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Spring 2008
All colloquia take place in SR1, Room 634, at 4:00pm unless specified otherwise. Graduate students are required to attend.

Date
Speaker
Host
01.29 Ehud Meron (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Gunaratne

Patterns of biomass, resource and species diversity in dryland ecosystems

02.05 Margaret Cheung (UH Physics)  
Protein interactions in porous and crowded media
02.12 Alexandra MacDermott (UHCL)  

Schrodinger's Cat through the Looking Glass

02.14
Thurs
Chris Shaw (M.D. Anderson Cancer Center)
Su
From Digital Subtraction Angiography to Cone Beam Breast CT- Journey of an imaging physicist
02.19 Christopher White (Illinois Inst. Tech/Lawrence Berkeley Lab)
Lau
The Anatomy of a Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment
02.21
Thurs
Zahir Islam (Argonne Nat’l Lab)
Moss/Bassler
What we are all tempted to ignore about cuprates but really shouldn’t
02.26 Dr. Bernd Lorenz (Texas Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics University of Houston)  
Magnetism and ferroelectricity in multiferroic compounds

03.04 Robert Webb (Texas A&M University)
Ordonez
Neutrinos: Past, Present and Future
03.06
Thurs
Eric R. Bittner (UH Chemistry)  
Ultrafast Electronic Dynamics in Polymer-Semiconductors
03.11 Kwong Lau (UH Physics) (APS Meeting)  
A Scalable Dark Matter Detector
03.18 No Seminar - Spring Break  
 
03.25 Michael Baer (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Kouri
Space-Time Contours to Treat Molecular Systems in Intense External Fields
04.01 No Seminar  
 
04.08 Dr. Bjørn S. Nilsen (Ohio State University) - Instructional Faculty Candidate  
ALICE and the Quark Gluon Plasma
04.10 Thurs Dr. James L. Popp (Idaho State University) - Instructional Faculty Candidate  
Mu2e at Fermilab
An Experiment to Search for Neutrinoless Conversion of a Muon into an Electron in Muonic Atoms
04.15 Dr. Bogdan Danila (UH Physics) - Instructional Faculty Candidate  
Transport on Complex Networks
04.17 Thurs Dr. Mike Melnichuk (ElectroOptics Research Institute and Nanotechnology Center (ERINC) University of Louisville - Instructional Faculty Candidate  
  Symmetric Electro-Optic (Kerr) Effect in Non(centro)symmetric Crystals
04.22 Daniel Baker (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Bering
  “Killer" Electrons: Where do they come from and where do they go?
04.29 David Jaffe (Brookhaven Nat’l Lab)
Lau
Accelerator Neutrinos - The Liquid Phase
05.08 Dr. Bert Nickel (Ludwigs-Maximilians-University)
Moss
An x-ray vision of structure-function relationships in organic electronics and biointerfaces
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