Winter Semester
January 15
Mark Baskaran - Wayne State University, Dept. of Geology
Nuclear Clocks: Major Advances in Earth Sciences
January 22
Margaret Campbell-Brown - University of Western Ontario
Target Earth: Impacts both large and small
January 29
No Colloquium
TBD
February 5
Xiangyun Qin - NIH
Repulsion and Attrction between Like-charged DNA Helices
February 12
Jing Yong Ye -Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, U of Michigan
Enhanced Biosensing and Ultrafast Laser Interaction with Multifunctional
Nanoparticles
February 19
Yevgeniy Kalinin - Cornell University
TBD
February 26
Jan Herbst
Hydrogen Storage for Automotive Vehicles: Methods and Materials
March 5
Donna Strickland - University of Waterloo
Short pulse generation through multi-frequency Raman generation
March 12
Arlin Crotts - Columbia University
ALPACA liquid mirror telescope
March 26 - Vaden Miles Lecture
George Crabtree - Argonne National Laboratory
APS Energy Report
April 2
Betsy Pugel -NASA Ames
TBD
April 9
Gerhard Pratt - University of Westeron Ontario
Ultrasonic imaging
April 16
TBD
TBD
April 23 - Special Martin Luther King, Jr./Cesar Chavez/Rosa Parks
Visiting Professor Lecture
Manuel Calderon de la Barca Sanchez - University of California - Davis
Have we reached the bottom at RHIC?
Fall Semester
Sept 4
Eugene Malyarenko - University of Windsor
Biomedical Acoustics Research at the Institute for Diagnostic Imaging Research
Sept 11
Martin Houde - University of Western Ontario
Star formation and ambipolar diffusion
Sept 18
Igor Sokolov
Atomic Force Microscopy in Biological Physics
Sept 25
No colloquium
October 2
Beate Schmittman
Physics far from equilibrium:
Why is it important, why is it interesting, and what can we learn?
October 9
Jagdish Singh - Institute for Clean Energy Technology, Mississippi State University
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Application to Nuclear Waste Management?
October 16
Gavin Lawes - Wayne State University
Room temperature ferromagnetism in semiconducting oxides
October 23
Georg Raithel - FOCUS, Frontiers in Optical Coherent and Ultra-fast Science
UM-Ann Arbor
Bose-Einstein condensates in a one-dimensional optical lattice
October 30 - Special Martin Luther King, Jr./Cesar Chavez/Rosa Parks
Visiting Professor Lecture
Vincent Rodgers - University of Iowa
Unraveling the Mathematical Laws of Dark Energy and Dark Matter
November 6
Robert Gordon - University of Illinois at Chicago
Controlling the Behavior of Condensed Matter and Plasmas with Ultrashort Laser Pulses
November 13
Joseph Perl - Stanford University
Medical Applications of the Geant4 Simulation Toolkit
November 20
John Santa Lucia, Jr. - Wayne State University, Dept. of Chemistry
Progress Toward Accurate 3D Structure
Prediction of Nucleic Acids
December 4
John Harris - Yale University
Recreating the Primordial Quark-Gluon Soup
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