BGSU Colloquium & Seminar Schedule -- Spring 2006

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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 - Spring Semester 2006

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title or Topic of Talk
12 Jan 2006 Joint with UT @UT	Dr. Dan Jaffee	University of Texas	"Very Low Mass Brown Dwarfs with Disks"
19 Jan 2006	Dr. Andy Layden	All MS students must attend	Organizational Meeting
26 Jan 2006	Dr. Allen Rogel	BGSU	"The ChaMPlane Project"
02 Feb 2006	--	--	--
09 Feb 2006	Dr. Lewis Fulcher	BGSU	"Recent Developments in the Physics of Phonation"
16 Feb 2006 Joint with UT @BGSU	Dr. Gordon Aubrecht	Ohio State University	"How Davis-Besse Almost Blew its Top"
23 Feb 2006	Chinthaka Liyanage & Dr. Ann Bragg	BGSU	"All-Optical Switching by Laser Crossing on Thin Film Semiconductors and the Effects of Polarization" & "The Structure and Initial Mass Function of h and chi Persei"
Mon 27 Feb in MH 2002 (note special time & place). Joint with BGSU@UT	Dr. Rupali Chandar	Johns Hopkins University	"The Lives & Deaths of Star Clusters -- Implications for Galaxy Evolution"
09 Mar 2006	[None]	[None]	Spring Break
16 Mar 2006	Hemantha Maddumage & Shyam Munshi	BGSU WPAFB/BGSU	"A Model for Financial Market Dynamics" & "Photoluminescence Analysis of Heavily Doped GaAs"
23 Mar 2006	Curtis Bunner & Sumana Abeyratne	BGSU	"RR Lyrae Variable Star Colors: A Tool for Measuring Interstellar Reddening" & "Coin Tossing between Two Distant Parties"
30 Mar 2006	Shyam Munshi	WPAFB/BGSU	"Quantum Encryption" -- postponed
06 Apr 2006	Leon Wilde	BGSU	"Variable Stars in Globular Clusters"
13 Apr 2006 Joint with BGSU @UT	Dr. Art Voter	Los Alamos National Lab	"Accelerated Dynamics: Methods, Applications, and Future Challenges"
20 Apr 2006	Adam Lark & Jagannath Paul & Mithun Bhowmick	BGSU	"Rotational Inertia and the Merry-Go-Round" "The Measurement of Thermoelectric Figure of Merit of a Novel Material -- La0.6 Fe3 CoSb12" "Hybrid Bistable Device Realization Using CdS & Lock-in Amplifiers"
27 Apr 2006	Marco Nardone & Mike Smitka	BGSU	"Geometric Algebra -- A Unifying Language for Physics. Part II. Electrodynamics" "The Use of DAOPHOT on the Globular Cluster M30"

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.