DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

COLLOQUIUM

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FALL SEMESTER 2002

Colloquium is regularly held on Tuesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm
 at 218 Science Center
Refreshments are served at 3:15
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
 08/20/02
 
 
  
 08/27/02  
 
  
 09/03/02
 
    
 09/10/02
 
 
  
 09/17/02
 
 
  
 09/24/02
 Ms. Amy M. Williams
 Department of Physics and Astronomy 
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
 Prospectus Talk:
The Character of the Optical Microvariability for X-Ray Selected Blazars
 10/01/02
 
 
 
 10/08/02
Prof. Ian Ferguson 
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332
Recent developments in the growth GaN-based compound semiconductors for
optoelectronic applications
 10/15/02
 Prof. Gopal Krishna
 National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune,  India
 Radio Galaxies and the Star Formation History of the Universe
(abstract)
10/22/02
  Mr. James R. Harvin
 Department of Physics and Astronomy 
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
 Ph.D. Defense:
Doppler Tomography of Massive Compact Binary Systems in Multiple Star Systems
 10/29/02
      
 11/05/02
CANCELLED
due to illness
 Prof. Bradley M. Peterson
Ohio State
University
Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei
 11/12/02
Dr. Matthias Dietrich 
 Department of Physics and Astronomy 
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
 High Redshift Quasars as Probes of the Early Universe
 11/19/02
 
    
11/26/02
 Mr. Wei-Chun Jao
 Department of Physics and Astronomy 
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
 Characterization of the Highest Proper Motion Stars
12/03/02
      
12/10/02
 Final 
Examinations
 Week

 

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

COLLOQUIUM

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SPRING SEMESTER 2003

Colloquium is regularly held on Tuesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm
 at 218 Science Center
Refreshments are served at 3:15
Dates
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
 01/07/03
  
 
  
 01/14/03
 Ginny McSwain
Dept. Physics and Astronomy 
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
 Prospectus Talk:
Evolution of Massive Stars: The Be Star and Microquasar Phenomena
 01/21/03
 
 
 
 01/28/03
 
 
 
 02/04/03
 
    
 02/11/03
 Mr. Wenjin Huang
 Dept. Physics and Astronomy 
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
  Prospectus Talk: 
Spectral Line Synthesis for Hot Stars
 02/18/03
 
 
 
02/20/03
Thursday
(Regular place and time)
Dr. Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner
Department of Chemistry,  University of Puerto Rico, 
Rio Pedras Campus, San Juan
 Tripeptides as Model Systems for Understanding the Unfolded State of Peptides and Proteins
 02/26/03
Cancelled and Rescheduled
 Ms. Ruili Wang
 Dept. Physics and Astronomy 
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
 Master Defense:
FTIR Difference Spectroscopy In Combination With Isotope Labeling and Site Directed Mutagenesis for the Study of P700, The Primary Electron 
Donor in Photosystem I
 03/04/03
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 03/11/03
 Prof. Varsha Kulkarni
 University of South Carolina 
 Long Ago when Galaxies were Young: Probing Galaxy Evolution with Quasar Absorption Lines
(click for abstract)
03/13/03
Thursday, 
Room 106 of Classroom South
Usual Time 
Dr. Gennady S. Cymbalyuk 
 Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta , GA
Dynamics of Leech Heart Interneurons: How is Bursting Activity Generated by Neurons? 
(click for abstract)
 03/18/03
 Dr. Alexey Belyanin
 Department of Physics, Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4242
Coherent Optical Phenomena in Semiconductor Nanostructures
(click for abstract)
 03/20/03
Thursday,
Usual Time and Place
 Dr. Guo-ping Zhang
 Department of Physics,
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809
Opportunities in High-Frequency and Ultrafast Dynamics of
Magnets, Semiconductors and Beyond
(click for abstract)
03/21/03
Friday, 2:30 to 3:30
Room 272 NSC
Ms. Ruili Wang
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
 Master Defense:
FTIR Difference Spectroscopy In Combination With Isotope Labeling and Site Directed Mutagenesis for the Study of P700, The Primary Electron Donor in Photosystem I
03/25/03
Dr. Alberto Franceschetti 
Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory 
Electronic and Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures
(click for abstract)
 04/01/03
    
 
04/03/03
Thursday
Usual Time and Place
Dr. Goetz S. Uhrig
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of  Cologne, D-50937 Cologne, Germany
Elementary or Composite? About Excitations in Correlated Systems
(click for abstract)
04/04/03
Friday 2:30-4:00
Usual Place
Mr. David Berger
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
Longitudinal Dispersion Compensation for a Long
Baseline Optical Interferometer
04/08/03
Prof. Victor Migenes 
University of Guanajuato, Mexico
MASER Shells in Late-Type Stars
(click for abstract)
04/11/2003 
Friday, 10:00 am 
218 NSC 
Ms. Debra J. Wallace 
 Dept. Physics and Astronomy
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
 Ph. D. Defense:
An HST WFPC2 Survey for Nearby Companions of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars
 04/15/03
  
 
  
 04/22/03
200 General Classroom Bldg.
3 pm-
Dr. Walter Kohn
 Dept. of Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106		 Plummer Lecture:
Science in the New Century: For Better or Worse 
04/23/03
GeorgiaTech School of Physics
Wednesday, 3 pm-
(tentative)
Dr. Walter Kohn
 Dept. of Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106		 Joint GSU-GeorgiaTech Colloquium:
Electronic Structure of Matter: Wave Functions and Density Functions
 04/29/03
 
 
  
05/09/03
      
08/19/03
Tuesday
 Dr. Adam Payne   Aegis Semiconductor  Tunable Thin-Film Filters Based on Thermo-Optic Semiconductor Films
(click for abstract)


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