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Spring 2008
Film:The World of Enrico Fermi
Host: George Patsakos, Professor of Physics Emeritus, UI
Date: Jan. 14, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract)
MLK Day: No Colloquium
Date: Jan 21
Title: Ultrafast Dynamics of Localization
Speaker: Susan Dexheimer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, WSU
Date: Jan 28, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract)
Title: Medical Physics as a Career Option
Speaker: Doug Heidorn, Department of Radiation Oncology, St. Joseph Regional Medical Center
Date: Feb. 4, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract)
Title: Sex and the Citizen: Doctors, Sex Manuals, and Fashionable Readers in Napoleonic France (1799-1815)
Speaker: Sean M. Quinlan, Department of History, UI
Date: Feb. 11, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract)
Presidents Day: No Colloquium
Date: Feb. 18
Title: Colloids - A Model System to Explore Complex Matter with Competing Interactions
Speaker: Charles Reichhardt*, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Feb. 25, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract)
Title: Advancing Electronic Structure Theory - From van der Waals to NMR
Speaker: Timo Thonhauser*, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thursday Feb 28, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract) (Note special day)
Title: Synthesis of Nanosystems with Pre-designed Physical and Chemical Properties - Theoretical Foundations, Computations and Modeling
Speaker: Liudmilla Pohzar*, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
Date: March 3, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract)
Title: Local Probes at the Nanoscale - Avalanches, Melting, and Jamming Transitions
Speaker: Cynthia Reichhardt*, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract) (Note special day)
Spring Break: No Colloquium
Date: March 10
Title: Developing an Evolutionary Sequence for the Earliest Stage of Star Formation
Speaker: Yancy Shirley§, University of Arizona
Date: March 17, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract)
Title: The Wonderful Universe of Low Mass X-ray Binaries
Speaker: Adrienne Juett§, NASA
Date: Thursday, March 20, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract) (Note special day)
Title: Cassini and the Case of Titan's Missing Ethane
Speaker: Jason Barnes§, NASA-Ames
Date: March 24, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract)
Title: ZnO-The Future Material for Electronics
Speaker: Farida Selim, Department of Physics and Astronomy, WSU
Date: April 7, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract)
Title: The Presidential Election Process in the U.S.
Speaker: Don Crowley, Department of Political Science, UI
Date: April 14, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract)
Title: Artificial Nanosolids
Speaker: Igor Beloborodov*, Consortium for Nanoscience Research, U. of Chicago
Date: Wednesday April 16, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract) (Note special day)
Title: u + us = safety 2 : Seamlessly Integrating Safety Into Your Work and Learning Environment
Speaker: George Porter and Holly Gates-Mayer, Environmental Health and Safety, UI
Date: April 21, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract)
Title: Simulating Mesoscopic Quantum Matter
Speaker: Vito Scarola*, Joint Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley and ETH Zurich
Date: Wednesday April 23, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract) (Note special day)
Title: TBA
Speaker: TBA
Date: April 28, 4:00 pm EP205 (abstract)
* Candidate for the condensed matter theory position
§ Candidate for the astrophysics position
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