Department of Physics Colloquia - Fall 2006 Schedule

Unless noted otherwise, Physics Colloquia are held at 4:00 pm in Cox 206.
Refreshments are served from 3:30 to 4:00 outside of Cox 110.

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

Monday, August 28

Graduate Student Welcome and Reception

Monday, September 4

Labor Day Holiday, no colloquium

Monday, September 11

Dean Lee
Physics Department, North Carolina State University
Cold dilute neutrons -- A new type of superfluid?

Monday, September 18

Paul Huffman
Physics Department, North Carolina State University
Search for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron

Monday, September 25

Hans Hallen
Physics Department, North Carolina State University
Optics Nuggets

Monday, October 2

Jackie Krim
Department of Physics, North Carolina State University
Atomic Scale Friction and Microscale Machines: These Squeaky Wheels will get no Grease.

Monday, October 9

Brand Fortner
Physics Department, North Carolina State University
Digital Video Authentication: A Novel Approach

Monday, October 16

George Seidel
Hosts:  Robert Golub
Department of Physics, Brown University
Low Temperature Particle Detectors: Tools for Physics and Astronomy

Monday, October 23

Sonke Johnsen
Host:  Karen Daniels
Department of Biology, Duke University
Lighted camouflage, the color of night, cataracts, and invisible fish: the relevance of optics to biology

Monday, October 30

Ken Krane
Host:  Albert Young
Department of Physics, Oregon State University
Measuring Neutron Capture Cross Sections of Radioactive and Stable Nuclei by Activation:
An Undergraduate Research Program

Monday, November 6

Lewis Johnson
Host:  Michael Paesler
Physics Department, Florida A&M University
Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)

Monday, November 13

Bradley Meyer
Hosts: David BrownJohn Blondin
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University
Neutron-Burst Nucleosynthesis and Implications for Stellar Evolution and Formation of the Solar System

Monday, November 20

Gregory Cook
Host:  David Brown
Physics Department, Wake Forest University
Inspiral, merger and ring-down of equal-mass black-hole binaries

Monday, November 27 - SPECIAL LECTURE - NOTE LOCATION - Williams Hall, Room 2215

Michael Paesler
Dale E. Sayers Lecture
Department of Physics, NC State University
The Glass Computer



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