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Research

	Colloquium
	Fall 2001 | Spring 2002

Physics colloquiums are normally held each Thursday at 4:00 pm in Room 139, Fisher Hall. All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Spring Semester 2002

Past, Present and What Future?

Dr. Jon J. Spijkerman

Ranger Scientific, Inc.
Burleson, Texas
Thursday, May 2, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Tools in Biomolecular Informatics and Protein Simulations

Dr. Frank Eisenmenger

BBB Campus Berlin-Buch Ltd.
Berlin, Germany
Monday, April 29, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 101

NASA's TIMED-SEE Instrument Overview

Dr. Donald Woodraska

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
University of Colorado
Friday, April 26, 2002
11:00 am, Fisher 101

Spin Waves in an Ultra-cold Bose Gas

Heather Lewandowski

JILA
University of Colorado
Thursday, April 25, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Small Phase Error Problems in Extra-Solar Planet Imaging and an Algorithm for Small Phase Retrieval Using Coronagraph

Weidong Yang

Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Monday, April 22, 2002
3:00 pm, Fisher 135

Touching Atoms and Squeezing Molecules: Nanomechanics and Atomic Force Microscopy

Dr. Peter M. Hoffman

Department of Physics and Astronomy
Wayne State University
Thursday, April 18, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Storms in Space

Dr. John W. Freeman

Rice University
Houston, TX
Thursday, April 11, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Modeling 2D Froth Dynamics: Scaling Properties and Persistence Measures

Dr. Yu Feng

School of Computer Applications
Dublin City University
Dublin, Ireland
Friday, April 5, 2002
11:00 am, Fisher 101

Horizontal Air Showers in the Auger Experiment

Alexei Dorofeev

Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 4, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Laser Beam Diffraction by Small Circular Aperture

Changgong Zhou

Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, March 28, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Spectral Observation Using a Hyperspectral Imager

Aaron Wilson

Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, March 28, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Monte-Carlo Simulations of Surfaces in a Periodic Layered Structure

Da Gao

Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, March 21, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

A DFT Study of Group III Nitride Clusters

Anil K. Kandalam

Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, March 21, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Sneak Preview of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory

Dr. Paul Sommers

Department of Physics
University of Utah
Thursday, March 14, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Creation of CONtinuous CAMeras for Monitoring the Entire Night Sky: Instrumentation, Data Handling and Creation of a Performance Model

Wellesley Pereira

Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, February 21, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

A Non-Fourier-Transform Approach to the Solution of Small Phase Retrieval Problem

Weidong Yang

Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, February 14, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Elasticity of Individual Poly-nucleotide Molecule

Dr. Yang Zhang

Laboratory of Computational Genomics
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Thursday, January 24, 2002
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Fall Semester 2001

A Review of Strain Relaxation Observed in Wafer-Bonded Heterostructures

Dr. Peter Moran

Materials Science and Engineering
Michigan Tech
Thursday, December 13, 2001
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Remarkable Features of Thin Film Flows

Dr. Igor L. Kliakhandler

Department of Mathematical Sciences
Michigan Tech
Thursday, December 6, 2001
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Satellite-Derived Sea Surface Temperature Variability and Vertically-Integrated Nitrate Over the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank Region During 1987

Dr. J. J. Bisagni

University of Massachusetts
School for Marine Science and Technology
New Bedford, MA
Tuesday, November 13, 2001
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Nucleation, Thin Films and Deliquescence of Salt

Dr. Will Cantrell

Physics Department, Michigan Tech University
Thursday, November 8, 2001
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Isle Royale Institute

Mark Gleason

Director, Isle Royale Institute, Michigan Tech University
Thursday, October 11, 2001
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

High-precision atomic physics calculations using a computer algebra system and many-body perturbation theory

Dr. Warren F. Perger

Department of Electrical Engineering, Michigan Tech University
Thursday, October 4, 2001
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Atomic Clusters - A New Source of Metastable Materials

Dr. Bijan K. Rao

Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Thursday, September 20, 2001
4:00 pm, Fisher 139