DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
University of Missouri Columbia

Colloquium Schedule Fall 2008

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

Aug 25

No Colloquium

New Semester Starts

 

Sept 1

No Seminar

Labor Day Holiday

 

Sept 8

Prof. Szczepan Roszak (Wroclaw University of Technology)

Structural and thermodynamic properties of micro-clusters-precursors of germanium/carbon and germanium/silicon nanomaterials 

Peter Pfeifer/Carlos Wexler

Sept 15

Dr. Oleg Titov (Australia Geosciences Institute)

 

Sergei Kopeikin

Sept 22

Prof. C. Laemmerzahl (University of Bremen)

Justin Huang Memorial Lecture 

Bahram Mashhoon

Sept 29

Prof. Gianfranco Vidali (Syracuse University)

Manufacturing the molecules of the cosmos 

Aigen Li

Oct 6

Prof. David Nolte (Purdue)

 

Meera Chandrasekhar

Oct 13

Prof. Alan Van Orden (Colorado State University)  

Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy for the Study of DNA and RNA Folding Kinetics

Shi-Jie Chen

Oct 20

Dr. Wilhelm Graupner (AVL, Austria)

A Physicist's survival kit in industry - path to productivity, creativity, fun, and some hints on all the traps

Suchi Guha

Oct 27

Prof Edward Yu (Iowa State University)

Structural basis of bacterial protein machinery that mediates antibiotic resistance

Xiaoqin Zou

Nov 3

Prof. Robert Duncan (Vice Chancellor, UMC)

Self-organized Criticality in Superfluid Helium: Complexity Emerging from Simplicity

Peter Pfeifer

Nov 10

Prof. Neepa Maitra (City University of New York)

 

Carsten Ullrich

Nov 17

Reserved

Reserved

Ping Yu

Nov 24

No Seminar 

Thanksgiving holiday 

 

Dec 1

Prof. Ramanath Cowsik (Washington University in St. Louis)

 

Chandra

Dec 8

Reserved

Reserved

Suchi Guha

Dec 15

No Seminar

Exam Week

 



Colloquium Schedule Spring 2009

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

Jan 19

No Colloquium

New Semester Starts (Martin Luther King Holiday)

 

Jan 26

Prof. Ed Conrad (Georgia Tech.)

Graphene: a new platform for carbon electronics

Paul Miceli

Feb 2

 

 

 

Feb 9

Prof. J.X. Zhong (Oak Ridge Natl Lab)

Tuning Electronic Properties of Two-dimensional Quantum Films

Aigen Li

Feb 16

Prof. D.H. McIntosh (UMKC)

 

Angela Speck

Feb 23

Prof. B.A. Wilking (UMSL)

 

Aigen Li

March 2

 

 

 

March 9

Prof. Herbert Levine (UCSD)

...

Gabor Forgacs

March 16

Prof. Yu Chen (University of Maryland)

 

Yu Ping

March 23

No Colloquium 

Spring Recession 

 

March 30

Prof. Bahram Mashhoon

 

 

April 6

Prof. Joel E. Tohline

 

Bahram Mashhoon

April 13

 

 

 

April 20

Profs. Ratna Naik and Vaman Naik

 

Meera Chandrasekhar

April 27

Prof. Jin Wang (SUNY-Sony Brook)

 

Shi-Jie Chen

May 4

 

 

 

May 11

No Colloquium

Final Exam Begins