DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

COLLOQUIUM FALL 2005 / SPRING 2006

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FALL SEMESTER 2005

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

07/14/05

Dr. Richard Townsend

Bartol Research Institute; University of Delaware Pulsation and Mass Loss in Massive Stars
732 One Park Place (7th floor conference room)

07/15/05

Mr. Wenjin Huang

GSU, Dept. Physics &Astronomy

 

Spectral Line Synthesis for Hot Stars
9:00 am:  309 Classroom South

09/01/05

Dr. Gleb B. Sukhorukov

IRC/ Dept. of Materials, Queen Mary University of London,U.K.

Nanoengineered Composite Polyelectrolyte Capsules: Microcages for Chemical Reactions and Delivery Nanosystems
(abstract)

09/20/05

 Dr. Govind Menon 

 Troy State University  

 Energy Extraction from Rotating Black Holes 
(abstract)

09/27/05

  Michael Chapman  

 School of Physics;  Georgia Institute of Technology  

 Quantum control of ultra-cold atoms: Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum gates and atom fibers 

09/29/05

  Ms. Riuli Wang  

 Department of Physics & Astronomy;   Georgia State University  

 FTIR Difference Spectroscopy for The Study of P700, the Primary Electron Donor in Photosystem I

10/13/05

 Mr. Huang Yong  

 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering   Georgia Institute of Technology  

  InN growth by organometallic chemical vapor deposition  
 
2pm - 272 NSC
 

10/18/05

 Dr. Richard Prior 

 Department of Physics; North Georgia College & State University  

 Nuclear Physics at the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source at the Duke Free Electron Laser Lab 

Monday
10/24/05

  Mr. Chad E. Ogden  

GSU, Dept. Physics &Astronomy

A Visible to Near Infrared System for the CHARA Array,A Long Baseline Stellar Interferometer
2:30 pm:  301 Classroom South

11/08/05

 Dr. Ken Sembach 

  Space Telescope Science Institute  

  The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium - Current Observations and Future Observational Prospects  

Thursday
11/10/05

 Varendra Das 

  Department of Physics & Astronomy; GSU  

  Radial Outflows in the Narrow Line Regions of Seyfert Galaxies  
(abstract)

11/15/05

 Rajesh Deo 

  Department of Physics & Astronomy; GSU  

 Dust within Central Regions of Seyfert Galaxies 
(abstract)

11/22/04

Thanksgiving

Break

 No Classes

11/29/05

 Dr. Wei Xie  

 RIKEN-BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory  

  Study Heavy Flavor Production at RHIC  

SPRING SEMESTER 2006

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

01/24/06

 Jayantha Senawiratne  

  Department of Physics and Astronomy; GSU  

 
Structural and optical characterization of group III-Nitride alloys  
  4pm - 218 NSC   (abstract)  

01/31/06

  Dr. John Everett  

  Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics  

  A Mighty Wind: The Physics of AGN Outflows  
 (abstract)  

02/09/06

 Dr. Ramesh Mani 

 Harvard University, Cambridge 

 Radiation-induced zero-resistance states in high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs devices 
 (abstract)  

02/14/06

 Dr. Madelina Furis 

 National High Magnetic Field Laboratory - Los Alamos- 

  Probing the Bright Exciton Fine Structure and Anisotropy Exchange in CdSe Colloidal Nanocrystal Quantum Dots  
 (abstract)  

02/21/06

 Dr. Leonard SPINU 

 Department of Physics; University of New Orleans 

 Magnetization Dynamics in Nanostructured Materials for Nonvolatile Memory Applications 
 (abstract)  

02/23/06

 Dr. Stuart Loch 

 Department of Physics 

 X-ray spectroscopy and atomic physics of astrophysical and laboratory fusion plasmas 
 (abstract)  

03/07/06

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 Spring Break 

03/14/06

 Sigma Phi Sigma 

 Department of Physics and Astronomy; GSU 

 Honor Society Induction

Hankla Award Announcement

03/21/06

 Nayana Jayatilaka 

 Department of Physics and Astronomy; GSU 

 X - Irradiation of DNA Components: Identity of Stabilized Radicals in Guanine derivatives 
 (abstract)  

03/28/06

 Vincent T. Woods 

 Department of Physics and Astronomy; GSU 

 HPCVD - a novel approach for the growth of InN: Real-time growth characterization and ex-situ material property analysis  
 (abstract)  

04/04/06

 Erika Grundstrom 

 Department of Physics and Astronomy; GSU 

 Hot Stars With Disks 
 (abstract)  

04/11/06

 Curt Henry 

 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 

 Life Behind the JPL Firewall 
 (abstract)  

04/18/06

 Prabath S. Hewageegana 

 Department of Physics and Astronomy; GSU 

 Nanolocalized Nonlinear Ultrafast Optical Responses of Metal Nanostructures 
 (abstract)  

04/25/06

 Ms. Yiying Zhou 

 Department of Physics and Astronomy; GSU 

 EPR and ENDOR Study on X-irradiated Single Crystals of l-Lysine Hydrochloride Dihydrate and l-Arginine Hydrochloride Monohydrate 
Refreshments 3:20-3:45pm; Colloquium starts at 3:45 pm
 (abstract)  

05/02/06

 Ms. Ellyn Baines 

 Department of Physics and Astronomy; GSU 

 Inspection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planetary Systems 
 (abstract)  

05/09/06

 Mohamed Rinzan Buhary 

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 Threshold extension in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs terahertz detectors and bistability in heterostructures 
 (abstract)  

05/30/06

 Dr. Michael A Slifkin 

 Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel  

 Photoacoustic Spectroscopy on novel nanomaterials  
 (abstract)  

Friday
06/09/06

 Prof. Martial Ducloy 

 Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Institut Galilee, Universite Paris-Nord, France  

 Classroom South Room 209

Laser Spectroscopy and Cavity QED in Nanometric Gas Cells  
 (abstract)  

07/11/06

 Paramita Barai 

 Department of Physics and Astronomy; GSU  

  Modeling the Power Evolution of Classical Double Radio Galaxies over Cosmological Scales 
 (abstract)  

Wednesday
07/12/06

  Varendra Das  

 Department of Physics and Astronomy; GSU  

  Room TBA

Kinematics of the Narrow-Line Regions in the Seyfert Galaxies NGC 4151 and NGC 1068  
 (abstract)  

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