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Colloquia Series

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 a speaker, please contact L. Sheridan. For colloquium speakers and colloquium topic suggestions, please contact P. Cvitanovic', A. Fernandez-Nieves, or Z. Jiang.

All lectures are on Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. in Lecture Room 5.
(UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED)
The reception will be held at 2:30 p.m. in room N201.

 

Fall 2008 Schedule

 
Date Topic
08/18
First Day of Fall 2008 Classes
08/20
Mei-Yin Chou, Chair : Annual School of Physics Gathering
08/27

Mo Li, Ga Tech School of Materials Science & Engineering, "Understanding the Simplest Phase Transition: Melting and Homogeneous Melting in Solids" (Host: M.-Y. Chou)

09/01
Official School Holiday
09/10
Edward Conrad , GaTech School of Physics, "Graphene: a new platform for carbon electronics" (Host: P. Cvitanovic)
09/17
Urs Gasser, Paul Scherrer Institute, "Non-Central Forces in Crystals of Charged Colloids" (Host: A. Fernandez-Nieves)
09/25 (Thurs.)
Julie Speer , Georgia Tech Library, "GT Institutional Repository and Scholarly Communication" (Host: M.-Y. Chou)
10/01
David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, "Superconductivity in Layered Iron Compounds" (Host: M.-Y. Chou)
10/08
Carol Paty, School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech, "Modeling magnetospheric interactions in the solar system" (Host: M.-Y. Chou)
10/11-14
Fall 2008 Recess Break
10/15
W. David Kulp III, School of Physics, "Nuclear Spectroscopy" (Host: Cvitanovic)
10/22

Josef Dufek, School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech, "Multi-scale dynamics in explosive volcanic eruptions" (Host: P. Cvitanovic)

10/29

JOINT COLLOQUIUM WITH SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY

Nigel Goldenfeld, Univ. of Illinois - Urbana, "Statistical Physics, Biological Complexity and Pattern Formation at Yellowstone's Hot Springs" (Host: J. Weitz)

11/05

JOINT COLLOQUIUM WITH SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Daniel Rothman, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Growth of a Dendritic Channel Network" (Host: J. Weitz)
11/12
Turgay Uzer, School of Physics, "Ground Control to Niels Bohr: Exploring Outer Space with Atomic Physics" (Host: P. Cvitanovic)
11/19
Edward Gerjuoy, Univ. of Pittsburgh, "Recollections of Oppenheimer and Schwinger" (Host: P. Cvitanovic)
11/25
Yuanbo Zhang, GaTech School of Physics , "Probing the Electronic Properties of Graphene at The Atomic Scale"(Host: TBA)
11/27-28
Official School Holiday
12/02
Antonio Barrero, University of Sevilla (Spain), "Whipping Instability in Electrified Micro/Nanojets" (Host: TBA)
12/03

Lloyd Engel, NHML/ Florida State Univ.,"Microwave Spectroscopy of Wigner Crystals and Electron Stripes" TBA (Host: Z. Jiang)

12/05
Last Day of Classes
12/8-12
Final Exams
12/10
Ignacio Taboada, School of Physics, "If it's Broke, Fix It - Physics Nobel Prize 2008"
12/13
End of Fall 2008
01/05
Classes Begin Spring Term 2009

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