Physics Colloquium Fall 2019

All colloquia take place Thursdays at 1:30 pm in Smith Hall 111, unless otherwise noted. (Schedule for Spring 2019)

Aug 29	No Colloquium: start of semester
Sep 5	Dr. Gerassimos Petratos Kent State University Title: An Overview of the SLAC ESA and JLab MARATHON Experiments on the Nucleon Structure Functions
Sep 12	Dr. Olga Boltalina Colorado State University Title: Electron Acceptor Materials by Design: from Molecular Library to Real-World Applications Host: Björn Lüssem
Sep 19	Dr. Hamza Balci Kent State University Department of Physics Title: An Overview of G-Quadruplex, Protein, and Small Molecule Interactions
Sep 26	Dr. Antal Jakli Kent State University Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute Title: Electro-active Ionic Elastomers
Oct 3	Dr. Igor Aronson Huck Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Mathematics Penn State University Title: Engineering spatial-temporal organization of bacterial suspensions Host: Oleg Lavrentovich
Oct 10	No Colloquium: Fall Break
Oct 17	Dr. Yann Robert Chemla Physics, Grainger College of Engineering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Title: Probing Nature's Nano-Machines with "Next Generation" Single-Molecule Techniques Host: Hamza Balci
Oct 24	Dr. Oana Jurchescu Department of Physics Wake Forest University Title: From Single Crystal Organic Semiconductors to Large Area Flexible Electronics Host: Björn Lüssem
Oct 31	Dr. Joaquin E. Drut Department of Physics and Astronomy University of North Carolina Title: Blurry old pictures: Noise, memory, and the challenge of many-body quantum mechanics
Nov 7	Dr. Chenxiang Lin Biological and Biomedical Sciences Yale University Title: DNA nanotechnology enabled membrane engineering Host: Thorsten Schmidt
Nov 14	Dr. Michael R. Norman Argonne Distinguished Fellow Argonne National Lab Title: Superconductivity in Nickelates: Similarities and Differences from Cuprates Host: Maxim Dzero
Nov 21	Dr. Brett Savoie Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Purdue University Title: Either/or? Physics and Machine Learning Approaches to Dimension Reduction Host: Björn Lüssem
Nov 28	Thanksgiving Break
Dec 5	Dr. Hao Shen Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Kent State University Title: Single-Molecule Heterogeneous Catalysis and Polymer Chemistry
Dec 12	No Colloquium: Finals week