Colloquium schedule
The colloquium schedule for the Spring 2009 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)
| February 2, 2009 | Professor Yuan K. Ha Department of Physics, Temple Ubiversity Are Black Holes Elementary Particles? |
| February 9, 2009 | Professor Zameer Hasan Department of Physics, Temple Ubiversity Nanomaterials and their Atomic Tailoring for Applications from Quantum Computing to Nano-Biology |
| February 16, 2009 | Professor Marjatta Lyyra Department of Physics, Temple Ubiversity Applications of Quantum Optics in Molecular System |
| February 23, 2009 | Professor Hai-Lung Dai Department of Chemistry, Temple Ubiversity Nonlinear Light Scattering from Nanoparticles, Molecular Thin Films, and Biological Cells |
| March 2, 2009 | Dr. Werner Vogelsang Brookhaven National Laboratory Exploring the Proton Spin |
| March 23, 2009 | Dr. Svetlana Kotochigova Physics Department, Temple University Creation and control of ultra cold polar molecules |
| March 30, 2009 | Professor David A. Weitz Department of Physics and School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University New Insights into Hard Problems with Soft Materials |
| April 6, 2009 | Professor Michael Widom Department of Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University A van der Waals Loop in Supercooled liquid Silicon |
| April 13, 2009 | Professor Steven Boughn Haverford College Nonquantum Gravity |
| April 20, 2009 | Dr. Esen Ercan Alp Argonne National Laboratory Applications in materials science, geophysics and biophysics |
| April 27, 2009 | Professor Andrei Derevianko Physics Department, University of Nevada, Reno Ultracold, Precise, and Electroweak |
| May 4, 2009 | Professor Theodore K. Burkhardt Physics Department, Temple University From Random Walks to Rubber Elasticity: The Physics of Long Polymer Chains. |