2005-06
Previous Years

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.


Fall Semester ---- Spring Semester ---- Next Colloquium --- Info and map for joint colloquia at BGSU
Current Schedule - Fall Semester 2005
Date Speaker Affiliation Title or Topic of Talk UT Host
25 Aug 2005 Steven Federman University of Toledo Carbon Monoxide Photochemistry in Interstellar Clouds D.G. Ellis
01 Sept 2005 Chris Sneden University of Texas Neutron-Capture Nucleosynthesis in the Early Galaxy: an Observational Perspective S.R. Federman
08 Sept 2005 Jacques Amar University of Toledo Simulating Non-equilibrium Processes on the Nanoscale S.V. Khare
15 Sept 2005
McMaster Cosmology Colloquium 		Gary Steigman Ohio State University The Mystery of the Accelerating Universe S.R. Federman
22 Sept 2005
Joint with BGSU @UT		 Warren Moos
 Johns Hopkins University All about FUSE: The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer S.R. Federman
29 Sept 2005 Nancy Levenson
 University of Kentucky Highly Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei, with Starbursts and Without S.R. Federman
06 Oct 2005 David Stroud Ohio State University Optical Properties of Nanoscale Materials S.V. Khare
13 Oct 2005 Jeffrey Eastman Argonne National Lab In-Situ Synchrotron X-Ray Studies of Early-Stage Oxidation Processes S.V. Khare
20 Oct 2005 Lei Bao
 Ohio State University Research and Development in Physics Education at the Ohio State University S.V. Khare
27 Oct 2005
Joint with BGSU @BGSU		 Patrick Durrell
 Youngstown State University Intracluster Stars: Stars Between the Galaxies Andy Layden
03 Nov 2005 Dick Crutcher
 University of Illinois The Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation S.R. Federman
10 Nov 2005 Mike Mumma NASA GSFC Chemical Diversity among Comets: Implications for Delivery of Water and Pre-biotic Organics to Early Earth P.B. James
17 Nov 2005 Ivan Petrov University of Illinois Advanced Materials Characterization S.V. Khare
24 Nov 2005 [None] --- Thanksgiving ---
01 Dec 2005
Joint with BGSU @BGSU		 Shyam Munshi
 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Employment of the Roosbroeck-Shockley Relation for Photoluminescence Analysis of Heavily Doped GaAs Andy Layden
08 Dec 2005 Ethan Vishniac Johns Hopkins University Making Magnetic Fields: Dynamos in the Nonlinear Regime S.R. Federman

Current Schedule - Spring Semester 2006
Date Speaker Affiliation Title or Topic of Talk UT Host
12 Jan 2006
Joint with BGSU @UT		 Dan Jaffe University of Texas Very Low Mass Brown Dwarfs with Disks S.R. Federman
19 Jan 2006     P&A Undergraduate Research Colloquium T.J. Kvale
26 Jan 2006 Margaret Meixner Space Telescope Science Institute Tracing the Life Cycle of Visible Matter A.N. Witt
02 Feb 2006 Peter M. Hoffmann Wayne State University Adventures in Nanomechanics S.V. Khare
09 Feb 2006     No colloquium S.R. Federman
16 Feb 2006
Joint with BGSU @BGSU		 Gordon Aubrecht Ohio State University How Davis-Besse almost blew its top Andy Layden
20 Feb 2006 in MH 2002. Note special time and place
Lifang Wang Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Type Ia supernovae and our dark universe A. N. Witt
23 Feb 2006 Karl D. Gordon University of Arizona Spitzer Observations of the Aromatic Features in M101 HII Regions and Starbursts A. N. Witt
27 Feb 2006 in MH 2002. Note special time and place
Rupali Chandar Johns Hopkins University The Lives & Deaths of Star Clusters -- Implications for Galaxy Evolution A. N. Witt
09 Mar 2006 [None] --- Spring Break
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16 Mar 2006 Henry Stroke NYU Spectroscopy with Radioactive Atoms S.R. Federman
23 Mar 2006
John Turin
Memorial Lecture
Note special place: UT Law Auditorium		 Robert Pollex Wood County Court of Common Pleas Science and the Law L.J. Curtis
30 Mar 2006 John Stanton University of Texas Thermochemistry is interesing, after all S.R. Federman
06 Apr 2006 S. Kodambaka IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Si Nanowire Growth: An In situ TEM Study S.V. Khare
13 Apr 2006
Joint with BGSU @UT		 Art Voter Los Alamos National Lab Accelerated Dynamics: Methods, Applications and Future Challenges J. Amar
21 Apr 2006,
4:00 p.m. [note special date]		 Gregory Whiffen Jet Propulsion Laboratory Traveling the Solar System Using Ion Engines S.V. Khare
27 Apr 2006 Ratna Naik Wayne State University Raman Spectroscopy for Cancer Detection in Biological Tissues S.V. Khare

Note: Subject to change - check here for the latest schedule.

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BGSU Colloquia

Colloquia at Bowling Green State University are held at 4:00 pm in room 123 Overman Hall. Coffee and donuts are available beforehand at 3:30 pm in room 106 Overman Hall. Both rooms are next to the Physics and Astronomy Dept. office. See the BGSU Campus Map to locate Overman Hall.

Last Updated: 28 March 2006

Contact: Sanjay V. Khare

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