Department of Physics, Oakland University: Physics Colloquium

Physics Colloquium, 2019-2020

Thursday 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Room 372 MSC (former SEB)

A map of Oakland University can be found here. The building where the colloquium is held is number 6 on the map (Mathematics and Science Center), and Evgeniy Khain's office is room 272 in "HH" (Hannah Hall). The best place to park is in lot 43, just off the circle drive and across from "HH".

For information, or if you want to give a colloquium, please contact Evgeniy Khain, khain@oakland.edu

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 12 Thursday	Evgeniy Khain	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Effective pressure in a dense cell monolayer
September 19 Thursday	SPS Meet & Greet
September 26 Thursday	Xiaoming Mao	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Critical mechanical structures: topological metamaterials and robust mechanisms in messy matter
October 3 Thursday	Jesse Thaler	Department of Physics, MIT	Collision Course: Particle Physics meets Machine Learning
October 10 Thursday	Mark Johnston	Sandia National Laboratories	Diagnosing Plasmas in Terawatt Pulsed-Power Accelerators and Particle Beam Diodes
October 17 Thursday	Ricardo Decca	Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)	What is that force? Exploiting MEMS systems to measure interactions at small separations
October 24 Thursday	Brian O'Shea	Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State University	Connecting the first stars in the universe to the Milky Way
October 31 Thursday	Dervis Can Vural	Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame	Evolution of specialization and social cooperation in dynamic fluids
November 7 Thursday	Juan Peralta	Department of Physics, Central Michigan University	Towards practical self-interaction free density functional theory: The FLO-SIC approach
November 14 Thursday	Joseph Sklenar	Department of Physics, Wayne State University	New Magnetic Orders, and Phase Diagram Exploration in Artificial Spin Systems
November 21 Thursday	Yanfa Yan	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo	Toward Efficient and Stable All-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells
November 28 Thursday	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving
December 5 Thursday	David Montiel	Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
December 13 Friday	Nobel Prize Winner Michael Kosterlitz	Department of Physics, Brown University	Wave-number selection by stochastic noise

Winter 2019

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 10 Thursday	Olle Heinonen	Argonne National Lab	On nanomagnets and quantum Monte Carlo modeling
January 17 Thursday	Dragan Huterer	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	New Views of the Universe
January 24 Thursday	Tyler Cocker	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Ultrafast terahertz microscopy: from near fields to single atoms
January 31 Thursday	Aaron Pierce	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Due to the cold weather, the colloquium is canceled and moved to April 4
February 7 Thursday	Meir (Fiki) Shillor	Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University	Recent Progress in Contact Mechanics
February 14 Thursday	Christopher Kelly	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	The causes and effects of nanoscale membrane curvature as revealed by super-resolution optical approaches
February 21 Thursday	No Colloquium	Winter Recess
February 28 Thursday	Vasyl Tyberkevych	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Vector Hamiltonian formalism in nonlinear magnetization dynamics
March 7 Thursday	No Colloquium	APS March Meeting
March 14 Thursday	Ching-Kai Chiu	Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	Majorana vortex modes in iron-based superconductors
March 21 Thursday	Vivek Amin	Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology	Spin-orbit torque: using relativity to extract angular momentum from crystals and make new quantum devices
March 28 Thursday	Vili Heinonen	Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Quantum hydrodynamics for supersolid crystals and quasicrystals
April 4 Thursday	Aaron Pierce	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Dark Matter: WIMPS and Beyond
April 11 Thursday	Jordan Horowitz	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Thermodynamic limits far from equilibrium

