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IPST WEEKLY
CALENDAR - SPRING 2008
Monday, January
28th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Scott Bailey
Yale University
Topic: Structural
Insights into DNA Replications
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
4:00 PM - 1116
IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
January 29th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
No Seminar
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
January 30th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Ellad Tadmor
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics,
University of Minnesota
Topic: A Quasicontinuum
for Multilattice Phase Transforming Materials
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
Special Seminar
LABORATORY
FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES SEMINAAR
(in addition to the regular 3:30 PM Seminar)
11:10 AM - Seminar Room, Upper Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740, (301)-935-6400
Speaker: Ricardo S. Decca
Department of Physics, Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis
Title:
Casimir, Newton and Hypothetical Forces
3:30 PM - No Seminar Information Available
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
January 31st
12:15 PM - ERF 1207 (Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, February
1st
No Seminars
Monday, February
4th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Michael A. Coplan
Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
Topic: A New
Way of Detecting Neutrons, Atomic and Nuclear Physics Meet
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
February 5th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Christopher Beattie
Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
Topic: Projection
Methods for Structure-Preserving Model Reduction
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Harvey Brown
Oxford University, UK
Topic: Why Do
Rods Contract? Extending John Bell's “Lorentzian Pedagogy”
into General Relativity
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
February 6th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Alina Chertock
Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State
University
Topic: A Positivity Preserving
Central-Upwind Scheme for Chemotaxis and Haptotaxis Models
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740, (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR
Speaker: Michael S. Fuhrer
Department of Physics and Center for Nanophysics
and Advanced Materials, UMCP
Topic: Graphene as
a Material for Nanoelectronics
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
February 7th
12:15 PM - ERF 1207 (Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Daniel Goldman
Physics and Biology, Georgia Tech University
Topic: Locomotion
on Controlled Granular Media
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
1:00 PM - 2110 Chemical
& Nuclear Engineering Bldg.
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker: David Mitlin
Chemical and Materials Engineering, University
of Alberta
Topic: Metastable Metallic
Alloys for NEMS/MEMS, Nitride Growth Substrates
and Hydrogen Storage
Friday, February
8th
1:00 PM - 2108 Chemical & Nuclear Engineering Bldg.
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker: Robert Sinclair
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Stanford University
Topic: In Situ HREM
of Material Reactions
3:00 PM - MATH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Carl Bender
Department of Physics, Washington University in St.
Louis
Topic: Ghostbusting:
Reviving Quantum Theories That Were Thought to be Dead
Monday, February
11th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
For further information, contact Dr. Thirumalai, Coordinator.
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
-
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Refreshments @ 4:00 PM
Speaker: Prof. James F. Drake
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: Ion Pickup
and Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection Exhausts
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
February 12th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
(As in the past, each seminar will be preceded by an informal cafeteria
lunch to which all are welcome, departing from
Room 2100B about five minutes after 12:00 noon.)
Speaker: Greg Morrison
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: The Influence
of Handles on the Folding Landscape and Kinetics of RNA Hairpins
For further information contact: Professor Christopher Jarzynski
cjarzyns@umd.edu
(301)-405-4439; Professor John Weeks jdw@ipst.umd.edu (301)-405-4802;
Professor Michelle Girvan girvan@umd.edu (301)-405-1610
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Claudio Canuto
Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Torino
Topic: High-Resolution
Methods for Stochastic Boundary-Value Problems
with Geometric Uncertaintie
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Jeremiah Ostriker
Princeton University
Topic: Concordance
Cosmology: Is it Correct?
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
February 13th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Refreshments @ 3:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Fadil Santosa
School of Mathematics and Institute for Mathematics
and its Applications,
University of Minnesota
Topic: Modeling
and Design of Optical Resonators
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740, (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR
Refreshments @ 3:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Arnold Goldberg
Space Department, Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory
Topic: Infrared Sensors
for Missile Defense Applications
For further information, contact Dr. Michael Mandelberg (301-935-3151)
or Dr. Bob Anderson (301-405-6142).
