WFU Physics Colloquium Schedule
-- Fall 2011
All seminars will be held at 4 PM in Room 101 of Olin Physical
Laboratory (unless noted otherwise); there will be refreshments at
3:30 PM in the lobby prior to each seminar.
Wed. Aug. 31, 2011
Welcoming "Tea" and Summer research presentations
Wed. Sept. 7, 2011
Summer research presentations and senior graduate
student presentation by Landon Bellavia
Wed. Sept. 14, 2011
Senior graduate student presentation by Jason
Bates and Brian Kolb
Wed. Sept. 21, 2011 Dr. David J. Singh, ORNL --
Ferroelectricity in Perovskites
(host: T. Thonhauser)
Wed. Sept. 28, 2011
Professor Brendan O'Connor, NCSU --
Alignment of Polymer Semiconductors to Probe Charge Transport Behavior
(host: O. Jurchescu)
Wed. Oct. 5, 2011 Samrat Dutta, WFU -- Ph. D. presentation
Platinum drug-induced changes in DNA conformation
Wed. Oct. 12, 2011
Professor Ian Thorpe, UMBC --
Using molecular simulations to understand allosteric
inhibition in Hepatitis C virus polymerase
(host: S. Cho)
Wed. Oct. 19, 2011 Dr. Babak Sadigh, LLNL
First-principles calculations of self-trapping
of carriers and excitons in ionic
materials
(host: R. Williams)
Wed. Oct. 26, 2011 Professor Patrick Moyer, UNC-Charlotte
Photophysics of Quantum Dots Using Single Molecule
Optical Spectroscopy
(host: K. Bonin, N. Holzwarth)
Wed. Nov. 2, 2011
Professor Kieron Burke, UC-Irvine
Density functional theory: A great physics success
story
(host: T. Thonhauser)
Wed. Nov. 9, 2011 Joint Colloquium with Chemistry and Biology on
imaging
Professor Enrico Gratton,
U. California -- Irvine
"Following single molecules in cells and in tissues by correlation spectroscopy"
Colloquium will be held in Winston Hall Rm. 126
(host: Anita McCauley)
Wed. Nov. 16, 2011
Professor Cameron Mura, U. Virginia --
The RNA-associated Sm Protein Family: Computational and
Experimental Studies
(host: S. Cho)
Wed. Nov. 23, 2011 Thanksgiving Holiday
Wed. Nov. 30, 2011 Dr. Marina Yakovleva, FMC Corporation
From lithium raw materials to new enabling technologies:
FMC's role in the lithium-ion battery industry
(host:
N. Holzwarth; jointly sponsored by CEES)
Wed. Dec. 7, 2011
Professor Jed Macosko, WFU --
BioBook and
PhysBook: reinventing e-textbooks before it's too late
Tentative schedule -- please check announcements and abstracts of seminars.
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