2003-2004

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.

For information on the Turin Awards, check here. (Includes audio)

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NEXT COLLOQUIUM ---- Fall Semester ---- Spring Semester --- Fall Semester 2004 --- Map and information for joint colloquia at BGSU.
Current Schedule - Fall Semester 2003
Date Speaker Affiliation Title or Topic of Talk UT/BGSU Host
04 Sept 2003 (None) _____ _____ _____
11 Sept 2003 Bo Gao University of Toledo Cold-Atom Physics V. Karpov
18 Sept 2003
Joint/BGSU
@UT		 Christopher Shove Department of Geography and Planning
University of Toledo		 Geographic Information Systems:
A Tool for Planetary Science?		 N. D. Morrison
25 Sept 2003 Karen S. Bjorkman University of Toledo Circumstellar Disks: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? V. Karpov
02 Oct 2003 Rui-hua Xie National Institute of Standards and Technology Heterofullerene World: Nanoelectronics and Luminescence Bo Gao
09 Oct 2003 James R. Sites Colorado State University Loss Analysis of Thin-Film Polycrystalline Solar Cells V. Karpov
16 Oct 2003 Joshua Thomas,
Jacquelyn Must,
Patricia Gallant,
Nicholas Sperling 		REU Program
University of Toledo		 A Design and Performance Study of Electrostatic Faraday Cup Detectors
The Effects of Clumpy Dust on Hubble's Law
for Reflection Nebulae
Part Geometry in OOMMF Simulations on Nickel
Micromagnetic Thin Film Simulations and Low Cost Scanning Tunneling Microscopy		 T. Kvale
23 Oct 2003 Dean Astumian University of Maine Making Molecules Into Motors: How to Swim in Molasses and Walk in a Hurricane V. Karpov
30 Oct 2003
Joint/BGSU@BG
Room 220 Mathematical Sciences Building
Refreshments:
3:30 p.m. Room 106 Overman Hall		 Ronald Scherer
Department of Communication Disorders
and
Lewis Fulcher
Department of Physics and Astronomy 		Bowling Green State University Physical and Two-Mass Models of Phonation -- Application of Empirical Data to Realistic Predictions of Glottal Flow and Vocal Fold Motion L. Fulcher
06 Nov 2003 Brian Stephenson Argonne National Laboratory In-Situ X-ray Studies of Ferroelectricity in Ultrathin PbTiO3 Films V. Karpov
13 Nov 2003 Xiche Hu Department of Chemistry
University of Toledo		 Interactions of Carotenoid with Chlorophyll:  Light Harvesting, Photoprotection and Structural Stabilization V. Karpov
20 Nov 2003
Joint/BGSU
@UT		 Talat Rahman Kansas State University Physics at the Nanoscale: Promising Fact or Fiction? J. Amar
27 Nov 2003 [None] -- [Thanksgiving Holiday] --
4 Dec 2003
Alex Efros
 Naval Research Laboratory Electron Spin Manipulation in Semiconductor Nanostructures V. Karpov
11 Dec 2003 Michael Raikh University of Utah Strongly Localized Photon Mode at the Intersection of the Phase Slips in 2D Periodic Structure Without a Bandgap V. Karpov



Spring Semester 2004

Date Speaker Affiliation Title or Topic of Talk UT Host
15 Jan 2004 Timothy C. Mueser Department of Chemistry
University of Toledo 		Structural Biology and the Ohio Macromolecular Crystallography Consortium V. Karpov
22 Jan 2004
Joint/BGSU@UT		 Peter Voorhees Northwestern University The Evolution and Self Assembly of Quantum Dots on Surfaces V. Karpov
29 Jan 2004 [None] _____ _____ K. S. Bjorkman
05 Feb 2004 [None] _____ _____ K. S. Bjorkman
12 Feb 2004 Faculty Candidate 3
(tentative)		 _____ _____ K. S. Bjorkman
19 Feb 2004
Joint/BGSU@UT		 Faculty Candidate 4
(tentative)		 _____ _____ K. S. Bjorkman
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, MH 4009 (note change of day and location) Otwin Breitenstein Max-Planck-Institute of Microstructure Physics Imaging Inhomogeneities of the Current Flow in Solar Cells by Lock-in Thermography V. Karpov
04 Mar 2004 Michael R. Combi Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
The University of Michigan 		John J. Turin Award Colloquium
The Activity of Fragmenting Comets		 L. J. Curtis
11 Mar 2004 [None] -- [Spring Break] --
NOTE CHANGE OF DAY AND TIME:
15 Mar 2004
3:00 PM		 Rampi Ramprasad Motorola, Inc. Theoretical Studies of Advanced Nano- & Micro-scale Materials P. B. James
18 Mar 2004 Kyunghwa Park Naval Research Laboratory First-Principles Calculations on Single-Molecule Nanomagnets P. B. James
25 Mar 2004 Megan Donahue Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University Cosmology with Clusters N. D. Morrison
NOTE CHANGE OF DAY:
Fri., 26 Mar 2004		 Caty Pilachowski Indiana University Heavy Metal from Ancient Superstars N. D. Morrison
NOTE CHANGE OF DAY AND TIME:
Tue., 30 Mar 2004
3:30		 Traian Dumitrica Dept of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
Rice University		 Modeling and Simulation of Nanoscale Material Structures: Carbon, Boron Nitride, and Silicon Nanotubes P. B. James
01 Apr 2004 Sanjay Khare Dept of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		 Theory and Computation in Nano-Science P. B. James
08 Apr 2004 Cristian Ciobanu Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering,
Brown University		 Self-assembly of Nanostructures on Silicon Surfaces P. B. James
15 Apr 2004
Joint/BGSU@BGSU		 Constantine Deliyannis Indiana University The Light Element Probes of Stellar Interiors and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis R. I. Boughton
22 Apr 2004 James E. Neff College of Charleston Magnetic Activity and the Stellar-Solar-Terrestrial Connection K. S. Bjorkman
29 Apr 2004 Adam Frank University of Rochester Disks, Planets, Jets and Clumps: Computational Astrophysics and Star Formation Ecology N. D. Morrison



Fall Semester 2004

Date Speaker Affiliation Title or Topic of Talk UT Host
NEXT COLLOQUIUM:
26 Aug 2004 		Steven R. Federman Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Toledo 		TBA N. D. Morrison
2 Sep 2004 Toh-Ming Lu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TBA J. G. Amar
9 Sep 2004 Xunming Deng
(tentative) 		Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Toledo 		TBA N. D. Morrison

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Colloquia at Bowling Green State University are held in room 123 Overman Hall at 4:00 PM. The coffee and donuts are in room 106 Overman Hall, starting at 3:30. Both rooms are contiguous to the Phyhsics and Astronomy Dept. office.

Last Updated: Sunday, May 9, 2004

Contact: N. D. Morrison

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