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
February 14th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Mitsuo Kira
Tohoku University
Topic: Transition
Metal Complexes with Unsaturated Silicon Ligands
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Tom Wanner
George Mason University
Topic: Homological
Analysis of Complicated Random Patterns
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, February
15th
1:00 PM - 2108 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Bldg.
Speaker: Jason S. Gardner
NIST, Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg,
MD and
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Topic: Neutron
Scattering and Slow Spin Systems
Monday,
February 18th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
-
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar - President's Day
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
February 19th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. Vincent Lee
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: To be
Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Department of Economics, James Madison University,
Harrisonburg, Virginia
http://cob.jmu.edu/
Topic: Econophysics
and Economic Complexity
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Marco Verani
Dip. Di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano
Topic: A Safeguarded Dual
Weighted Residual Method
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Martin White
University of California, Berkeley
Topic: The Echo of
Einstein's Greatest Blunder
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
February 20th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Jingchao Xu
Department of Mathematics, Penn State University
Topic: Numerical Methods
for High Order and Coupled PDE Systems
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Chris Cheatum
University of Iowa
Topic: Watching
the Protein Mambo: Fast Enzyme Dynamics
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740, (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Steven L. Rolston
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: The Coldest
Plasma
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
February 21st
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Wei-Hao Huang
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Not-Seco-Cucurbituril
Molecular Containers
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu\
12:15 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
4:00 PM - CHEM 1228
(Bldg. 091)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. Jingxin Wang
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Synthetic
Application of Strained Heterocycles
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu\
Friday, February
22nd
3:00 PM - CHEM
0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Reza Ghodssi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
& Institute for Systems Research,
UMCP
Topic: Toward
Self-Sustaining Integrated Microsystems for Chemical and Biological Detection
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu\
Monday, February
25th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Edwin Taylor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University
of Chicago
Topic: Motors
and Muscle Contraction Since 1957: Are We There Yet?
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
-
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Patrick Hughes
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic:
Efficient Surface Conversion for Neutral Atom Detection
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
February 26th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker #1: Andrew Pomerance
University of Maryland, College
Park
Topic:
The Effects of Structure on the Dynamics of Boolean Networks
Speaker #2: Sanjeev Chuhan
University of Maryland, College
Park
Topic:
Spectral Methods for Defining and Identifying Community Structure
in Directed Networks
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Pedro Morin
Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
Topic: Convergence of Adaptive
Finite Elements for Eigenvalue Problems
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Charles Falco
University of Arizona
Topic: The Science
of Optics: The History of Art
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
February 27th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
C SCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Markus Puschel
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University
Topic: Linear Transforms:
Theory and Automatic Implementation
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor David Gracias
Johns Hopkins University
Topic: Interfacial
Engineering of Functional Electronic and Biomedical Devices
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740, (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Charles M. Falco
College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona,
Tucson
Topic: Art, Optics,
and Computerized Image Analysis
Thursday,
February 28th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Yu Liu
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Zn as
a Lewis Acid Catalyst in Asymmetric Synthesis
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu\
12:15 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Edward Ott
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Low Dimensional
Behavior in Large Systems of Coupled Oscillators
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Ms. Emily Trunkely
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Selective Ethylene
Trimerization Using Early Transition Metals Catalysts
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu\
Friday,
February 29th
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
1:00 PM - 2108 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
Speaker: Dr. Danillo Romero
Laboratory for Physical Sciences, UMCP
Topic: Physics
of Organic Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Devices
Monday, March
3rd
