BGSU Colloquium & Seminar Schedule -- Spring 2008

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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 2008

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title or Topic of Talk
10 Jan 2008	Dr. Andy Layden	BGSU	Organizational Meeting -- all MS students should attend
17 Jan 2008	Eli Sacks Edward Mandere	BGSU BGSU	Multifractal Investigation of Stock Data Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimize Stock Portfolios
24 Jan 2008	Dr. Eric Mandell	BGSU	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Our Solar System: Graphene Cores in Graphitic Stardust
31 Jan 2008	none	none	none
07 Feb 2008 Joint with UT @UT	Dr. Zhixian Zhou	Wayne State University	Electron Transport in Individual Nanostructures
14 Feb 2008	Chinthaka Liyanage Dr. John Laird	BGSU BGSU	The evolution of the LASER LaTex
21 Feb 2008	none	none	none
28 Feb 2008	Harsha Attanayake Dilupama Divaratne	BGSU BGSU	Thermoelectric Effects of Skutterudite: Theoretical Background and Literature Review Thermoelectric Properties of 40% La Filled Skutterudite Thin Films: Analysis
06 Mar 2008	none	none	Spring Break
13 Mar 2008	Cliff Hastings	Wolfram Research	Mathematica 6 in Education and Research
20 Mar 2008	Neil Goldsmith Nicholas Schmall	BGSU BGSU	Calcium Regulation in the Sarcomere, Muscle Contractions, and Jitter in Human Speech Quantum Dots in the Biological Sciences
27 Mar 2008 Joint with UT @BGSU	Dr. Alexey Bezryadin	Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling and its Manifestations in Thin Superconducting Wires
03 Apr 2008	Yang Wang Chen Liu	BGSU BGSU	The Measurement of the Reflectance of Thin Film ZnS What is a Planet?
10 Apr 2008 Joint with UT @BGSU	Dr. Ata Sarajedini	Univ. of Florida	The HST/ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters
17 Apr 2008	Nilanka Gurusinghe Sandy Zhang	BGSU BGSU	Investigation of Optoelectronic Properties of Thin Film n-type ZnS on p-type Si Substrate Carbon: an Old but New Material
24 Apr 2008	Edward Mandere Eli Sacks	BGSU BGSU	Using Minimum Spanning Trees to Observe Market Behavior Searching for Single Stock and Multi-Stock Return Correlations

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.