Department of Physics Colloquium Series - Fall 2003
updated: November 10, 2003

Seminars begin at 4:00 PM , Coffee at 3:30 pm
Room 310, Robert H. Flarsheim Hall
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September 5, Shiva P. Kotha, School of Dentistry, University of Missouri - KC, Kansas City, MO (host D-M.Zhu)
    The longitudinal tensile behavior of bone: Material damage and related bone cell function

September 12, Deendayal Dinakarpandian, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Missouri - KC, Kansas City, MO (host D.-M. Zhu)
   Meta Models in Biology: Matching Experiment with Theory

September 19, Xiao-Dong Zhou, Electronic Materials Applied Research Center, University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO (host W.-Y. Ching)
   Intermediate Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Challenges and Opportunities For the Materials Scientist

September 26, K.-L. Chiang, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri - KC, Kansas City, MO
   Mechanism of interfacial Triple Layer and its Application

October 3, L.-C. Qin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (host D-M.Zhu)
   Electron Diffraction and Imaging Carbon Nanotubes

October 10, JeJung Lee, Department of Geoscience, University of Missouri - KC, Kansas City, MO (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Geophysical Inverse Modling and Calibration using Seismic Wave Propagation

October 17, Steven E. Zepf, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (host K. Ashman)
   How Galaxies and their Globular Clusters Form

October 24
   cancelled

October 31, Ernst Z. Kurmaev, Institute of Metal Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Yekaterinburg, Russia (host W.-Y. Ching)
   X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy: possibilities and perspectives

November 7, James Phillips, Department of Physics, University of Missouri - KC, Kansas City, MO
   Thermal Disorder, Fluctuation and Breakup of Finite One-dimensional Atomic Chain

November 14, Angela Speck, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, MO (host K. Ashman)
   Stardust: observational evidence of mass-loss processes during the late stages of stellar evolution

November 21,
   open

November 28,
   Thanksgiving

December 5, P.E.D. Morgan, Rockwell Science Center, Thousand Oaks, CA (host W.-Y. Ching)
   Chemical Bonds in Materials Science: Ideas you can use