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UTD
Physics Department Hosts Monthly Meetings of TAS: CALENDAR |
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Colloquium: Fall 2008 Schedule |
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Unless noted otherwise, Colloquia will be held
Wednesdays in Room ECSS TI
AUDITORIUM (2.102) from
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm (Refreshments at 3:00) |
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Sep 10 |
Global
Warming: Facts and Fallacies
Professor Brian Tinsley University of Texas at Dallas |
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Sep
24 |
Joint Sigma Xi Research Society and Physics
event
Professor John Hoffman University of Texas at Dallas |
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Oct
29 |
Joint Sigma Xi Research Society and
Physics event Prof. Robert Szoszkiewicz Kansas State University |
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Nov
12 |
Joint Sigma Xi Research Society and
Physics event Space
Science With Small Satellites Professor Greg Earle University of Texas at Dallas |
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Colloquium: Spring 2008 Schedule |
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Unless noted otherwise, Colloquia will be held
Wednesdays in Room ECSS 2.312 from 4:00 pm to 5:00
pm |
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Jan 16 |
Professor Truell Hyde Baylor University |
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Jan
30 |
Controlling the Diffraction Limit and Group Velocity with Active Anisotropic Metamaterials
Professor Viktor Podolskiy Oregon State University |
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Feb
5 SOM 1.118 (Davidson Auditorium) 7:30-8:30 pm |
Joint NSM - Arts & Humanities event The Science of Optics; The History of Art
Professor Charles Falco University of Arizona, Tucson |
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Feb
6 HH 2.402 (Hoblitzelle Hall) 4:00-5:00 pm |
Joint NSM - Physics event The Art and Science of the Motorcycle
Professor Charles Falco University of Arizona, Tucson |
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Feb
20 |
Resonant Organic-Inorganic
Hybrid Nanostructures for Novel Light Emitting Devices and Solar Cells
Professor Vladimir Agranovich NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas and Institute for Spectroscopy, Moscow, Russia |
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Mar
5 |
Joint
Sigma Xi - Physics event Treatment
of Burn Victims using Lasers
Professor Ahamed Idris University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
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Mar
24 FN 2.104 11:30 am |
High-Energy
Physics Seminar Dipping
into the Strange Sea of the Proton
Ms. Mahsana Ahsan Department of Physics, Kansas State University |
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Apr
2 |
SPIN-UP: How to Develop a
Thriving Undergraduate Science Program
Slides
Professor Robert Hilborn The University of Texas at Dallas |
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Apr
16 |
Optimization of Intensity
Modulated Radiation Therapy Dr. Ramin Abolfath University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
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Colloquium: Fall 2007 Schedule |
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Unless noted otherwise, Colloquia will be held
Wednesdays in Kusch Auditorium, FN
2.102 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
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Sep 26 |
It's amazing. It's the mirrors.™
Dr. Walter Duncan Texas Instruments |
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Oct
3 ECSS 2.102 (TI Auditorium) 4:00-5:00 pm |
Joint
Physics - Sigma Xi event Answer the Call: Global Warming and What YOU can do about it
Professor Radha Krishnan University of Texas at Dallas |
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Oct
10 |
Nanoscience Research at Clemson University
Professor A. M. Rao Clemson University |
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Oct
17 |
Precision Studies in High Energy Collider Physics
Professor Bennie Ward Baylor University |
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Oct
24 |
New View of the Plasmasphere: Results From IMAGE EUV
Dr. Jerry Goldstein Southwest Research Institute |
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Oct
31 |
Joint
Physics - Sigma Xi event The New Orleans Levee Failures: What Went Wrong and Why?
Dr. David Daniel President, The University of Texas at Dallas |
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Nov
7 |
Dr. Vladimir Kresin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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Nov
14 |
Particle Physics and the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Readout: Present and the Future
Professor Jingbo Ye Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University |
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Colloquium: Spring 2007 Schedule |
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Unless noted otherwise, Colloquia will be held
Wednesdays in Kusch Auditorium, FN
2.102 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
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Feb 7 |
Biomedical Applications of Magnetic Nanomaterials
Professor Diandra Leslie-Pelecky University of Nebraska – Lincoln |
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Feb 12 ECSS 2.102 (TI Auditorium) 4:00 pm |
Building materials one layer at a time: Technological challenges as scientific opportunities
Professor Yves Chabal Rutgers University |
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Feb
28 |
Solid State Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes and Their Applications
Dr. Mei Zhang NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas |
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Mar 14 |
Moving Things by Thought: Nanotools for Efficient Neurointerfacing
Professor Mario Romero-Ortega UT Southwestern Medical Center |
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Mar 28 |
Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes: How Useful is It?
