Department of Physics Colloquia - Fall 2009 Schedule

Unless noted otherwise, Physics Colloquia are held at 4:00 pm in Riddick 301.
Refreshments are served from 3:30 to 4:00 in Riddick Hall's Hearth.

To arrange a meeting with a colloquium speaker during their visit, please contact the corresponding host.

Physics Colloquium: Monday, August 24

Introduction of new graduate students

Physics Colloquium: Monday, August 31

No Colloquium

No Colloquium: Monday, September 7

Labor Day Holiday

Physics Colloquium: Monday, September 14

Eric Buckland
Host:  Michael Paesler
Bioptigen
Enabling Advances in Ophthalmic HealthCare through Optical Coherence Tomography:Taking Technology from Bench to Bedside

Physics Colloquium: Monday, September 21

Stefano Curtarolo
Host:  Marco Buongiorno-Nardelli
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University
Phase stability in nano-catalysts: what it is going on in those systems?

Physics Colloquium: Monday, September 28

Mary Schweitzer
Host:  Michael Paesler
Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences (MEAS), North Carolina State University
Dinosaurs under the microscope: A new look at old bones

Physics Colloquium: Monday, October 5

Alexander Saunders
Host:  Albert Young
Los Alamos National Lab, Physics Division
Proton Radiography at Los Alamos: Looking inside Explosions

Physics Colloquium: Monday, October 12

Petro Maksymovych
Host:  Daniel Dougherty
Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
Local Polarization-dependent Electron Transport Through Ferroelectric and Multiferroic Surfaces

Physics Colloquium: Monday, October 19

Fabian Heitsch
Host:  John Blondin
Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Setting the Star Formation Rate & Efficiency: Towards Physically Satisfactory Answers

Physics Colloquium: Monday, October 26

Patrick Moyer
Host:  Michael Paesler
Department of Physics and Optical Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Single Molecule Biophysics in Live Cells

Physics Colloquium: Monday, November 2

Jacqueline Krim
Visiting Professor of Physics, Duke University, on sabbatical leave from NCSU Physics
Friction, force chains, and falling fruit

Physics Colloquium: Monday, November 9

Vincent Meunier
Host:  Marco Buongiorno-Nardelli
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Computational modeling of carbon nanostructurse for energy storage and nanoelectronics applications

Sayers Lecture: Monday, November 16

Stephen Hudgens
Santa Clara University
Phase-change Memory: Progress in Development of a New Computer Data Storage Technology[PDF]

Physics Colloquium: Monday, November 23

Weitao Yang
Host:  Jerzy Bernholc
Department of Chemistry, Duke University
Insight and Progress in Density Functional Theory

Physics Colloquium: Monday, November 30

Richard E. Toohey, Ph.D., CHP
Host:  Michael Paesler
Acting Vice-President for University Partnerships, Oak Ridge Associated Universities
The Unfortunate Mr. Litvenenko: Radiobiology and Toxicology of Po-210



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