed "Anchoring of Liquid Crystal and Dynamics of Molecular Exchange between Adsorbed LC Film and the Bulk"
Abstract
Rui Guo
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Satyen Kumar