Dr. Pavel Nikolaev ERC Inc. / NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston |
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Mar
29, 2007 AB 1.2 (Student Activities Center) 12:00-1:00 pm |
NSM event: Clark Memorial Lecture Series
Professor Anthony Leggett University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Mar
30, 2007 SOM 1.118 (Davidson Auditorium) 10:00-11:30 am |
NSM event: Clark Memorial Lecture Series Testing the Limits of Quantum Mechanics: Motivation, State of Play, Prospects
Professor Anthony Leggett University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Apr 11 |
GPS Technology and its Applications in Space Physics
Professor Phillip Anderson University of Texas at Dallas |
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Apr 16 |
Quantum Transport in Graphene Nanoribbons
Dr. Barbaros Oezyilmaz Department of Physics, Columbia University |
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Apr 18 |
Observational Probes of the Dark Side of the Universe
Professor Richard Ellis California Institute of Technology |
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May 2 11:00am-12:00pm |
Ultrafast Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Microscopy Using Quantum Dots and Biomolecules
Dr. Anton Malko Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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July 16 FN 2.106 1:30-3:00 pm |
Location, Location, Location: How Disorder Determines the Magnetic Properties of Nanomaterials
Professor Diandra Leslie-Pelecky University of Nebraska – Lincoln |
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Colloquium: Fall 2006 Schedule |
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Unless noted otherwise, Colloquia will be held
Wednesdays in Kusch Auditorium, FN
2.102 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
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Aug 18, 2006 ECSS 2.102 (TI Auditorium) 3:00-4:00 pm |
Light and energy, conversion of sunlight to electricity by dye sensitized solar cells
Professor Michael Graetzel Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland |
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Aug
30 |
I. Lasers: Solution Looking for a Problem
Lawrence Sutherland, Filmmaker Tarrant County College in Arlington
II. Lasers: Applications Discussion by UTD Professors Austin Cunningham, Robert Glosser, and Duncan MacFarlane |
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Oct
4 |
Nanocomposite formation for coatings, flexible photovoltaics cells and field emission devices
Professor Seamus Curran Physics Department, New Mexico State University |
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Oct
11 |
Professor Hanzhang Lu Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
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Oct
18 |
Dr. Harry Fred Tibbals Bioinstrumentation Resource Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
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Oct
25 |
Precision Measurement of Gravity, Time, and Distance
Professor L. J. Wang Institute of Optics, Information, and Photonics, Max-Planck Research Group and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
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Nov
22 |
Nano-Materials for Organic and
Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Optoelectronics
Dr. Clara Santato ISMN-CNR, Bologna, Italy |
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Colloquium: Spring 2006 Schedule |
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Unless noted otherwise, Colloquia will be held
Wednesdays in Kusch Auditorium, FN
2.102 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
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Jan 17, 2006 CN 1.112 (Conference Center) 7:00-8:30 pm |
Before the Big Bang - A Radical New Perspective
Sir Roger Penrose Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor, University of Oxford, UK |
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Jan 30, 2006 FO 3.616 3:30-5:00 pm |
DNA translocation and looping mechanism of chromatin remodeling revealed by single-molecule studies
Dr. Yongli Zhang Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley |
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Feb 22 |
Cosmology and the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe Professor Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki Department of Physics, University of Texas at
Dallas |
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Feb 27, 2006 CN 1.212 (Conference Center) 7:00-9:00 pm |
Cosmology: the Science of the Whole Universe
Professor Wolfgang Rindler Department of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas |
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Mar 27 ECSS 2.102 (TI Auditorium) 11:00 am -12:00 pm |
Organic Electronics: Fundamentals to Devices
Dr. Eric W. Forsythe |
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Mar 29 |
Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST)
Dr. Eduardo do Couto e Silva Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
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Apr 5 |
Professor Joseph Izen, Professor Xinchou Lou and Dr. Shuwei Ye Department of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas |
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Apr 12 |
I. Physics and Risk Management: What do we have in common? II. Nonlinear elasto-plastic oscillators with random vibration
Professor Alain Bensoussan International
Center for Decision & Risk Management , University of Texas at Dallas |
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Apr 20 HH 2.402 (Karl Hoblitzelle Hall) 5:00-6:00 pm |
Dr. Nicholas E. White Director, Exploration of the Universe Division, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center |
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June 7 FN 2.104 11:00 am -12:00 pm |
