Departmental Colloquia, 2008-9

Colloquia are scheduled for 4:00 pm on Thursdays with a 15-minute coffee and conversation period preceeding the talk.  Colloquia are open to the public and are always, unless otherwise noted, in Room 202 Physics Building (the large auditorium off the front lobby).

Date

Speaker

Home Institution

In-House Host

Title

8/21 Junxue Fu & Zhongyue Zhang UGA Lee Graduate Research Awards: Fu and Zhang
8/28 Gary Glover Stanford Q. Zhao Functional MRI and Its Use in Biofeedback
9/4 Daniel Mattis Univ. Utah Lee How to Calculate Exact Tc in Superconductivity and How to Make Superconductors Out of Semiconductors
9/11        
9/18 Yiping Zhao UGA   Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering from Ag Nanorod Array
9/25        
10/2        
10/9 Robert Gilmore Drexel Univ. Lee Topology of Chaos
10/16 Qun Zhao UGA   Enhancement of Magnetic Resonance Imaging using Contrast Agents
10/23 David P. Landau UGA   Special Joint Departmental/CSP Colloquium: Monte Carlo Simulations of Systems with Complex Energy Landscapes
10/30 Steven Lewis UGA   Special Joint Departmental/CSP Colloquium: Picking Apart a Complex Catalyst: Defects and Islands on Titania
11/6 M. Howard Lee UGA   Logarithmic Diversion in Statistical Mechanics
11/13 Chad Fertig UGA   Chasing Zero: Probing quantum magnetism in Bose-Einstein condensates
11/20 Robin Shelton UGA   Special Joint Departmental/CSP Colloquium: Hot Gas in the Milky Way's Halo
11/27       Thanksgiving
12/4        
12/8-1/2       Christmas break
1/8        

1/15

       
1/22        
1/29 Mike Geller UGA   Principles of quantum logic gate design
2/5        
2/12 Bill Dennis UGA   Investigating the Interaction of High Intensity Ultrashort Laser Pulses with Matter

2/19

Phillip Stancil UGA   Special Joint Departmental/CSP Colloquium: A Recipe for the First Star
2/26 Wolfgang Christian Davidson College Landau Special Joint Departmental/CSP Colloquium: Building a Computational-Physics-Education Digital Library
3/5 Vasily Astratov UNC Charlotte Feofilov Mesoscopic Optical Transport in Coupled Microspheres
3/12       Spring Break
3/19        
3/26        
4/2 Loris Magnani UGA   The Dark Side of H2 in the Galaxy
4/9 Ken Brown Georgia Tech. Geller Probing molecular ions with laser-cooled atomic ions
4/16       Bill Cummings Day
4/23 Benjamin Cooley Penn. State Schuttler Undergraduate Awards Day. Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Nanowires
4/30        

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