2002-2003

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NEXT COLLOQUIUM ---- Fall Semester ---- Spring Semester --- Map and information for joint colloquia at BGSU.
Current Schedule - Fall Semester 2002
Date Speaker Affiliation Title or Topic of Talk UT/BGSU Host
05 Sept 2002 L. Craig Davis Michigan State University &
Ford Research Laboratories 		Modeling of Traffic R.A. Lukaszew
12 Sept 2002 Victor Zubko NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center		 Toward a Unified Model
for Interstellar Dust		 A.N. Witt
19 Sept 2002
REU Presentations		 Jackie Must
Levi Gorrell
Josh Thomas

Amanda Gault
James Klep 		University of Toledo Clumpy Dust in Reflection Nebula
A Summer of fun with Electroluminescence
Modifying a Charged Particle Array for
use in Photodisintegration Measurements
Constraining Brane Cosmologies thru BBN
Properties of Dwarf Novae Outbursts 		T.J. Kvale
26 Sept 2002
Joint/BGSU @BGSU		 Timothy C. Beers Michigan State University The Origin of Carbon in the Universe R.I. Boughton
03 Oct 2002 Munir H. Nayfeh University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign		 Ultrabright Family of Silicon Nanoparticles:
Towards a Laser on a Chip		 A.N.Witt
10 Oct 2002 Geoffrey Martin Department of Mathematics
University of Toledo		 Is Universe Inflation a Geometric
Phenomenon?		 C.E.Theodosiou
17 Oct 2002
Joint/BGSU @UT		 Verne V. Smith Univ. Texas at El Paso &
McDonald Observatory		 Chemical Evolution Beyond the Milky Way S.R. Federman
24 Oct 2002 No Colloquium Fall Break Week - -
31 Oct 2001 Lowell E. Wenger Wayne State University Studies of Magnetic Nanostructures
Electrodeposited in Hexagonally
Ordered Porous Alumina		 R.A. Lucaszew
07 Nov 2002
Joint/BGSU @BGSU		 Rand R. Biggers Materials & Manufacturing
Directorate: Wright Patterson AFB		 Real-Time Process Control for Recipe-
Driven Pulsed-Laser Deposition		 R.I. Boughton
14 Nov 2002 Carl Heiles Univ. California Berkeley The Warm and the Cold Neutral
Interstellar Media		 S.R. Federman
21 Nov 2002 Daniel Savin Columbia University Atomic Physics at High Redshift
Near Black Holes		 L. J. Curtis
28 Nov 2002 [None] -- [Thanksgiving Holiday] --
5 Dec 2002
Open Date
President Johnson's Reception
for Faculty and Staff
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12 Dec 2002 Mark Yeadon Institute of Materials Research &
Engineering (IMRE), Singapore, and
Dept.of Materials Science, Natl.Univ.
of Singapore (NUS) 		Microstructural Evolution in
Thin Films and Nanoparticles:
UHV in-situ TEM Studies		 R.A. Lukaszew

Spring Semester 2003
Date Speaker Affiliation Title or Topic of Talk UT Host
23 Jan 2003
Joint/BGSU@UT		 Larry Curtis University of Toledo Atomic Oscillator Strengths:
Progress and Future Challenges		 L.J. Curtis
30 Jan 2003 Gordon Berry University of Notre Dame Measurements of Parity
Nonconserving Effects in Cs and
the value of the Weak Charge QW 		L.J. Curtis
06 Feb 2003 Alexander Shik Energenius Centre for Advanced
Nanotechnology, Univ.of Toronto		 Electrodynamics of
Low-Dimensional Structures		 V. Karpov
13 Feb 2003 Sara Majetich Carnegie-Mellon Studies of Highly Monodisperse
Nanoparticles		 P.B. James
20 Feb 2003
Joint/BGSU@UT		 Rajiv Arya Executive Director, Thin Film
Technology, BP Solar		 Thin-Film Solar Cells: Science,
Technology and Applications		 A.D. Compaan
24 Feb 2003
Special Colloquium		 Hans Werner
Schock		 University of Stuttgart Thin-Film Technology for
Future Photovoltaic Cells		 A.D. Compaan
27 Feb 2003 Robert Stein Michigan State University Solar Surface Dynamics L.S.Anderson-Huang
06 Mar 2003 Robert Collins Dept.of Physics, Materials Res.Inst.
& Center for Thin Film Devices,
Pennsylvania State Univ.		 From Mueller Matrices
to Phase Diagrams		 A.D. Compaan
13 Mar 2003 [None] -- [Spring Break] --
20 Mar 2003 Toni Evans River Valley High School
Marion, Ohio		 Measuring the Speed of
Sound as a function of Gases		 A. Lukaszew
27 Mar 2003 Susan Wyckoff Arizona State University Is our Dominant Teaching
Paradigm Outmoded?		 B.W. Bopp
03 April 2003 Wolfgang Bauer Michigan State University Phase Transitions in the Smallest
and the Largest Systems in Nature 		L.S.Anderson-Huang
10 Apr 2002 John B. Hunt Acting Assistant Director for
Mathematical & Physical Sciences
National Science Foundation		 NOTICE:
Cancelled due to rescheduling
of Congressional Hearings		 C.E. Theodosiou
17 Apr 2003
Joint/BGSU@BGSU		 Raoul Schroeder Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom		 Solution Processed Gate
Dielectrics for Cheap,
Disposable Organic Electronics		 G.C. Duncan
24 Apr 2003 Jon Bjorkman University of Toledo Photon Billiards in
Astrophysical Disks		 L.J. Curtis
01 May 2002 Lynne Valencic Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Louisiana State University 		A Database of Reddened
Sightlines in the Galaxy		 A.N. Witt
NEXT COLLOQUIUM: Fall 2003

Academic Year 2002-2003 complete - Next year's program will be posted here in August 2003.

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Last Updated: 1 May 2003

Contact: L.J. Curtis

E-Mail Address: ljc@physics.utoledo.edu