PHYSICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Physics colloquium normally takes place at 4:00pm Fridays in PHY130.

Refreshments are available.

Talks are given by leaders in diverse areas of physics and geared toward student audience as well as faculty members. Many of these talks should be of interest to a wide range of audience from mathematics, engineering, chemistry, biology, and medicine.

All are welcome.

Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2008 (Revised 4/16/08)

Jan 18, 2008          Dr. Venkat Chandrasekhar, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, "Coherent Non-Local Effects in Normal-Metal/Superconductor Systems" <abstract>

Jan 25, 2007          Dr. Amit Meller, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, "Sensing Individual Biomolecules with Solid State Nanopores" <abstract>

Feb 1, 2008           No presentation

Feb 8, 2008           Dr. Ralph Nossal, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, NICHD, NIH, "A Physical Model of Clathrin Basket Assembly" <abstract>

Feb 15, 2008         No presentation

Feb 22, 2008         Dr. Ethan Deneault, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Tampa, "We Are All Stardust" <abstract>

Feb 29, 2008         Dr. Bruce D. Terris, Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturers for 2008, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, "Patterned Nanomagnetic Bits and Devices" <abstract>

Mar 7, 2008           Dr. Yuri Grin, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany "Chemistry and Physics of Intermetallic Chlathrates and Skutterudite-Like Compounds" <abstract>

Mar 14, 2008         No presentation: Spring Break and APS March Meeting

Mar 21, 2008         Dr. Byoungho Lee, School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea "Plasmonic Diffractive Optics" <abstract>

Mar 28, 2008         Dr. Norma Alcantar, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida, "The Role of Surface Forces and Interfacial Phenomena on Biomedical Applications" <abstract>

Mar 31, 2008         Dr. Nikoleta Theodoropoulou, Visiting Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, "Spin Transfer Torque and Dynamics in Magnetic Nanopillars" <abstract>

Apr 4, 2008           Dr. Luis H. Garcia-Rubio, Professor, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, "Spectroscopy Systems for Biodetection" <abstract>

 Apr 11, 2008         Dr. Glen Slack, Chief Scientists, Crystal IS, Green Island, NY, "High and Low Thermal Conductivity Non-metallic Crystals: Some History" <abstract>

Colloquium Schedule for Fall 2007  

Aug 25, 2007         Dr. Roland Netz, Physics Department, Technische Universität München (Technical University of Munich / Munich University of Technology), "Soft Matter in Motion" <abstract>

Sep 7, 2007           Dr. Richard Bertram, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, "The Neural Control of Hormone Secretion" <abstract>

Sep 14, 2007         Dr. Saiful Khondaker, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Nanoscience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, "Fabrication and Electron Transport Properties of Nanodevices Containing Chemical Nanostructures" <abstract>

Sep 21, 2007         Dr. Linda Hirst, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Florida State University, "Liquid Crystalline Phases in the Lipid Bilayer" <abstract>

Sep 28, 2007         Dr. Mark W. Meisel, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Florida, "Prussian Blue Analogs: Photo-Induced Magnetism in Thin Films, Nanoparticles, and New Composites" <abstract>

Oct 5, 2007           Dr. John Crocker, Skirkanich Associate Professor of Innovation, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, "What do Cell Mechanics Measurements really measure?" <abstract>

Oct 12, 2007         Dr. Mike Reynolds, General Motors, "Research and Development Experience for 42 Volt Vehicle Electrical Systems" <abstract>

Oct 19, 2007         Dr. Bruce Lindsey, Distinguished Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Florida, "Brain Circuits and Breathing: Mapping Functional Connectivity and Computational Modeling" <abstract>

Oct 26, 2007         Dr. Shri Signh, Professor, Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, "Phase Transitions and Elastic Properties of Liquid Crystals" <abstract>

Nov 2, 2007           Dr. Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, "Graphane, a Two Dimensional Hydrocarbon: Properties, Synthesis, and Applications" <abstract>

Nov 9, 2007           Dr. Vince G. Harris, William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, "Frontiers of Ferrite Materials Research" <abstract>

Nov 16, 2007         Dr. Hacene Boukari, Research Fellow, Section on Cell Biophysics, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, (National Institutes of Health), "Probing the Dynamics of Macromolecules in Complex Media with Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy" <abstract>

