Fall 2010 Clark Physics Colloquium Schedule
Wednesdays, 4:15 pm, Sackler Sciences Center, Room S-122 (unless otherwise noted)
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1 | Physics Welcome | Physics | ||
| September 8, 1 pm | Robert Doyle | Syracuse University | Studying the biological properties of pyrophosphate complexes | Physics & Chemistry |
| September 8, 4:15 pm | Nadia Marino | Syracuse University | Coordination complexes incorporating pyrophosphate: structural analysis and magnetic properties. Abstract | Physics & Chemistry |
| September 15 | Jaegil Kim | Boston University | Enhanced sampling methods in complex energy landscapes | Gould/Huo. Physics & Chemistry Departments |
| September 22, 1:15 pm, Lasry 237 | Frank Fish | West Chester University | Tubercle Technology: Biomimetics and the Humpback Whale Flipper. Abstract | Kudrolli |
| September 29 | Michael Berhanu | Clark University | (2 short talks) Granular aggregates with capillary interactions & Seepage erosion of channels on a granular bed: The influence of rainfall | Kudrolli |
| October 6 | Physics Department Meeting | Physics | ||
| October 13 | Denis Donnelly | Siena College | The frequency structure of beats: When the mathematics fails | Gould |
| October 20 | John Valenza | Schlumberger-Doll | The effective mass of a granular medium: Implications for the attenuation of structure borne sound | Kudrolli |
| October 27 | ||||
| November 3, 1:30 pm, Lasry 237 | John Bechhoefer | Simon Fraser University | How Randomness helps control the replication of DNA | Mukhopadhyay |
| November 10 | Marcie Black | Bandgap Engineering | Silicon Nanowire Solar Cells | Agosta |
| November 17 | Fred Green | Clark University | Entanglement and Its Uses, abstract | Kudrolli |
| November 24 | Thanksgiving Break | |||
| December 1 | Open House | Open House for new Micro focus x-ray CT machine | Physics | |
| December 8 | Physics Dept./ Search Committee Meeting | |||
| December 15 | Fan Xiao | Clark University/Ph.D. Dissertation Defense | Magnetic Properties of Copper-Pyrazine Bridged 2D Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnets | Landee/Turnbull |
| Thursday, December 16, 2:15 pm | William Coniglio | Clark University/Ph.D. Research Proposal | Superconductivity and measurements near the Pauli paramagnetic limit | Agosta |