College of Arts & Sciences

2017-2018 Colloquia

Date (2017-18)	Speaker	Topic
September 28 (Thursday)	Dr. Ben Larson Materials Science & Tech. Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Synchrotron Adventures in Space and Time
September 29	Dr. Daniel Wik Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah	A Biased Survey of the X-ray Universe
October 13	Dr. Karuppasamy Department of Chemistry, UND	Studies on the Design and Development of Gas Storage Materials
October 27	Dr. Irais Valencia Jaime Department of Chemistry, UND	Prediction of New Crystal Structures by using Minima Hopping Method
November 17	Dr. Svetlana Kilina Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, NDSU	Role of Surface Chemistry: An Interface of Photophysics on Quantum Dots
December 1	Dr. Andrew Croll Department of Physics, NDSU	The Role of Adhesion in Crumpled Polymer Films
February 23 (Special double colloquium)	Rasika Mohottige, Dept. of Physics & Astrophysics, UND Dr. Soumya Banerjee, Dept. of Physics & Astrophysics, UND	Coulomb Blockade and Negative Differential Resistance at Room Temperature: Self-assembled Quantum Dots on Si (110) Surface Intercalation of Si between MoS₂ Layers
March 15 (Thursday)	Dr. Harold Zandvliet Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente	The Silicon and Germanium Analogues of Graphene
March 23	Dr. Meysam Haghshenas, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UND	Magnesium Nanocomposites: Lightweight, but Strong, Materials of Future
April 6	Dr. Matthew Craig Department of Physics and Astronomy, Minnesota State University Moorhead	Python for Astronomy
April 13	Dr. Yongki Choi Department of Physics, NDSU	Electronic Detection of Cancer Markers with Nanocircuits
April 20	Dr. Andrei Kryjevski Department of Physics, NDSU	Multiple exciton generation in chiral single-walled carbon nanotubes: DFT-based study including competition between carrier multiplication and phonon-mediated relaxation, energy and charge transfer
April 27	Dr. Patrick Kelly, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota	Using A Highly Magnified Star and the Multiply Imaged Supernova Refsdal to Constrain the Outcomes of Star Formation, Stellar Evolution, and the Abundance of Primordial Black Holes
May 4	Christian Peterson, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, UND	Euler’s Rotation Equations for a Freely Rotating Object and the Dzhanibekov Effect
June 15 2 PM	Dr. G. D. Varma, Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India	Synthesis and Study of Superconducting Properties of MgB₂ and Fe-chalcogenide Superconductors