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 13 Thursday	Farzan Beroz	University of Michigan	Physical limits to biomechanical sensing in disordered fiber networks
September 20 Thursday	SPS Meet & Greet
September 27 Thursday	Jesse Berezovsky	Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University	Manipulating magnetic textures at the nanoscale: Probing a dynamic magnetic landscape
October 4 Thursday	Liang Qi	Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan	Effects of Electronic Structures on Mechanical Properties of Transition Metals
October 11 Thursday	Michael Solomon	Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan	Active microdynamics and rheology of fractal colloidal gels
October 18 Thursday	Michael Dingfelder	Department of Physics, East Carolina University	Secondary Electron Yields from thin Foils after Proton and Light Ion Impact: Experiment and Simulations
October 25 Thursday	Jean-Gabriel Young	The Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan	The statistical physics of inference in Complex Networks
November 1 Thursday	Charudatta Phatak	Argonne National Laboratory	Imaging domain behavior in functional nanoscale heterostructures using Lorentz microscopy
November 8 Thursday	Vasyl Tyberkevych	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Magnonic Second Sound
November 15 Thursday	Xun (Ryan) Huan	Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan	Finding the Most Informative Data Using Model-based Bayesian Experimental Design
November 22 Thursday	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving
November 29 Thursday	Kevin Baker	Beaumont Health System	Stem Cell Trafficking in Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis: Pathology and Promise
December 6 Thursday	Alex Dickson	Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State University	Mapping the Ligand Binding Landscape

Winter 2018

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 11 Thursday	Liuyan Zhao	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Optically Probing Symmetry Breaking Orders in Quantum Materials
January 18 Thursday	Alex Matos Abiague	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	Spin-Orbit Coupling Effects on the Transport Properties of Hybrid Heterostructures
January 25 Thursday	Mohammad Maghrebi	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Quantum World Far from Equilibrium
February 1 Thursday	Eugene Surdutovich	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Sensitization with nanoparticles: radiotherapy and diffusion
February 6 Tuesday, MSC 378	Ilias Cholis	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University	Searching for Dark Matter with Gravitational Waves
February 8 Thursday	Leo Stein	TAPIR, Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology	Probing strong-field gravity: Black holes and mergers in general relativity and beyond
February 15 Thursday	Stephen Green	Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam-Golm, Germany	Instabilities and Turbulence in Spacetime Geometry
February 22 Thursday	No Colloquium	Winter Recess
March 1 Thursday	Colin Denniston	Department of Applied Mathematics and Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Western Ontario, Canada	Building Solid Crystals in Liquid Crystals
March 8 Thursday	No Colloquium	APS March Meeting
March 15 Thursday	Julius Jellinek	Argonne National Lab	Solving the Problem of Anharmonic Densities of States
March 22 Thursday	Benjamin Buller	Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI	Mesenchymal cell exosomes as developmental therapies for brain injury
March 29 Thursday	Geoff Beach	Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT	Room Temperature Magnetic Skyrmions in Ultrathin Transition Metal Films
April 5 Thursday	Alberto Rojo	Department of Physics, Oakland University	The Principle of Least Action: History and Physics
April 12 Thursday	Dan Xiao	Department of Physics, University of Windsor	Pure Phase Encoding Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Fall 2017

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 14 Thursday	Brad Roth	Department of Physics, Oakland University	A Mathematical Model of Mechanotransduction
September 21 Thursday	SPS Meet & Greet
September 28 Thursday	Michael Murillo	Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering; Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University	A Multiscale Approach to Molecular Dynamics Simulations of High Energy-Density Matter
October 5 Thursday	Andrei Slavin	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Antiferromagnetic THz-Frequency Josephson-like Oscillator Driven by Spin Current
October 12 Thursday	Qiong Yang	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Incoherent inputs enhance robustness of biological oscillators
October 19 Thursday	Chunqi Qian	Department of Radiology, Michigan State University	Sensitivity Enhancement of High Resolution MRI with a Wireless Amplifier NMR Detector
October 26 Thursday	Ratindranath Akhoury	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Whither Quantum Field Theory
November 2 Thursday	Yang Xia	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Complementary Imaging at Microscopic Resolution – Physics and Applications
November 9 Thursday	Zhixian Zhou	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	Two-Dimensional Layered Semiconductors beyond Graphene: Electronics and Device Physics
November 16 Thursday	Vili Heinonen	Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Consistent hydrodynamics for phase field crystals
November 23 Thursday	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving
November 30 Thursday	Nana Ofori-Opoku	National Institute of Standards and Technology and Center for Hierarchical Materials Design, Northwestern University	Modeling highly anisotropic interface: Derivation from phase-field crystal
December 7 Thursday	Mark Voit	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Waterfalls or Rain: How Does Gas Get Into Galaxies?

