Department of Physics Colloquium Series - Winter 2006
updated: April 24, 2006

Seminars begin at 4:00 PM , Coffee at 3:30 pm
Room 310, Robert H. Flarsheim Hall
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January 20, The K.L Cheng Lecture for 2006
    Prof. Chun C. Lin, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, (host K.L. Cheng Seminar Committee)
    "Electron-Atom Collisions: from Franck-Hertz Experiment to Atom Traps"

January 27, Prof. A. Holder, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri - KC, Kansas City, MO (host J. Phillips)
    "What's That in Your Mouth? Rational Design of Dental Materials"

February 3, Curatorss Prof. W.-Y. Ching  Department of Physics, University of Missouri - KC, Kansas City, MO (host J. Phillips)
    "Complex Nonlinear Deformation of Intergranular Glassy Films in b-Si3N4"

February 10, Faculty of the Physics Department, University of Missouri - KC, Kansas City, MO (host J. Phillips)
    "Reports of Research and Projects"

February 17, Dr. P. Rulis, Department of Physics, University of Missouri - KC, Kansas City, MO
    "Computational XANES/ELNES Spectroscopy as a Guide for Structure Characterization"

February 24,
    open

March 3, Professor H. R. Chandrasekhar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri - Columbia,  (host W.-Y. Ching)
    cancelled

March 10, 
    Spring Break

March 17,
    APS March Meeting in Baltimore

March 24,  Asst. Prof. K.G. Wang, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (host W.-Y. Ching)
    "Multiscale modeling and property prediction"

March 31, Dr. Bin Chen, University of California, Berkley, CA (host M. Kruger)
    "Structural and mechanical propersties of ZnS and TiO2 nanoparticles"

April 7,  Prof. A. Migone, Department of Physics, University of Southern Illinois, Carbon Dale, IL (host J. Phillips)
    "Gas adsorption on carbon nanotubes: the role of adsorbate size"

April 14, Assist. Prof. Carsten A. Ullrich, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Missouri - Columbia              
    "Terahertz electron dynamics in semiconductor quantum wells"

April 21,  Dr. M. Nawrocka, Nanophotonics and Nanofabrication Lab, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, Miami, FL (host J. Wrobel)
    "Photonic devices – from bulky apparatus to nanoscale instruments"

April 28,  Prof. Wu Li, School of Dentistry, University of California, San Francisco  (host W.-Y. Ching)
    "How does tooth enamel crystal elongate? Role of protein-protein and protein-crystal inteactions in tooth enamel development"