Departmental Colloquia, 2009-10

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).

The Colloquium Speaker Selection Policy can be found here

Date

Speaker

Home Institution

In-House Host

Title
8/20/2009 Yongjun Liu UGA, Physics and Astronomy Dennis Graduate Research Award: Liu
8/27/2009 John Knox UGA, Geography (Meteorology) Shelton The Physics Behind Clear-Air Turbulence (CAT): An Unsolved Mystery
9/3/2009 Jason Locklin UGA, Chemistry Ullrich Making Surfaces Smart
9/10/2009 Mark Stockman Georgia State, Physics and Astronomy Geller New Horizons of Nanoplasmonics: from SPASER to Attoseconds
9/17/2009 Gary Ferland University Of Kentucky, Physics and Astronomy Stancil Special Joint Departmental/CSP Colloquium: What powers the intra-cluster filaments in large clusters of galaxies?
9/24/2009 Russel White Georgia State, Physics and Astronomy Song High Precision Infrared Radial Velocities and the Search for Young Planets
10/1/2009 B-G Andersson Nasa Ames Research Center Shelton The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Status and Science overview
10/8/2009 Milind Kunchur University of South Carolina, Physics and Astronomy Geller The ballistic acceleration of a supercurrent in a superconductor
10/15/2009 Geoff Smith UGA, Chemistry Ullrich "Super Cool" Reactions in Metastable Aerosol Particles
10/22/2009 Sean Brittain Clemson, Physics and Astronomy Shelton Observation of Warm Gas in Pre-planetary Disks: Catching Planet Formation in the Act?
10/29/2009 pre Fall Break  
11/5/2009 Tianquan (Tim) Lian Emory University, Chemistry Ullrich Ultrafast Charge Transfer at Molecule/Quantum dot Interface — Towards Multi-Exciton Dissociation
11/12/2009 Gary Douberly UGA, Chemistry Ullrich Spectroscopy of Molecular Clusters in 0.4 Kelvin Helium Nanodroplets
11/19/2009 Mike Chapman Georgia Tech Geller Building quantum coherences one atom at a time: Bose-Einstein condensates, and trapping single atoms and photons
11/26/2009       Thanksgiving
12/3/2009 Uwe Happek UGA, Physics and Astronomy Dennis Luminescent Materials for Energy Efficient Lighting
1/7/2010 Amy Sullivan Agnes Scott, Physics and Astronomy   Cancelled due to inclement weather

1/14/2010

 Ying Xu UGA Institute of Bioinformatics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Landau,
Shelton		 Elucidation of Bacterial Genomic Structures
1/21/2010 Amy Lovell Agnes Scott College, Physics and Astronomy Shelton Radio Observations of Comets and Asteroids
1/28/2010 Joao Plascak Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Landau Multicriticality in Magnetic and Non-magnetic Systems: a Simulational View
2/4/2010 Peter Kner UGA, Engineering Ullrich Increasing Resolution in Biological Light Microscopy
2/11/2010 Rick Trebino Georgia Tech, Physics Ullrich Measuring Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About an Ultrashort Laser Pulse, But Were Afraid to Ask
2/18/2010 Amy Sullivan Agnes Scott, Physics and Astronomy Ullrich 3D Phase Imaging of Integrated Optical Devices
2/24/2010 Dennis Rapaport Bar-Ilan University, Physics Landau Special Joint Departmental/CSP Colloquium: Simulating self-assembly with molecular dynamics
3/4/2010 Emil Alexov Clemson, Physics and Astronomy Stancil  
3/11/2010       Spring Break
3/18/2010 Date Reserved for Candidate
3/25/2010 Carl Liebig Purdue, Mechanical Engineering Dennis
4/1/2010 Howard Lee UGA, Physics and Astronomy Shelton The History of Recurrence Relations and the Ergodic Hypothesis
4/8/2010 Joseph Hermanowicz UGA, Sociology Shelton  
4/15/2010       Bill Cummings Day
4/22/2010 TBD     Undergraduate Awards Day.  

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