Each semester, the School of Physics invites a variety of speakers to
come share their exciting research with students and faculty at Georgia
Tech. All students and faculty are invited.
If you have questions or
would like to set up an appointment with one of the speakers, please
contact
Cvitanovic ,
Bellissard,
Davidovic, or
Riedo.
--ALL LECTURES ARE ON WEDNESDAYS AT 3:00 pm in LECTURE ROOM 5 UNLESS
OTHERWISE NOTED
----THE RECEPTION WILL BE AT 2:30 PM IN ROOM N201.
Fall 2005 Schedule
| Date | Topic |
| 08/22 | First Day of Fall 2005 Classes |
| 08/24 |
M.-Y. Chou Annual School of Physics get together |
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| 09/05 | Official School Holiday |
| 09/07 |
Steve Kevan, Dept. of Physics, U. of Oregon "Complexity in Conventional Metal Films" (Host: B. Kennedy) |
| 09/14 |
Bruce Sherwood and Ruth Chabay, Dept. of Physics, North Carolina State U. (Host: M. Schatz) |
| 09/21 |
Ray Goldstein, Dept. of Physics, U. of Arizona "The Physics of Multicellularity" (Host: B. Kennedy) |
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| 10/05 |
3:00 pm,
Paul R. Selvin, Department of Physics, U. of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, "Studying Single-Molecule Molecular Motors" (Host: M-Y. Chou) 04:30 pm, Michael Fisher, Physics, U Maryland, "Stochastic Dynamics of Molecular Motors" (Host: J. Bellissard) |
| 10/06 | 04:30 pm, Michael Fisher, Physics, U. Maryland, Math Colloquium Skiles 269, "The Spherical Model" |
| 10/12 |
Miquel Salmeron, Lawrence Berkely Labs, "Liquids and Wetting at the
Nanometer Scale" (Host: E. Riedo) |
| 10/17~18 | Fall 2005 Recess |
| 10/19 |
Peter J. Webster, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia
Tech "Hurricanes and Global Climate Dynamics" (Host P. Cvitanovic) |
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| 11/02 |
Maria Varela, Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory "Complex Oxides: Structure/Properties Relations at the Atomic Scale" (Host: D. Davidovic ) |
| 11/09 |
Shane L. Larson, Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, Penn State "ZOOMING AROUND THE CENTRAL PARSEC: Gravitational waves from galactic nuclei" (Host P. Cvitanovic) |
| 11/16 |
David Newman, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Physics Department "Plasmas as a Prototypical Complex System: Self-Organized Criticality as a Paradigm for Plasma Transport" (Host P. Cvitanovic) |
| 11/23 |
Stephen C. Harvey, School of Biology, GRA Eminent Scholar in
Computational Structural Biology "Life at the Boundary of Physics and Biology" (Host M-Y. Chou) |
| 11/24~25 | Official School Holiday |
| 11/30 |
Didier Mayou, Laboratoire d'Etude des propriétés Electroniques des
Solides (LEPES), CNRS- Grenoble, France "Ab-initio numerical simulation of quantum transport in materials" (Host Dr. Berger) |
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| 12/01 |
Thursday Brian LeRoy, Delft |
| 12/05 |
Monday Jennifer E. Curtis, Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg "Twists and Turns in Orbital Angular Momentum and Cell Mechanics" (Host: B. Kennedy) |
| 12/07 |
Victor Klimov, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory "Semiconductor and Metal Nanocrystals: From Nanoengineering and Nanoscience to Practical Nanotechnologies" (Host: W. Deheer ) |
| 12/08 |
Thursday, 3:00 P.M. Raymond W. Simmonds, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, C0 "Quantum Computing: Is It Just a Dream?" (Reserved by A. Marchenkov) |
| 12/09 | Last Day of Classes |
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| 01/09 | Spring Term 2006 Classes Being |