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Allen P. Minton
Physical Biochemistry Chief, Laboratory
of Biochemistry and Genetics NIDDK, NIH
Topic: How Biochemistry
in Vivo Can Differ from Biochemistry in Vitro
(survey of crowding, confinement, surface
adsorption)
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
-
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
March 4th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Rachel Green
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dilip Asthagiri
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins
University
Topic: Potential Distribution
Methods and Hydration Thermodynamics
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Xiaobai Sun
Department of Computer Science, Duke University
Topic: Efficient Encoding
of Irregular Geometric Structures in Matrix Computations
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
FOURTEENTH
ANNUAL SHIH-I PAI LECTURE
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410 (Lecture Hall)
Speaker: Professor Eugenia Kalnay
Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science and
Institute for Physical Science & Technology, UMCP
Topic: Amidst the Chaos,
Good Predictions: How Meteorology Beats the Odds
Wednesday,
March 5th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Diego Troya
Virginia Tech University
Topic: Making Progress
Towards the Description of the Dynamics of Large Chemical Reactions
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740, (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Charles W. Clark
Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of
Standards & Technology and UMCP
Topic: Condensed Matter
Physics at Nanograms/Cubic Centimeter
Thursday,
March 6th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Sanem Kocak
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Stepping Stones
to Cluster-Assembled Materials
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu\
12:15 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Mikhail I. Sitnov
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins
Topic: Storm-Time
Structure and Dynamics of the Terrestrial Magnetosphere Inferred
from a Nonlinear Spatio-Temporal Empirical Modeling
of the Geomagnetic Field
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. Matthew Hurley
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: To
be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu\
Friday, March
7th
No Seminars
Monday, March
10th
4:00 PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: William D. Dorland
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Small-Scale
Electromagnetic Fluctuations in the Solar Wind
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
March 11th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Philip Bryan
UMBI-CARB
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Edward O’Brien
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Predicting Osmolyte
Effects on Protein Properties Using the Molecular Transfer Model
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Irene Livshitz
Department of Mathematics, Ball State University
Topic: Multiscale/Multigrid Method
for Finding a Full Eigenbasis of the Schrodinger Operator
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
(Lecture Hall)
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: David Wineland
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Boulder
Topic: Sacling a Trapped-Ion
Quantum Information Processor
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
March 12th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Saswata Hier-Majumber
Department of Geology, UMCP
Spekaer: To be Announced
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740, (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR
No Seminar
Thursday,
March 13th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Jeff Bode
University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Organic Redox Reactions
for Chemoselective Ligations and Enantioselective Annulations
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu\
12:15 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar - APS Meeting
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, March
14th
1:00 PM - 2108 Chemical & Nuclear Engineering Bldg.
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker: Professor John F. Rabolt
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Delaware
Topic: Structure/Processing/Property
Relationships in Electrospun Polymer Nanofibers with
Engineered Properties for Vascular Regeneration
3:00 PM -
CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Student Seminar
Speaker: Mr. Nathan Hoteling
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: To be Announced
Monday,
March 17th
3:30 PM - Seminar Room Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740, (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Per Delsing
Department of Microelectronics & Nanoscience, Chalmers
University of Technology
Topic: Fast Tuning of
a High-Q Microwave Cavity for Qubit Coupling and Demonstration
of Dressed States in a Superconducting Qubit
4:00 PM - 1116
IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar - SPRING BREAK
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar - SPRING BREAK
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
March 18th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar - SPRING BREAK
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar - SPRING BREAK
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
(Lecture Hall)
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
No Seminar - SPRING BREAK
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
March 19th
11:00 AM - 2110, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING and MARYLAND NANOCENTER
(Co-Sponsored Seminar)
Speaker: Professor Stacey F. Bent
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford
University
Topic: Exploring
Atomic Layer Deposition for Catalysis and Energy Applications
For more information, contact Annette Mateus at (301) 405-5207 or amateus@umd.edu.
