DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
University of Missouri Columbia

 
O.M. Stewart Colloquium Schedule

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

Sept 1

  Labor day 

No colloquium

 

Sept 8

Dr. Massimiliano di Ventra (UCSD

Transport at Nano-scale: Physical Issues and Open Questions

Giovanni Vignale

Sept 15

Dr. Dinesh Singh, Regina U. Canada

Covariant Berry’Äôs Phase in Accelerated Quantum Systems

B. Mashhoon

Sept 22

Dr. Thomas Boland, Clemson University

Drop-On-Demand Printing of Cells and its Application to Tissue Engineering

Gabor Forgacs

Sept 29

Prof. Sergei Shandarin, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Large Scale Structure after WMAP and SDSS

Sergei Kopeikin

Oct 6

Dr. Ken Herwig, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Tetrahydrofuran (THF) Reorientations in THF/D2O Clathrate

Hak Taub

Oct 13

Dr. Paul Wesson, U. Waterloo, Canada

Frontiers of Astrophysics

B. Mashhoon

Oct 20

Dr. Anne Hofmeister, Wash. U., St Louis

 

Angela Speck

Oct 27

Dr. F.W. Hehl, U. Koln, Germany

 

B. Mashhoon

Nov 3

Dr. Slava Turyshev (JPL NASA)

35 Years of Testing Relativistic Grvaity: Where do we go from here ?

Sergei Kopeikin

Nov 10

Dr. Bernhardt Trout , M.I.T., Cambridge, MA

 

Kattesh Katti

Nov 17

Dr. Slava Turyshev, JPL, Pasadena

 

B. Mashhoon

Nov 24

 

Thanksgiving Break

 

Dec 1

Dr. Nandini Trivedi, TIFR, Mumbai, India:

 

Sashi Satpathy

Dec 8

Dr. W. Mike Snow

 

David Worcester

Dec 12

 

Stop Day

 

 

 

Winter Break

 

Jan 20

 

Classes Start

 

Jan 26

Prof. Andrew Melnyk, Philosophy Dept., MU

Thomas Kuhn's Contribution to the Philosophy of Science

Peter Pfeifer

Feb 2

Prof. Ken Kelton, Department of Physics, Washington U. St. Louis

Icosahedral order in supercooled liquid metals

Hak Taub

Feb 9

 

 

 

Feb 16

Prof. Klaus Capelle

Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil

Density-functional theory for models of strongly correlated electrons

Giovanni Vignale

Feb 23

Prof. Jainendra Jain, Erwin Mueller Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University

Composite fermions and the Hall superfluid

Giovanni Vignale

Mar 1

Dr. Gang Yu, Dupont Company

Polymer Photodectors: Development Roadmap

Ping Yu

Mar 8

Prof. Alexander Polnarev, Queen Mary College (England)

 

Sergei Kopeikin

Mar 15

Dr. Hernando Quevedo, UC ’Äì Davis

 

B. Mashhoon

Mar 22

 

Spring Break

 

Mar 29

Prof. Janko Boldizsar, Notre Dame

Zeeman-Localized States in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor - Permalloy Hybrids

Gabor Forgacs

Apr 5

Dr. Michael Winokur, U. Wisconsin ’ÄìMadison

 

Suchi Guha

Apr 12

Professor Jie Liang University of Illinois

 

Shi-jie Chen

Apr 19

Dr. Anzhong Wang, Baylor University

 

B. Mashhoon

Apr 26

Dr. Angel Garcia, Los Alamos Nat. Lab

Folding a protein in the computer-- An all atom model of the folding/unfolding thermodynamics of a three helix bundle

Ioan Kosztin

May 3

Dr. Willy R. Wriggers (Prof. of Biological Physics at  School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)

Structure and Dynamics of Macromolecular Machines Revealed by Signal-Processing of Multi-Resolution Data

Ioan Kosztin

May 7

 

Stop Day