WFU Physics Colloquium Schedule
-- Fall 2007
All seminars will be held at 4 PM in Room 101 of Olin Physical
Laboratory (unless noted otherwise); there will be refreshments at
3:30 PM in the lobby prior to each seminar.
Thurs. Aug. 30, 2007
Welcoming "Tea" and student presentations
(Starting at 3:30 PM)
Thurs. Sept. 6, 2007
Physics Research Opportunities at WFU -- Part I
Thurs. Sept. 13, 2007 Professor Edward Brown, U. Rochester and WFU
alum. --
In honor of Homecoming weekend, Professor Brown will
give both a regular physics colloquium --
Studying the tumor extracellular matrix using second harmonic
generation
and also a special alumni colloquium together with his wife, Ania Majewska,
"Applications of multiphoton
laser-scanning microscopy: transport in tumors" and
"Applications of multiphoton laser-scanning microscopy: synaptic
function"
on Fri. Sept. 14, 2007 at 4 PM
Thurs. Sept. 20, 2007
Physics Research Opportunities at WFU -- Part II
Tues. Sept. 25, 2007 Professor Sharon Campbell, UNC (sponsored jointly
by Physics and Center for Structural Biology) -- (host: Leslie Poole from
CSB)
Redox Regulation of Ras Superfamily GTPases
Thurs. Sept. 27, 2007 Professor Daniel Gauthier, Duke U. --
Slow Light, Fast Light, Backward Light, and Stopped Light: What does
it all mean?
(host: W. Kerr)
Thurs. Oct. 4, 2007 Professor Paul Anderson, WFU --
Particle Production and Vacuum Polarization Effects in Cosmological and Black
Hole Spacetimes
Thurs. Oct. 11, 2007 Professor Kathy Aidala, Mount Holyoke --
Scanning Probe Microscopy: From Living Bacteria to Quantum Electrons
(host:
F. Salsbury)
Thurs. Oct. 18, 2007 (Fall break 10/19/07)
Thurs. Oct. 25, 2007 Professor Keith Weninger, NCSU --
The role of membrane fusion during viral
infection
(host: D. Kim-Shapiro)
Thurs. Nov. 1, 2007 Professor Dan Boye, Davidson --
The Science of Singing
(host: N. Holzwarth)
Thurs. Nov. 8, 2007 Professor Dennis Livesay, UNCC --
Quantitative Stability/Flexibility Relationships (QSFR) within Protein Families
(host:
J. Fetrow)
Thurs. Nov. 15, 2007 Professor Donald Jacobs, UNCC --
Modeling Protein Stability Using Constraint Theory:
Addressing Non-additivity of Entropy in Free Energy Decomposition Schemes
(host:
F. Salsbury)
Thurs. Nov. 22, 2007 (Thanksgiving Holiday)
Thurs. Nov. 29, 2007 Dr. Boris Fine, University of Tennessee --
Nuclear spin dynamics in solids: implications of microscopic chaos
Tues. Dec. 4, 2007 Dr. Timo Thonhauser, MIT --
Advancing Electronic Structure Theory: From van der Waals to NMR
Note: seminar will begin at 2:30 PM
Thurs. Dec. 6, 2007 Professor Garrett Matthews, University of
South Florida --
Nanoscale Mechanics and Assembly of
Hierarchal Forms of Collagen Fibrils
(host: M. Guthold)
Tentative schedule -- please check announcements and abstracts of seminars.
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