Winter 2017

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 12 Thursday	Yang Xia	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Functional Studies of Cartilage by Microscopic Imaging
January 19 Thursday	Dongzhou Zhang	Argonne National Lab	High pressure crystallography at the Partnership for eXtreme Xtallography program
January 26 Thursday	Scott Pratt	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Big Theory vs Big Experiment - Lessons from Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
February 2 Thursday	Jeffrey Schenker	Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University	Dissipative transport in the localized regime
February 9 Thursday	Robert Deegan	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Coupled Pattern Formation in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction
February 16 Thursday	Yue Fan	Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan	The Hidden Orders in Disordered Materials: Expedition in Potential Energy Landscape
February 23 Thursday	No Colloquium	Winter Recess
March 2 Thursday	George Martins	Department of Physics, Oakland University	New 2d topological materials: Silicene, a case study
March 9 Thursday	Fred Adams	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Stars in Other Universes: How much Fine-Tuning is necessary?
March 16 Thursday	No Colloquium	APS March Meeting
March 23 Thursday	Georg Raithel	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Giant Rydberg molecules
March 30 Thursday	John Heron	Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan	Room Temperature Electric Field Control of Magnetism
April 6 Thursday	Shiv Khanna	Physics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University	The colloquium is canceled
April 13 Tuesday	Eugene Surdutovich	Department of Physics, Oakland University	In search of the “obvious”: milestones on the way of discovering ion-induced shock waves

Fall 2016

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 8 Thursday	David Garfinkle	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Gravitational wave memory
September 15 Thursday	Ken Elder	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Formation of Moire patterns in ultrathin heteroepitaxial films
September 22 Thursday	SPS Meet & Greet
September 29 Thursday	Susannah Dorfman	Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University	Equation of State and Strength of Materials at Mbar Pressures
October 6 Thursday	Tim Schulze	Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee	Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Dendritic Growth
October 13 Thursday	Keith Riles	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Dawn of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy - Discoveries from the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run
October 20 Thursday	Wolfgang Bauer	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Slowing Down Global Warming with Renewable Power Sources - What Physicists Can Do
October 27 Thursday	Allen Liu	Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan	Mechanobiology of biological membrane
November 3 Thursday	Silas Alben	Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan	Optimizing snake locomotion
November 10 Thursday	Xuanfeng Ding	Beaumont Health System	Proton Beam Therapy: the past, present and future
November 17 Thursday	Jakoah Brgoch	Department of Chemistry, University of Houston	Guided Discovery of Sustainable Mechanical Materials using Computation and Experiment
November 24 Thursday	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving
December 1 Thursday	Alberto Rojo	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Topology in condensed matter: the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

