PREVIOUS SEMINARS (2000-2008)
March 17, 2008
"Physics Education: Research and Resource"
Dr. Erik Brogt
Department of Teaching and Teacher Education &
Steward Observatory, Department of Physics
University of Arizona
March 12, 2008
"Research as a Guide for Developing an Inquiry-Based Curriculum on Mechanical Waves"
Dr. Mila Kryjevskaia
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Department of Physics
March 12, 2008
"Properties of Unitary Fermi Gas from the Epsilon Expansion"
Dr. Andrei Kryjevski
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Department of Physics
January 22, 2008
"Membrane Adhesion and Domain Formation"
Dr. Thomas Weikl
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Department of Theory and Biosystems
Golm, Germany
Cosponsored by the Cooperative Sponsorship Committee and by the Departments of Biologic
al Sciences; Chemistry, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
May 8, 2006
"Structural and Thermodynamic Characterization of Proteins in
Biological Membranes"
Dr. Kalina Hristova
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Graduate Program in Molecular Biophysics
Johns Hopkins University
May 1, 2006
"Biomaterials Designed to Promote Tissue Regeneration:
Synthetic Hydrogel Niches for Cartilage Regeneration"
Dr. Kristi Anseth
Tisone Professor and HHMI Investigator
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
University of Colorado at Boulder
April 20, 2006
"LON-CAPA: An Open-Source Freeware Learning Content Management and
Assessment System for the Sciences"
Dr. Gerd Kortemeyer
Director, Laboratory for Instructional Technology in Education
Assistant Professor of Physics Education
Adjunct Professor of Physics
Michigan State University
April 19, 2006
"An Ancient Universe"
Dr. Matthew Craig
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Minnesota State University Moorhead
April 5, 2006
"Symmetry in Physical Law"
Prof.
Richard P. Feynman
Department of Physics
California Institute of Technology
*** SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE ***
March 29, 2006
"The Uncanny Physics of Superhero Comic Books"
Prof. James Kakalios
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Minnesota
March 29, 2006
"Conductance Fluctuations: From Amorphous Semiconductors to the Cerebral Cortex"
Prof. James Kakalios
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Minnesota
February 28, 2006
"Novel Laser Fabrication of Materials: Ceramic Electronic Devices to Engineered Tissue Constructs"
Dr. Douglas B. Chrisey
Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
North Dakota State University
November 30, 2005
"A Poisson-Boltzmann Model for Mixed Cationic Lipid Bilayers"
Dr. Emmanuel Mbamala
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
November 18, 2005
"Matter and Antimatter: Asymmetry versus Symmetry"
Professor Mikhail Shaposhnikov
Institute of Theoretical Physics and
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology
École Polytechnique
Lausanne, Switzerland
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Physics, Mechanical Engineering, and Mathematics, with financial support from the Cooperative Sponsorship Committee.
October 26, 2005
"Small in Size and Cooperative in Nature: Do Lipid-Lipid Interactions
Dictate How the Cell Signals?"
