COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
AY 07-08 Colloquium Chair: Khandker F. Quader (quader@scorpio.kent.edu)
All colloquia take place at 4 pm in Smith 110, unless otherwise noted.
FALL 2007 September 13 Thurs "Possible Role of the Primary Cilium as a Flow Sensor"
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Prof. Andrew Resnick,
Case Western
Contact person: John PortmanSeptember 27 Thurs "The Quest for High Transition Temperatures in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors"
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Dr. Florentin Popescu,
Dept. of Physics, Kent State University
Contact person: Khandker Quader
October 18 Thurs "Squeezing CCMV: AFM Nanoindentation Studies of Icosahedral Virusess"
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Prof. Charles Knobler ,
UCLA
ICAM Distinguished Speaker
Joint Physics-Chemistry Colloquium
NOTE: Colloquium Venue: Williams Hall 111
NOTE: Reception: SRL 137 -- 3-4 p.m.
Contact person: Arne Gericke (Chemistry)
October 23 Tues SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
"The Connection between Creativity in Science and the Literary Arts"
Abstract
Dr. Anna Leahy,
Contact person: Bryon Anderson
October 25 Thurs "The Physics of Basketball"
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Dr. John Fontanella,
U.S. Naval Academy
Contact person: Bryon Anderson
Nov 1 Thurs "Hydrodynamics and line tension in Langmuir films at the air-water interface"
Abstract
Lu Zou,
Kent State University
Contact person: Elizabeth Mann
November 8 Thurs "Fermion Pairing with Ultracold Atoms"
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Prof. Randall Hulet,
Sarofim Professor of Physics,
Rice University
Contact Person: Khandker Quader
November 15 Thurs "Phase Transitions and Elastic Properties of Liquid Crystals"
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Prof. Shri Singh,
Banaras Hindu University, India
Contact person: Satyen Kumar
November 22 Thurs
November 29 Thurs "OPEN"
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