IPST Weekly Calendar/SPRING 2008

SPECIAL SEMINAR
Wednesday, May 28th
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES SEMINAAR
3:30 PM - Seminar Room, Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Dr., College Park, MD 20740 301-935-6400
Refreshments @ 3:00 PM
Speaker:     Mr. Donald Telesca
                   Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
Title:           Spin Dependent Tunneling and Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

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Dr. Michael Mandelberg (301-935-3151)
Prof. Bob Anderson (301-405-6142)

Wednesday, June 11th
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR (Note Special Day/Time)
2 PM - 1207 Energy Research Facility
Speaker:     V. M. Kenkre, Distinguished Professor of Physics
                   University of New Mexico
Topic:         Thoughts about Animal Motion from a Physicist's Perspective: Epidemics Spread and Related Problems
Abstract:
Simple thoughts about the motion of living objects ranging from bacteria to rodents as it affects phenomena such as the spread of epidemics, e.g., the Hantavirus and the West Nile virus, will be presented from a physicist's perspective. Spatiotemporal patterns in bacteria in a Petri dish, refugia of epidemics in a landscape, and patterns arising from nonlinear competitive interactions will be among the subjects discussed. The work has been done in collaboration with a number of field biologists and theoretical physicists and is supported by the NSF, NIH and DARPA.
Host: Roy

END OF SEMESTER
No Other Seminars Scheduled

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Updated 6/4/08