COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE 

AY 07-08 Colloquium Chair: Khandker F. Quader (quader@scorpio.kent.edu)
 

All colloquia take place at 4:30 pm in Smith 110, unless otherwise noted.

SPRING 2008
January 24 Thurs

""Searching Extra Dimensions in Compact Stars"      
Abstract
Dr. Gergely Barnafoldi
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Khandker Quader
January 31 Thurs

"Almost Two Decades in The Amazing World of Confined Liquid Crystals"
Abstract
Prof. Daniel Finotello
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Khandker Quader


February 14 Thurs

"Uranium + Uranium Collisions at RHIC"      
Abstract
Chandra Shekhar Nepali
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: George Fai/Declan Keane
February 21 Thurs

"Interaction effects in quantum wires"
Abstract
Prof. Julia Meyer
Department of Physics
Ohio State University
Contact person: Khandker Quader
February 28 Thurs

"Determination of Elliptic Flow and Other Properties of Charged Kaons in Relativistic Au+Au Collisions using Decay-topology Identification"
Abstract
John Amonett
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: Declan Keane/Spiros Margetis
March 6 Thurs

"OPEN"
Abstract


Contact person:


March 13 Thurs

"MARCH APS MEETING: NO COLLOQUIUM"      
March 20 Thurs

"SPRING RECESS: NO COLLOQUIUM"      
March 27 Thurs

"COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED"      
"Drawing Conclusions from Graphene"      
Abstract
Prof. Antonio Castro-Neto
Department of Physics
Boston University
Contact Person: Khandker Quader
April 3 Thurs

"New Phases and Quantum Phase Transitions"      
Abstract
Prof. Nandini Trivedi
Department of Physics
Ohio State University
Contact person: Khandker Quader
April 10 Thurs

"In Search of Lipid Rafts: Evidence of Phospholipd/Cholesterol and Glycolipid/Cholesterol Nanoclusters"
Abstract
Prof. Ka Yee Lee
Department of Chemistry,
Institute of Biophysical Dynamics,
James Frank Institute
The University of Chicago
Contact Person: Khandker Quader


April 17 Thurs

"Multichannel Partial-Wave Analysis of Antikaon-Nucleon Scattering"
Abstract
Hongyu Zhang
Department of Physics,
Kent State University
Contact person: Mark Manley
April 24 Thurs

"Biophysical Endeavours into the World of Phosphoinositide Signaling"
Abstract
Prof. Arne Gericke
Department of Chemistry
Kent State University
Contact Person: Khandker Quader


May 1 Thurs

"Strands of Superconductivity at the Nanoscale"
Abstract
Paul Goldbart
Director,Institute for Cond. Matter Theory,
Department of Physics,
Unversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Contact person: Khandker Quader/Qi Huo(LCI)





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