Colloquium Schedule
 
For all matters connected with AY 05/06 Colloquia, please contact the Colloquium Chair, Almut Schroeder

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

       Spring 2006
 
Jan 26 Thurs "Coded Aperture Imaging: A New Technique for the Creation of Three-Dimensional Nuclear Images"
Abstract
Prof. John D. Idoine,
Dept of Physics, Kenyon College, Gambier OH
Contact person: Jon Secaur
Feb. 2 Thurs "Probing Charge Transport by Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy"
Abstract
Prof. Jie Shan,
Dept. of Physics, Case Western
Contact person: Brett Ellman

Feb 9, 3 pm Thurs "A Theory for Phase Separation Phenomena in Asymmetric Phospholipid Bilayers Containing Cholesterol"
Abstract
Prof. David Allender,
Dept of Physics, KSU
Feb. 16 4:15, MSB 228 Thurs "Globally Coupled Ginzburg Landau Equations for Electroconvention in Nematic Liquid Crystals"
Abstract
Prof. Gerhard Dangelmayr,
Dept of Mathematics, Colorado State University
Joint colloquium with Dept of Mathematical Sciences

Mar. 2 Thurs "Probing magnetic nanoparticles with neutron scattering methods"
Abstract
Prof. Yumi Ijiri,
Physics and Astronomy Dept., Oberlin College
Contact person: Jim Gleeson

Mar. 16 Thurs NO COLLOQUIUM: APS MARCH MEETING

Mar. 23 Thurs "The Quantum Physics of Options and Future Trading"
Abstract
Dr. Michael Pichowsky,
TransMarket Group LLC
Contact person: Peter Tandy

Mar. 30 Thurs NO COLLOQUIUM: SPRING BREAK

April 13 Thurs "How Physics Education Research can help evaluate laboratory courses"
Abstract
Prof. Gordon Aubrecht,
Dept of Physics, Ohio State
Contact person: Mike Lee

April 20 Thurs "Evidence for a Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC"
Abstract
Prof. John W. Harris,
Dept of Physics, Yale University
Contact person: Spiros Margetis

       Fall 2005
 
Sept. 8 Thurs "Energy landscapes and dynamics in materials and proteins under stress"
Abstract
Prof. Daniel J. Lacks,
Dept of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
Contact person: Elizabeth Mann
Sept.15, 4 pm WMH 111 Thurs "Challenges and Developments in Materials Science of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells"
Prof. Yuriy Tolmachev,
Dept. of Chemistry, KSU
Joint colloquium with Dept of Chemistry

Oct. 3, 3:15 Mon "High-resolution Thermal Studies of Phase Transitions by Adiabatic Scanning Calorimetry and Photothermal Techniques"
Abstract
Prof. Jan Thoen,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Contact person: Satyen Kumar

Oct. 13 Thurs "Xenon: the potion for catching WIMPs?"
Abstract
Prof. Thomas Shutt,
Dept. of Physics, Case Western
Contact person: Brett Ellman

Oct. 19, 3:30 Samsung LCI Wed "Science Informatics and Information Management"
Dr. John Rumble,
Information International Associates, Gaithersburg, MD
Joint colloquium with College of Arts and Sciences

Oct. 24, 4:00 Mon "A Phenomenological p_T Scan of Nuclear Matter Created at RHIC using Charged Kaons"
Abstract
Camelia Mironov,
Physics Dept., KSU
Contact person: Spiros Margetis

Nov. 3 Thurs "Dynamic Wetting by Soluble Surfactant Solutions"
Abstract
Prof. Stephen Garoff,
Dept. of Physics, Carnegie Mellon
Contact person: Elizabeth Mann

Nov. 17 Thurs "Drag in non-Newtonian Fluids"
Abstract
Prof. John R. de Bruyn,
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Contact person: Jim Gleeson

Dec. 1 Thurs "Magnetic fluid pattern formation: The motion of tense current ribbons"
Abstract
Prof. David P. Jackson,
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dickinson College
Contact person: Jim Gleeson

Dec. 8 Thurs "Studies of correlations relative to the reaction plane at RHIC based on transverse deflection of spectator neutrons"
Abstract
Gang Wang,
Physics Dept., KSU
Contact person: Declan Keane