COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE 

AY 09-10 Colloquium Chair: John Portman (jportman@kent.edu)
 

All colloquia take place at 4:30 pm in Smith 110, unless otherwise noted.

FALL 2009
Oct 1 Thurs

"Photoproduction of Neutral Kaons on Deuterium"
Abstract
Kabi Bantawa
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Mark Manley


Oct 8 Thurs

"Icicles, washboard road and meandering syrup"
Abstract
Prof. Stephen Morris
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Contact person: Peter Palffy-Muhoray/Jim Gleeson

Note time and place
Joint LCI/Physics Colloquium
4:00 p.m. Samsung Auditorium (LCI)


Oct 15 Thurs.

"Reversing the Arrow of Time: Materials that Come Back to Life"
Abstract
Prof. Mark Kuzyk
Department of Physics
Washington State University
Contact person: Bob Tweig/John Portman

Note time and place
Joint Chemistry/Physics Colloquium
3:30 p.m. Room 110 WMH


Oct 29 Thurs.

"Dynamic Cell Geometry in E. coli: Effects on Min-protein Oscillations"
Abstract
Jason Ellis
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Khanker Quader


Nov 19 Thurs

Some Insights into the Physics of Graphene Nanoribbons
Abstract
Prof. Nancy Sandler
Department of Physics
Ohio University
Contact person: Khanker Quader


Nov 24 Tues.

"Aspects of Non-perturbative QCD for Meson Physics"
Abstract
Trang Nguyen
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Peter Tandy

Note time: 4:00

Apr 29 Thurs.

"Observation of pattern formation in Langmuir films made of chiral lipid molecules, through Brewster angle microscope"
Abstract
Prem Basnet
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Elizabeth Mann


Jun. 24 Thurs.

"Statistical mechanics of polar, biaxial and chiral order in liquid crystals"
Abstract
Subas Dhakal
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Dave Allender

Note time: 3:00

Jul. 29 Thurs.

"Conformational Transition Mechanisms of Flexible Proteins"
Abstract
Swarnendu Tripathi
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: John Portman

Note time: 4:00

Aug. 5 Thurs.

"Non-photonic electron distributions at pseudo-rapidities between 1.1 and 1.5 in proton-proton collisions at √s=200 GeV at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider"
Abstract
Naresh Subba
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Bryon Anderson

Note time: 4:00