Nov 23, 2007         No presentation: Thanksgiving Break

Nov 30, 2006          Dr. Brian M. Salzberg, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, "Excitation and Secretion at Mammalian Nerve Terminals: Optical and Mechanical Studies" <abstract>

Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2007 

Jan 12, 2007          Dr. Tobias Hertel, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, "Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes: Photophysics of One-Dimensional Solids" <abstract>

Jan 19, 2007          Dr. Per Arne Rikvold, Professor, Department of Physics, Florida State University, "Statistical Physics and Biological Coevolution" <abstract>

Jan 26, 2007          Dr. Gerald (Jerry) Mahan, Distinguished Professor, Physics Department, Penn State University, "Vibrations of Nanotubes and Nanowires" <abstract>

Feb 2, 2007           Dr. Jianping Lu, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Curriculum in Applied and Materials Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "From Nanoelectronics to Nanomedicine: Some Interesting Application of Carbon Nanotubes" <abstract>

Feb 9, 2007           Dr. Malkolm Nicol, Professor, High Pressure Science and Engineering Center, Chemistry Department, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, "Diffraction, Explosives, and Dynamics at High Pressure" <abstract>

Feb 16, 2007         Dr. Richard Borgens, Mari Hulman George Professor of Applied Neurology, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Director of Center for Paralysis Research, Purdue Canceled

Feb 23, 2007         Dr. Carter T. White, Naval Research Laboratory, "From Carbon Nanotubes to Graphene Nanostrips" <abstract>

Mar 2, 2007           Dr. Shane Hutson, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, "Laser Ablation and Tissue Dynamics – from picoseconds to minutes and molecules to cells" <abstract>

Mar 9, 2007           No presentation: APS March Meeting

Mar 12, 2007          Dr. A.K. Raychaudhuri, Unit for Nanosciences, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India, "Growth of Nanomaterials Using Hard and Soft Templates" <abstract>

Mar 16, 2007         No presentation: Spring Break

Mar 23, 2007         Dr. Vladimir Burtman, Research Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of Utah, "Advances in Molecular Nanoelectronics: Phase Transition and Spintronic Studies in Organic Low Dimensional Systems" <abstract>

Mar 30, 2007         Dr. Jiandi Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, "Life at the Edge: Emergent Phenomena at Surfaces/Interfaces of Transition-Metal Oxides" <abstract>

Apr 6, 2007           Dr. Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California, Santa Barbara Canceled

Apr 13, 2007         Dr. Irinel Chiorescu, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University,  "Molecular Spins on the Road of Quantum Computation" <abstract>

Apr 20, 2007         Dr. Jorge Sofo, Associate Professor, Physics Department, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Penn State University Canceled 

Colloquium Schedule for Fall 2006

Sep 1, 2006           Dr. Zhiyu (Jerry) Hu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, "Nanoscale Energy Conversion and Its Applications"

Sep 8, 2006           Dr. Martin Muñoz, Physics Department, University of South Florida, "II-VI Semiconductor Quantum Dot Heterostructures for Visible Emission Applications" <abstract>

Sep 15, 2006         Dr. Gang Chen, Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Energy Nanotechnology" <abstract>

Sep 22, 2006         Dr. Richard Superfine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "Biological Hydrodynamics: From Cilia to Engineered Materials" <abstract>

Sep 29, 2006         Dr. Igor Bondarev, Physics Department, North Carolina Central University, "Cavity QED, Nanophotonics and Quantum Communication
with Atomically Doped Carbon Nanotubes" <abstract>

Oct 6, 2006           Dr. Ward Plummer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, "Magnetism in Nano-structured Materials" <abstract>

Oct 13, 2006         Dr. Alfons Schulte, Department of Physics and College of Optics & Photonics – CREOL, University of Central Florida, "Light Scattering Spectroscopy of Waveguide Structures and Biological Assemblies" <abstract>

Oct 20, 2006         Dr. Hsin Wang, High Temperature Materials Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, "Phonon Scattering in Solids: Theory, Materials and Measurements" <abstract>

Oct 27, 2006         Dr. Susan Sinnott, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, "Atomistic Modeling of the Mechanical and Tribological Properties of Materials" <abstract>

Nov 3, 2006           Dr. Jeff Clayhold (University of Miami, Miami FL) Canceled

Nov 10, 2006        No presentation: Veterans Day

Nov 17, 2006         Dr. James Weaver, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Modeling Biological Cells Exposed to Strong Electric Fields" <abstract>