Multiscale Modeling of Nanowire-Molecule Interactions
Dr. Kyeongjae (KJ) Cho Stanford University |
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Colloquium: Fall 2005 Schedule |
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Unless noted otherwise, Colloquia will be held
Wednesdays in Kusch Auditorium, FN
2.102 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
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Sep 14, 2005 |
Electric Currents in the Earth’s Space Environment
Professor Center for Space Sciences & Department of
Physics, University of Texas at Dallas |
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Sep 28, 2005 |
DNA Biophysics in the 21st Century: the Mesoscale Approach
Professor Stephen Levene Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of Texas at Dallas |
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Oct 12, 2005 |
Magnetic Nanoparticles and Nanocomposite Magnets
Professor Ping Liu Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington |
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Oct 26, 2005 |
Materials and Processes for Flexible Electronics
Professor Bruce Gnade Depts. of Electrical Engineering & Chemistry,
University of Texas at Dallas |
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Nov 9, 2005 ECSS 2.102 (TI Auditorium) 6:00-7:30 pm |
Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Yarns and Textiles for Fun and Profit
Professor NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas |
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Nanoscience for Advanced Applications: on Crossroads of Disciplines US-Mexico Workshop Guanajuato, Mexico, 16-19
February, 2005
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CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico Professor Wolfgang Rindler University of Texas at Dallas |
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Colloquium: Spring 2005 Schedule |
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Unless noted otherwise, Colloquia will be held
Wednesdays in Kusch Auditorium, FN
2.102 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
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Thursday Jan 13, 2005 2:30-3:30 pm GR 4.301 |
Dr. Han Htoon Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Lab |
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Jan 19, 2005 |
One-Dimensional Transport in Nanowire Heterostructures
Dr. Wei Lu Harvard University |
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Feb
2, 2005 |
Gravitational Waves: a New Window to the Universe
Professor Jörg Frauendiener University of Tübingen, Germany |
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Monday Feb 7, 2005 4:00-5:00 pm Kusch, FN 2.102 |
Black Holes: Computing Their Formation, Accretion, and Collision
Professor Steven Liebling Long Island University |
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Feb
9, 2005 |
Dark Energy Questions and Cosmological Probes
Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki Department of Astrophysical Sciences and Department of Physics, Princeton University |
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Mar
2, 2005 |
Atomic and Molecular Scale Electronic Transport
Dr. Bingqian Xu Arizona State University |
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Thursday Mar 3, 2005 4:00-5:00 pm Kusch, FN 2.102 |
Dr. Saiful I. Khondaker Center for Nano & Molecular Science & Technology, University of Texas at Austin |
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Mar
23, 2005 |
Space Plasma Research at The University
of Texas at Arlington
Professor J. L. Horwitz Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington |
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Mar
30, 2005 |
Seven Wonders of Quantum
Nanoelectronics
Dr. Igor Altfeder NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas |
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Apr
13, 2005 |
The Physics of Negative
Refraction
Slides
Professor Vladimir Agranovich NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas and Institute for Spectroscopy, Moscow, Russia |
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Colloquium: Fall 2004 Schedule |
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Place: Kusch Auditorium, FN 2.102 Time: Tuesdays;
networking 3:30-4:00 pm; presentations 4:00-5:00 pm |
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Sept 21, 2004 |
New Superhard Materials
Synthesis
Slides
Professor Vladimir Blank Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials Moscow, Russia |
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Oct 12, 2004
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Professor Wolfgang Rindler Department of Physics, University of Texas at
Dallas Richardson, Texas, USA |
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Oct 19, 2004
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Spacecraft Charging and the International Space Station
Professor Charles Swenson Utah State University Logan, Utah, USA |
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Oct 26, 2004
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Professor John Hoffman Department of Physics, University of Texas at
Dallas Richardson, Texas, USA |
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Nov 2, 2004
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Nanostructrured
Carbon and the Nanotechnology Revolution
Professor David Tomanek Physics and Astronomy Department, Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, USA |
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Nov 16, 2004
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Nature's Surprises:
What have we learnt from the Latest High Energy Physics Data
Professor Xinchou Lou Department of Physics, University of Texas at
Dallas Richardson, Texas, USA |
