2014-2015 Colloquia

Colloquia Schedule

Date (2014)	Speaker	Topic
Sept 12	Dr. Khang Hoang Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology, North Dakota State University	First-principles modeling of materials for lithium-ion batteries
Sept 19	Dr. Ivan Lima Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering North Dakota State University	Monte Carlo method applied to optical coherence tomography design
Sept 25	Scott Crockett Los Alamos National Laboratory	An Introduction to Equation of State & Shock Physics Research
Sept 26	Dr. Julia Xiaojun Zhao UND Chemistry	Silica-based Near-Infrared Fluorescent Nanomaterials
Oct 3	Dr. John H. Page University of Manitoba	Waves in Complex Media: Super-resolution focusing in phononic crystals and Anderson localization in three-dimensional "mesoglasses"
Oct 17	Dr. Kathryn Thomasson UND Chemistry	The Dipole Interaction Model, a Classical Approach to Protein Circular Dichroism
Oct 24	Dr. Bill Schwalm UND Physics	Coupled Phenomena with Balls and Sticks
Nov 7	Blaise Mibeck UND EERC	Characterizing Materials at the EERC
Nov 13	Dr. Harold Hjalmarson Sandia National Laboratories	Physics at Interfaces between Dissimilar Materials
Nov 14	Dr. Hy Trac Carnegie Mellon University	Cosmic Reionization: How the First Galaxies Lit Up the Universe
Dec 5	Dr. Yongki Choi Department of Physics, North Dakota State University	Single Molecule Bioelectronics
Date (2015)
Jan 16	Dr. Matthew Cavalli UND Mechanical Engineering	Materials Issues in Coal Gasification and Hydrogen Production
Jan 30	Dr. Tristan Darland UND Biology	An Old Dog Embraces Active Learning
Feb 13	Dr. Sima Noghanian UND Electrical Engineering	Antenna Design for Biomedical Applications
Feb 20	Dr. Nuri Öncel UND Physics	Iridium-Modified Silicon Surfaces
Mar 27	Dr. Ananda Shastri Minnesota State University Moorhead	Physics in unexpected places: the soda straw clarinet
Apr 9	Dr. David Anderson UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory Dr. David P. Anderson received an M.A. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. From 1985 to 1992 he served on the faculty of the U.C. Berkeley Computer Science Department. His research interests include volunteer computing, distributed systems, operating systems, multimedia systems, computer graphics, and computer music. Since 1998 he has directed SETI@home, a pioneering volunteer computing project. He leads the BOINC project, which develops widely-used middleware for volunteer computing. He is also involved in technology for distributed thinking and for large-scale web-based training and education.
Apr 10	Dr. Murray Muraskin	Mathematical Aesthetic Principles/Nonintegrable Systems
Apr 16	Dr. Jim Kafka, Distinguished Traveling Lecturer Spectra-Physics Lasers	Fifty-Five Years of Lasers
Apr 17	Dr. Jim Kafka, Distinguished Traveling Lecturer Spectra-Physics Lasers	Holey Fibers – a new frontier in fiber optics
Apr 17	Dr. Jim Kafka, Distinguished Traveling Lecturer Spectra-Physics Lasers	Ultrafast Lasers and Ultrafast Science
Apr 24	Dr. Allen Goldman University of Minnesota	Electrostatic Modification of Superconductivity
May 1	Red River Valley Undergrad Research Symposium – no colloquium –