Winter 2016

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 7 Thursday	Yuri Lvov	Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Fermi Pasta Ulam system - new ideas about old problem
January 14 Thursday	Yang Xia	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Paul T Callaghan, My Mentor in the Land of the Long White Cloud
January 21 Thursday	Brian Marples	Department of Radiation Oncology, Beaumont Health System	Novel approaches for treating glioblastoma: Changing the pattern of radiation delivery
January 28 Thursday	Lawrence Mead	Department of Physics and Astronomy, the University of Southern Mississippi	Maximum Entropy in Action
February 4 Thursday	Laura Chomiuk	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Searching for the Elusive Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae
February 11 Thursday	Arunima Singh	National Institute of Standards and Technology	High-Throughput Computational Synthesis of Two Dimensional Materials
February 18 Thursday	Pengpeng Zhang	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Tailoring the Growth of Organic Thin Films via Chemical Reactions at the Molecular Scale
February 25 Thursday	No Colloquium	Winter Recess
March 3 Thursday	Hyejin Kim	Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Michigan, Dearborn	Demographic stochasticity and evolution of dispersion
March 10 Thursday	Kanani Lee	Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University	Figuring out the Earth from the inside out
March 17 Thursday	No Colloquium	APS March Meeting
March 24 Thursday	Manuel Gnann	Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan	Effective temperatures for Hot Brownian Motion
March 31 Thursday	Special Colloquium on Physics and Education Alberto Rojo	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Physics is really everywhere
April 5 Tuesday	special talk	notice room change: 208 EH
April 7 Thursday	special talk
April 12 Tuesday	special talk
April 14 Thursday	special talk

Fall 2015

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 10 Thursday	Wenge Yang	Argonne National Laboratory	Advanced Synchrotron Radiation Techniques and Applications to Frontier High Pressure Research
September 17 Thursday	SPS Meet & Greet
September 24 Thursday	Fred Adams	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	The Effects of Clusters on Forming Planetary Systems and Constraints on the Birth Aggregate of our Solar System
October 1 Thursday	Career event for students	Dr. Michael Kriese, Rigaku Innovative Technologies	Design and Manufacture of Modern X-ray Optics
October 8 Thursday	Ratna Naik	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	Probing magnetic properties of Fe3O4 nanoparticles using temperature dependent magnetic hyperthermia
October 15 Thursday
October 22 Thursday	Brian Saam	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah	Hyperfine Physics in Alkali-Metal Vapors
October 29 Thursday	Ivan Lisenkov	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Arrays of magnetic nanoelements as a new reconfigurable magnetic material for magnonic signal processing and digital logic applications
November 5 Thursday	Greg van Anders	Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan	Engineering Emergence in Soft Matter with Digital Alchemy
November 12 Thursday	Michael Hinczewski	Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University	Cellular telephone games: how biological networks cope with noisy signal transmission
November 19 Thursday	Emanuel Gull	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Numerical Methods for the Many-Electron Problem
November 26 Thursday	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving
December 3 Thursday	Alexey Zayak	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bowling Green State University	Nano-scale spectroscopy with visible light: Understanding Raman scattering by first principles computations

Winter 2015

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 8 Thursday	Natthi Sharma	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Eastern Michigan University	Quantum Superposition and collapse: Examples and Visual Analogs
January 15 Thursday	Evgeniy Khain	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Instabilities and phase separation in dense granular flows: typical behavior and rare events
January 22 Thursday	Peter Hoffmann	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	Adventures in nanoscale mechanics
January 29 Thursday	Thomas Guerrero	Beaumont Health System	Quantifying spatial and temporal processes in medical images reveals more than what visually apparent
February 5 Thursday	Roozbeh Dargazany	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University	Bio-inspired Functional Composites: From Tire to Blood
February 12 Thursday	George Martins	Department of Physics, Oakland University	A status report on BiS_2-based Superconductors: where are we?
February 19 Thursday	Vladimir Zelevinsky	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Fundamental symmetries and atomic nucleus
February 26 Thursday	No Colloquium	Winter Recess
March 5 Thursday	No Colloquium	APS March Meeting
March 12 Thursday	Sylwia Ptasinska	Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame	Tailoring Bond Dissociation in Gas-Phase Biomolecules by Low-Energy Electrons
March 19 Thursday	Sergei Voloshin	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	Quantum chromodynamics at extreme: heavy ion collisions
March 26 Thursday	Jianguo Wen	Argonne National Laboratory	Aberration-Corrected High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy of Advanced Materials
April 2 Thursday	Kevin Wood	Department of Biophysics and Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Decoding the multi-drug response in bacterial populations
April 9 Thursday	YueJian Wang	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Instrumental Development and Scientific Investigation in the high Pressure Physics Laboratory
April 16 Thursday	Jichang Wang	Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada	Complex Spatiotemporal Behavior in Chemical Reactions with Coupled Nonlinear Feedbacks

