Department of Physics Colloquia - Spring 2000

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Unless noted otherwise, Physics Colloquia are held at 4:00 pm in Cox 206. Refreshments are served from 3:30 to 4:00 in Cox 400.

Monday, January 24
Roya Maboudian
University of California at Berkeley
Surface Processes in MEMS Technology

Monday, February 14
Carlo Carraro
University of California at Berkeley
Crystalline Order of Atoms Adsorbed in Nanochannels

Thursday, February 24
Dean Astumian
University of Chicago
Designing Chemically Driven Molecular Motors and Pumps

Monday, February 28
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli
North Carolina State University
Carbon Nanotubes: A Nanoscale Laboratory

Wednesday, March 1
Lubos Mitas
University of Illinois and National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Electronic Structure by Quantum Monte Carlo Methods: Molecules, Nanoclusters and Solids

Monday, March 6
Jingyu Lin
Kansas State University
Fundamental Optical Transitions in GaN

Thursday, March 9
Hongxing Jiang
Kansas State University
Fabrication and Optical Properties of III-Nitride Micro-structures and Micro-devices

March 13 - 17
Spring Break

Monday, March 27
Jung Han
Sandia National Laboratory
MOVPE Growth and Characterization of (Al,Ga,In)N for UV Optoelectronics

Wednesday, March 29
Celeste Sagui
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and North Carolina State University
Structure in Soft-Condensed Matter and Biophysical Systems: From the Universal to the Particular

Monday, April 3
Jan Schetzina
North Carolina State University
Visible-Blind UV Digital Cameras Based on Large Arrays of AlGaN p-i-n Photodiodes

Monday, April 17, John B. Derieux Lecture
Robert P. Kirshner
Harvard University
The Runaway Universe: Measuring the Universe with Supernovae
Lecture at 4:00 pm in 2215 Williams Hall
Tea at 3:30 in the first-floor foyer between Cox and Dabney Halls

Monday, April 24
Harold Baranger
Duke University
Wireless Communication in a Crowded World: Coherence and Capacity

Monday, May 1
Undergraduate Research Symposium





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