500B.002  DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH  OVERVIEW  Fall 2007  (Fr, 9:00 - 10:30, room 5)

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Please note: some schedule changes may still occur!

8/24   Paul Schwoebel:  "Neutron Sources for Detection Applications"  

8/31   John Matthews: "Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: Probe of the Extreme Universe"

           Michael Gold:   "Searching for New Stuff in the Universe"

9/7      Ylva Pihlstroem:  "Astrophysical Lasers"

           Stefan Posse: "Research in functional and biochemical MRI"

9/14  Joe Galewsky:  "The vastness of a dewdrop: Water vapor in atmospheric circulations"

          Rob Duncan:  "Matter wave coherence in physics: superconductors, superfluids,

                                     neutron stars, and other Bose Einstein condensates"

9/21    Igor Gorelov:  "New Beautiful States with CDF Detector at Tevatron" 

Ivan Deutsch:  "Quantum Information with Ultracold Atoms"

9/28    Greg Taylor:  "LWA - The Long Wavelength Array"

            JM Geremia: 

10/5    Keith Lidke:  "High-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques for

                                      Live Cell Imaging"

10/12   Fall Break

10/19    John McGraw:  "Measurement Astrophysics: Obviating Earth's Evil Atmosphere"

              Eiichi Fukushima:  "Applications of NMR to physics"

10/26   Wolfgang Rudolph  "Ultra³ (short, fast, intense) bullets of light"

11/2     Dave Dunlap "The AC conductivity of Si nanowires"

11/9    Doug Fields:  "The Composition of Matter"

            Dinesh Loomba: "The DRIFT Dark Matter Search"

11/16   V. M. Kenkre:  "Random Walks and Master Equations for Every Occasion"

              Rouzbeh Allahverdi:  "Particle Physics And The Early Universe"

11/23   Thanksgiving break

11/30    Steve Koch:   "Unzipping single DNA molecules to investigate DNA binding proteins"

              Jim Thomas:  "Nanoantennas for Multiphoton Microscopy"

12/7     Trish Henning: 

              Sally Seidel: "Heavy Quarks at the Large Hadron Collider"