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Colloquia are held at 4 p.m. in room 211, Witmer Hall. Coffee and cookies will be served at 3:30pm in room 215. All are welcome.
2011-2012 Colloquia Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| September 16, 2011 | Dr. Andrew Croll, Department of Physics, North Dakota State University | Filling Space with Block Copolymers |
| September 23, 2011 | Dr. Dimitri Kilin, Department of Chemistry, University of South Dakota | Atomistic Simulation of Charge Transfer at Semiconductor Surfaces |
| September 30, 2011 | Dr. Vincente Guiseppe, Department of Physics, University of South Dakota | The Nature of the Neutrino Revealed Through Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay |
| October 7, 2011 | Dr. Svetlana Kilina, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University | Role of passivating ligands in photoexcited dynamics of quantum dots |
| October 13, 2011 | Dr. M. Erkan Kose, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University | Synthesis and Application of Low-band Gap Conjugated Materials for Organic Photovoltaics |
| October 21, 2011 | Dr. Gretchen Mullendore, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of North Dakota | Mass Transport in Deep Convection |
| October 28, 2011 | Dr. Jennifer van Wijngaarden, Department of Chemistry, University of Manitoba | Resolving molecular mysteries: High resolution spectroscopy in the microwave and far infrared regions |
| November 4, 2011 | Dr. Xiaodong Zhang, Department of Earth System Science and Policy, University of North Dakota | Why Ocean is not Black |
| December 2, 2011 | Dr. Yun Ji, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of North Dakota | Renewable Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass |
| January 20, 2012 | Dr. Michael Mann, Engineering and Mines, University of North Dakota | A Balanced Energy Diet |
| February 10, 2012 | Dr. Luiz Manzoni, Department of Physics, Concordia College | The Salecker-Wigner-Peres Clock and Tunneling Times for Localized Particles |
| February 17, 2012 | Dr. Yen Lee Loh, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of North Dakota | Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices: the Quest for Antiferromagnetism |
| February 24, 2012 | Dr. Nuri Oncel, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of North Dakota | A Quest for Next Generation Low Dimensional Systems |
| March 9, 2012 | Dr. Mark Hoffmann, Department of Chemistry, University of North Dakota | Advances in Accurate Computational Molecular Electronic Structure Theory |
| March 23, 2012 | Dr. Sarah Gallagher, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Western Ontario | Windswept Quasars |
| March 30, 2012 | Dr. Thomas Ward, Techsource Inc. | Radiation Biophysics, Nanostructures and Neuroscience: Studies of Environmental Radon Radio-Biomarker's in AD, PD and MS Diseases |
| April 20, 2012 | Dr. Franz Himpsel, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin | Self-Assembled Nanostructures on Silicon |
| April 27, 2012 | Dr. Nadya Mason, Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Using graphene to study superconductivity (new tricks for an old dog) |