Dr. Anne Hinderliter
Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences
North Dakota State University
October 19, 2005
"Spinodal Decomposition and its Applications"
Dr. Alexander Wagner
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
October 5, 2005
"Interaction between Charged Surfaces Mediated by Divalent Ions"
Dr. Klemen Bohinc
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Laboratory of Physics
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
September 28, 2005
"An Introduction to Spintronics"
Dr. Anthony Caruso
Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
North Dakota State University
September 21, 2005
"Rigid Inclusions in Soft Membranes"
Dr. Sylvio May
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
September 7, 2005
"From Dipolar Colloids to Electronic Ink"
Dr. Alan Denton
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
August 24, 2005
"The Hyperbolic Vector Algebra of Einstein Velocity Addition Law"
Professor Abraham Ungar
Department of Mathematics
North Dakota State University
April 27, 2005
"The Motion of a Cloud of Compressible Bubbles"
Professor Sergey Gavrilyuk
University of Aix-Marseille III, France
April 21, 2005
"Lipid Corralling and Poloxamer Squeeze-out in Membranes"
Professor Ka Yee C. Lee
Dept. of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and
James Franck Institute
University of Chicago
Co-sponsored by Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences
April 18, 2005
"Carbon Nanotubes as Soft Matter"
Dr. Erik K. Hobbie
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
Polymers Division
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Co-sponsored by Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
April 13, 2005
"Tunable Dye Lasers Pumped by Microchip Lasers"
Professor Orven Swenson
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
April 6, 2005
"Conjugated Polymers - Advanced Coatings for Corrosion Control"
Professor Dennis E. Tallman
Dept. of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology
Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials
North Dakota State University
March 30, 2005
"On Growth and Form of Barchan Dunes"
Professor Klaus Kroy
ITP, Universität Leipzig
and
Hahn-Meitner-Institut
Co-sponsored by Dept. of Geosciences
February 28, 2005
"Pattern Formation within Partially Miscible Fluid Mixtures"
Dr. Christopher Pooley
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
February 9, 2005
"Pores in Lipid Bilayers - Effect of Anisotropic Inclusions
on Pore Stability"
Dr. Miha Fosnaric
Group of Applied Physics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
February 2, 2005
"Computational Approaches to Design of Metalloprotein Ligands"
Professor Stefan Balaz
Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences
North Dakota State University
January 19, 2005
"Brownian Dynamics of Protein-Protein Interactions"
Professor Kathryn A. Thomasson
Department of Chemistry
University of North Dakota
December 16, 2004
"Properties and Applications of Whispering-Gallery Mode Resonances
in Fused Silica Microspheres"
Dr. Jeromy Rezac
ITT Industries - Advanced Engineering and Sciences
Albuquerque, NM
December 1, 2004
"Shape and Structure from Physics to Nature: Plant Diversity,
Root Architecture, and the Scaling of Soil Resources"
Professor Mario Biondini
Dept. of Animal and Range Sciences
North Dakota State University
November 10, 2004
"Gamma Ray Bursts"
Professor Timothy Young
Department of Physics
University of North Dakota
September 15, 2004
"Particle-Based Mesoscale Modeling of Flow and Transport
in Complex Liquids"
Dr. Erkan Tuzel
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Minnesota
September 1, 2004
"Lattice Simulation Method for Thermally Fluctuating Fluids"
Professor Alexander Wagner
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
March 29, 2004
"The Hydrodynamics of Complex Fluids: From Cholesteric Liquid Crystals to
Superhydrophobic Substrates"
Professor Julia M. Yeomans
Department of Theoretical Physics
University of Oxford
February 25, 2004
"Statistical Approaches to Modelling Degradation of Coatings by Weathering"
Professor Stuart Croll
Department of Polymers and Coatings
North Dakota State University
February 19, 2004
Special Biophysics Seminar
"Thermodynamics of Cooperative Phenomena in Biomembranes"
Professor Thomas Heimburg
Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry,
Göttingen, Germany
and
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
February 11, 2004
"Noisy Light Spectroscopy:
Putting Noise to Good Use"
Professor Darin Ulness
Department of Chemistry
Concordia College
January 26, 2004
"Mesoscale Modeling of Soft Condensed Matter:
Application to Complex Fluids and Membranes"
Dr. Daniel M. Kroll
Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation
University of Minnesota
