DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
University of Missouri Columbia

Joint Condensed Matter/ECE/Biological Physics Seminars Schedule
AY 2005-2006

DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
HOST
Aug. 24

No seminar this week

Aug. 31
Andrea Trache
Texas A&M
Integrated nano-imaging techniques applied to live cell dynamics
Chandra
Sept. 7
Jindrich Kolorenc, North Carolina State University
Mean-field theory for Anderson metal-insulator transition Sashi
Sept. 14
Hao Li (UM Engineering)
Synthesis and Properties of
Carbon Nanotubes and Nanocrystalline Diamond
Shubra
Sept. 21
Jianmin Tao (Physics)
Density functionals that work

Sept. 28
Jae Wan Kwon
(UM Engineering)
On-chip DNA Synthesis by Nozzleless MEMS Ejector Integrated with Microfluidic Components
Shubra
Oct. 5
Mahmoud Almasri 
(UM Engineering)
MEMS/BioMEMS Devices: Uncooled Semiconducting YBaCuO Broadband Microbolometers, Micromirror Arrays, and An Active and Microscaffold For Culturing 3-D Neuronal Networks Shubra
Oct. 12
 Zuzanna Siwy, UC Irvine
Ion current fluctuations in abiotic mimics of voltage-gated biochannels
Ioan
Oct. 19
No seminar this week


Oct. 26
Paul Miceli/Jeff Craig
In-situ X-ray studies of Pb Nanocrystal growth

Nov. 2
Steve Pierson (APS)
Federal Funding, Physical Sciences Research, China, and the U.S. Congress
Miceli
Nov. 9
Hak Taub, UMC
Towards a microscopic understanding of lubrication: nanoscale observations of wetting and dewetting of organic films on solid surfaces.

Nov. 16 Sashi Satpathy, UMC
Control of Magnetism in the Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors
Nov 23
Thankgiving recess


Nov. 30
Ioan Kosztin
Equilibrium free energy profiles from nonequilibrium
processes without Jarzynski's equality

Dec. 7

No seminar this week

Dec. 9
Stop Day






Jan 18
Classes begin

Jan. 25



Feb, 1
Klaus Capelle (University of Sao Carlos)
Solids made of light: the many-body physicsof optically confined cold atoms Carsten Ullrich
Feb. 8
Timothy Newman
Arizona State Universit
Modeling Multicellular Systems using Many-body Theory
Ioan Kosztin
Feb. 15

TBA
Paul Miceli
Feb. 22

TBA
Paul Miceli
Mar. 1



Mar. 8



Mar. 15



Mar. 22



Mar. 29
Spring break


Apr. 5


Apr. 12
Ole Andersen
MPI-Stuttgart
TBA
Satpathy
Apr. 19



Apr. 26
Fedir Kyrychenko, MU
TBA
Ullrich
May 3
Alex Yamilov, UMR

Ullrich
May 5
Stop Day