DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

COLLOQUIUM

Colloquium was regularly held on Tuesdays from 2:45 to 3:45
at 519 Kell Hall


FALL SEMESTER 1998

Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
09/15/98
Mr. Lewis Roberts
GSU Physics and Astronomy
Three Methods of Determining Magnitudes of Individual Stars in Close Binary Systems (Ph.D. defense)
09/22/98
 
 
 
09/29/98
 
 
 
10/06/98
Dr. Sivalingam Sivananthan
University of Illinois at Chicago
II-VI Materials for Infrared Detectors (click for abstract)
Canceled due to Speaker's illness
10/13/98
 Dr. Ronald F. Fox
Georgia Tech 
Rydberg Atom Coherent States  (click for abstract)
10/20/98
 Dr. Vadim A. Markel
 University of Georgia at Athens
Near-Field Local Spectroscopy Near Surfaces of  Rough   Nanometer-Structured Metal Films (click for abstract
10/27/98
Room 218 (Lecture Hall) at Science Center
 Dr. Pieter  B. Visscher
 University of Alabama
Simulation and Visualization of Magnetic Tapes and Colloidal 
Inks (click for abstract)
10/30/98
Friday
1:45-2:45
 Room 700  at General Classroom Building
Refreshments served at 1:30
 Dr. Sarath D. Gunapala
 JPL
 Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) Focal Plane Arrays for NASA and DoD Applications
(click for abstract)
11/03/98
Room 218 (Lecture Hall) at Science Center
Dr. Fereydoon Family
 Emory University
 What Can Scaling Laws Tell Us about the Dynamics of Fluctuating Surfaces and Interfaces? (click for abstract)
 11/10/98
 Mr. Victor Bellitto
 GSU
Studies of Gallium Nitride Surface  (click for abstract
 11/17/98
CANCELED
 Dr. Michael Geller
 University of Georgia at Athens
Phase-Coherent Transport in Condensed Matter Physics  (click for abstract
Canceled due to Speaker's illness
11/24/98
 Dr. Katherine M. Benson
 Emory University
 Solitons: Relics of a More Symmetric Age
(click for abstract)
12/01/98
 Dr. John P. McCarten
 Clemson   University
Self-Organized Memories
(click for abstract)
 12/02/98
Wednesday at 11 am
272 SC
Mr. John Evans 
GSU 
Ph. D. Defense
Turbulence and Spatial Correlation of Currents in Quantum Chaos 
(click for abstract)
 12/08/98
 Dr. Heinz-Bernd Schuttler
 University of Georgia at Athens
Overscreening in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
(click for abstract)

SPRING SEMESTER 1999

Dates
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
01/12/99
Mr.  Junseog   Kang
 GSU
 ESR and ENDOR study of  Radicals: Proton Transfer Behavior and g-Tensor Measurement
01/19/99
Dr. William Michael Dennis
 University of Georgia at Athens
Phonon Dynamics in Insulating Materials
(click for abstract)
01/26/99
  Dr. Mark Edwards
 Georgia Southern University
 Manipulating Alkali-Atom Bose-Einstein Condensates and Atom Lasers with Laser Light
(click for abstract)
01/27/99
Wednesday
(regular place, 519 Kell Hall) 
(regular time, refreshments at 2:30, talk at 2:45)
 Dr. David S. Leckrone
Senior Project Scientist 

Hubble Space Telescope Project 

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Very High Resolution UV Spectroscopy of a Chemically Peculiar Star: Results from the Chi Lupi Pathfinder Project
(click here  to see also an announcement of a University-wide presentation)
02/02/99
  Dr. Alexander Rosen
U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa 
 Mass Entrainment in Radio Galaxy Jets
(click for abstract)
02/09/99
 Dr. H. Richard Miller
GSU 
 AGN variability
02/16/99
 Dr. Asif Khan
 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C., Dept. of EE
Applications of GaN-AlInGaN Multi-Quantum Wells In High Power Microwave
Transistors and Blue-Green Light Emitting Diodes
(click here for abstract and contact information)
02/23/99
Dr. W. J. Choyke 
Department of Physics and Astronomy, 
University of Pittsburgh
SiC
From before the Solar System to the 21-st Century
(click for abstract)
 
     
03/02/99
Canceled (moved to 03/30/99)
Dr.  Jagbir Hooda
 Institute of Paper Science and Technology (affiliated with Ga Tech)
Turbulence in the Paper Making Process 
03/09/99
Canceled
  Dr. Vladislav A. Vashchenko
Head of a Laboratory, 

Research Institute Pulsar, Moscow, Russia

 Numerical Simulation of Instabilities, Filamentation,  and other Nonlinear Phenomena in Semiconductor Structures
03/16/98
2:30-5:30 pm
New Student Center, GSU
44 Courtland Ave.
Atlanta
A Symposium to Celebrate a Century of Physics:
Industries of the Mind: Physics and Economic Growth
F.M.Sherer, Harvard University

James Adams, University of Florida, at Gainesville and National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Ma

Sally Sleeper, Carnegie Mellon University
 

Dan Philen, Lucent Technologies

Contribution of Physics to Economic Growth
 
 
 
 

Science and Economic Growth: New Frontier in Measurement
 
 
 
 

Lasers: The Role Firm Background Plays in Determining Success
 

Old Physics and New Telecommunications: The Internet Undersea
 

03/18/99
Thursday
(regular time, regular place)
 Dr. H. C. Liu
 NRC, Canada
 Heterostructures and Quantum Wells for Imaging Applications in the Wavelength Spectrum Longer than that of your Camcorder
(click for abstract)
03/23/99
 APS  March  Meeting
 03/30/99
Dr.  Jagbir Hooda
 Institute of Paper Science and Technology (affiliated with Ga Tech) 
Turbulence in the Paper Making Process 
 04/06/99
 Dr. Michael Geller
 University of Georgia at Athens
 Phase-Coherent Transport in Condensed Matter Physics  (click for abstract
04/13/99
 Dr. Achim Feldmeier
 University of Kentucky, Lexington
 Hydrodynamics of
(Line-Driven) Winds from Hot, Luminous Stars and Accretion Disks
(click for abstract)
04/20/99
 Dr. Chris Depree
 Agnes Scott College
 High Resolution Radio Observations of Galactic Star Formation
(click for abstract)
04/22/99
Thursday
(regular time, regular place)
Harold A. McAlister
Georgia State University
The CHARA Array: We're Getting Close!
04/27/99
Mr. Konstantin Kurlayev 
GSU Physics and Astronomy 
Nonlinear Optical Polarizabilities of Maxwell Garnett Composites
(MS defense)

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