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Research

	Colloquium
	Fall 2003 | Spring 2004

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 2004

Catalytically Controlled Growth and Assembly of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers: Basic Studies and Nanotechnology Applications

Dr. Doug Lowndes

Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Thursday, April 29, 2004
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Determining Primaries in the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays

James D. Chye

Molecular Modeling of Diffusion of Water in Amorphous Silicon Carbide

Haiying He

Graduate Students Spring Series 2004
Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 8, 2004
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Neutral And Anionic Al₃O_n (n = 6 - 8) Clusters

S. Gowtham

Equilibrium Geometry and
Electron Detachment Energies of Anionic Cr₂O₄, Cr₂O₅ and Cr₂O₆ Clusters

Kah Chun Lau

Graduate Students Spring Series 2004
Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 1, 2004
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Hydrogen Isotopes Exchange Reactions in UT-Austin / MTU Neutrino Experiment

Dr. Jacek Borysow

Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, March 25, 2004
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Using Digital In-line Holography to Find the Three-dimensional Distribution of Cloud Droplets

Jacob Fugal

Hyperspectral Imaging -- A Physically Motivated Correlation Formalism

Ankita Roy

Graduate Students Spring Series 2004
Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, March 18, 2004
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Fabrication of Photonic Crystals Structure on a Waveguide as a Novel Magneto-Optical Integrated Device

Xiaoyue Huang

Cosmological Higgs Field and Dark Energy

Bijunath Patla

Graduate Students Spring Series 2004
Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, March 11, 2004
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Solar Wind and Global Circuit Forcing of Clouds and Climate

Prof. Brian A. Tinsley

University of Texas at Dallas
Joint Remote Sensing Institute -- Physics Seminar
Monday, March 8, 2004
4:00 pm, M&M 113

Classical Nucleation Theory: A Polemic

Dr. Will Cantrell

Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, February 26, 2004
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Growth of Adhesive Cubic Phase Boron Nitride Thin Films

JieSheng Wang

RCI Calculations of Energy Levels of Mo V J=0

Lin Pan

Graduate Students Spring Series 2004
Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, February 19, 2004
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Growing Carbon Nanotubes by Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition

Vijaya Kayastha

Graduate Students Spring Series 2004
Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, February 12, 2004
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Monte Carlo Simulations of Surface Morphology Dynamics

Da Gao

Optimization of Deformable Mirror for the Hokupa'a-85 Adaptive Optics System

Qiang Yang

Graduate Students Spring Series 2004
Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, January 29, 2004
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Surprises in Natural Graphite: Beauty from Defects

Dr. John A. Jaszczak

Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, January 22, 2004
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Fall Semester 2003

Folding a Mini-Protein Using Molecular Dynamics

Dr. Adrian E. Roitberg

Quantum Theory Project and Department of Chemistry
University of Florida
Thursday, December 11, 2003
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Universality and Scaling in Short-Time Critical Dynamics

Dr. Nelson A. Alves

Physics and Mathematics Department
University of Sao Paulo
Thursday, December 4, 2003
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Noncovalent Engineering of Carbon Nanotube Surfaces by Rigid, Functional Conjugated Polymers

Dr. Haiying Liu

Department of Chemistry
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, November 20, 2003
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Horizontal Air Showers in the Auger Observatory

Dr. Johana Chirinos Diaz

Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, November 6, 2003
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Protein Folding with Molecular Dynamics

Dr. Ruhong Zhou

Computational Biology Center
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Thursday, October 30, 2003
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Using Evanescent Waves to Initiate the Drift of a Gas

Dr. Michael A. Waxman

Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin - Superior
Thursday, October 23, 2003
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

The Effect of Crystallization Process in Clouds on Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate

Dr. Azadeh Tabazadeh

NASA Ames Research Center
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
4:00 pm, Dow 641

Polymer Thin Film Growth and Roughness (General, Advance)

Dr. R. B. Pandey

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Southern Mississippi
Thursday, October 16, 2003
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Carbon Nanotubes and the Nanotechnology Revolution

Dr. David Tománek

Physics and Astronomy Department
Michigan State University
Friday, October 3, 2003
2:00 pm, Fisher 139

Micromechanical Modeling of Graphitic Carbon Foams

Dr. Xin-Lin Gao

Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, September 25, 2003
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

The physics of plasma spacecraft propulsion

Dr. L. Brad King

Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, September 18, 2003
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

Helix Formation and Folding in Biological Macro-molecules

Yong Peng

Physics Graduate Student
Michigan Technological University
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
9:00 am, Fisher 127