DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
University of Missouri Columbia

Colloquium Schedule Fall 2006 and Winter 2007

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

Aug 21

CLASSES BEGIN NO SEMINAR

 

 

Aug 28

Prof. F.W. Hehl, University of Cologne.

 

Bahram Mashhoon

Sept 4

No Seminar

Labor Day Holiday

 

Sept 11

 

 

 

 

Sept 18

Dr. Thomas Vojta, MU-Rolla

"Phase transitions and disorder - How rare events can dominate amacroscopic system"

Montfrooij

Sept 25

Prof. Adolf Witt, University of Toledo

 

Aigen Li

Oct 2

Carl Anderson, IBM, Austin, Texas

General Technology Outlook

Chandra

Oct 9

Bill Klein

 

Pfeifer

Oct 16

Prof. A Demkov, UT-Austin

Density functional theory of high-k dielectric gate stacks

Suchi Guha

Oct 23

Prof. Antonio Castro-Neto (Boston University)

The Amazing Properties of Two-Dimensional Carbon

Ioan Kosztin

Oct 30

Julius Holhfeld, seagate

 

Shufeng Zhang

Nov 6

Dr. Dennis M. Mills, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Scientific User Facilities at Argonne National Laboratory

Science with X-ray Nanobeams at the Advanced Photon Source

Hak Taub

Nov 13

Dr. Ben Avraham, Clarkson University

 

Forgacs, Gabor

Nov 20

No seminar

Thanksgiving Break

 

Nov 27

Prof. Paul Goldbart (UIUC)

 

Ioan Kosztin

Dec 4

Roland Winkler, Illinois Northern University and Argonne National Lab

spin dynamics in semiconductors

Giovanni Vignale

Dec 11

No seminar

Exam Week

 

 

 

Winter Break

 

Jan 15

Martin Luther King Holiday, No seminar

 

 

Jan 22

reserved

 

 

Jan 29

Prof. Laurens Molenkamp from Wurzburg University

 

Ewelina Hankiewicz

Feb 5

Kelly Mason, Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets at KU

 

chandra

Feb 12

Reserved

 

 

Feb 19

Prof. Carsten Timm, U. Kansas

 

Carsten Ullrich

Feb 26

Reserved

 

Rheinstadter, Maikel

Mar 5

March Meeting of the American Physical Society

No seminar this week

 

Mar 12

Sir Anthony Leggett, U. Illinois, Urbana; Nobel Laureate in Physics

Testing the limits of Quantum Mechanics: motivation, state of play and prospects

Ioan Kosztin

Mar 19

                    Professor Ganapathy Murthy, University of Kantucky, Lexington KY 40506

INTERACTIONS, DISORDER, CROSSOVERS, AND ALL THAT IN MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS

 

Chandra

Mar 26

No Seminar

Spring Break

 

Apr 2

Professor Samuel A. Werner

Highlights of 30 years of Neutron Interferometry

 

Apr 9

Prof. Michael Thorpe from Arizona State University

 

Ioan Kosztin

Apr 16

Professor Ratna Naik, Wayne State University, Michigan

Raman Spectroscopy for Cancer Detection in Biological Tissues

Chandra

Apr 23

Virginia Vilian

 

Meera

 Apr 30

Professor Lois Pollack, School of Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University

 

Shi-Jie Chen

May 7

No seminar

Exam Week