January 21, 2004
"
Optical Dating: A "Timely" Application of Radiation Dosimetry in the Geosciences
"
Professor Kenneth Lepper
Department of Geosciences
North Dakota State University
December 18, 2003
"The LearningOnline Network with CAPA:
A Cross-Institutional Open-Source Learning Content Management
and Assessment System"
Dr. Gerd Kortemeyer
Instructional Technology Specialist
LITE Lab
Michigan State University
December 10, 2003
"Mixing Efficiency in Multi-Component Isothermal Systems"
Jay Ihry
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
December 3, 2003
"Grand Unified Theory and Quark-Gluon Plasma"
Professor Sidi Benzahra
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
November 12, 2003
"Disordered Kondo Nanoclusters: Effect of Energy Spacing"
Professor Claudio Verdozzi
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
November 5, 2003
"Development and Characterization
of Optical Limiting Materials"
Professor Wenfang Sun
Department of Chemistry
North Dakota State University
October 29, 2003
"How Discrete Exterior Calculus Works"
Dr. Mizuho Schwalm
Department of Physics
University of North Dakota
October 15, 2003
"Dynamics of Unimolecular
Chemical Reactions"
Professor Michael Page
Department of Chemistry
North Dakota State University
October 8, 2003
"Elementary Reaction Steps
in the Synthesis of Methanol"
Professor Uwe Burghaus
Department of Chemistry
North Dakota State University
October 1, 2003
"Shear-Induced Microstructure of Near-Critical Colloid-Polymer Mixtures"
Dr. Hao Wang
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
September 17, 2003
"Effective Electrostatic Interactions in
Colloidal and Polyelectrolyte Systems"
Professor Alan Denton
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
September 3, 2003
"Oscillations in Phase Separating Binary Fluids with Continuously
Ramped Temperature"
Professor Alexander Wagner
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
May 7, 2003
"Subatomic Billiards: Quark Transitions due to Hard Gluon Collisions"
Anthony G. Wald and Jennifer L. Docktor
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
May 5, 2003
"Modeling the Self-Assembly of Copolymer/Nanoparticle Mixtures"
Professor Anna C. Balazs
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
April 16, 2003
"Direct Recording of Fluorescence Decay in Molecules"
Dr. Greg Gillispie
President, Dakota Technologies, Inc.
Department of Chemistry
North Dakota State University
April 9, 2003
"Creation of Asteroid Light Curves Using CCD Photometry"
Michael Olson
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
April 8, 2003
American Physical Society
Division of Laser Science
Distinguished Traveling Lecturer
"Instabilities and Chaos in Lasers and other Physical Systems"
Professor Lee W. Casperson
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Portland State University
April 7, 2003
American Physical Society
Division of Laser Science
Distinguished Traveling Lecturer
"Waterfalls and Other Curious Lasers"
Professor Lee W. Casperson
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Portland State University
April 2, 2003
"Domain Formation in Phospholipid Bilayers"
Professor Anne Hinderliter
Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences
North Dakota State University
March 26, 2003
"TOAST: Transient Object Automated Search Telescope"
Professor Tim Young
Department of Physics
University of North Dakota
March 12, 2003
"Toy Model for Polaron Dynamics"
Professor William Schwalm
Department of Physics
University of North Dakota
March 5, 2003
"Estimation of Ligand-Receptor
Binding Energies"
Professor Stefan Balaz
Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences
North Dakota State University
February 26, 2003
The Physics Seminar goes on tour ...
Fargo Water Treatment Plant
435 14th Avenue South, Fargo
Mr. Robert Welton, Chief Engineer
Fargo Water Treatment Plant
February 19, 2003
"Multiscale Modeling in a Model Bio-Nanocomposite System:
Nacre, the Inner Layer of Sea Shells"
Professor Kalpana Katti
Dept. of Civil Engineering & Construction
North Dakota State University
February 5, 2003
"GEM: Moving Science into Business"
Mike Bergeron
Director of Engineering
Global Electric Motorcars, LLC
December 18, 2002
"And Now for Something Different:
Physics Puzzles and Demonstrations"
Professor Charles Sawicki
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
December 11, 2002
"Study of Laser Desorption and Photoemission Applied to Ion Mobility
Spectrometry for Detection of Explosives at Ambient Pressure"
Feng Hong
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
November 27, 2002
"Interdisciplinary Applied Optics
Course and Laboratory"
Professor David A. Rogers
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
North Dakota State University
November 20, 2002
"Can Submarines be Detected by Magnetometers?
