Department of Physics Colloquium Series - Winter 2002
updated: April 22, 2002

Seminars begin at 4:00 PM , Coffee at 3:30 pm
Room 310, Robert H. Flarsheim Hall
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February 1
    rescheduled for March 1

February 8, T. Rahman, Department of Physics, Kansas State University (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Evolution of Nanoscale Film Morphology: study of Microscopic Processes that Control Epitaxial Growth

February 15, W.-Y. Ching, Department of Physics, University of Missouri - KC
    Electronic and Dielectric Properties of Insulating Zr3N4

February 22, David Wieliczka, Department of Physics, University of Missouri - KC
    Optics Research at the Wroclaw University of Technology from Optical Vortecis to Corneal Research

March 1, Y. Zeng, Math Department, UMKC (host D.-M. Zhu)
    A Partially-Observed Model for Micro-movement Stock Prices with Bayes Extimation via Filtering Equation

March 8, Aldo Migone, State University of Illinois (host J. Phillips)
   Adsorption Studies on Carbon Nanotubes

March 16
   Spring Break

March 22,
   APS March Meeting

March 29
   Open

April 5, John Urani, Department of Physics, University of Missouri - KC
    Neutrino Masses

April 12, B. Mashoon, Department of Physics, University of Missouri - Columbia (host J. Urani)
    Relativity and nonlocality

April 19, David Clark, University of California - Santa Barbara, (K.L. Chiang Lecture series)
   Processing Approaches to Making Gallium Nitride 'Seed' Crystals Using Epitaxial Films

April 26, Masanori Kohyama, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Osaka, Japan (host W.-Y. Ching)
   First-principles Calculations of Ceramic Interfaces: SiC Grain Boundaries and SiC/Metal Interfaces

May 3, Peru Jena, Virginia Commonwealth (host W.-Y. Ching)
   Atomic Clusters: Looking beyond the Periodic Table