Nov 24, 2006        No presentation: Thanksgiving Break

Dec 1, 2006          Dr. Tom Reinecke, Naval Research Laboratory, "Coupled Quantum Dots for Quantum Information Technology" <abstract> 

Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2006

Jan 20, 2006          Dr. Aniket Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, "DNA Translocation Through Protein and Silicon Nano-pores" <abstract>

Jan 27, 2006          No presentation

Feb 3, 2006           No presentation

Feb 10, 2006         Dr. Thomas Weber, Division Director, Division of Materials Research, NSF, "Funding Opportunities in Materials Research at the National Science Foundation" <abstract>

Feb 17, 2006         Dr. Gang Chen, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Energy Nanotechnology" <abstract>

Feb 24, 2006         No presentation: Executive Advisory Board Meeting

Mar 3, 2006           Dr. Bahman Anvari, Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, "Cellular Membrane Materials as Motors: Optical Methods to Characterize Nanoelectromechanical Properties" <abstract>

Mar 10, 2006         Dr. Darrin Young, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Case Western Reserve University, "Microsystem Technology for Fully Implantable Cochlear Prosthesis"  Canceled

Mar 17, 2006         No presentation: Spring Break, APS March Meeting

Mar 24, 2006         Dr. Steve Potter, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, "New Tools for Studying Neural Dynamics in Vitro" <abstract>

Mar 31, 2006         Dr. Wu Ma, Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Naval Research Laboratory, Canceled

Apr 7, 2006           Dr. Veerle Keppens, Assistant Professor, Material Science and Engineering Department, University of Tennessee, "Ultrasound Studies of Thermoelectric Materials" <abstract>

Apr 14, 2006         Dr. Sonya Bahar, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri at St. Louis, "Imaging the Elusive Initial Dip" <abstract>

Apr 21, 2006         Dr. Elisa Riedo, Assistant Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Water at the Nanoscale" <abstract>

Apr 28, 2006         Dr. Jihui Yang, Materials Physicist, General Motor R&D, "Skutterudites are for Real" <abstract>

Colloquium Schedule for Fall 2005

Sep 2, 2005           No presentation: Labor Day weekend

Sep 9, 2005           Dr. Robert Peale,Professor, Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, "Toward Silicon-Based Terahertz Laser" <abstract>

Sep 16, 2005         Dr. Wei Chen, Professor, Department of Physics, University of South Florida, "Can we physically control functions of the Na/K pump molecules?" <abstract>

Sep 20, 2005         Dr. Marcelo Vazquez, NASA Space Radiation Laboratory and Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, "Radiation Risks for Astronauts beyond ISS: NASA Space Radiation Program" <abstract>

Sep 30, 2005         Dr. Selman Hershfield, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Florida, "Nonequilibrium transport in nanostructures" <abstract>

Oct 7, 2005           Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, Professor, Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, "An Implantable Biochip for Wireless Monitoring of Glucose and Lactate in the Combat Trauma Victim", <abstract>

Oct 14, 2005         Dr. Chris Leighton, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, "Doped Perovskite Cobaltites: Phase Separation and Intergranular GMR" <abstract>

Oct 21, 2005         Dr. Thomas Weber, Division Director, Division of Materials Research, NSF, "Funding opportunities in materials research at the National Science Foundation" postponed to Jan. 27, 2006 <abstract>

Oct 28, 2005         Dr. Jianjun Dong, Associate Professor, Physics Department, Auburn University, "Novel group IV(B) semiconductors with nano-size clathrate frameworks" <abstract>

Nov 4, 2005          Dr. Simon Phillpot, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. University of Florida, "Thermal transport: Insights from simulation"  <abstract>

Nov 11, 2005        No presentation: Veterans Day

Nov 18, 2005        Dr. Peng Xiong, Associate Professor, Center for Materials Research and Technology, Department of Physics, Florida State University, "Physics and applications of solid-state/organic hybrid nano-structures" <abstract>

Nov 25, 2005        No presentation: Thanksgiving Break

Dec 2, 2005           Dr. Richard Dickinson, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, "New ideas about biological force generation: cytoskeletal filament-end-tracking motors" <abstract>

Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2005

Jan 14, 2005     Dr. Adrian Melott, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Kansas, "Did a gamma-ray burst initiate the late Ordovician mass extinction?" <abstract>

Jan 28, 2005     Dr. Otto Zhou, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Materials science of carbon nanotubes: from soot to biomedical imaging" <abstract>

