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
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,
(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,
(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,
(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,
(Condensed Matter Physics, Host: Ahn)
Room: 373 Tiernan
Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time
10/22/07, Monday
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
(Solar & Terrestrial Physics, Host: Gerrard)
Room: 373 Tiernan
Time: Noon-1 pm with 11:30 am tea time