2006-07
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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 2006
Date Speaker Affiliation Title or Topic of Talk UT Host
24 Aug 2006 Gavin Lawes  Wayne State University  Coupling charge and spin in magnetoelectric multiferroics S. V. Khare
31 Aug 2006
Joint with BGSU @BGSU		 W. C. Mitchell  Wright Patterson AFB  Structural Characteristics of C nanotubes formed on SiC substrates by surface decomposition  B. Ullrich 
07 Sept 2006 David S. Sholl  Carnegie Mellon University   Using atomically detailed models to accelerate materials discovery for hydrogen purification and storage S. V. Khare  
14 Sept 2006
 Andrey Voevodin  Wright Patterson Air Force Base   Adaptive Nanocomposite Tribological Coatings   S. V. Khare 
21 Sept 2006
Joint with BGSU @UT		 Dean Astumian   University of Maine  The unreasonable effectiveness of equilibrium-like theory for interpreting nonequilibrium experiments V. G. Karpov 
28 Sept 2006
McMaster Cosmology Lecture		 Giovanni Fazio  Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics   Viewing the Universe with Infrared Eyes: Recent Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope  K.S. Bjorkman
05 Oct 2006 Cheng Chin University of Chicago Evidence for Efimov States in an Ultracold Gas of Atoms B. Gao
12 Oct 2006 Rachel S. Goldman  University of Michigan  Tailoring the Nanometer-Scale Structure and Properties of Dilute Semiconductor Alloys  S. V. Khare
19 Oct 2006 Ilya Karpov  Intel Corporation  Chalcogenide phase change memory technology review   V. G. Karpov 
26 Oct 2006
 Robin Selinger Kent State University Liquid crystal elastomers J. G. Amar
02 Nov 2006 J. Christopher Howk University of Notre Dame Studying the Cosmic Evolution of Galaxies through their Gas K.S. Bjorkman
Joint with BGSU @BGSU 09 Nov 2006 F. Szmulowicz University of Dayton InAs/GaSb superlattices for IT detector applications design, growth, and measurement B. Ullrich
16 Nov 2006 Mary Putman University of Michigan Gaseous Building Materials for the Milky Way K.S. Bjorkman
23 Nov 2006 [None] --- Thanksgiving ---
30 Nov 2006
 Jason Owens, Stephanie Rety, and Paul Sell, University of Toledo  Undergraduate Research Talks   S. Cheng
  07 Dec 2006 Fabian Heitsch University of Michigan  Flows, Filaments & Fragmentation: Towards a Dynamic Theory of Star Formation K.S. Bjorkman

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Current Schedule - Spring Semester 2007
Date Speaker Affiliation Title or Topic of Talk UT Hos
11 Jan 2007
Joint with BGSU @UT		 Michael Falk University of Michigan Localization of plastic flow in amorphous solids: developing physical
descriptions of collective atomistic behavior
S.V. Khare 
18 Jan 2007 Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin Ohio State University  Hierarchiacal Ordering at the Nanoscale  S.V. Khare 
25 Jan 2007 Walter Lambrecht Case Western Reserve University   Transition metal and rare-earth nitrides: a new route to magnetic
semiconductors		 S.V. Khare 
01 Feb 2007
 Philip Taylor
 Case Western Reserve University
Famines, Floods, and Physics -- Global Climate Change from a
Physics Perspective
J.G. Amar
08 Feb 2007 None None  No Colloquium  ---
15 Feb 2007
 None  None
No Colloquium
---
22 Feb 2007
Joint with BGSU @BGSU
 Marvin G. Payne  Bowling Green State University
 Interesting Phenomena Related to EIT in Cold Alkali Vapors   B. Ullrich
1 Mar 2007
 Rosa Williams
 University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Infrared Observations of Supernova Remnants in the Magellanic Clouds
S. R. Federman
08 Mar 2007 [None] --- Spring Break
 ---
Monday, 12 Mar 2007
at 3pm in MH 2002
(NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME, ROOM!)
 Ricardo Schiavon
 University of Virginia
 The Star Formation History of Early-Type Galaxies
 S. R. Federman
15 Mar 2007 J.-D. Smith
 University of Arizona  Star Formation, Active Galactic Nuclei, and Dust: A Spitzer View 
 S. R. Federman
Monday, 19 Mar 2007
at 4pm in MH 2002
(NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME, ROOM!)
James Muzerolle
University of Arizona
Probing the Conditions for Planet Formation in Inner Protoplanetary Disks
S. R. Federman
22 Mar 2007
 None*  None
No Colloquium* -
*informal astro seminar
in MH 4009 at 4pm
 K.S. Bjorkman
Monday, 26 Mar 2007
at 4pm in HHS Building, DANA B, Room 1500 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME, PLACE!)
Bruce Parkinson
Colorado State University
A Combinatorial Approach to Solving the
Problem of Solar Water Photoelectrolysis
R.W. Collins
29 Mar 2007 None  None
 No Colloquium
--- 
Monday, 2 Apr 2007
at 4pm in HHS Building, DANA B, Room 1500 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME, PLACE!)
Michael Heben
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Nanoscience for Energy Conversion and Storage
R.W. Collins
05 Apr 2007
Joint with BGSU @UT
 Kevin Marvel  American Astronomical Society
Astronomy and the FY2008 Budget 
 K.S. Bjorkman
12 Apr 2007
David Goodstein  California Institute of Technology
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil S.V. Khare
19 Apr 2007 Robin Shelton  University of Georgia
Observing between the Shadows to See the Hot Gas in Our Galaxy 
 K.S. Bjorkman
26 Apr 2007 Sally Oey  University of Michigan
Parameterizing the Massive Star Population and Recent Highlights on Feedback Effects
K.S. Bjorkman
Monday, 30 Apr 2007
at 3:45pm in MH 1005 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME!)		 Randall Ellingson
 National Renewable Energy Laboratory
 Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Conversion
 S.X. Marsillac
Thursday, 03 May 2007
at 4:00pm in MH 2002 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME, ROOM!)		 Juan Antonio Zapien
 City University of Hong Kong
 Optical Properties of Nanostructures R.W. Collins

-->  NEXT COLLOQUIUM:  Will be in Fall 2007.  Check back here for a schedule in late August 2007!

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: 04 May 2007

Contact: Karen Bjorkman

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