Feb 11, 2005     Dr. Kurt Busch, Dept of Physics & College of Optics & Photonics: CREOL & FPCE, University of Central Florida, "Solid State Physics Meets Optics: The Curious Optical Properties of Photonic Crystals"  <abstract>

Feb 18, 2005     Dr. Ryan Toomey, Dept of Chemical Engineering, USF, "Beyond Small Surfactants: Interfacial Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers" <abstract>

Feb 25, 2005     Dr. Eric Snow, Naval Research Laboratory, "Single-Walled C Nanotube Networks: A New Electronic Material" <abstract>

Mar 4, 2005     Dr. Weili Luo, Dept of Physics, UCF, "Body force on magnetizable media" <abstract>

Mar 11, 2005     Dr. Michael McHenry, Dept of Materials Science, Carnegie Mellon University "The Role of Surface Crystallography in the Magnetic Response of NiZn Ferrite Nanoparticles" <abstract>

Mar 18, 2005     Spring Break

Mar 25, 2005     APS March Meeting

Apr 8, 2005     Dr. Federico Rosei, Université du Québec - INRS - Energy, Materials, and Telecommunications <abstract>

Apr 15, 2005     Dr. David Mermin, Dept of Physics, Cornell University, "Relativity and Geometry" <abstract>

Apr 19, 2005   Dr. Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nobel Prize in Physics 2004, "The universe is a strange place" <abstract>

Apr 22, 2005     Dr. Mike Sheets, Dept of Biology, Columbia University, "Understanding complex, robust functions in mammalian cells" <abstract>

Colloquium Schedule for Fall 2004

Sep 10, 2004     Dr. Stergios J. Papadakis, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, "Mechanical properties and resonance of carbon-nanotube-based NEMS devices" <abstract>

Sep 24, 2004     Dr. Norma A. Alcantar, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, USF, "The role of surface forces in thin film applications" <abstract>

Oct 8, 2004     Dr. Leslie Tung, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins Univ., "Spiral waves in two-dimensional sheets of cultured cardiac cells" <abstract>

Oct 15, 2004     Dr. Luping Lu, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Chicago., "Charge transport in molecular diodes based on conjugated diblock oligomers" <abstract>

Nov 5, 2004     Dr. Ivan Skorvanek, Inst. of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, "Nanocrystalline materials for soft magnetic and magnetocaloric applicaitons" <abstract>

Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2004

Jan 16, 2004      Dr. David B. Williams, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, "Nanometer-scale Analysis of Grain Boundary Segregation in Metals and Alloys" (jointly sponsored by NNRC and the Department of Physics) [Please note: The colloquium will be at 11:00 AM in CUTR 202] <abstract>

Jan 30, 2004      Dr. Alex A. Volinsky, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida, "Nanoindentation Techniques for Assessing Mechanical Reliability of Microelectronic Interconnect Structures" <abstract>

Feb 6, 2004       Dr. W.D. Phillips, Nobel Laureate, National Institute of Standards and Technology, "DeBroglie Wave Optics with Laser-Like Atoms", <abstract>

Feb 19, 2004     Dr. Marcos Betancourt, UB Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics at Buffalo, "Reduced representation of proteins for fast folding simulations", <abstract>

Feb 26, 2004     Dr. Kenith Meissner, Virginia Tech Applied Biosciences Center, "Biomedical optics from quantum dots to DNA spots: A potpourri of optical research" <abstract>

Feb 27, 2004     Dr. Gerald Woods, Department of Physics, University of South Florida, "Measuring the transport spin polarization of a ferromagnetic metal using point-contact Andreev reflection" <abstract>

Mar 4, 2004       Dr. Martin Muschol, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania , "Depression of Excitation-Secretion Coupling By 'Stuttering Conduction'" <abstract>

Mar 5, 2004       Colloquium rescheduled for April 23, 2004

Mar 12, 2004    SPRING BREAK

Mar 19, 2004     Dr. Kun Yang, National Magnetic Field Laboratory and Department of Physics, Florida State University, "Magnetism, Superfluidity, and Chiral Edge States in Quantum Hall Systems --- Why are People Still Working on the Quantum Hall Effect after Two Nobel Prizes?" <abstract>

Mar 26, 2004    Colloquium canceled

Apr 2, 2004       Dr. Kenneth C. Hass, Physical & Environmental Sciences Department, Ford Motor Company, "Industrial Physics in a Complex World"

