Department of Physics Colloquium Series - Winter 2004
updated: April 13, 2004

Seminars begin at 4:00 PM , Coffee at 3:30 pm
Room 310, Robert H. Flarsheim Hall
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January 30, L. Katz, University of Missouri - KC, School of Dentristry - Oral Biology,   Kansas City, MO (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Ultrasonic Wave Propagation and Scanning Acoustic Microscopy Studies of the Micromechanical Structure/Property Relationships in Calcified Tissues & Calcified Tissue/Materials Interfaces

February 1,
    cancelled

February 13, W.-Y. Ching, University of Missouri - KC, Department of Physics, Kansas City, MO
    Towards Realistic Nanoscale Modeling of Microstructures in Materials

February 20, Y. Wang, University of Missouri - KC, School of Dentristry - Oral Biology,  Kansas City, MO (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Wavelets and Genetic Image Analysis

February 27, C.C. Lin, University of Wisconsin-Madison,  Department of Physics, Madison, WI  (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Recent Developments in Atomic Collisions and Applications to Plasmas
    (Posponed!)

March 5, S. Zhang, University of Missouri - Columbia, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Columbia, MO (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Interplay between spin transport and magnetization dynamics in magnetic nanostructures

March 12,
   Spring Break

March 19, F. Hansen. Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (host W.-Y. Ching)
    Structure and Dynamics of Films of Intermediate-Length Alkane Molecules Absorbed on a Solid Surface

March 26, Q. Yu, University of Missouri - Columbia, Center for Surface Science and Plasma Technology, and the Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia, MO (host D. Wieliczka)
    Creation of Polymerizable Species in Plasma Polymerization

April 2, J. Adegoke, University of Missouri - KC, Department of Geosciences,  Kansas City, MO (host D. Wieliczka)
    Predicting lower atmosphere response to land surface energy and moisture flux variations at local and regional scales.

April 9, Moses Chan, Penn State University, University Park, PA (K.L. Cheng Lecture)
    Experimental Studies of Superconductivity in One Dimension

April 16
    No colloquium scheduled. Astronomy Talk at 8:00 p.m. in Royal Hall instead.

April 23,
    Trung Van Nguyen, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (host D.-M. Zhu)
    Effect of Electrode Flooding and Membrane Surface Ionic Activity on the Performance of PEM Fuel Cell

April 30,
    open