DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

Aug. 22

Paul L. de Boeij, University of Groningen

Time-dependent density-functional approach to charge, spin, and nuclear dynamics

Carsten Ullrich

Sept. 12

Mengjun Bai

Nanoscale observation of delayering  in alkane films

Hak Taub

Sept. 19

N/A

N/A

Sept. 26

Elijah Flenner

Cellular Particle Dynamics Simulations of Multicellular Systems

Ioan Kosztin

Oct. 3

Dr. Joseph Culver, Washington University at St Louis

Functional- and molecular-tomography with light in mouse and human

Ping Yu

Oct. 10

Giovanni Vignale

Spin Coulomb Drag: Theory and Experiment

Oct. 17

Oct. 24

Haibo Lin

Speckle Mechanism in Optical Coherence Imaging

Ping Yu

Oct. 31

Jacob Burress

Gas Storage on Nanoporous Biocarbon

Peter Pfeifer

Nov. 7

Michael Wood

TBA

Peter Pfeifer

Nov. 14

 B. Davaadorj, 

Mongolian Academy of Sciences

Relativistic nucleon-nucleon potentials within constraint instant form dynamics 

Maikel Rheinstädter 

Nov. 21

Thanksgiving recess

Nov. 28

Bogdan Barz

Special OM Stewart Colloquium:  Conformation and oligomeric state of HIV-1 Fusion Peptide: a combined FTIR and MD Simulation Study

Ioan Kosztin

Dec. 5

Dec. 7

Reading day

Dec. 13,

3 pm, rm 216

Da-Ming Zhu, UMKC

 Magnetic Levitation: from Bullet Trains to Flying Mice

(please note special day, time and room)

Ping Yu

Jan. 22

Classes begin

Jan. 23

Jan. 30

 Saeed Abedinpour

Pseudospintronics in semiconductor bilayers

 Giovanni Vignale

Feb. 6

 Wouter Montfrooij

Teaching superfluidity to students

Feb. 13

Ovidiu Lipan, Rinchmond University  

A stochastic model for the heat shock response in CHO mammalian cells: from experiment to theory 

Ioan Kosztin 

Feb. 20

Feb. 27

 Sergei Kopeikin

Testing General Relativity in Fermilab 

Carlos Wexler 

  Mar. 5

MU Grad. Students:

Michael Mayo (4:00), Yonghui Li (4:15), Raina Cepel (4:30), Kevin Johnson (4:45), Jeff Probst (5:00)  

Practice for APS March Meeting (please see individual scheduled times on the left) 

Carlos Wexler

Mar. 12

APS March Meeting

Mar. 19

Aurelien Manchon 

 Spin Transfer Torque in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions: Recent progress in Spintronics

Shufeng Zhang 

Mar. 26

Spring break

Apr. 2

Aldo Migone, Southern Illinois University

 Special OM Stewart Colloquium:  Adsorption on nanoporous substrates: potential for gas separation applications

Carlos Wexler 

Apr. 10 (special day:  Thursday)

Francisco Rodríguez-Reinoso, Universidad de Alicante 

 Characterization of Porous Carbons Revisited

Peter Pfeifer 

Apr. 11  (3:00 pm at Ketchum Auditorium in Chemical Engineering)

Francisco Rodríguez-Reinoso, Universidad de Alicante 

 Henry E. Bent Lecture: New Advances in the Development of Activated Carbons

Galen Suppes

Apr. 16

Alex Small, California State Polytechnic Univ. 

Physical Modeling Growth Factors Around Tumors:  How Do Tumors Find a Blood Supply? 

Adrian Neagu

Apr. 17

(special day:  Thursday)

 Adrian Neagu

In-silico modeling of multicellular self-assembly 

Gabor Forgacs 

Apr. 23

Chen Hou, Santa Fe Institute

Reverse Engineering of Oxygen Transport in Human Lung: Adaptation to Changing Demands and Resources through Space-Filling Networks

Peter Pfeifer

Apr. 30

 Michael Geller, U. Georgia 

 Special OM Stewart Colloquium:  Quantum gate design 

Giovanni Vignale  

May 7

Special "Seminar" :  Interactive Theater Group 

A Knock at the Door 

Meera Chandrasekhar 

May 9

Reading Day