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Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Schedule - Fall 1998

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Thursdays - 4:00 pm in Nielsen Hall 211

Coffee and cookies are served at 3:30pm in the first floor of Nielsen Hall.

The Physics and Astronomy colloquium is a forum for invited scientists to present modern research in a fashion accessible to those with a background in physics, but who are not experts in the field. Talks are aimed at a graduate level.


Aug 20 Classes Begin No Seminar - First Week of Classes!
Aug 27 Michael Santos

OU

InSb Quantum Wells
Sep 3 Dwight E. Neuenschwander

Southern Nazarene University

Engaging Society's "Hidden Physicists" (abstract)
Sep 10 Elizabeth Gwinn

UCSB

Surprises in 2D transport (abstract)
Sep 17 Bruce Twarog

University of Kansas

The Origin and Evolution of the Milky Way (abstract)
Sep 24 Hong Liu

Radiology Department, University of Virginia

Medical Imaging of Cancer
Oct 1 K. S. Babu

OSU

Neutrino Masses and the Path to Unification (abstract)
Oct 8 Greg Hall

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Tuning in Molecular Motion with FM Spectroscopy. (abstract)
Oct 15 Alex Zaslavsky

Brown University

Strain Effects in Semiconductor Nanostructures.
Oct 22 James Tsang

IBM

Switching induced picosecond light pulses from CMOS gates and its use in characterizing integrated circuits (abstract)
Oct 29 Joshua Wurman

University of Oklahoma

Radar Studies of Tornadoes and Hurricanes
Nov 5 Paul McEuen

UC Berkeley

Carbon Nanotubes - A New Class of One Dimensional Conductors (abstract)
Nov 12 Timothy Beers

Michigan State University

The Nature of the Early Universe as Revealed from Studies of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars
Nov 19 Kenneth Heller

University of Minnesota

"I Understand the Physics, I Just Can't Solve the Problems" - Teaching Introductory Physics Through Problem Solving. (abstract)
Nov 26 Thanksgiving Vacation

No Seminar
Dec 3 Tom Gramila

Penn. State University

Coulomb Drag

Click here for last semester's schedule.

Click here for next semester's schedule.


If you have any questions or suggestions for seminar topics or speakers, please contact Dr. Mullen, at kieran@phyast.nhn.ou.edu or by phone at (405) 325-3961.


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