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122
(Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
No Seminar - SPRING BREAK
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
Thursday,
March 20th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar - SPRING BREAK
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu\
12:15 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar - SPRING BREAK
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, March
21st
No Seminars - SPRING BREAK
Monday, March
24th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Vincent Hilser
Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular
Biophysics,
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
Topic: Ensemble Allostery
and Intrinsic Disorder
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: John Richardson
MIT
Topic: Plasma Observations
from Voyager: From Earth to the Heliosheath
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
March 25th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor David Nelson
Department of Physics, Harvard University
Topic: Virus Buckling
and Folding of Pollen Grains
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Shari Moskow
Department of Mathematics, Drexel University
Topic: Asymptotic and
Numerical Approximation of the Resonances of Thin Photonic Structures
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
(Lecture Hall)
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: David Nelson
Harvard University
Topic: Gene Surfing in
Microorganisms
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
March 26th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Roomo)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Sharon Neal
University of Delaware
Topic: Multivariate Spectroscopy
of Biological & Biomimetic Systems
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122
(Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Jim Purser
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
(NCEP)
Topic: Discrete and Differential
Geometry Applied to the Efficient Numerical Synthesis of Spatially Adaptive
Covariances
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740; (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Professor Phil Johnson
Department of Computer Science, Audio Technology
and Physics, American University
Topic: Coherence and Entanglement
in the Double Well Optical Lattice
For further information please contact Dr. Michael Mandelberg (301-935-3151)
or Dr. Bob Anderson (301-405-6142).
Thursday,
March 27th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Student Seminar
Speaker: Mr. Williamson Oloo
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Transition Metal Complexes
Involving Redox Active Ligands and their Applications
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
AZIZ LECTURE - Math Department
Speaker: Professor Richard James
University of Minnesota
Topic: Objective
Molecular Dynamics
http://www.math.umd.edu/~ssa/
Friday, March
28th
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
1:00 PM - 2108 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
Speaker: Professor Aris Christou
Dept. of Materials Science and Engeering, UMCP
Topic: GaN HFETs Performance
and Degradation Mechanisms: Truths and Myths
3:00 PM - MATH 3206
AZIZ LECTURE - Math Department
Speaker: Professor Richard James
University of Minnesota
Topic: New Materials
from Mathematics: Real and Imagined
http://www.math.umd.edu/~ssa/
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor John Cumings
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: New Approaches
to Natural Product Glycosylation
Monday, March
31st
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Leonard F. Burlaga
Goddard Space Flight Center
Topic: Magnetic Fields
in the Termination Shock, Heliosheath and Solar Wind
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
April 1st
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Ailong Ke
Cornell University
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Adams
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Topic: E8 and the Atlas
of Lie Groups
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Mili Shaw
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loyola College
of Maryland
Topic: Calculating a Symmetric
Approximation Via the Symmetry Preserving Singular
Value Decomposition
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
(Lecture Hall)
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dennis Papdopoloulos
University of Maryland. College Park
Topic: Fundamental Physics
Issues on Radiation Belt Dynamics and Remediation
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
April 2nd
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Carl Lineberger
University of Colorado
Topic: Organic Anion Photoelectron
Spectroscopy: Radicals, Reactive Intermediates and
Transition States
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122
(Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Cancelled
Speaker: Professor Michael J. Shelley
Applied Mathematics Lab, The Courant Institute
Topic: Dynamics and Transport
in Active Suspensions
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740; (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Professor Michael Marder
Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, Department of
Physics, The University of Texas at Austin
Topic: Cohesion and Fracture:
From Research on Solids to Building Solutions for
Failing Educational Systems
Thursday,
April 3rd
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room) http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Student Seminar
Speaker: Professor Scott Silverman
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Topic: DNA as a Catalyst for
Bioorganic Chemistry Transition Metal Complexes Involving
Redox Active Ligands and their Applications
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:00 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Eckehard Schoell
Institut for Theoretical Physics, Technical University
Berlin
Topic: Chaos Control and
Beyond – Stabilization of Unstable States in Complex Nonlinear Systems
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, April
4th
1:00 PM - 2108 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Bldg.
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Ho Nyung Lee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Topic: Atomic-Scale Complex
Oxides Heterostructures Designed By Pulsed Laser Deposition
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. Colin Wynne
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, April
7th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Tom Lubensky
Chair and Mary Amanda Wood Professor, Department of
Physics & Astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Elasticity
and Nonaffinity of Crosslinked Biopolymer Networks
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Robert B. Decker
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Topic: Voyager 2 at
the Termination Shock: Energetic Particle Perspective
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
April 8th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Sean Prigge
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Topic: Lipoic Acid
in Malaria: A Tale of Two Organelles
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:00 PM - PHYS 1410
(Lecture Hall)
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Bradley Filippone
California Institute of Technology
Topic: What's So Cool
About Ultra-Cold Neutrons?
