WFU Physics Colloquium Schedule
-- Fall 2008
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.
Mon. Aug. 25, 2008 Faith Coldren, WFU -- Ph. D. defense (Colloquium
will begin at 3:30 PM and is open to the public.)
Theoretical and Experimental Atomic Force
Microscopy Studies of
Staphylococcus aureus
Thurs. Aug. 28, 2008
Welcoming "Tea" and student presentations
(Starting at 3:45 with refreshments at 3:15 PM.)
Thurs. Sept. 4, 2008
Physics Research Opportunities I
Thurs. Sept. 11, 2008
Physics Research Opportunities II
Thurs. Sept. 18, 2008 (WFU Opening Convocation)
Thurs. Sept. 25, 2008 Professor Daniel Kim-Shapiro, WFU --
Nitric Oxide Scavenging by Hemoglobin in
Health, Disease, and Therapeutics
Thurs. Oct. 2, 2008 Dr. Natalie Gassman, WFU --
Unraveling the Transcription Machinery of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1
Thurs. Oct. 9, 2008 Professor Laura I. Clarke, NCSU --
Molecular dynamics within self-assembled monolayers
(host: N. Holzwarth)
Thurs. Oct. 16, 2008 (fall break 10/17/2008)
Thurs. Oct. 23, 2008 Professor Paul Tiesinga, UNC --
Neurophysics of cortical computation
(host: D. Kim-Shapiro)
Thurs. Oct. 30, 2008 Professor Jeongyong Kim, WFU --
Nanoscale Confocal Microscopy and Spectroscopy: Development and Applications
Thurs. Nov. 6, 2008 Professor Shane Hutson, Vanderbilt U. and WFU Alum
(Annual Homecoming Speaker organized by Alumnus Chandran Sabanayagam)
"How does a fly make itself? I. Dissecting morphogenesis with laser
microsurgery II. Modeling cell-level mechanics" In addition to the
regular colloquium, Professor Hutson will also give the
4th Annual Homecoming Colloquium
on Friday Nov. 7th, at 4 PM presenting additional results on models
of cell-level mechanics.
Thurs. Nov. 13, 2008 Professor Patrick Brady, U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee --
Exploring the transient Universe with gravitational waves (host: Greg Cook)
Thurs. Nov. 20, 2008 2008 Biophysics Symposium --
Biophysics Across Length and Time Scales A two day
symposium co-organized and co-sponsored by Wake Forest University
to be held at the Friday Center For Continuing Education in
Chapel Hill, NC.
Thurs. Nov. 27, 2008 Thanksgiving Holiday
Thurs. Dec. 4, 2008 Dr. John R. Jameson, Stanford U. --
The story of dielectric relaxation:
How Intel came to care about Curie's curious discovery
Tentative schedule -- please check announcements and abstracts of seminars.
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