Influence of the Ionosphere on the Geomagnetic Field"
Dr. Chengli Huang
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
November 19, 2002
Shapley Astronomy Lecture
"A Modern Scientific Paradox: The Biggest and Smallest Things in Nature
Are the Same"
Dr. George A. Seielstad
Department of Space Studies and
School of Aerospace Sciences
University of North Dakota
November 13, 2002
4:00 p.m. in South Engineering 208
(refreshments at 3:30 in South Eng. 212C)
"Oscillations in Phase Separating Binary Fluids with Continuously Ramped
Temperature: A Numerical Investigation"
Professor Alexander Wagner
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
November 6, 2002
"Buffer Layers for YBCO Multilayers:
The Hope for High-Tc Superconducting Electronics"
Dr. Tar-pin Chen
Department of Physics
University of North Dakota
October 30, 2002
"In Search of the Quark Anti-Quark Potential"
Professor Sidi Benzahra
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
October 23, 2002
"Gravitational Induction:
An Alternative to Dark Matter"
Professor Lowell A. Cummings
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
October 16, 2002
"Physics at the Neutron Dripline:
The MoNA Project and the NSCL"
Professor Bryan Luther
Department of Physics
Concordia College
October 9, 2002
"Gold Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Study"
Professor Qun (Treen) Huo
Department of Polymers and Coatings
North Dakota State University
October 2, 2002
"Computer Simulations for Predicting Protein-Protein
and Protein-DNA Interactions"
Professor Kathryn Thomasson
Department of Chemistry
University of North Dakota
September 25, 2002
"Collective Josephson Vortex Dynamics in Long
Josephson Junction Stacks"
Professor Ju H. Kim
Department of Physics
University of North Dakota
September 18, 2002
"How Can We See through Earth's Interior?"
Dr. Chengli Huang
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
September 11, 2002
"Novel Lamella Structures in Binary Alloys?"
Professor Alexander Wagner
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
September 4, 2002
"Can Like Charges Attract?
Phase Separation in Colloidal Suspensions"
Professor Alan Denton
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
April 29, 2002
"The LearningOnline Network with CAPA:
A Cross-Institutional Learning Content Management and Assessment System"
Dr. Gerd Kortemeyer
Instructional Technology Specialist
LITE Lab
Michigan State University
April 10, 2002
"An Introduction to Wavelets"
Professor Amy Kolan
Department of Physics
St. Olaf College
February 27, 2002
"Electron Ejection in Collisions of
Fast Ions with Atoms"
Professor Mark W. Gealy
Department of Physics
Concordia University
January 16, 2002
"Exploring the Solar System
with Mass Spectrometers"
Professor Heidi Manning
Department of Physics
Concordia University
November 28, 2001
"The History of Radiotherapy:
From Wilhelm Roentgen to Mark Carrol"
Dr. Gary Withnell
Department of Radiation Oncology
Dakota Clinic
September 19, 2001
"Spheres, Rods, and Tadpoles:
Models for Soft Matter"
Dr. Matthias Schmidt
University of Duesseldorf
April 30, 2001
"Plasmas and Fusion: A Grand Challenge for Science "
Dr. Cynthia K. Phillips
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Princeton University
April 25, 2001
"Ionic Motion and Structural Pathways for Conduction
in Ionically Conducting Polymers"
Dr. Marie-Louise Saboungi
Argonne National Laboratory
Materials Science Division
April 20, 2001
"Gyrogroups and Gyrovector Spaces in Relativity Physics
and in Hyperbolic Geometry"
Dr. Abraham Ungar
Department of Mathematics, NDSU
April 18, 2001
"Views of A-Bomb Testing in the Early 1950's"
Mr. Roger Stenerson
March 21, 2001
"A Novel Host Matrix for High-Level Nuclear Waste"
Dr. Kanishka Marasinghe
Department of Physics
University of North Dakota
February 16, 2001
"Getting Something from Nothing: Learning the Nature of Dark Matter
from the Internal Dynamics of Spiral Galaxies"
Dr. Matt Craig
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Minnesota State University Moorhead
February 12, 2001
"Ambient Pressure Laser Ionization Detection"
Dr. Orven Swenson
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
January 24, 2001
"Extreme Supernovae: The Supernova - Gamma-Ray Burst Connection"
Dr. Tim Young
Department of Physics
University of North Dakota
December 13, 2000:
"Non-Equilibrium Interfaces and the Growth of Intermediate Phases"
Dr. Brian Hinderliter
Department of Physics
North Dakota State University
November 2, 2000:
"The Story of Negative-Refractive-Index Macrostructures"
Dr. Graeme Dewar
Department of Physics
University of North Dakota
September 27, 2000:
"Physics in Brain Imaging"
Dr. Ananda Shastri
Department of Physics
Minnesota State University Moorhead
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