Fall 2014

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 11 Thursday	Vasyl Tyberkevych	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Magnetic nano-dot arrays: Reconfigurable microwave meta-materials
September 18 Thursday	SPS Meet & Greet
September 25 Thursday	Clifford M. Les	Henry Ford Hospital	Wolff’s Pretty Good Guess: What exactly are the design criteria for bone?
October 2 Thursday	Michael Sevilla	Department of Chemistry, Oakland University	DNA Radiation Damage: from Ionization to Molecular Products
October 9 Thursday	Pawel Danielewicz	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Protons and neutrons in a nucleus
October 16 Thursday	Gabriel Caruntu	Department of Chemistry, Central Michigan University	Data Storage for Tomorrow: Atomic Scale Insights into the Ferroelectric Properties of Nanocrystals
October 23 Thursday	David Gerdes	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	New Results from the Dark Energy Survey
October 30 Thursday
November 6 Thursday	Chong-Yu Ruan	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Bottom-up view from an ultrafast electron microscope: Thinking and building science cases from molecular perspectives
November 13 Thursday	Xiaoming Mao	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Isostaticity and a Unified View of Soft Elasticity
November 20 Thursday	Lu Li	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Quantum Oscillations in Kondo Insulator SmB6
November 27 Thursday	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving
December 4 Thursday	Boris Nadgorny	Department of Physics, Wayne State University	Backflow Effect on Spin Diffusion Near a Ferromagnet-Superconductor Interface

Winter 2014

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 23 Thursday	Christopher V. Kelly	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	Observing nanoscale organization and dynamics on biological membranes
January 30 Thursday	Vanessa Sih	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Measuring spins and spin-orbit effects in semiconductors
February 6 Thursday	Edward Brown	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	The colloquium is canceled and moved to February 20
February 13 Thursday	Takeshi Sakamoto	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	Molecular motor myosin V
February 20 Thursday	Edward Brown	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Accreting neutron stars and the physics of dense matter
February 27 Thursday	No Colloquium	Winter Recess
March 6 Thursday	No Colloquium	APS March Meeting
March 13 Thursday	Christopher Tycner	Department of Physics, Central Michigan University	Applications of Long-baseline Optical Interferometry in Stellar Astrophysics
March 20 Thursday	Valeri Petkov	Department of Physics, Central Michigan University	Nanostructure by high-energy X-ray diffraction and atomic pair distribution functions analysis
March 27 Thursday
April 3 Thursday	Andrei Slavin	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Spin Hall Nano Oscillators
April 10 Thursday	Marco Fornari	Department of Physics, Central Michigan University	Materials Genomics: Searching for Novel Piezoelectric Alloys
April 17 Thursday	John McGuire	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Optical Properties of Colloidal Graphene Quantum Dots

Fall 2013

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 12 Thursday	Zhi-Feng Huang	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	Understanding structural dynamics in nonequilibrium materials growth
September 19 Thursday	SPS Meet & Greet
September 26 Thursday	Xiang-Qiang Chu	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	Breathing and Dancing of protein: Detecting Protein Dynamics by Neutron Scattering
October 3 Thursday
October 10 Thursday	Lianxiang Yang	Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oakland University	Recent developments of digital holography/speckle interfeometry for three dimensional displacement measurement
October 17 Thursday
October 24 Thursday	Sanjay V. Khare	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo	Searching for Super Hard Cubic Phases of Cubic Transition Metal Nitrides from Ab Initio Computations
October 31 Thursday
November 7 Thursday	J. David Schall	Mechanical Engineering Department, Oakland University	Investigation of the tribological properties of carbon-based solid lubricants using molecular dynamics simulation
November 14 Thursday
November 21 Thursday	Seonghwan (John) Yee	Department of Radiation Oncology, Beaumont Health System	Use of MRI in radiation oncology
November 28 Thursday	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving
December 5 Thursday	Mona Jarrahi	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan	Pushing the Limits of Terahertz Optoelectronics