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Thomas Gilbert
Center for Complex and Nonlinear Systems, Universite
Libre, Brussels, Belgium
Topic: Heat Conduction
and Fourier's Law by Two- Stage Local Thermalization
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Ricardo Nochetto
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Topic: Adaptive FEM for the Laplace-Beltrami
Operator and Applications to Geometric Flows
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/semina
Wednesday,
April 9th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR -
Speaker: Professor Alexander Gorban
Applied Mathematics, University of Leicester
Topic: L imiters in
Lattice Boltzmann Methods
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740; (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Professor Howard Milchberg
Institute for Physical Science & Technology,
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
and Dept. of Physics, UMCP
Topic: Relativistic
Charged Particle Acceleration by Lasers
Thursday,
April 10th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room) http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Alec Greer
CUNY - Brooklyn
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:00 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, April
11th
1:00 PM - Chemical & Nuclear Engineering 2108
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Robert L. Snyder
Georgia Tech
Topic: The New World
of Materials Science & Engineering: Nano & Bio Technology
For more information, contact Annette Mateus.
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Yetrib Hathout
Children's National Medical Center, Center for Genetic
Medicine
Topic: Understanding Age
Related Macular Degeneration Pathogenesis
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - Kim Bldg/
Pepco Lecture Hall
UM SPIE/OSA Student
Chapter
University of Maryland Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers
& Optical Society of America
Speaker: Dr. Robert Breault
Breault Research Organization
Topic: The Business
of Optics in the Next Ten Years
http://www.studentorg.umd.edu/spie/events.htm
Monday, April
14th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Ned S. Wingreen
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Topic: E. Coli's Division
Decision: Modeling Min-Protein Oscillations
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Michael L. Kaiser
Goddard Space Flight Center
Topic: New Views of
the Sun and Inner Solar System from STEREO
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
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Tuesday,
April 15th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor John Blanchard
Albert Einstein University
Topic: Tuberculosis: One
Big Problem, Two Little Stories
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Jocelyn Rodgers
Chemical Physics & IPST, UMCP
Topic: Influence of
Short and Long-Ranged Forces on the Simulated Properties of Water
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Jennifer Erway
Department of Mathematics, Wake Forest University
Topic: Recent Developments
in Iterative Methods for Large-Scale Unconstrained Optimization
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Michael Peskin
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Topic: Dark Matter
in the Cosmos and in the Laboratory
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
April 16th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor James M. Greenberg
Department of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University
Topic: Two-Dimensional
Sloshing Flows for the Shallow-Water Equations
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740; (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Michael T. Khbeis
The Laboratory for Physical Sciences, US National
Security Agency
Topic: Microelectronics
Integration: Advanced Packaging for Next-Generation, High Interconnect
Density Systems
Thursday,
April 17th
12:15 PM - ERF 1207 (Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dan Gauthier
Duke University
Topic: Observation
of An Unfolded Border-collision Bifurcation in Cardiac Tissue
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room) http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Kung Wang
West Virginia University
Topic: Cascade Cyclizations of
Conjugated Systems
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Friday, April
18th
1:00 PM - 2108 Chemical & Nuclear Engineering Bldg.
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Manfred Wuttig
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Unorthodox
Synthesized Magnetoelectrics
For more information, contact Annette Mateusday.
2:00 PM - 1202 Martin
Hall (Engineernig Classroom Bldg.)
