WFU Physics Colloquium Schedule
-- Fall 2012
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. 29, 2012
Welcoming "Tea" and Summer research presentations 3:45 PM
Wed. Sept. 5, 2012 Physics Research Opportunities I
Wed. Sept. 12, 2012 Physics Research Opportunites II
Wed. Sept. 19, 2012 Dr. Valentino Cooper, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory
-- Getting the lead out:
A first principles approach to Pb-free piezoelectrics
(host: T. Thonhauser)
Wed. Sept. 26, 2012
Professor Thomas Moore, Rollins College
-- The Physics of the Modern Trumpet Professor Moore will also give a public talk entitled
Trumpet Lessons: The physics of the modern trumpet and what it can teach us about art and science at
7pm in Olin 101 (host: J. Dostal)
Wed. Oct. 3, 2012
Professor Anatoly Miroshnichenko, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
-- The Galactic FS CMa type stars: discovery of a new phenomenon
(host: P. Anderson)
Wed. Oct. 10, 2012
Professor Jean-Luc Brédas, Georgia Tech --
Electronic and Optical Processes in Organic
Electronic Devices:
The Case of Charge Transport
--
2:15 PM
(Joint Physics/Chemistry
Colloquium -- hosts: N. Holzwarth, A. Salam)
Wed. Oct. 17, 2012 Professor Samuel Danagoulian -- A Precise Measurement of the Neutral Pi-meson Lifetime at Jefferson Laboratory, North Carolina A&T State University 4:15 PM
(host: E. Carlson)
Wed. Oct. 24, 2012 Professor Pablo Laguna, Georgia Institute of Technology --Black holes and gravitational waves: The quest to show if Einstein was right (host: G. Cook)
Wed. Oct. 31, 2012
Dr. Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory
Lithium ion batteries: From practice to theory
(Joint Physics/Chemistry
Colloquium -- host: N. Holzwarth, A. Salam)
Wed. Nov. 7, 2012 Dr. Yan Lu, Wake Forest University --Investigating the Mechanisms of Amyloid Peptides's Aggregation
Wed. Nov. 14, 2012 Professor Chang Chen, Institute of Biophysics
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences -- The crosstalk between small molecules and macromolecules, nitric oxide as an example (Joint Physics/Chemistry Colloquium
-- host: D. Kim-Shapiro)
Wed. Nov. 21, 2012 Thanksgiving Holiday
Wed. Nov. 28, 2012 Professor Leonard Parker, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee --Creating Particles in an Expanding Universe (host: P. Anderson)
Wed. Dec. 5, 2012 Dr. Piero Canepa, Wake Forest University -- Binding and diffusion of small molecules in metal organic frameworks
Tentative schedule -- please check announcements and abstracts of seminars.
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