Colloquium schedule
The colloquium schedule for the Fall 2007 semester is as shown below. Additional titles and abstracts will be posted as they become available.
Time: 3:00 pm
Place: Barton Hall, Room BA 106
(coffee, tea, and sweets served at 2:45 pm)
| September 17, 2007 | Professor Chandra M. Varma Department of Physics, University of California Riverside Probable Solution to the High Tc Problem |
| October 8, 2007 | Professor Xiaoyang Zhu Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Interfacial Electron Transport and Localization |
| October 15, 2007 | Professor Mahito Kohmoto Institute for Solid State Physics,University of Tokyo Topological aspects of the quantum Hall effect and the electronic states of the honeycomb lattice |
| October 22, 2007 | Randall D. Kamien Vicki and William Abrams Professor in the Natural Sciences, University of Pennslyvania What's Kelvin's Problem? |
| October 29, 2007 | Dr. Kevin Black NASA Goddard Center Astronomical X-ray Polarimetry with Negative-Ion Time Projection Chambers |
| November 5, 2007 | Graduate Student Progress Reports |
| November 12, 2007 | Dr. Svetlana Malinovskaya Department of Physics and Engineering Physics,Stevens Institute of Technology Chirped Pulse Adiabatic Passage in CARS for Imaging ofBiological Structure and Dynamics |
| November 19, 2007 | Professor Zameer Hasan Department of Physics,Temple University The Ultimate Miniaturization: Are we there? |
| November 26, 2007 | Professor Donald S. McClure Department of Chemistry, Princeton University Systematics of the spectroscopy of transition metal ions in crystals |
| November 28, 2007 | Professor Zoltan Racz Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Extreme Value Statistics |