BURGERS PROGRAM (as part of its Fluid Dynamics Reviews Series)
Speaker: Joe Klewicki
Dean of Engineering and Applied Science, University
of New Hampshire
Topic: Leaders in Mechanical
Engineering Lecture: Structural Features of the High Reynolds Number
Turbulent Boundary Layer
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Xudong Yao
University of Connecticut
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday,
April 21st
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Supurna Sinha
Raman Research Institute, Sadashivanager, Bangalore,
India
Topic: Biopolymer Elasticity
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dave Sibeck
Goddard Space Flight Center
Topic: New Results
from THEMIS
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
April 22nd
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor John Woolford
Carnegie Mellon University
Topic: Genetic and Proteomic
Analysis of Ribosome Assembly in Yeast
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00 PM - 1201 PHYS
Note: Special Time and Place
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Joseph Samuel
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
Topic: Surface Tension
and the Cosmological Constant
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Rick Falk
Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University
Topic: A New Approach to
Finite Element Methods for the Equations of Linear Elasticity
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Jean Dalibard
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, France
Topic: Cold Atoms in FlatLand
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
April 23rd
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Bruce Kay
Pacific Northwest National Lab
Topic: Using Nanoscale Amorphous
Films to Study Processes and Supercooled Liquid Water and Aqueous Solutions
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:00 PM - 2110 Chemical
and Nuclear Engineering Bldg.
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Melanie W. Cole
U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground
Topic: Tailoring the Material
Properties of Ba1-xSrxTiO3 Based Thin Films to Enable Enhanced Performance
Microwave Devices
For more information, contact Annette Mateus
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122
(Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Irene Fonseca
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon
Topic: Variational
Methods in Materials and Imaging
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740; (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Dr. Laura L. Adams
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: Metallic Clusters
Meet Quantum Chaos
Thursday,
April 24th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor David Mootoo
CUNY – Hunter
Topic: Synthesis and Applications
of Glycomimetics
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Victor Nagy
Physics, UMCP
Topic: Dynamics of
a Self Organized Critical System: The Forest Fire Model
and
Speaker: Prof. Debra Searles
Griffith University, Australia
Topic: Fluctuation
relations for entropy production
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, April
25th
1:00 PM - 2108 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Bldg.
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Colin Broholm
Johns Hopkins University
Topic: Ferroelectricity
in Frustrated Magnets
For more information, contact Annette Mateus
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Heng Zhu
Department of Pharmacology & HiT Center, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine
Topic: Global Profiling Protein
Function Using a Protein Chip Approach
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, April
28, 2008
4:00PM - 1116 IPST Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
CANCELED
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Scott Nutter
Northern Kentucky University
Topic: CREST: The Cosmic
Ray Electron Synchrotron Telescope
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
April 29, 2008
9:00 AM-5:30 PM - 1103 Bioscience Research Bldg.
BIOPHYSICS SYMPOSIUM
11:00
AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Kevin McIver
UMCP, CBMG
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST
Bldg.
Note: Special Time and Place
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Raissa D'Souza
University of California, Davis
Topic: Statistical
Physics, Computer Simulation and Probability
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Houman Owhadi
Applied and Computational Mathematics, Cal Tech
Topic: From Stochastic
Variational Integrators to Ballistic Diffusion at Uniform Temperature
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Raissa D'Souza
University of California, Davis
Topic: Growing, Jamming,
and Changing Phase
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
April 30, 2008
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Victor Batista
Yale University
Topic: Computational Research
Needs in Alternative and Renewable Energy: Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122
(Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor David Gottlieb
Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
Topic: A Modified
Optimal Prediction Method and Application to the Particle Method
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740; (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Dr. Jay Vaishnav
The National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Topic: Engineering
in the Extreme Quantum Limit
Thursday,
May 1, 2008
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Alex Deiters
North Carolina State
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dan Wiley
Departmnt of Mathematics, UMCP
Topic: A Fire-Breathing
Chimera: Periodic Incoherence in a Network of Coupled Oscillators
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, May
2, 2008
2008 Burgers Joint Research Symposium on Fluid Dynamics
9:00 AM-5:40 PM - 1107 & 1111 Jeong H. Kim Engineering & Applied
Sciences Building
University of Maryland College Park, MD
Note: You are cordially invited to this one-day event. Graduate
students and post-doctoral fellows
will be presenting ongoing research in fluid mechanics at Johns Hopkins
University and the
University of Maryland, College Park.
http://www.burgers.umd.edu/
1:00 PM - 2108 Chemical
& Nuclear Engineering Bldg.
