Department of Physics Colloquia - Fall 2002

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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 outside Cox 110.

Monday, August 19  -   Thomas Schaefer, SUNY Stony Brook, Brookhaven National Laboratory

                                    "Tunneling in QCD and the Structure of the Proton"


Monday, August 26  -   Benoit Roux, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

                                    "Computational studies of the potassium channel"


Monday, September 2   -   LABOR DAY

                                         


Monday, September 9   -   Robert J. Beichner, Department of Physics, North Carolina State University

                                          "The SCALE-UP Project: Research, Development, and Dissemination"


Monday, September 16  -   Lubos Mitas, Department of Physics, North Carolina State University

                                          "Many-body computational methods for electronic structure of materials: achievements and opportunities"


Monday, September 23  -   Professor Rod Ruoff, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

                                          "Mechanics of Nanostructures"


Monday, September 30  -   Keith Jackson, Center for X-ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

                                          Frontiers of Lithography: "The Science of Making Things Small"


Monday, October 7    -   CANCELLED

                                     


Monday, October 14  -   FALL BREAK

                                     


Monday, October 21  -   Michael L. Klein, Laboratory for research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania

                                      "Computer simulation studies of soft materials: The continuing challenge of bridging length- and time-scales."


Monday, October 28  -   Edwin Taylor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

                                      "One More Lesson of the Black Hole: Descriptive Notation"


Monday, November 4   -   Thomas L. Beck, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati

                                         "Multiscale Methods in Density Functional Theory"


Monday, November 11  -   Prof. Nicola Marzari, Department of Materials Science and Engineering - MIT

                                         "The Computational Microscope: Unexpected Surface Properties from First-Principles Molecular Dynamics"


Monday, November 18  -   Prof. Annabella Selloni - Princeton University

                                         "Surface Structure and Chemistry of Titanium Dioxide"


Monday, November 25  -  Mei-Yin Chou - School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

                                         "Quantum Size Effects on the Stability and Growth of Metal Thin Films"


Monday, December 2   -   Prof. George Strobel, Physics Department, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

                                         "Spin dependent Quark forces in the Nucleon"


Monday, December 9   -   TBD