DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
University of Missouri Columbia

Colloquium Schedule Fall 2004 and Winter 2005

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

Aug 23

Prof. Klaus Knorr, Unversity of Saarlandes in Saarbruecken, Germany

Orientational Order and Disorder in Monolayers on Graphite

Haskell Taub

Aug 30

Professor Galen Suppes, Dept. Chemical Engineering, MU-Columbia

Regenerative Fuel Cell Technology and An Approach to Commercialization

Chandrasekhar, H.R.

Sept 6

No seminar

Labor Day

 

Sept 13

Prof. Thorsten Ritz, prof. of physics at U. C. Irvine,

Biophysics of magnetoreception: what the stochastic Liouville equation has to do with the magnetic compass of birds.

Ioan Kosztin

Sept 20

Prof. Victor Brumberg (Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg).

Secular stability of the solar system

Sergei Kopeikin

Sept 27

Professor Carlos Wexler, Physics, MU-Columbia

Single-mode-approximation  spectrum for a Quantum hall Liquid Crystal

 

Oct 4

Professor Rainer Glaser, Dept. Chemistry, MU-Columbia

DNA Base Synthesis in Interstellar Space

Chandrasekhar, H.R.

Oct 11

Prof. Fulvio Melia, University of Arizona

The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy

Sergei Kopeikin

Oct 18

Brian Kirby, Department of Physics

Annealing Dependent Phenomena in GaMnAs

 

Oct 25

Professor Rusty Lansford, Caltech

Multimodal imaging of how ogranisms develop

Gabor Forgacs

Nov 1

Prof. Alikram Nuhbalaoglu, Feza Gursey Institute, Turkey

GRAVITY IN BRANEWORLDS

Bahram Mashhoon

Nov 8

Professor Steve Keller, Department of Chemistry, MU- Columbia

"I know you're a chemist, but what do you do? Some Tails of Solid State Synthesis" 

Chandrasekhar, Meera

Nov 15

Prof. Shadi Shahedipour, School of Nanosciences and Nanoengineering, University at Albany-SUNY

Effect of dislocation defects on the performance of GaN-based optoelectronic devices

 

Suchi Guha

Nov 22

No seminar

Thanksgiving Break

 

Nov 29

 

 

 

Dec 6

Prof. Xingde Li, U. Washington

Imaging Biological Tissue Microanatomy By Catching Echoes of Light

Yu, Ping

Dec 13

No seminar

Exam Week

 

 

 

Winter Break

 

Jan 17

Martin Luther King Holiday, No seminar

 

 

Jan 24

.

 

Jan 31

Mark Alford, Washington University

 

Giovanni Vignale

Feb 7

Rien Dijkstra, MU_Columbia

 

Angela Speck

Feb 14

Gregory Triplett, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Missouri-Columbia

A prospectus of semiconductor and terahertz technology

Chandra

Feb 21

Prof. Andre Bandrauk, University of Sherbrooke (Canada)

Attosecond Dynamics of Atoms in Strong laser fields

Carsten Ullrich

Feb 28

Prof. Fulvio Melia, University of Arizona

The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy

Sergei Kopeikin

Mar 7

Prof. John Shumway (from Arizona State University)

"Feynman Path Integrals and Nanostructures: Quantum Simulations without Schroedinger's Equation"

Suchi Guha

Mar 14

Professor Sherman fan, Bio Engineering

 

Chandra

Mar 21

No seminar

Spring Break

 

Mar 28

Adras Czirok, from University of Kansas/

Roland Eotvos University-Budapest

Pattern formation in embryonic development

Gabor Forgacs

Apr 4

Dr. Ilya Tokatly, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg

 

Giovanni Vignale

Apr 11

Prof. David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University

Electronic structure of an insulator in a finite electric field: What to do when there is no ground state

Sashi Satpathy

Apr 18

Prof. L. Ramdas Ram-Mohan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wavefunction engineering of complex structures for semiconductor lasers -- or how to get it right the first time

Chandrasekhar, Meera

Apr 25

Prof. Allan MacDonald , Univ. of Texas, Austin

 

Carlos Wexler

May 2

Prof. Dean Astumian from Univ. of Maine

Brownian motors: Swimming in molasses and walking in a hurricane

Ioan Kosztin

May 9

No seminar

Exam Week