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
