Colloquium Schedule Fall 2002


Note:

All seminars will be held in the Physics building, Room 401 unless otherwise noted. The seminars will begin at 3:30 PM on Wednesdays with coffee served at 3:15 PM.

Maps:

UMBC Campus Visitor Parking at meters in Lot #1.
Physics Building We are building #26.

Schedule:

DATE SPEAKER DEPARTMENT INSTITUTION TOPIC
11th Sep Prof. Lynn Sparling Department of Physics, NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center University of Maryland Baltimore County From planetary scale to mean free path: the process of stratospheric chemical mixdown
18th Sep Dr. Henryk Malik Department of Physics University of Maryland Baltimore County Emerging Applications of Photonics to Bio-Imaging
25th Sep Dr. Kristian Helmerson Atomic Physics Division National Institute of Standards and Technology The many uses of optical forces: Coaxing cells to cajoling condensates
2nd Oct Dr. J. G. Tischler -- Naval Research Laboratory Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy of Single Trions
9th Oct Dr. Debra R. Rolison -- Naval Research Laboratory The Importance of Nothing in Nanostructured Materials
16th Oct Dr. George M. Murray Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins Laboratory Chemical Recognition for Illicit Substance Detection Using Molecular Imprinting
23rd Oct Dr. Mark L. Biermann Department of Physics United States Naval Academy Strain and Optical-Polarization Anisotropies in III-V Quantum Wells
30th Oct Dr. Padi Boyd -- University of Maryland Baltimore County & NASA Goddard The Long Term Light Curves of X-ray Binaries Contain Simultaneous Periodic and Random Components
6th Nov Dr. Warren N. Herman Laboratory for Physical Sciences University of Maryland College Park SHG Phase Measurements in NLO Thin Films, and Unique Polarization Properties of Chiral Optical Waveguides
13th Nov Dr. Lisa Kelly and Dr. Nirmala Chandrasekharan Department of Chemistry University of Maryland Baltimore County Fluorescent Polymers as Temperature and Pressure Sensitive Coatings
20th Nov Prof. C. Russell Philbrook -- Penn State University Advances in Understanding Air Quality Issues Using Raman Lidar
27th Nov THANKSGIVING BREAK NO SEMINAR -- --
4th Dec Dr. Tim Foecke -- National Institute of Standards and Technology The Metallurgy of Shipwrecks
11th Dec Dr. Stacy McGaugh Department of Astronomy University of Maryland College Park Dark Matter or Gravity?


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