Apr 9, 2004       Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus, Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Low dimensional thermoelectrics: The nanotech approach Nanotech enabled green energy sources" <abstract>

Apr 16, 2004      TBA

Apr 23, 2004     Renato P. Camata, Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, "The Physics of Laser and Aerosol Processes in the Fabrication of New Materials" <abstract>

Colloquium Schedule for Fall 2003

Sep 5, 2003          Dr. Francis Moussy, Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida, "Implantable Glucose Sensors: Progress and Problems" <abstract>

Sep 12, 2003        Dr. Russ Bowers, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, "Some recent advances in the development optical pumping techniques for NMR signal enhancement in gaseous and condensed matter systems" <abstract>

Sep 19, 2003        Dr. John Wolan, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida, "Hydrogen Gas Sensors using 3C-SiC/Si Epitaxial Layers" <abstract>

Sep 26, 2003        Dr. James C. Lin, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Wireless Sensing of Physiological Signals from Circulation" <abstract>

Oct 3, 2003           Dr. Alex Demkov, Semiconductor Product Sector - Sector Technology, Motorola, "Epitaxial Oxides and Semiconductors: Applications of condensed matter theory in Industry" <abstract>

Oct 10, 2003         Dr. Clare M. Allocca, Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Science Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)" <abstract>

Oct 17, 2003         Dr. Timothy Hogan, Department of Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University,         "The Growth of Semiconductor Nanowires" <abstract>

Oct 24, 2003         Dr. Ivar Giaever, Nobel Laureate, Department of Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Applied BioPhysics, "Electrical Impedance Analysis of Mammalian Cells Cultured on Porous Electrodes" <abstract>

Oct 31, 2003         Dr. Nancy L. Thompson, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Protein Dynamics Near Membrane Surfaces:  Measurement by Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy" <abstract>

Nov 7, 2003          Dr. Arthur F. Hebard, Department of Physics, University of Florida, "Capacitance measurements as a probe of interface physics in thin film structures"<abstract>

Nov 14, 2003        Dr. David Mandrus, Department of Materials Science, University of Tennessee, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, "Sodium Cobalt Oxide: How the Hunt for a Good Thermoelectric Bagged a Strange Superconductor" <abstract>

Nov 21, 2003        Dr. Kenneth C. Hass, Physical & Environmental Sciences Department, Ford Motor Company, "Industrial Physics in a Complex World" - canceled

Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2003

Colloquium Schedule for Fall 2002

Sep 6, 2002          Lidija Sekaric, Cornell University, Nanomechanical resonant structures: the limits and limitations

Sep 13, 2002        Stephen E. Saddow, University of South Florida, Epitaxial Layer Growth on Porous SiC Substrates

Sep 20, 2002        Luis Garcia-Rubio, USF, Characterization of Bio-Particles: Advances and Challenges

Sep 27, 2002        Rafat R. Ansari, NASA Glenn Research Center, Non-invasive Health Diagnostics Using Eye as a "Window to the Body

Oct 4, 2002           Edward A. Hinds, University of Sussex, UK, Atom Chips

Oct 14, 2002         Mariana Sendova, New College, Self-Organizing Submicron Structures

Oct 18, 2002         Kwan Kwok, Defence Advanced Projects Agency, Molecular Electronics (Moletronics)

Oct 25, 2002         Alex de Lozanne, University of Texas, Austin, Collective and Quasiparticle Properties of Nanocrystals and Nano-Arrays

Nov 1, 2002          Tomas Diaz De La Rubia, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Chemistry and Materials Science at LLNL

Nov 8, 2002          William Butler, University of Alabama, Materials for Information Technmology

Nov 15, 2002        Valentin Dediu, Istitute for Nanostructured Materials Studies, Italy, Spin injection into conjugated organic semiconductors

Nov. 22, 2002       Deron Walters, University of Central Florida Selective interactions for self-assembly of nanoscale structures and devices

Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2002

Jan 11, 2002        Dr. Mike Osofsky, Naval Research Laboratory, "Enhanced superconductivity in low Tc and high Tc superconductors near their metal-insulator transitions"

Jan 18, 2002        Dr. Susan Sinnott, Univ. of Florida, "Computational studies of material modification and thin-film growth"

Feb 1, 2002          Dr. Brian Tonner, Univ., Central Florida, "Magnetic smart-wires for spintronics devices"

