DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
University of Missouri Columbia

Joint Condensed Matter/ECE/Biological Physics Seminars Schedule
AY 2004-2005

DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
HOST
Sept. 1 Sunder Balasubramanian
(UMC)
Enhanced diffusion and vacancy decay kinetics in annealed
non-stoichiometric AlAs/GaAs heterostructures
Ping Yu
Sept. 8
Roberto D'Agosta (UMC)
Strong temperature dependence of the quasi-particle tunneling between Quantum Hall edges

Sept. 15
Carlos Wexler  (UMC)
Single-mode-approximation spectrum for a quantum Hall liquid crystal

Sept. 22
Ioan Kosztin   (UMC)
Active molecular transport in passive channel proteins

Sept. 29
Paola Gori Giorgi
Universite' Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
New perspectives on DFT: System-adapted approximations
Vignale
Oct. 6
Bilal Tanatar (Bilkent University, Ankara)
Compressibility anomaly in disordered two-dimensional electron gas
Vignale
Oct. 13
Craig Jeffrey (UMC)
STM and X-ray characterization of electrodeposited Bi(012) films on Au(111)

Oct. 20



Oct. 27



Nov. 3
Mingzhai Sun
TBA

Nov. 10
Kourosh Malek
(Delft University of Technology)
Molecular Simulations of Water Diffusion in Biological Nanopores
Peter Pfeifer
Nov. 17 G. Markandeyulu, IIT, Madras
TBA
Sashi Satpathy
Nov 24
Thankgiving recess


Dec. 1
Hans-Peter Wagner
(University of Cincinnati)
Four-Wave Mixing investigations
and the photorefractive effect in semiconductor QWs
Yu Ping
Dec. 8
Lorant Janosi (UMC)
Spectral and Optical Properties of Bacteriochlorophylls in Thermally Disordered LH2 Antenna Complexes
Dec. 10
Stop Day






Jan. 18
Classes begin


Jan. 19

No seminar this week

Jan. 26
Harshani Wijewardane (UMC)
Nonlinear intersubband plasmon dynamics in quantum wells

Feb. 2
Andrew Gu  (UMC)
Single molecule detection by using engineered protein nanopores
Kosztin
Feb. 9
Ewelina Hankiewicz (Texas A&M)
Spin-Hall effect in the mesoscopic regime
Vignale
Feb. 16
Jian-Ming Tang
(University of Iowa)
Electric field driven spin resonances of a magnetic dopant in a
semiconductor
Vignale
Feb. 23
Sonia Bahar (UMSL)
Imaging epileptic seizures with the intrinsic optical signal
Ullrich
Mar. 2
Sanju Gupta (SMS)
Cancelled
Shubra
Mar. 9
John Shumway  (ASU)
Exciton-Exciton scattering
in Quantum Wells
Vignale
Mar. 16
Ullrich Volkman
(Universidad Catolica de Chile)
Study of alkanes adsorbed on SiO2 surfaces and growth of flat
Au(111) substrates for ellipsometric, AFM, and x-ray studies of organic
films
Taub
Mar. 23
Spring break


Mar. 30
Ilya Tokatly (Erlangen)
Geometric time-dependent DFT
Vignale
Apr. 6 Michael Springborg
(Saarbrucken)
TBA
Satpathy
Apr. 13
George Simion (Purdue)
Two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling Vignale
Apr. 20
Klaus Knorr, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
Wetting and multilayer adsorption of acetone on graphite Taub
Apr. 27
Klaus Knorr, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany Capillary condensation of Ar and Kr in mesopores Taub
May 4
Dr. Kalyanraman (Wash U) TBA
Shubra
May 6
Stop Day