DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
University of Missouri Columbia

Colloquium Schedule Fall 2007 and Winter 2008

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

Aug 20

 

 

 

Aug 27

NO SEMINAR

 

 

Sept 3

No Seminar

Labor Day Holiday

 

Sept 10

YC Ching, UMKC

 

 

 

Sept 17

Professor Aaron Kravitz, Interim Director, Campus Writing Program

 

Chandra

Sept 24

 

 

 

Oct 1

Dr. Chun Tang,  Department of Biochemistry, MU-Columbia

Visualizing macromolecular dynamics by NMR paramagnetic relaxation enhancement”

Chandra/Hazelbauer

Oct 8

 

Justin Huang Seminar

Bahram Mashhoon

Oct 15

Greg Sloan, Cornell University

 

Angela Speck

Oct 22

No seminar

 

 

Oct 29

Dr. Robert Kanigel, Director of Science Writing Program,  M.I.T.

"Making Hard Work Easy:  Writing About Science and Other Difficult Things”

Chandra

Nov 5

Alexander Schmets, Technical University of Delft

Self healing materials: an alternative approach to twenty centuries of materials' science

Wouter Montfrooij

Nov 12

 

 

 

Nov 19

No seminar

Thanksgiving Break

 

Nov 26

Professor Michael R. Meyer, University of Arizona

Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems:
       The Makings of an Epicurean Feast

Aigen Li

Dec 3

Prof. Hui Zhao from Kansas University-Lawrence

"Nanoscale ballistic spin and charge transport in semiconductors studied by ultrafast laser techniques"

Giovanni Vignale

Dec 10

No seminar

Exam Week

 

 

 

Winter Break

 

Jan 14

 

 

 

Jan 21

Martin Luther King Holiday, No seminar

 

Aigen Li

Jan 28

Dr. Nayana Shah, University of Illinois, Physics Department

 

Sashi Satpathy

Feb 4

 

 

 

Feb 11

Reserved

 

 

Feb 18

 

 

 

Feb 25

Reserved

 

 

Mar 3

R,V, Hosur, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai

 

 

Mar 10

March Meeting of the American Physical Society, New Orleans

No seminar this week

 

Mar 17

                    Professor Feng Gai from U. Penn.

 

Shi-Jie Chen

Mar 24

No Seminar

Spring Break

 

March 31

Prof. Pini Gurfil, Technion, Israel

 

Sergei Kopeikin

Apr 7

Prof. Aleksei Aksimentiev, Univ of Illinois (Urbana)

Solid-state nanopores: Versatile instruments for nanotechnology and life sciences

Ioan Kosztin

Apr 14

Professor Jim Eckstein, University of Illinois, Urbana

 

Sashi Satpathy

Apr 21

Luke Keller (Ithaca College)

"The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy: Facility overview and plans for first light in 2008"

Aigen Li

 Apr 28

Professor Marcia Fenley, Florida State University

 

Shi-Jie Chen

May 5

No seminar

Last week of classes