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.


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Fall Semester ---- Spring Semester ---- Next Colloquium --- Map and info for joint colloquia at BGSU
Current Schedule - Fall Semester 1997
Date Speaker From Title/Topic
04 Sept 1997 [None] -- No Colloquium
11 Sept 1997 Larry Curtis U. Toledo "Probing the Exponential Decay Law by Accelerator Mass Spectroscopy"
18 Sept 1997 
(Joint with BGSU, @UT)
Liwei Xu U. Toledo "Nickel Metal Hydride Battery and its Electric Vehicle Applications"
25 Sept 1997 Tieer Gu OIS "Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Displays"
02 Oct 1997 [None] -- No Colloquium
09 Oct 1997 Bruce Wilking U. Missouri- St. Louis "Deep Infrared Imaging of Molecular Cloud Cores"
16 Oct 1997
(Joint with BGSU, @BGSU, Rm 095, Overman Hall)
Leonard Sander U. Michigan "River Networks: A Landau Theory for Erosion"
23 Oct 1997 Doug Neckers BGSU "3-D Imaging, Rapid Prototyping and the Beginning of a Profitable Small Industry"
30 Oct 1997 Ken Zweibel NREL "Can Photovoltaics Contribute to Reducing the Greenhouse Effect?"
06 Nov 1997 Moshe Elitzur U. Kentucky "IR Diagnostics of Protostellar Disks"
Fri, 07 Nov 1997
2pm, MH 4009
Jim Lawler U. Wisconsin "High Sensitivity Absorption Spectroscopy in Glow Discharge Plasmas"
13 Nov 1997 Dave Zelmon Air Force Research Labs "Nonlinear Optical Materials for Optical Frequency Conversion"
20 Nov 1997
(Joint with BGSU, @UT)
Tom Kvale U. Toledo "Photodetachment of Negative Ions by Visible Wavelength Photons"
27 Nov 1997 [None] -- Thanksgiving Holiday
04 Dec 1997 [None] -- No Colloquium
11 Dec 1997 Tom Statler Ohio U. "Excavating the Dynamical Fossil Record in Elliptical Galaxies"
* = tentative

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


Current Schedule - Spring Semester 1998
Date Speaker From Title/Topic
15 Jan 1998 [None] -- No Colloquium
22 Jan 1998
(Joint with BGSU, @BGSU, Rm 095, Overman Hall
Jon Bjorkman U. Toledo "Rotation and the Shaping of Circumstellar Envelopes"
29 Jan 1998 Don Umstadter U. Michigan "Interactions with High-Intensity Ultrashort-Pulse-Duration Lasers"
Weds, 04 Feb 1998
(NOTE: Cancelled)
Tom Seliga U. Toledo "Critical Coupling of Radio Waves in the Ionosphere - Implications for High Power Heating"
12 Feb 1998 Geoffrey Landis NASA Lewis "Return to the Red Planet: Pathfinder and Future Missions to Mars"
19 Feb 1998 
3:30pm, MH 1005
Note special time! 
(Joint with BGSU, @UT)
Burks Oakley II U. Illinois "The Internet and Higher Education: Silicon and Fiber Replacing Bricks and Mortar" 
26 Feb 1998 [None] -- No Colloquium
05 Mar 1998 Ron Reynolds U. Wisconsin "The Warm Ionized Medium: Early Results from WHAM"
12 Mar 1998 [None] -- Spring Break
19 Mar 1998 
(Joint with BGSU, @BGSU)
Kwong Ng New Mexico State "Parallel Computer Modeling of Cardiac Electrophysiology"
Weds, 25 Mar 1998
(NOTE: Extra Colloquium - Special Day)
Larry Antonuk U. Michigan "Active-Matrix Flat-Panel Imagers (AMFPIs) - A Revolution in Diagnostic X-ray Imaging"
26 Mar 1998 Doug Gies Georgia State "Phi Per and the Fate of Massive Binary Stars"
02 Apr 1998 Katherine Freese U. Michigan "Inflationary Cosmology: from Theory to Observation and Back"
09 Apr 1998 Barbara Whitney U. Wisconsin "Modeling Images of Star Formation"
16 Apr 1998 
(Joint with BGSU, @UT)
Eric Werwa Otterbein College "Quantum Confinement in Semiconductor Nanostructures: From Optoelectronics to Interstellar Dust"
23 Apr 1998
(Turin Lecture)
Maureen Lawrence Technology Marketing Partners "Marketing Yourself in High Tech"
30 Apr 1998 Steve Hegedus U. Delaware "Simple Analysis and Modeling of Amorphous Silicon-based Single and Multiple Junction Solar Cell Current Voltage Performance"
* = tentative

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

NEXT COLLOQ.: 1997-98 Colloquium series is completed


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Last Updated: 30 Apr 1998

Contact: Karen Bjorkman

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