Colloquia of the University of Toledo Department of Physics and Astronomy are normally held on Thursdays at 4:00pm in McMaster Hall, Room 1005 (MH 1005). Coffee and refreshments are available beforehand at 3:30pm in MH 4009. 

For information on other seminars within the department, check here.

Current Schedule - Fall Semester 2003

Date:        4 September 2003
Speaker:     [No colloquium]
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     _____
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Date:        11 September 2003
Speaker:     Bo Gao 
Affiliation: University of Toledo
Title/Topic: Cold-Atom Physics
Contact:     V. Karpov
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Date:        18 September 2003
Speaker:     Christopher Shove
Affiliation: Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Toledo
Title/Topic: Geographic Information Systems:  A Tool for Planetary Science?
Contact:     N. D. Morrison
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Date:        25 September 2003
Speaker:     Karen S. Bjorkman
Affiliation: University of Toledo
Title/Topic: Circumstellar Disks: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Contact:     V. Karpov
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Date:        2 October 2003
Speaker:     Rui-hua Xie
Affiliation: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Title/Topic: Heterofullerene World: Nanoelectronics and Luminescence
Contact:     Bo Gao
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Date:        9 October 2003
Speaker:     James R. Sites
Affiliation: Colorado State University
Title/Topic: Loss Analysis of Thin-Film Polycrystalline Solar Cells
Contact:     V. Karpov
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Date:        16 October 2003
Speaker:     Joshua Thomas,  Jacquelyn Must,  Patricia Gallant,  Nicholas Sperling
Affiliation: University of Toledo
Title/Topic: REU Colloquium
Contact:     T. J. Kvale
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Next Colloquium
Date:        23 October 2003
Speaker:     Dean Astumian
Affiliation: University of Maine
Title/Topic: Making Molecules Into Motors: How to Swim in Molasses and Walk in a
              Hurricane
Contact:     V. Karpov
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Date:        30 October 2003 --- Joint, at BGSU
Speaker:     TBA
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     BGSU
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Date:        6 November 2003
Speaker:     Brian Stephenson
Affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory
Title/Topic: In-Situ X-ray Studies of Ferroelectricity in Ultrathin PbTiO3 Films
Contact:     V. Karpov
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Date:        13 November 2003
Speaker:     Jeff Eastman
Affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory
Title/Topic: Thermal Conductivity in Nanostructured Materials
Contact:     V. Karpov
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Date:        20 November 2003
Speaker:     Talat Rahman
Affiliation: Kansas State University
Title/Topic: TBA
Contact:     J. Amar
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Date:        27 November 2003
Speaker:     [None]
Affiliation: --
Title/Topic: [Thanksgiving Holiday]
Contact:     --
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Date:        4 December 2003 
Speaker:     Alex Efros
Affiliation: Naval Research Laboratory
Title/Topic: TBA
Contact:     V. Karpov
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Date:        11 December 2003
Speaker:     Michael Raikh
Affiliation: University of Utah
Title/Topic: Random systems
Contact:     V. Karpov

Date:        15 January 2004
Speaker:     Timothy C. Mueser
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Toledo
Title/Topic: Structural Biology and the Ohio Macromolecular Crystallography Consortium
Contact:     V. Karpov
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Date:        22 January 2004
Speaker:     TBA
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     
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Date:        29 January 2004 Joint/BGSU @UT
Speaker:     Faculty Candidate 1 (tentative)
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     K. S. Bjorkman
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Date:        5 February 2004
Speaker:     Faculty Candidate 2 (tentative)
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     K. S. Bjorkman
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Date:        12 February 2004
Speaker:     Faculty Candidate 3 (tentative)
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     K. S. Bjorkman
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Date:        19 February 2004 
Speaker:     Faculty Candidate 4 (tentative)
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     K. S. Bjorkman
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Date:        26 February 2004
Speaker:     TBA
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     V. Karpov
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Date:        4 March 2004
Speaker:     TBA
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     
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Date:        11 March 2004
Speaker:     [None]
Affiliation: --
Title/Topic: [Spring Break]
Contact:     --
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Date:        18 March 2004
Speaker:     TBA
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     
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Date:        25 March 2004
Speaker:     TBA
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     
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Date:        1 April 2004
Speaker:     TBA
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     
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Date:        8 April 2004
Speaker:     TBA
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     
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Date:        15 April 2004 
Speaker:     TBA
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     
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Date:        22 April 2004
Speaker:     TBA
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     
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Date:        22 April 2004
Speaker:     TBA
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     Host 13
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Date:        6 May 2004
Speaker:     TBA
Affiliation: _____
Title/Topic: _____
Contact:     

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Last Updated: Sunday, October 19, 2003

Contact: 
N. D. Morrison