Department of Physics Colloquium Series - Spring 2001
updated: April 4, 2001

Seminars begin at 4:00 PM , Coffee at 3:30 pm
Room 310, Robert H. Flarsheim Hall
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January 26, Ta-Pei Cheng, University of Missouri - Saint Louis, MO  (host W.-Y. Ching)
    The Accelerating Universe

Ferbruary 02, Sashi Satpathy, University of Missouri - Columbia, MO (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Physics of Colossal Magnetoresistive Materials

Ferbruary 09, cancelled

Ferbruary 16, W.Y. Ching, University of Missouri - Kansas City, MO
    Electronic Structure of Y3Fe5O12 : In; Search of a Correct Band Model

Ferbruary 23, J. Urani, University of Missouri - Kansas City, MO
    The Accelerating Universe: A return to 1948?

March 02, M. O'Shea, Kansas State University - Manhattan, KS (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Nano-structure Permanent Magnetic Materials

March 09,  Z. Peng, University of Missouri - Kansas City, MO
    Functional Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials

March 16,
    APS March Meeting Week

March 23, cancelled

March 31
    Spring Break

April 6, J. Phillips, University of Missouri - Kansas City, MO
    Application of Quantum Chemical Methods to Surface Science

April 13, C. Wexler, University of Missouri - Columbia, MO (host D.-M. Zhu)
    Liquid Crystalline Phases in Quantum Hall Effect

April 20, Hui Gu, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Intergranular Glassy Film in high-purity Si3N4-SiO2 Ceramics: N/(N+O) ratio and Interface Structure

April 27, S.H. Garofalini, Rutgers University (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Glass Surfaces and Interfaces

May 04, M. Somayazulu, Carnegie Institute (host M. Kruger)
    TBA