Department of Physics Colloquium Series - Fall 2007
updated: November 30, 2007

Seminars begin at 3:30 PM , Coffee at 3:10 pm
Room 310, Robert H. Flarsheim Hall
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September 7, Kazuyoshi Ogasawara, Department of Chemistry, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan (host W.-Y. Ching)
   First-principles calculations of 4fn → 4fn-1 - 15d transition;  (see abstract)

September 14, Donald Priour, Department of Physics, UMKC
   Checking up on the Harris Criterion: A Monte Carlo study of strongly disordered magnets;  (see abstract)

September 21, Konstantin Pokhodnya, Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, North Dakota State University
   Molecule-based Magnets: synthesis, properties and applications;  (see abstract)

October 5
   Midwest Solid State conference in Lincoln, Nebraska

October 19, B.K. Godwal, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley   (host M. Kruger)
   Electronic Phase Transitions in Elemental Solids and Compounds;  (see abstract)

November 2, Saikat Talapatra, Department of Physics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale   (host D.-M. Zhu)
   Synthesis and Applications of Carbon Nanotube Architectures;  (see abstract)

November 9, Gregory Triplett, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia   (host J. Wrobel)
   Investigation of Next Generation Optoelectronic Systems

November 30, Carsten Timm, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas - Lawrence
   Transport and Magnetism in Semiconductors and Molecules

December 7, Hui Zhao, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence  (W.-Y. Ching)
   Nanoscale ballistic spin and charge transport studied by optical techniques;  (see abstract)