BGSU Colloquium & Seminar Schedule -- Autumn 2005

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Colloquia & Seminars of the Bowling Green State University Department of Physics and Astronomy are normally held on Thursdays at 4:00pm in Overman Hall, Room 106 (the conference room off the Department Office). Coffee and refreshments are available beforehand at 3:30pm in the same room. Joint colloquia with the University of Toledo are usually held in 123 Overman Hall, with refreshments beginning at 3:30pm in 106 Overman Hall.

Current Schedule - Fall Semester 2005

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title or Topic of Talk
25 Aug 2005	Dr. Andy Layden	All MS students must attend	Organizational Meeting
01 Sept 2005	Drs. Laird, Tiede, & van Hook	BGSU	"Chemical Elements in the Stars," "Comprehensive Calibration of the Near-IR Giant Branch Slope-Metallicity Relationship," & "Enhancing Inquiry in the Physics Classroom and in K-12 Schools"
08 Sept 2005	Sumana Abeyratne & Maddumage Hemantha	BGSU	"Quantum Coin Flipping," and   "A Model for Financial Market Dynamics"
15 Sept 2005 McMaster Cosmology Colloquium @UT	Dr. Gary Steigman	Ohio State University	"The Mystery of the Accelerating Universe"
22 Sept 2005 Joint with UT @UT	Dr. Warren Moos	Johns Hopkins University	"All about FUSE: The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer"
29 Sept 2005	Dr. Lewis Fulcher	BGSU	Modeling Airflow through Human Vocal Folds
06 Oct 2005	Adam Lark	BGSU	"A Look into Physics 201"
13 Oct 2005	Dr. Andy Layden	BGSU	"Trigonometric Parallaxes with SIM: Calibration of the Population II Distance Scale"
20 Oct 2005	Dr. Ann Bragg	BGSU	Postponed until Jan 2006 -- No Colloquium this week
27 Oct 2005 Joint with UT @BGSU	Dr. Patrick Durrell	Youngstown State Univ.	"Intracluster Stars: Stars Between the Galaxies"
03 Nov 2005	Leon Wilde	BGSU	"Astronomical Data Collection and Processing at the BGSU Observatory"
10 Nov 2005	Jagannath Paul & Chinthaka Liyanage	BGSU	"Measurement of the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit for a Novel Material: La0.6 Fe3 CoSb12," and "All-Optical Switch using Thin Film ZnTe on Glass"
17 Nov 2005	Mike Smitka & Mithun Bhowmick	BGSU	"A Look into Photolithography and Photometry, " and "A Study of Light Dependent Resistor Response for Different Wavelengths & Intensities"
24 Nov 2005	[None]	[None]	Thanksgiving Break
01 Dec 2005 Joint with UT @BGSU	Lt. Shyam Munshi	Wright-Patterson Air Force Base	"Employment of the Roosbroeck-Shockley Relation for Photoluminescence Analysis of Heavily Doped GaAs"
08 Dec 2005	Marco Nardone & Daniel Sayles	BGSU	"Geometric Algebra: A Unifying Language for Physics? Part I: Classical Mechanics" and "Physics of the Pinewood Derby"

University of Toledo Colloquia (Schedule):

Colloquia of the University of Toledo Department of Physics and Astronomy are normally held on Thursdays at 4:00pm in McMaster Hall, Room 1005 (MH 1005). Coffee and refreshments are available beforehand at 3:30pm in MH 4009.