Nuclear Physics Seminar
Solid State Physics Seminar
Student Seminar
Freshmen Seminar
2006/2007
2005/2006
2004/2005
Department
of Physics
Florida International University
CP 204
11200 SW 8th St
Miami, FL 33199
(305) 348-2605 Phone
(305) 348-6700 Fax
Physics
Colloquia
General
Unless
otherwise noted,
all colloquia are held in HLS 160 (since Feb 1, 2008).
Calendar Academic Year
2007/2008
| Date | Speaker | Title/Topic |
| Sep 14 | Dr. Francisco Raymo, UM | Photochromic Switches, Luminescent Probes and Electroactive Films Based on Functional Heterocycles |
| Sep 21 | Dr. Lau, FAU | Response and Fluctuations in Active Systems |
| Sep 28 | Dr. Chapagain, FIU | Monte-Carlo Simulation of Protein-Protein Interactions |
| Oct 5 | canceled due to convocation |
|
| Oct 12 | Dr. Sang-Ki Li, NOAA | Atlantic Warm Pool and its climatic impacts on the Americas |
| Oct 19 | Dr. Ted von Hippel, Univ. Texas at Austin | White Dwarf debris Disks: The Fate of Planetary Systems? |
| Oct 26 | |
cancelled |
| Nov 2 | Dr. Korey Sorge, FAU | Nanoscale Magnetism as a “Science
project” |
| Nov 9 | cancelled |
|
| Nov 16 | Dr. Laird Kramer, FIU |
CHEPREO: Building a Research and Learning Community |
| Nov 30 | Dr. Jiandong Guo, Institute of Physics, Academy of Science, China | Different growth modes of pentacene on metal-modified Si surfaces |
| Dec 7 11 am CP320 |
Dr. David Singh, ORNL | Structure, bonding and properties of hydrides and oxides: insights from first principles calculations |
| Jan 18 |
Dr. Aubrey
Hanbicki, Naval Research Laboratory |
|
| Jan 25 |
Dr. Ben Zeidman, Argonne National Lab |
From Quarks to the
Stars: An Overview |
| Feb 1 |
Dr. Gary White, George Washington
University |
Secret Lives of the
Hidden Physicists -- From Spandex to Spintronix (abstract) |
| Feb 8 |
Dr. Joerg Reinhold, FIU |
From Glueing
Borromean Nuclei to Softening Neutron Stars: Nuclear Physics with
Hyperons |
| Feb 15 |
Dr. E.F. (Joe) Redish, U
of Maryland |
How having a theory
of teaching and learning changes what I do in class on Monday (abstract) |
| Feb 22 |
Dr, Costas
Efthimiou, U of Central Florida |
The Physics of
Hollywood Movies |
| Feb 29 |
Dr. Dan Britt, U of
Central Florida |
Orbits and Ice
Ages: Orbital Controls on Climate during the last 2 million years |
| Mar 7 |
Dr. Jiandi Zhang,
FIU |
Searching the
signature of magnetic phase separation with neutron scattering |
| Mar 14 11 am CP 220 |
Prof. L.
J. Wang, Max-Planck Research Group,University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
Precision
Measurement of Gravity, Time and Applications |
| Mar 14 |
Dr. Chun-Min Lo, U of South Florida |
ECIS: a cell-based
biosensor using microelectrodes |
| Mar 21 |
SPRING BREAK |
No colloquium |
| Mar 28 |
Dr. Werner Boeglin,
FIU |
ITER, the other
"solar power" |
| Apr 4 |
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| Apr 11 |
No colloquium |