Department of Physics Colloquium Series - Winter 2004
updated: October 29, 2004

Seminars begin at 4:00 PM , Coffee at 3:30 pm
Room 310, Robert H. Flarsheim Hall
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September 10, Michael Kruger, University of Missouri - KC, Dept. of Physics, Kansas City, MO
   Bose-Einstein Condensates: The Coldest Matter in the Universe

September 17, K.L. Cheng, University of Missouri - KC, Dept. of Chemistry, Kansas City, MO
   A Piece of Copper Wire Made Revolutionary Discoveries in Science    

   (K.L.'s 90th Birthday celebration!)

September 24, Anil Misra, University of Missouri - KC, SCE, Kansas City, MO (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Micromechanical modeling of Materials: Examples from Cohesive Materials and Rough Interfaces

October 1, Mark Banaszak Holl, University of Michigan, Chemistry Dept.,  Ann Arbor, MI  (host D. van Hong)
    Nanomedicine: A Cure for Cancer or a Plaque of Grey Goo

October 8, Jinke Teng, University of New Orleans, Dept. of Physics, New Orleans, LA (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Evidence for Room Temperature Ferromagnetism in Fe/Cr/Mn-dopped Reduced-Rutile TiO(2-d)

October 15,
    cancelled

October 22, Ludwig W. Bruch, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Physics, Madison, WI (host J. Phillips)
   Initial Stages of Condensation: Dimers and Trimers of Helium

October 29, H. A. Feldman, University of Kansas, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Lawrence, KS  (host K. Ashman)
    Velocity Fields as a Probe of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe

November 5, Ekaterina Kadnikova, University of Missouri - KC, Dept. of Chemistry, Kansas City, MO (host D. Wieliczka)
    Composite Organic-Inorganic Material for Photovoltaics

November 12, L. Ouyang, University of Missouri - KC, Dept. of Physics, Kansas City, MO
    Calculation of Vibrational Properties of Solids

November 19,  Teruyasu Mizoguchi, University of Tokyo, Dept. Materials Science & Engineering, Kyoto, Japan (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Experimental and Theoretical ELNES and XANES: Application to Material Science

November 26
    Thanksgiving Break

December 3, Phillip Cervantes, Colorado College, Department of Physics, Colorado Springs, CO (host M. Kruger)
    SrSe at High Pressure