Department of Physics
2005- 2006 Colloquium Series
For More Information Contact:
David L Shealy, Department of Physics
Tel: (205) 934-8068
FAX: (205) 934-8042

E-mail: dls@uab.edu

Fall 2005 Colloquium Series

Friday, August 26, 2005
Physics Faculty
Seminar Title: "Introduction to UAB Physics Research – an Informal Session"
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. CH301
See Abstract

Friday, September 9, 2005
Dr. Vinoy Thomas, UAB Dept of Physics
Seminar Title: "Polymeric Biomaterials"
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301
See Abstract

Friday, September 16, 2005
No UAB Physics Colloquium
All UAB physics students are encourage to attend the

Eight Annual Venkateswarlu Memorial Lecture at Alabama A&M University

Lecture Title: "What Can We Do with Quantum Liquid?”

Dr. Antony Leggett, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics

James I Dawson Auditorium, Cooperative Extension Building,

Alabama A&M University at 3pm

Several UAB faculty will take their cars.

Friday, September 23, 2005
CANCELLED

TO BE RESCHEDULED

Dr. George Nolas
Department of Physics, University of South Florida

Title: "…"
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301
See Abstract

Friday, September 30, 2005
Dr. Yogesh Vohra, University Scholar Professor

Department of Physics, UAB
Seminar Title: "Highlights from Diamond – 2005 Meeting in France
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301

See Abstract
For More Information on the Diamond – 2005 Meeting

Friday, October 7, 2005
CANCELLED

UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301
See Abstract

Friday, October 14, 2005
Erik Saperstein, UAB Graduate Student
Seminar Title: "Final Defense of Thesis”
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301
See Abstract

Friday, October 21, 2005
Dr. Chris Lawson, Professor

Department of Physics, UAB
Seminar Title: “Nonlinear Optics at the

Center for Optical Sensors and Spectroscopies (COSS)”
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301
See Abstract

Friday, October 28, 2005
Dr. Rakesh Kapoor, Dept Physics, UAB
Seminar Title: "Fiber-Optics Biosensors"
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301
See Abstract

Friday, November 4, 2005
Dr. Thom Orlando, Georgia Tech

Seminar Title: "…"
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301
See Abstract

Friday, November 11, 2005
Dr. Per Arne Rekvold, FSU
Seminar Title: “Statistical Physics and Biological Coevolution”
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301
See Abstract

Friday, November 18, 2005
Dr. Tim Wick, Professor and Chair

Department of Biomedical Engineering, UAB
Seminar Title: "Cartilage Tissue Engineering"
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301
See Abstract

Friday, December 2, 2005
Dr. Lior M. Burko, Assistant Professor,

http://gravity.uah.edu/~burko

Department of Physics, UAH
Seminar Title: "The Fate of an Astronaut who Falls into a Black Hole, and the Fate of the Universe"
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301
See Abstract

 

Spring 2006 Colloquium Series

 

 

Friday, January 13, 2006
Dr. Ryoichi Kawai, UAB Department of Physics
Seminar Title: "Fluctuations, Dissipation and the Jarzynski Equality "
UAB, Department of Physics
1:40 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. CH 301
See Abstract


 

Friday, January 20, 2006
Dr. Tom Nordlund, UAB Department of Physics
Seminar Title: "UV Light in Biological Systems:
Absorption, Fluorescence and Energy Transfer"
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 274
See Abstract


 

Friday, January 27, 2006

TBA
Seminar Title: "Informal Q & A Session"
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301
See Abstract


 

Friday, February 3, 2006


Dr. Douglas C. Whittet

Department of Physics, RPI
Seminar Title: "Interstellar Dust and Astrobiology: Overview and Current Research"
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. CH 274

For more information see http://www.rpi.edu/~whittd/


 

Friday, February 10, 2006

Michael McKerns (CalTech)
Seminar Title:  “Techniques for the Measurement and design of electronic excited state materials
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301

Abstract


 

Friday, February 17, 2006

Cancelled
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301

Abstract


 

Friday, February 24, 2006

Minseo Park (Auburn)
  Seminar Title: 

                         "Optical Characterization and Device Fabrication of Gallium Nitride and Zinc Oxide”

UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 301

Abstract


                                                                                                 Faculty Candidate

                                                                    Wednesday March 1, 2006

 

                                                                    Dr. Guosheng Cheng Ph.D

                                  Yale University, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics


                                  Seminar Title:  Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Nanowires

                                                                 UAB Department of Physics                                                           

                                                                1:45 p.m. - 2:45p.m.  CH 274
                                                                                        

 

                                                                                                      ABSTRACT

 


 

Friday, March 3, 2006

Michael Bonder PhD

University of Delaware,Department of Physics and Astronomy

Seminar Title: Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

And Magnetic Recording”

 

UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CH 274

Abstract


 

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Faculty Candidate

Dr. Pu Xu

University of California in San Francisco

                        " Two-photon fluorescence and second-harmonic imaging of collagen"

                                                     UAB, Department of Physics
                                                               1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 274

Abstract


                                                                       Friday, March 10, 2006

                                                                          Faculty Candidate

                                                                          Dr. Igor Savukov

                                                                                                  Princeton University

       “ Experiments with ultra-sensitive atomic magnetometers:

 from fundamental symmetry tests to NMR detection”

                                                               UAB Department of Physics

                                                              1:45-p.m. – 2:45 p.m. CH 274

 

                                                                              Abstract

 


Friday, March 17, 2006


Dr. George S. Nolas

Department of Physics, University South Florida

4202 East Fowler Avenue

Tampa, FL 33620-5700

E-mail:gnolas@cas.usf.edu

Web: http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~gnolas/

Seminar Title: "Structure-Property relationships in novel materials: Clathrates"
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 274

Abstract


 

Friday, March 24, 2006

ALINA TUGANOVA, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham

      Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics,

                                                           

UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 274

Abstract


 

Friday, April 7, 2006

                               Jian Zhong

                               Department of Electrical Engineering, Material Science Program

                                                 The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

 

                                                                             Seminar Title:

                                   PZT Thin Films for Sensors and Actuators


UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 274

Abstract

 


 

Friday, April 14, 2006

Thomas M. Crawford, Associate Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy

 and USC NanoCenter,University of South Carolina.
Seminar Title :

Nanoscale magnetism - how far can we go?

       
UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 274

Abstract

 


 

Friday, April 21, 2006
  Dr. Robert Rouleau, Ph.D  

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

          Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering

 

Seminar Title:

"UAB/CBSE NASA Microgravity Research and Cold Storage Capabilities"

 

UAB, Department of Physics
1:45 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. CH 274

Abstract


 

 

 

 

For More Information Contact:
David L Shealy
Department of Physics
Tel: (205) 934-8068
FAX: (205) 934-8042
Internet: dls@uab.edu