Colloquium Schedule
 

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

AY - 2001/2002
Sep 20 Thurs

"The Neutron Structure Function - 30 years after"       Abstract
Makis Petratos, Department of Physics, Kent State University
gpetrato@kent.edu

Sep 27 Thurs

"Signals of Quark Matter in Neutron Stars"       Abstract
Fridolin Weber, Department of Physics, Notre Dame University
fweber@nd.edu
Contact person: Peter Tandy

Oct 18 Thurs

"Liquid Crystals and Scanning Probe Nanolithography"       Abstract
Charles Rosenblatt, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University
cxr@po.cwru.edu
Contact person: Elizabeth Mann

Oct 25 Thurs

"A Glance over the First RHIC Results"       Abstract
Matthias Messer, Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory
mm@bnl.gov
Contact person: Spiros Margetis

Nov 1 Thurs

"High Resolution X-Ray Scattering Studies of Critical Behavior at the Nematic to Smectic - A Transition"       Abstract
Andrew Primak, Department of Physics, Kent State University
aprimak@kent.edu
Contact person: Satyendra Kumar

Nov 5 Mon

"Magnetotransport Properties of Antiferromagnetic Yba_2Cu_30_{6.25} Single Crystals"       Abstract
Elena Cimpoiasu, Department of Physics, Kent State University
ecimpoiasu@kent.edu
Contact person: Carmen Almasan

Nov 8 Thurs

"Muon g-2 Experiments and its Implications for Supersymmetry and CP-violation"       Abstract
Yannis Semertzidis, Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory
yannis@bnl.gov
Contact person: Spiros Margetis

Jan 10 Thurs

"Composite Fragment Production in AGS Experiment E895"       Abstract
Richard Witt, Department of Physics, Kent State University
witt@cnr2.kent.edu
Contact person: Declan Keane

Jan 24 Thurs

"Molecular Chromophores for Photonic Applications - Design and Characterization"      
R. Wortmann, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Contact person: Bob Tweig, Chemistry

Jan 31 Thurs "Quark Gluon Plasma searches in NA49 experiment"
Peter Seyboth, Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany
pxs@mppmu.mpg.de
Contact person: Spiros Margetis      

Feb 14 Thurs

"High PT Measurements at RHIC"       Abstract
Gerd Kunde, Department of Physics, Yale University
kunde@star.physics.yale.edu
Contact person: Spiros Margetis

Apr 26 Thurs

"Copyright, Copyleft and Patents"       Abstract
Satyen Kumar, Department of Physics, Kent State University
satyen@xray.kent.edu

Feb 25 Mon

"Charged Kaon Production at s1/2 = 130 GeV"       Abstract
Wensheng Deng, Department of Physics, Kent State University
wdeng@bnl.gov
Contact person: Spiros Margetis

Feb 28 Thurs

"The Physics of Sailing"       Abstract
Bryon Anderson, Department of Physics, Kent State University
anderson@hpacq.kent.edu

Mar 4 Mon

"Ultrathin PDMS films: Microstructure and Metastability"       Abstract
Svetlana Primak, Department of Physics, Kent State University
sprimak@kent.edu
Contact person: Elizabeth Mann

Mar 5 3:30pm MSB 228 Tues

"Whirling Elastica and Bistable Helices: Twist and Writhe in Cellular Biophysics"       Abstract
Raymond E. Goldstein, Department of Physics and Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona Jointly Sponsored with the Biology and Computer Sc.

Mar 6 3:30pm LCI 101 Wed

"Experimental Study on Deformable Objects in Fluid Flows"       Abstract
Jun Zhang, Department of Physics, City University of New York
Jointly Sponsored with LCI

Mar 7 Thurs "Ferromagnetic Metals: Why are they Superconductors" Abstract
Kevin Bedell, Department of Physics, Boston College
bedell@bc.edu
Contact person: Khandker Quader      

Mar 29 Fri

"Elliptic Flow in Au+Au Collisions at (sNN)1/2=130 GeV"       Abstract
Aihong Tang, Department of Physics, Kent State University
Contact person: Declan Keane

Apr 3 Wed

"Liquid crystal Growth at Interfaces"       Abstract
X. Liu, Department of Physics, Kent State University
Contact person: Daniele Finotello

Apr 4 Thurs

"The Chiral Phase Transition in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions"       Abstract
J. Randrup, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
randrup@lbl.gov
Contact person: George Fai

Apr 11 Thurs

"Quantum Critical Points: How do Electrons lose their Integrity"       Abstract
Piers Coleman, Department of Physics, Rutgers University
Contact person: Khandker Quader

Apr 25 Thurs

"Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory"       Abstract
E. Norman, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
EBNorman@lbl.gov
Contact person: Spiros Margetis

July 11 Thurs

"Short-Range Nucleon-Nucleon Correlations from 12C(p,2p+n)"      
An Tang, Kent State University
atang1@kent.edu
Contact person: John Watson