Physics 2010 Fall Colloquium Schedule

Date

Speaker

Topic

8/20/10

Open

N/A

8/27/10

Dean Alhorn (NASA- Marshall Space Flight Center)

“Solar Sailing is Not Science Fiction Anymore”

9/03/10

Open

N/A

9/10/10

James Lawler (University of Wisconsin)

“Lab Astro & the Origins of the Chemical Elements”

9/17/10

Open

N/A

9/24/10

Andriy Lyakhov (SUNY at Stony Brook)

“Evolutionary Approach to Crystal Structure Prediction”

10/01/10

Murat Durandurdu (University of Texas at El Paso)

“Computer Simulations of Materials

10/08/10

William Rowan (University of Texas at Austin)

“Taking the Temperature of ITER”

10/15/10

Thomas Denney, Jr. (Auburn University – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

“Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research at AU”

10/21/10

George Parks (Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley)

“Dissipation of Solar Wind across Earth's Bow Shock”

10/29/10

Erwin Poliakoff (Louisiana State University)

“Photoelectron-vibrational Correlations in Molecular Ionization: A Wide-angle View”

11/05/10

Roy Hartfield  (Auburn University – Department of Aerospace Engineering)

“The Physics of Rocketry: Exploring the Limits of Chemical Propellants”

11/12/10

Eric Weeks

"Colloidal liquids, crystals, and glasses"

11/19/10

Andrew Allerman (Sandia National Laboratories- New Mexico)

“Wide Bandgap Nitrides: Materials and Devices”

11/26/10

Thanksgiving Break

N/A

12/03/10

Open

N/A