Seminars begin at 4:00 PM , Coffee at 3:30 pm
Room 310, Robert H. Flarsheim Hall
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September 6, K.L. Cheng, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri - Kansas City
    Discovery of Interfacial Triple Layer

September 13, W. Walukiewicz, UC-Berkeley (host: J. Wrobel)
    Band Anticrossing in Highly Mismatched Semiconductor Alloys

September 20, Physics Faculty, University of Missouri - Kansas City
    Research Opportunities in Physics

September 27, W. Yelon, University of Missouri - Rolla (host: W.-Y. Ching)
    Neutron and Magnetic Studies of a Novel Disordered Rhombohedral 2:17 type Phase

October 4, A.K. Sharma, Applied Membrane Technology  (host: ACS, E. Helmuth)
    Plasma Treatment for Bioengineering Applications

October 11, M. Somayuzulu, Geophysics Lab (host: M. Kruger)
    High P, T studies on N₂, N₂O and Nitrides

October 18, B. Brickeen, Cutting-Edge Optronics (host: W.-Y. Ching)
    Hephaistos: Forgoing the Thunderbolts of Zeus (laser technology develpment at CEO)

October 25, Zhi Xu, University of Missouri - Saint Louis, (host: D.-M. Zhu)
    Development of New Organic Molecules for Two-photon Absorption

November 1,
    cancelled

November 8, M. Kruger, University of Missouri - Kansas City
   Effects of Compression on Negative Thermal Expansion Materials

November 15, M. Nickols, Creighton University, (host: D. Wieliczka)
    Biophysics Imaging with Multiphoton Excitation in Laser Scanning Microscopy

November 22, P. Becla, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (host: J. Wrobel)
    Identification and Control of Defect Formation During Melt Growth of photorefractive Single Crystals: Sillenites (Bi12SiO20)

December 6, Enge Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, (host: W.-Y. Ching)
    Formation and Decay of Surface-based Nanowstructures