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 1998
Date Speaker Affiliation Title or Topic of Talk Contact
27 August 1998 [None] -- [No Colloquium] --

03 Sept 1998 		Louis Brus Columbia University Semiconductor nanocrystals Amar
10 Sept 1998 Armand Delsemme The University of Toledo "Deuterium Enrichment Observed in Recent Comets Is Consistent with the Cometary Origin of Sea Water" Morrison
17 Sept 1998 
(Joint with BGSU)		 Benjamin Schumacher Department of Physics, Kenyon College "Qubits and quantum information" Amar
24 Sept 1998 Albert-László Barabási Notre Dame "Self-assembled Dislocation-Free Island Formation: An Equilibrium Theory" Amar
29 Sept 1998
3:15 PM
MH 4009
Note change of day, time, and room! 		Marek Trippenbach Ben-Gurion University "Atomic Optics with Bose Einstein Condensates" Theodosiou
01 Oct 1998
(Joint with BGSU, @BGSU, Rm 095, Overman Hall)		 Nancy Forbes Litton PRC "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and its Ultrascale Computing Program" Xi (BG)
08 Oct 1998 Alan Stern SwRI/Boulder "Pluto: King of the Kuiper Disk" KBjorkman
15 Oct 1998 Phil Duxbury MSU "Exact Ground States and Active Clusters in Random Landscapes" Amar
22 Oct 1998 
Joint with BGSU 		Stanford R. Ovshinsky Co-Founder, President and CEO of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc "Fundamentals and Implications of Amorphous and Disordered Materials" Deng
Fri, 30 Oct 1998, 3:30 PM
Note change of day and time		 David Williams University College London "Molecules in Astronomy" Federman
05 Nov 1998 L. Craig Davis Physics Dept., Ford Research Laboratory "Electro/Magnetorheological Fluids and Elastomers" James
12 Nov 1998
Joint with BGSU, @BGSU, Rm 095, Overman Hall) 		 Phil Taylor CWRU "Famines, Floods, and Physics -- Global Climate Change from a Physics Perspective" Xi (BG)
19 Nov 1998 John T. Clarke U. Michigan "Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Jupiter's Aurora" James
26 Nov 1998 [None] -- [Thanksgiving Holiday] --
03 Dec 1998 Ishmael Parsai MCO "I. Overview of Physics Applications in Radiation Oncology
II. Bremsstrahlung SPECT Imaging in Computation of Quantitative 3-D Dose Distributions for Beta Emitters" 		Kvale
10 Dec 1998 Joanna Mirecki Millunchick University of Michigan "Spontaneous Lateral Composition Modulation in III-V Semiconductor Alloys" Amar
* = tentative

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

Current Schedule - Spring Semester 1999
Date Speaker Affiliation Title or Topic of Talk UT Host
NEXT COLLOQ.:
14 Jan 1999		 Alex de Lozanne Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin "Fabrication of Nanostructures with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope" Amar
21 Jan 1999 Mike Jura UCLA "The Evolution of Dust Around Main-Sequence Stars" Morrison
28 Jan 1999 Franco Nori U. of Michigan "Vortex Dynamics in Superconductors: Plastic Flow, Avalanches, and Bursts in Materials" Amar
04 Feb 1999
Joint with BGSU, @BGSU, Rm 095, Overman Hall) 		 TBA by BG TBA TBA Xi (BG)
11 Feb 1999 Tentatively commited TBA TBA Morrison/Amar
18 Feb 1999 Tentatively commited TBA TBA Morrison/Amar
25 Feb 1999 David Srolovitz Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, UM TBA Amar
04 Mar 1999 Tentatively commited TBA TBA Morrison/Amar
11 Mar 1999 [None] -- [Spring Break] --
18 Mar 1999 Pedro Goldman Univ. of Western Ontario TBA Federman
25 Mar 1999 Heather Morrison CWRU TBA Morrison
01 Apr 1999
Joint with BGSU, @BGSU, Rm 095, Overman Hall) 		 TBA by BG TBA TBA Xi (BG)
08 Apr 1999 John Kohl Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Turin Lecture Curtis
15 Apr 1999 Bill Shafarman TBA The physics of copper indium diselenide solar cells Compaan
22 Apr 1999 Ken Elder Oakland Univ. TBA Amar
29 Apr 1999 Laura VanWormer Hiram College TBA Amar
* = tentative

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

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Last Updated: 10 December 1998

Contact: Nancy Morrison

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