Text Box: Spring 2009 Physics Seminar Schedule of Speakers and Topics
Wednesdays in McMaster Hall 4009

 

 

Date

Speaker

Title or Topic

1/14/2009

Khagendra Bhandari

Solid State Lighting With Light Emitting Diodes

1/21/2009

Prakash Koirala

Transportation : Cycling versus Driving

1/21/2009

Puruswottam Aryal

Optical Fiber, a Quick Overview

1/28/2009

Rajendra Raj Khanal

Electricity Generation in the US:  Analyzing the Average Carbon Generated per kWh

1/28/2009

Scott Little

Thermoelectric Devices: Mainstream Alternative Energy's Alternative 

2/4/2009

Lila Raj Dahal

The Physics of Fluorescent Lighting Technology

2/4/2009

Jason L. Roehl

An Introduction to Density Functional Theory

2/11/2009

John Royston

An Introduction to Kinetic Monte Carlo

2/11/2009

Ming Li

Nonlinear Optical Frequency Conversion

2/18/2009

Dohyoung Kwon

Electrical vs. forced air heating

2/18/2009

Amruta Nawarange

Energy required for CdTe glass substrate

2/25/2009

Hasitha P. Mahabaduge

Pathological science

2/25/2009

Marco Nardone

Density of States in Nanostructures

3/4/2009

Naba Raj Paudel

Physical Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

3/4/2009

Nava Raj Paudel

Energy consumption and physics of elevators and escalators

3/18/2009

Zhiquan Huang

The Physics of Thermal Conduction Through Building Materials

3/18/2009

Victor Plotnikov

An Analysis of the Carbon Impact of Airplane Travel

3/25/2009

Courtney L. Thornberry

Everything You Wanted to Know About Ellipsometry and It's Importance in Photovoltaic Research But Were Afraid to Ask

4/8/2009

Mark A. Simon

The Physics of Elevators and Consideration of "Hybrid" Elevators

4/8/2009

Jie Chen

Spectroscopic ellipsometry ex-situ study on II-VI semiconductor solar cells

4/15/2009

Abedl Ibdah

Physical Properties of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals

4/22/2009

Himal Khatri

Cu(InGa)Se2 Solar Cells: Real Time Ellipsometric Studies (RTSE) on Back Contact

4/22/2009

Yevgen Krykov

Memristor: the fourth element

4/29/2009

Vikash Ranjan

Overview of Transparent Conducting Oxide

4/29/2009

Michelle Sestak

Real Time Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of CdTe Thin Films Prepared by Magnetron Sputtering: Effect of Deposition Pressure on Structural Evolution

*  Proposed topic