NJIT Physics Department Colloquium/Seminar Schedule

 

Seminar is organized by Prof. Tao Zhou.

Please contact him (email: taozhou@njit.edu) for schedule or suggestion of speakers.

 

Past talks till 2010 spring:

 

4/26/10, Monday

Improved Performance Sugar-Based Mateirals

Prof. Michael Jaffe, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, NJIT

(Materials Physics, Host: Ravindra)

Room: 407 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

4/19/10, Monday

Seeing the Color of Breast Cancer:Raman Spectroscopy for Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Dr. Abigail Haka,Weill Cornell Medical College

(Optics/Biophysics, Host: Thomas)

Room: 407 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

4/12/10, Monday

Scientific Instrumentation for the 1.6-m New Solar Telescope in Big Bear

Prof. Wenda Cao, NJIT

(Solar & Terrestrial Physics)

Room: 407 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

3/29/10, Monday

Proposal Evaluation Criteria for NSF Grants: An open discussion (**NOTE SPECIAL TOPIC AND DISCUSSION)

Prof. Louis J. Lanzerotti, NJIT

(Science Policy)

Room: 407 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

3/8/10, Monday

Cell Communications at the Nanoscale

Prof. Reginald C. Farrow, NJIT

(Biophysics)

Room: 407 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

3/1/10, Monday

Structural Vortex in Multiferroic Hexagonal Manganites

Prof. Weida Wu, Rutgers University New Brunswick

(Condensed Matter Physics, Host: Ahn)

Room: 407 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

2/8/10, Monday

Smart Coating Systems

Profs. John Federici  and Gordon Thomas, NJIT (** TWO SPEAKERS**)

(Device Physics)

Room: 407 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

1/25/10, Monday

Laser-Based Sensing for Health and the Environment

Dr. Anna P. M. Michel, Princeton University

(Biophysics, Host: Thomas)

Room: 407 Tiernan (**NOTE SPECIAL ROOM**)

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

12/7/09, Monday

The New Solar Telescope in Big Bear

Prof. Philip R. Goode, NJIT

(Solar & Terrestrial Physics)

Room: 407 Tiernan (*NOTE SPECIAL ROOM*)

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

* 11/6/09, Friday (*NOTE SPECIAL DATE*)

Nonlinear Optical Tissue Imaging

Prof. Feruz Ganikhanov, West Virginia University

(Optics / Biophysics, Host: Thomas)

Room: 202 ECE

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

5/5/08, Monday

Biophysics using Raman Spectroscopy

Dr. Aysegul Ergin, Boston University

(Biophysics, Host: Thomas)

Room: 373 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

*4/28/08, Monday

Electropolymeric Display and Window Technology

Dr. Elliott Schlam, New Visual Media Group, LLC, New Jersey

(Materials / Device Physics, Host: Levy)

Room: 373 Tiernan

Time: 3-4 pm with 2:30 pm tea time (* NOTE SPECIAL TIME *)

 

3/31/08, Monday

Solar Coronal Magnetic Fields: Source of Space Weather

Dr. Thomas Wiegelmann, Max Planck Institute, Germany

(Solar & Terrestrial Physics, Host: Wang)

Room: 373 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

*2/19/08, Tuesday (* NOTE SPECIAL DATE and TIME)

Concentrator Photovoltiacs for Electricity Production

Dr. Daniel Friedman, US DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory

(Materials / Device Physics, Host: Tyson)

Room: 373 Tiernan

Time: 2:30-3:30 pm

 

11/19/07, Monday

Electrophysiology in Drug Discovery

Dr. Kevin Carlin, Purdue Pharma

(Biophysics, Host: Prodan)

Room: 373 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

*11/12/07, Monday

The Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope: On the Cusp of the Future

Prof. Dale Gary, NJIT

(Solar & Terrestrial Physics)

Room: 373 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

11/5/07, Monday

Amorphous Insulator: Unnecessary Evil in Superconducting Quantum Bits

Prof. Seongshik (Sean) Oh, Rutgers University New Brunswick

(Condensed Matter Physics, Host: Ahn)

Room: 373 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

10/22/07, Monday

Mixing Business and Pleasure: Applications of Terahertz Imaging and Spectroscopy to Viticulture and Enology

Prof. John Federici, NJIT

(Optics)

Room: 373 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

9/24/07, Monday

Direct imaging of nano-scale electronic phase separation in La1-xCaxMnO3

Dr. Jing Tao, Brookhaven National Laboratory

(Condensed Matter Physics, Host: Tyson)

Room: 202 ECE ***NOTE THE ROOM CHANGE ***

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time

 

*9/17/07, Monday

Active Optical Sensing: a Gallimaufry of Applications

Prof. Tim Kane, The Pennsylvania State University

(Solar & Terrestrial Physics, Host: Gerrard)

Room: 373 Tiernan

Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time