Department of Physics Seminar Series 1994-1995

September 2
James M. Phillips, UMKC Physics
Reentrant Layering Transitions
September 9
David Wieliczka, UMKC Physics
Hg release by Dental Amalgams
September 16
John Urani, UMKC Physics
Spinors in QM and GR
September 23
Ken Herwig, UMC
Neutron Diffraction by Alkane Films
September 30
Michael Kruger, UMKC Physics
Squeezing the long range order out of crystals: GeI4 a case study.
October 7
Doug Gute, UMC/UMKC Engineering
Nonlinear Structural Models
October 14
Midwest Solid State Conference UMKC Host
October 21
D. E. Ellis, Northwestern University
Ab initio Cluster Calculations in Solids
October 28
Brian Laird, Chemistry, University of Kansas
Localization in Glasses
November 4
Doug McKay, Physics, University of Kansas
Detecting Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray Neutrinos in the Antarctic Ice Cap
November 11
O. L. (Larry) Weaver, Physics, Kansas State University
Super Radiants in a CW-Mode System--A Mirrorless Maser
November 16
Murli Manghnani ,School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii
High Pressure X-ray and Spectroscopic Measurements in the Diamond Cell: Applications to Earth and Materials Science
Note: (Wednesday at 11:00am Rm 225)
December 2
Adrin Tang, UMKC Computer Science (CSTP)
Recent Advances in High Speed Networking
December 9
W. Y. Ching, UMKC Physics
Electronic, Optical, and Transport Properties of "perfect" sp2 bonded graphitic carbon
January 13
K. W. Wong, Professor of Physics, U. of Kansas
High Tc Superconductors: Is the presence of Cu Unique.
January 20
Y. C. Jean, Professor of Chemistry and Physics, UMKC
The Electronic Properties of Organic Superconductors
January 27
W. Y. Ching, Department of Physics, UMKC
Band Theory of Nonlinear Susceptibilities in Cubic Crystals
February 3
David Wieliczka, Department of Physics, UMKC
Photoelectron Microscopy
February 10
Justin C. Huang, Department of Physics, UMC
Neutrinos and the Robertson - Walker Universe
February 17
H. Jiang, Associate Professor Physics, Kansas State
Confined Stark Effect in CdS1-xSex Quantum Dots
February 24
Jacob J. Leventhal, Curators Professor UMSL
A Classical View of the Stark Effect in Atoms
March 3
Jerzy Wrobel, Assistant Professor Physics, UMKC
CdTe/CdMnTe: In Superlattices
March 10
Spring Break
March 17
Roger H. French, DuPont-Central Research
Interfacial Electronic Structure and Interband Transitions: For Grain Boundary Bonding and Hamaker Constants for Thin Glass Films
March 24
March Meeting APS
March 31
Charles Meade, Geophysical Laboratory
Structural transformations in amorphous materials at high pressure
April 7
Piotr Wrobel, University of Illinois/Institute for Low Temperature, Wroclaw, Poland
The Nature of Quasiparticles in Weakly Doped Antiferromagnets
April 14
Bob Bowman, Department of Chemistry, Univrsity of Kansas
TBA
April 21
Hideki Matsuoka, Kyoto University
TBA
April 28
Meera Chandrasekhar, Department of Physics, UMC
TBA
May 5
Final Exams