PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
AY 11-12 Colloquium Chair: Spiros Margetis (smargeti@kent.edu)
All colloquia take place at 1:30 pm in Smith 111, unless otherwise noted.
FALL 2011 Sept 9 Friday 3:30pm "Switchable waveguiding in various LC-filled fibers"
Abstract
Alexander Lorenz
Department of Physics
University of Paderborn
Contact person: S. Kumar
Sept 15 Thurs "Magneto-optical and Imaging Studies of Chromonic and Thermotropic Liquid Crystals"
Abstract
Tanya Ostapenko
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: J. Gleeson
Oct 20 Thurs "Spin waves in Fermi Liquids: New 'Tricks' from an 'Old Dog'"
Abstract
Kevin Bedell
Department of Physics
Boston College
Contact person: K. Quader
Nov 3 Thurs "Review of RHIC physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory"
Abstract
Sonia Kabana
Department of Physics
University of Nantes, France
Contact person: S. Margetis
Nov 9 Wed 2:30pm "Charmed meson measurement using a Silicon tracker in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV in STAR experiment at RHIC"
Abstract
Jaiby Joseph
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: S. Margetis
Nov 10 Thu "Phase separation in binary lipids monolayers and bilayers: Experiment and Theory"
Abstract
Fanindra Bhatta
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: E. Mann
Nov 14 Mon 3pm "Developing insight into the complexity of the electronic and optical processes in organic solar cells "
Abstract
Chad Risko
Department of Physics
Georgia Tech. University
Contact person: B. Ellman
Nov 18 Fri "Exploring Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory"
Abstract
Don. Driscoll
Department of Physics
Kent State University, Ashtabula
Contact person: S. Margetis
Nov 22 Tue 1pm "Design and Study of Plasmonic Nanostructures for Applications in Biological Detection and Photonics"
Abstract
Bhuwan Joshi
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Contact person: E. Mann
Nov 29 Tue 2pm "Time-dependent Theories for Photo-induced Chemical Processes"
Abstract
Hanning Chen
Solar Energy Research Center
Northwestern University
Contact person: B. Ellman
Dec 1 Thurs "A review of LHC Heavy-Ion Results- Recreating the Primordial Quark-Gluon Soup"
Abstract
J. Harris
Department of Physics
Yale University
Contact person: S. Margetis
Dec 8 Thurs "Confinement and Manipulation of Single Molecules, Particles or Cells using Fluid Flow"
Abstract
Melikhan Tanyeri
Department of Physics
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contact person: B. Hamza
SPRING 2012 Jan 11 Tue "Charge Transport Properties of Organic Semiconductors"
Abstract
Ling Li
Department of Physics
Kyung Hee Univ. of Korea
Contact person: B. Ellman
Feb 9 Thu "Optical Spectroscopies in High Magnetic Fields"
Abstract
Stephen McGill
Department of Physics
Florida State University
Contact person: J. Gleeson
Feb 20 Mon "Hot Quark Soup: Flow and Flow Fluctuations in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions"
Abstract
Matt Luzum
Saclay
France
Contact person: Keane
Feb 23 Thu "Exploring new frontiers of Quantum Chromodynamics"
Abstract
Zhongbo Kang
RIKEN
Brookhaven Lab
Contact person: Keane
Mar 8 Fri "Quantum Chromodynamics at Five Trillion Degrees Kelvin"
Abstract
Michael Strickland
Department of Physics
Gettysburg College
Contact person: Keane
Mar 28 Wed "UNIVERSITY SPONSORED PUBLIC TALK ON PHYSICS OF THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER AND THE SEARCH FOR 'GOD'S PARTICLE' "
Abstract
John Harris
Department of Physics
YALE UNIVERSITY
Contact person:
Apr 19 Thur "THE USE OF AIRBREATHING ENGINES FOR ACCESS TO SPACE"
Abstract
Isaiah Blankson
NASA Glenn Research Center
Contact person: D. Allender
Apr 26 Thur "Ultracold atoms tuned to many-body regimes previously impossible"
Abstract
W. Vincent Liu
Department of Physics
University of Pittsburgh
Contact person: M. Dzero/K. Quader