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Alexander Roytburd
UMCP
Title: Elastic
Domains: Self-Assembled Micro- and Nanostructures from Steel to Thin Film
Multiferroics
3:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker:
Ms. Marvourneen Dolor
UMCP
Topic:
Investigation of Rhenium's
Biogeochemistry
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Monday, May
5, 2008
3:30 PM - Seminar Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College
Park, MD 20740; (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Professor John R. Reynolds
The George and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory,
Department of Chemistry,
Center for Macromolecular Science and Engineering,
University of Florida
Topic: Conjugated Polymers
and Telechelic Oligomers for Electrochromics
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Ben Ovryn
Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Dept. of Anatomy
and Structural Biology,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Topic: Modeling and Imaging
Early Integrin Adhesions
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: H. Todd Smith
Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
Topic: The Neutral
Particle Environment Inside Saturn's Magnetosphere
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
May 6th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. David Clark
NIH-NICHHD
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Natasha Denesyuk
IPST, University of Maryland
Topic: Efficient Simulations
for Charged Heteropolymers
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Alain Aspect
Institut d'Optique, France
Topic: From Einstein's
Institution to Quantum Bits: A New Quantum age?
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
May 7th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Lisa Fauci
Department of Mathematics, Tulane University
Topic: Interaction of Elastic
Biological Structures with Complex Fluids
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740;
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Mr. Robert Biggart
Baltimore Gas & Electric Company
Topic: Electric Distribution
Planning at BGE
Thursday,
May 8th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Chengyun Huang
UMCP
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker #1 Steven M. Anlage
UMCP
Topic: Short Orbits
in Wave Chaotic Systems: Experiment
and
Speaker #2 James Hart
UMCP
Topic: Short Orbits
in Wave Chaotic Systems: Theory
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Ms. Irene Kiburu
UMCP
Topic: Native Chemical Ligation
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Friday, May
9th
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR
1:00 PM -2108 Chemical & Nuclear Engineering Bldg.
Speaker: Lincoln J. Lauhon
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern
University
Topic: Deconstructing
Semiconductor Nanowires: Atom-by-Atom Mapping of Dopants, Impurities,
and Heterojunctions
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
SERIES
(Co-sponsored by the Burgers Program as part of its Fluid Dynamics Reviews
Series.)
2 PM - 1202 Martin Hall Lecture Room
Speaker: Dr. Yulia Kabova
Institute of Thermophysics, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Novosibirsk
Topic: Gas-Liquid
Interface Deformations in Thin Locally Heated Liquid Films
2:00 PM - 2460 A.V.
Williams Bldg.
Speaker: Professor Amy Wendt
Professor and Co-Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Topic: ECE Colloquium:
Plasma Technology – Working Behind the Scenes to Make the World a Better
Place
Faculty Host: Dr. Reza Ghodssi
Monday,
May 12th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
May 13th
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Daniele Boffi
Department of Mathematics, , University of Pavia
Topic: Mimetic Finite Differences
and Quadrilateral Finite Elements
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: John Clarke
University of Berkeley
Topic: The Ubiquitous SQUID:
From Cosmology to Medicine
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
May 14th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower Level, LPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740;
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Professor R. Barker Bausell
University of Maryland, School of Nursing
Topic: Snake Oil Science:
The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Thursday,
May 15th
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Ms. Doriann De Jesus
UMCP
Topic: Fixing the
Damage: Synthetic Molecules in Regenerative Medicine
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112
(Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Mr. Frederick E. Nytko, III
UMCP
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Friday, May
16th
No Seminars
Monday,
May 19th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
May 20th
1:15 PM - 1116 IPST
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
No Seminar
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
May 21st
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (Bldg. #406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars
3:30 PM - Seminar
Room Lower LeveLPS, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740;
(301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Dr. Costel R. Rotundu
Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Material, UMCP.
Topic: Very High Pressure
Study of the Electron- doped High Temperature Superconductor Pr1.85Ce0.15CuO4-d
Single-crystals
Thursday,
May 22nd
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
12:15 PM - ERF 1207
(Energy Research Facility)
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR |