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Colloquia of the University of Toledo> Department of Physics and Astronomy are normally held on Thursdays at 4:00pm in McMaster Hall, Room 1005 (MH 1005). Coffee and refreshments are available beforehand at 3:30pm in MH 4009.

For information on other seminars within the department, check here.



Fall Semester ---- Spring Semester ----Info and map for joint colloquia at BGSU


Current Schedule - Fall Semester 2008

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title or Topic of Talk

UT Host

29 Aug 2008 (Special date)

Andrei Derevianko

University of Nevada, Reno

CP-violating magnetic moments of atoms and molecules

Bo Gao

4 Sept 2008

Victor Karpov

 University of Toledo

 Physics of Thin-Film Photovoltaics

Bo Gao 

11 Sept 2008

Nancy Morrison

 University of Toledo

 Jet Trails: H alpha Line Profile Variability in Hot, Luminous Stars

 Rupali Chandar

18 Sept 2008

McMaster Cosmology Colloquium

Joshua Frieman

 University of Chicago

 The Accelerating Universe: Ten Years On

 Adolf Witt

25 Sept 2008
Canceled!!!

Yong P. Chen

Purdue University

 Tunable Interactions in Cold Atoms and Molecules

Bo Gao

02 Oct 2008

Marianna Safronova

University of Delaware

Fundamental symmetries, atomic clocks, and magic wavelengths 

Bo Gao

09 Oct 2009

Fred Adams

 University of Michigan

 Effects of Young Star Clusters on their Constituent Solar Systems

 Rupali Chandar

16 Oct 2008

Zhi-Feng Huang

Wayne State University

Exploring Strained Film Epitaxy at Multiple Scales 

Jacques G. Amar

23 Oct 2008

Kate Kirby

ITAMP

 Atomic and Molecular Physics for Forefront Astronomy

Bo Gao

30 Oct 2008

Joint with BGSU @ BGSU

Alvin Compaan

University of Toledo 

 CdTe and other inorganic thin-film PV: reducing the cost of solar electricity

N/A 

06 Nov 2008

Chris Greene

JILA

 Dynamics of four interacting particles in cold and ultracold environments

Bo Gao

13 Nov 2008

Daniel Georgiev

 University of Toledo

 Micro-/Nano-structuring of Metal and Silicon Films by Localized Micrometer-Scale Pulsed Laser Irradiation

 Victor Karpov

20 Nov 2008

    Canceled for a special event!  

27 Nov 2008

None

 

 

 

04 Dec 2008

Jennifer Johnson

 Ohio State University

The Formation of the First Stars

 Rupali Chandar

 11 Dec 2008

Joint with BGSU @ BGSU

Mike Krane

 Penn State University

Is Glottal Flow Really Quasisteady?

 N/A


Current Schedule - Spring Semester 2008

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title or Topic of Talk

UT Host

15 Jan 2009

Sanjay Khare

 University of Toledo

 Crisis of Portable Energy: Imminence, Scale, Impact and Mitigation

 Bo Gao

22 Jan 2009

Thomas Brown

 Space Telescope Science Institute

 Star Formation Histories in the Andromeda Galaxy

 Rupali Chandar

29 Jan 2009

Daniela Calzetti

University of Massachusetts, Amherst 

 Lessons Learned from the Infrared, and Future Prospects for Studies of Nearby Galaxies

 Rupali Chandar

05 Feb 2009

Victor Karpov

 University of Toledo

Physics of Phase Change Memory

 Bo Gao

12 Feb 2009

Hossein Sadeghpour

 ITAMP

 Taming magnetized (anti)hydrogen atoms

 Bo Gao

19 Feb 2009

Jamie Martin-Hayden

 University of Toledo

 High resolution imagery revealing post-glacial geology of the Oak
Openings region

Rupali Chandar 

26 Feb 2009

Karl Stapelfeldt

 JPL

Nearby Debris Disks and their Clues to Exoplanets

 Tom Megeath

05 Mar 2009

Joint with BGSU @ BGSU

Patrick Lenahan

 Penn State

 Magnetic Resonance in Nano-Scale Transistors

 NA

12 Mar 2009

None

 

 

 

19 Mar 2009

A

 

 Astro

 

26 Mar 2009

Jun Ye

JILA

 Cold and ultracold polar molecules

Bo Gao

02 Apr 2009

Kristina Woods

Carnegie Mellon

 Solvent Induced Fluctuations and Energy Localization in Globular Proteins Studied with Infrared Spectroscopy

Scott Lee

09 Apr 2009

Nicholas Kotov

 University of Michigan

Self-Assembled Systems of Nanoparticles: Similarity with Biological Systems

 Victor Karpov

16 Apr 2009

Nuria Calvet

University of Michigan 

 Protoplanetary disk structure and evolution: what have we learned

 Rupali Chandar

23 Apr 2009

Doug Schulz

 North Dakota State University

 All I Need Is the Air That I Breathe… and This AirBrush – Atmospheric-Pressure Routes to Electronic Materials

Randy Ellingson 

30 Apr 2009

John J. Turin Memorial Lecture

Karl D. Gordon

Space Telescope Science Institute

 Dust Processing in Galaxies Due to Massive Star Formation

 Larry Curtis


Note: Subject to change.

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BGSU Colloquia

Colloquia at Bowling Green State University are held at 4:00 pm in room 123 Overman Hall. Coffee and donuts are available beforehand at 3:30 pm in room 106 Overman Hall. Both rooms are next to the Physics and Astronomy Dept. office. See the BGSU Campus Map to locate Overman Hall.


Last Updated:  August 4, 2008

Contact: Bo Gao