Department of Physics
Colloquia Series 2008

Spring 2008 Schedule
January | February | March | April

 
    Series Hosted By: Dr. Ramon Lopez
January  
   

January 23th

Time: 4:00pm

Location: SH 101

Title: Atomistic Modeling and ab-initio Computations: Applications to High-Pressure Chemistry, Glasses, and Nanostructures
Professor Peter Kroll
Affiliation: UT Arlington

   

January 30th

Time: 3:30pm

Location: SH 101

Title: Medical Imaging and Medical Physics
Jack L. Lancaster, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Professor Research Imaging Center UTHSCSA and Chief, Biomedical Image Analysis Division


Title: Current Topics in Clinical Medical Physics
Geoffrey D. Clarke, Ph.D., FACMP
Affiliation: Professor and Vice-Chair of Graduate Education in Radiology, UTHSCSA

   
February  
   

February 6th

Time: 4:00pm

Location: SH 101

Title: Gravitational Wave Astronomy: will it ever exist?
Dr. Mario Diaz
Affiliation: Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Texas at Brownsville

   

February 13th

Time: 4:00pm

Location: SH 101

Title: UT Arlington Physics Faculty Research Expo
Speakers: Dr. Manfred Cuntz, Dr. Ramon Lopez, Dr. John Fry,
Dr. Zdzislaw Musielak, Dr. Yi-Jiun Su, Dr. Jim Horwitz and Dr. Amir Farbin
Affiliation: UT Arlington

   

February 20th

Time: 4:00pm

Location: SH 101

Title: NEUTRINOS IN ASTROPHYSICS: GHOSTLY MESSENGERS OF THE HEAVENS
Baha Balantekin, Ph.D
Affiliation: Department of Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison

   

February 27th

Time: 4:00pm

Location: SH 101

Title: ECOFUSION: AN ELECTRON-COOLED, CELLULAR APPROACH TO HARNESSING FUSION POWER
D.J. Larson
Affiliation: Larson Technical Solutions, Inc.

   
March  
   

March 5th

Time: 4:00pm

Location: SH 101

Title: Geospace Modeling
Dr. Michael Wiltberger
Affiliation: NCAR/HAO, Boulder, CO

   

March 12th

Time: 4:00pm

Location: SH 101

Title: "Task-based Imaging"
Dr. Mathew Lewis
Affiliation: UT Southwestern

   

March 19th

Time: None

Location: None

Spring Break - No Colloquium



   

March 26th

Time: 4:00pm

Location: SH 101

Title: Polarization observables as a tool for studying excited states the proton.
Dr. Philip Cole
Affiliation: Department of Physics, Idaho State University

   
April  
   

April 2nd

Time: 4:00pm

Location: SH 101

Title: UT Arlington Physics Faculty Research Expo
Speaker
Affiliation:

   

April 9th

Time: 4:00pm

Location: SH 101

Title: The Solar Chromosphere: Is it always hot, or mainly cold? How is it heated?
Dr. Wolfgang Kalkofen
Affiliation: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

   

April 16th

Time: 4:00pm

Location: SH 101

Title: TBA
Dr. Nail Fazleev
Affiliation: Department of Physics, UT Arlington

   

April 23rd

Time: 4:00pm

Location: SH 101

Title: Pan-STARRS: the Next Generation in Survey Astronomy Has Arrived
Dr. William Burgett
Affiliation: University of Hawaii

   

April 30th

Time: 4:00pm

Location: SH 101

Title: Dynamic Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling at Earth and Jupiter
Dr. Yi-Jiun Su
Affiliation: Department of Physics, UT Arlington