Feb 8, 2002          Dr. Vladimir Privman, Clarkson Univ., "Modeling of coherent solid state quantum computing devices"

Feb 22, 2002        Dr. Berry Jonker, Naval Research Laboratory, "Progress towards essential components of a spins technology"

Mar 1, 2002           Dr. David Tanner, Univ. of Florida, "LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory"

Mar 8, 2002           Dr. Michael Harrison, Michigan State Univ., "Theory of auditory thresholds in primates"

Apr 4, 2002           Dr. Latika Menon, Univ. of Nebraska, "Self-assembled nanoarrays using porous alumina: fabrication, characterization, physics and devices"

Apr 11, 2002         Dr. Wei Chen, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, "Bioenergetic modulation of membrane proteins and its application in wound healing"

Apr 12, 2002         Dr. John Prater, ARO, "Army Research Office support of materials research"

Apr 18, 2002         Dr. Chun-Min Lo, Cleveland State Univ., "ECIS Biosensor and durotaxis"

Apr 29, 2002         Dr. Alan Fine, Dalhousie Univ., "Mechanisms of neural transmission and memory: calcium signaling at individual synapses in the hippocampus"

Colloquium Schedule for Fall 2001

Sep 7, 2001          Dr. Shyamsunder Erramili, Boston Univ., "Scanning near-field infrared microscopy of single living cells"

Sep 28, 2001        Dr. Lee Chow, Univ. of Central Florida, "Diffusion profiles of implanted impurities in silicon after thermal annealing"

Oct 5, 2001           Dr. Sara Majetich, Carnegie-Mellon Univ., "Studies of highly monodisperse magnetic nanoparticles"

Oct 12, 2001         Dr. Boris Nazhorny, SUNY - Stony Brook, "Interaction corrections to transport coefficients in two-dimensional electron gas at intermediate temperatures"

Oct 19, 2001         Dr. Steven Hagen, Univ. of Florida, "Protein folding for physicists"

Oct 26, 2001         Dr. Jacqueline Krim, North Carolina State Univ., "Nanotribology: The atomic scale origins of friction"

Nov 9, 2001          Dr. Leonid Chernyak, Univ of Central Florida, "Electron injection-induced effects in III-nitrides"

Nov 16, 2001        Dr. Tony Buonaquisti, USF, "Different Voices in Physics Education Research"

Nov 30, 2001        Dr. Stuart Wolf, DARPA & NRL, "Spintronics - Electronics for the 21^st Century"

Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2001

Jan 19, 2001        Professor Stephan von Molnar, Florida State University and National High-Magnetic-Field Laboratory, Static and Dynamic Properties of the Insulator-Metal Transition in Magnetic Semiconductors

Feb 2, 2001          Professor Caroline Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Patterned Media for High-Density Recording

Feb 23, 2001        Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker, Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Russia's Rocky Transition to Democracy Presents New Nuclear Dangers. 5:00 P.M., Physics Lecture Hall, room 141.

Apr 20, 2001         Professor Arlene Laing, Department of Geography, University of South Florida, Lightning and Wildfires

Colloquium Schedule for Fall 2000

Sep 8, 2000          Professor Brian Space, Department of Chemistry, USF, A Combined Time-Correlation-Function and Instantaneous-Normal-Mode Investigation of Liquid-State Vibrational Spectroscopy

Sep 15, 2000        Professor Sarah Tebbens, College of Marine Science, USF St. Petersburg, Nonlinear Scaling Laws and Cellular-Automata Models for Natural Systems

Sep 22, 2000        Professor Don Colladay, New College, USF Sarasota, Possible Spontaneous Breaking of Fundamental Symmetries

Sep 29, 2000        Professor Nadine Barlow, University of Central Florida, The New Mars

Oct 6, 2000           Professor Zameer Hasan, Temple University, Atomic-Scale Memories in Condensed Matter (host: Bob Chang)

Oct 27, 2000         Professor Adriana Moreo, Florida State University, Phase-Separation Scenario for Manganese Oxides

Nov 3, 2000          Professor Rajiv Singh, University of Florida, title to be announced (note date change)

Nov 17, 2000        Professor Jorge Pullin, Pennsylvania State University, Black Holes: Theory and Experiment

Dec 1, 2000          Dr. L.J. Wang, NEC, Princeton, Steep Normal and Anomalous Dispersion: Ultra-Slow and Superluminal Light Propagation