Colloquium postponed until 2/14/08
due to closing of the University.
Tue. Jan. 22, 2008 Dr. Ewelina Hankiewicz, Fordham U. --
Amazing spin transport effects at the nanoscale
Wed. Jan. 23, 2008 Professor Richard Kaner, UCLA --
Synthesis and Applications of Conducting Polymer Nanofibers
(special joint
colloquium with Chemistry Dept; host: A. Lachgar; 11:15 AM in Olin 103)
Fri. Jan. 25, 2008 Kevin Conley, WFU -- Thesis defense (Colloquium
will begin at 3:15 PM and is open to the public.)
A Dirac All-Electron Basis and Spin-Orbit Coupled
Projector Implementation of the Projector Augmented Wave Method for
Atomic Systems
Tue. Jan. 29, 2008 Dr. Tamar Pereg-Barnea, U. Texas at Austin --
Relativity and Condensed Matter Meet -
a story about Dirac
Fermions on a graphene sheet
Thurs. Jan. 31, 2008 Dr. Derek Stewart, Cornell U. --
A unified approach to nanoscale charge and energy transport
Thurs. Feb. 7, 2008 (Founders Day Convocation in Wait Chapel at 4:30 PM)
Mon. Feb. 11, 2008
Professor Richard Superfine, UNC --
From Cilia to Silia: Biological and engineered fluid
flows
(hosts: M. Guthold and J. Macosko)
Thurs. Feb. 14, 2008
Professor Paul J. Turinsky, NCSU Dept. of
Nuclear Engineering --
The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership and Generation
IV Reactors
(host: N. Holzwarth) (originally scheduled for Jan. 17th)
Thurs. Feb. 21, 2008
Professor Jed Macosko, WFU --
Lab-on-Bead Processing of Encoded Chemical Libraries: Drug Discovery at
the Nanoscopic Level
Thurs. Feb. 28, 2008 Professor Duane Pontius, Birmingham-Southern
College --
The Fountains of Enceladus
(host: J. Grigsby)
Thurs. Mar. 6, 2008 Professor Gerald Meisner, UNCG --
Online, Inquiry-Based Physics Course and Virtual Laboratories;
Do Students Learn?
(host: F. Salsbury)
Thurs. Mar. 13, 2008 (Spring break)
Thurs. Mar. 20, 2008 (Good Friday holiday on 5/21/08)
Thurs. Mar. 27, 2008 Dr. Jay Chervenak, NASA & WFU alum --
Superconducting Detector Arrays for Astrophysics
-- (host: N. Holzwarth)
Thurs. Apr. 3, 2008 Professor Dmitri Khveshchenko, UNC-Chapel Hill --
"Physics of Quantum Computing"
(host: W. C. Kerr)
Thurs. Apr. 10, 2008 Professor Yong-qing Li, East Carolina University
--
Probing
Biological Dynamics of Single Cells Using Laser Tweezers
and Raman Spectroscopy
(host: D. Kim-Shapiro)
Thurs. Apr. 17, 2008 Will Hodge, WFU --
Electron-electron interactions in solids: analytic results for the Hubbard
model in the atomic limit
Thurs. Apr. 24, 2008 Honors thesis and Pre-Ph.D. presentations by
Andrew Wall and Doug Bonessi, respectively --
"Absorption and emission of light by electrons
and holes in ZnO" and "Optical Tweezer Forces and Torques: Experiment and
Theory" ( beginning at 3:45 PM)
Thurs. May 1, 2008 ΣΠ&Sigma and awards ceremonies; Honors
Thesis presentation by Sarah Kylap --
Numerical Computation of the Stress-Energy Tensor in the Neighborhood of a
Wormhole due to Fermionic Fields
Tentative schedule -- please check announcements and abstracts of seminars.
