Department of Physics Seminar Series, Fall 1998

Seminars begin at 4 PM in room 225 of 4747 Troost
Coffee in Rm 226 at 3:30 pm
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September 4
    Labor Day Weekend

September 11, Professor Harlan Anderson, Ceramic Engineering, UM-Rolla
    Influence of Microstructure on the Electric Properties of Ceramic Film

September 18, Professor Peter Dowben, Department of Physics, University of Nebraska
    The Nonmetal to Metal Transitions in Thin Films and Surfaces

September 25, Dan Waddill, Department of Physics, University of Missouri - Rolla
    Photoelectron Diffraction: Recent Developments and Future Directions

October 2, Professor Yingcheng Lai, Department of Physics, Univ. of Kansas
    Communicating with Chaos

October 9, Fred Leibsle, Department of Physics, University of Missouri ­ KC
    Reactions, Step Edges, and Quantum Corrals: The fun we've had with our STM

October 16, James M. Phillips, Department of Physics, University of Missouri ­ KC
    A theory of step edge stability and capillary waves

October 23
    Midwest Solid State Conference at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

October 30
    TBA

November 6
    TBA

November 13, Clifford Olson, Department of Physics, Iowa State University
    Crystal momentum conservation in resonant photoelectron emission

November 20
    TBA

November 27
    Thanksgiving Holiday

December 4 W. Y. Ching, Department of Physics, UMKC
    Impurity States of Cr ions in Y3Al5O12 (YAG) Crystal

December 11 READING DAYS
    TBA