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Colloquia and Seminars

2003
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
Sept 5 Stephan Koehler
Emory Department of Physics		 Research of the Cutting Edge
Sept 12 Rina Tannenbaum
Georgia Tech University		 Nucleation, aggregation and stabilization of metal nanoparticles
Sept 19 John Fourkas
Boston College		 Seeing and Shaping the Microscopic World with Multiphoton Absorption
Sept 26 Michael P. Marder
Unversity of Texas		 How Things Break
Oct 3 Piotr Paneth
Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry Technical University 		Theoretical approach to pre-steady-state processes in methylmalonyl-CoA mutase
Oct 10 James Valles
Department of Physics,
Brown University		 Manipulating Cells with Static Magnetic Fields
Oct 17 Tom Halsey
ExxonMobile Research and Engineering		 Dense Granular Flow
Oct 24 Hal McAlister
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Georgia State University 		The CHARA Array on Mt. Wilson
Oct 31 Mei-Yin Chou
School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology 		Quantum Size Effects on the Stability and Growth of Metal Thin Films
Nov 7 Lloyd Davis
Center for Laser Applications,
University of Tennessee Space Institute 		Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) and
Fluorescence Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy (FCCS)
Nov 14 Joachim Mueller
Physics Department
University of Minnesota 		Observing Protein Assembly in Living Cells with Two-photon Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy
  Dr. Illes Farkas
Hungarian Academy of Science and Dept. of Biological Physics,
Eötvös University 		Pedestrian escape panic and the mexican wave: two examples for collective human motion
Nov 21 Michael Shlesinger
Chief Scientist for Nonlinear Science
Office of Naval Research 		Stretched Times and Divergent Times Scales in Glassy Materials
Nov 28 - Thanksgiving Break -  
Dec 5 Martin Glicksman
Materials Science & Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute		 Topological Analysis of 3-d Network Kinetics

2004
Jan 20 Lisa J. Lapidus
Stanford University		 The Physics of Protein and RNA folding
Jan 22 Gail E. Fanucci
Dept. of Chemistry
University of Virginia		 Site-Directed Spin Labeling and EPR spectroscopy of the outer membrane Vitamin B12 Transporter BtuB
Jan 23 Brian Utter
Center for Nonlinear and Complex Studies
Duke University 		Granular Shear Flows: Scientist in a Sandbox
Jan 30 Peter Schiffer Pushing through the sand: Penetration and drag in a granular medium
Apr 9 Kevin Brown
Harvard University		  
Apr 30 Arshad Kudrolli
Clarck University, MA		  
Mar 5    

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