DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

COLLOQUIUM

FALL SEMESTER 1999

Colloquium is regularly held on Thursdays from 2:30 to 3:30 pm
at 218 Science Center
Refreshments are served at 2:15

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
09/16/99
09/23/99	Dr. Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi	Mikroelektronik Centret Technical University of Denmark	Direct Observation of Strong Localization of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Light Waves (click for abstract)
09/30/99
10/07/99
10/14/99
10/21/99 Seminar of Biology Department and Physics and Astronomy Department	Dr. Brian Mulloney	Professor of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis	Neural Coordination during Locomotion : An Experimental and Computational Analysis
10/28/99 519 Kell Hall
11/04/99
11/11/99	Prof. Daniel Savin	Columbia University	Atomic Physics at High Redshift and near Black Holes
11/18/99 1:30 pm 519 Kell Hall	Mr. William M. Lee	Georgia State University	Measurement of J/Psi Suppression and Psi' Supression in p-A Collisions at 800 GeV/c (Dissertation Defense) (click for abstract as *.pdf file; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
11/23/99 Tuesday 1 pm 519 Kell Hall	Mr. Victor Bellitto	Georgia State University	Investigations of Hydrogen on Gallium Nitride (Dissertation Defense)
11/25/99	Happy	Thanksgiving	Day
11/30/99 Tuesday 2:30 pm 1004 General Classroom Building	Mr. A. Benjamin Hocking	Georgia State University	Analysis and Discussion of Three Alternative Space-Time Metrics (MS Defense)
12/02/99 1 pm 272 Natural Science Center	Mr. Yong Yang	Georgia State University	Adsorption and Desorption on a Gallium Nitride Surface (MS Defense)
12/02/99	Dr. Jun Xu	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Positron Probing of Defects on Nanosurfaces and Electronic Materials (click for an abstract)
12/09/99
12/16/99

SPRING SEMESTER 2000

Colloquium is regularly held on Thursdays from 3:15 to 4:15 pm
at 218 Science Center
Refreshments are served at 3:00

Dates	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
01/13/00
01/20/00
Tuesday 3:15 pm 218 Natural Science Center 01/25/00	Ms. Elizabeth C. Ferrara	Georgia State University	AGN Variability Timescales: A Probe of the Emission Processes in the Central Source (Ph.D. Prospectus)
01/25/00
02/03/00
02/10/00
02/17/00
02/24/00	Prof. Jean-Patrick Connerade	Imperial College, London	The Cluster as a Superatom (click for abstract)
03/02/00	Dr. Tim Lian	Emory University	Ultrafast Electron Transfer in Semiconductor Nanomaterials (click for abstract)
03/09/00	SPRING	BREAK	*HAVE FUN!*
03/16/00	Ms. Ruili Wang	Georgia State University	Optical Trapping and Manipulation of Microbes Using Laser Tweezers (click for abstract)
03/21/00 Tuesday 3:15 pm 218 Natural Science Center	Dr. Todd Henry	Center for Astrophysical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University	NEARBY STAR CENSUS 2000: Who Are Your Neighbors (and How Much Do They Weigh)? (click for abstract)
03/23/00	Dr. Karen Bjorkman	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo	Disks, Polarization, and Interferometry: The Shape of Things to Come (click for abstract)
03/28/00 Tuesday 3:15 pm 218 Natural Science Center	Dr. Nikolaus Dietz	Departments of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University	Real Time Optical Monitoring of Thin Film Growing Processes: The Characterization of Dissimilar Heterostructures Formation and Growth Kinetics (click for abstract, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
03/30/00	Dr. Michael D. Williams	Clark Atlanta University	Free Standing Quantum Wells (click for abstract)
04/04/00 Tuesday, 12:30 - 1:30 pm 519 Kell Hall	Mr. Yong Hu	Georgia State University	The Study of Positron Annihilation in B-Cyclodextrin and B-Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes
04/06/00
04/13/00	Dr. Fereydoon Namavar	Advanced Silicon-Based Technology, Spire Optoelectronics and Surface Engineering R&D, Spire Biomedical	Engineering Nanocrystalline, Superhard Metallic and Ceramic Films for Orthopaedic Prostheses and Geothermal Applicationss (click for abstract)
04/20/00 CANCELLED due to flight cancellation, inclement weather	Dr. John Schotland	Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis	Tomography with Diffusing Photons: A New Medical Imaging Modality (click for abstract)
04/27/00	Dr. Kurt Warncke	Emory University	Radical Pair Generation, Stabilization and Reactivity in B12 Enzyme Catalysis (click for abstract)
CANCELLED 06/15/00	Prof. Anthony F. J. Moffat	Department of Physics, University of Montreal	Stars that Go Bump, Bump, Bump in the Night

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