Winter 2013

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 10 Thursday	Yang Xia	Department of Physics, Oakland University	”War and Peace” – The Story of Multi-component Relaxation Measurements in Nasal Cartilage
January 17 Thursday	Eugene Surdutovich	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Biodamage via shock waves initiated by irradiation with ions
January 24 Thursday	Edward Cackett	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	Reverberation mapping: echoes of light around black holes
January 31 Thursday	Xianglin Ke	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Neutron scattering revealing emergent phenomena in the Bilayer Ruthenate Ca3Ru2O7
February 7 Thursday
February 14 Thursday note room change: SEB 185	Douglas Noll	Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan	Better Images of the Thinking Brain: Eliminating Distortions from Functional MRI
February 21 Thursday	No Colloquium	Winter Recess
February 28 Thursday note room change: SEB 185	Omolola Eniola Adefeso	Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan	Blood Flow Dynamics and the Design of Vascular-Targeted Drug Delivery Vehicles
March 7 Thursday
March 14 Thursday	Axel Mellinger	Department of Physics, Central Michigan University	Piezoelectricity in non-polar and polar polymers
March 21 Thursday	No Colloquium	APS March Meeting
March 28 Thursday	Robert Owen	Oberlin College	Visualizing black hole dynamics through the vorticity and tendicity of spacetime
April 4 Thursday	Matthew Comstock	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Seeing structure and function of biological molecular machines in real-time: angstrom-resolution optical trapping and single molecule fluorescence
April 11 Thursday note room change: 204 DHE	Jin Wang	Department of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn	Experiments in Quantum Metrology

Fall 2012

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 13 Thursday	Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh	Radiology Image Analysis Lab, Henry Ford Health System	Analysis and Application of Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Images
September 20 Thursday	SPS Meet & Greet
September 27 Thursday	Brad Roth	Department of Physics, Oakland University	A mechanical bidomain model of cardiac tissue
October 4 Thursday	Veronica Barone	Department of Physics, Central Michigan University	Graphenes derivatives: from fundamental electronic properties to technological applications
October 11 Thursday	Tiezhi Zhang	William Beaumont Hospital	Tetrahedron Beam Computed Tomography
October 18 Thursday
October 25 Thursday	Jian Huang	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	Into the flat land: Transport studies of ultra-dilute GaAs two-dimensional hole systems in zero field
November 1 Thursday	Gavin Lawes	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	Magnetically induced ferroelectric order
November 8 Thursday	Ilias Efthimiopoulos	Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart and Oakland University	Pressure-induced phase transitions of selected transition metal compounds
November 15 Thursday	Mark Katakowski	Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI	Intercellular miRNA transfer in tumor and treatment
November 22 Thursday	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving
November 29 Thursday
December 6 Thursday	Paul Stein	Department of Medicine, Michigan State University	Turbulance, shear, and vibrations: relevance to the human body

Winter 2012

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 5 Thursday
January 12 Thursday	Haowen Xi	Department of Physics & Astronomy, Bowling Green State University	Eigenvalue analysis and network in correlation matrices of financial data
January 19 Thursday	Alex Levchenko	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Quantum rectification in mesoscopic circuits: point contacts, 2DEG bi-layers, Giaever transformers
January 26 Thursday
February 2 Thursday	Special Center for Biomedical Research Colloquium Michael Kleerekoper	Wayne State University School of Medicine	BONE MICRO-ARCHITECTURE
February 9 Thursday	Dragan Huterer	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
February 16 Thursday	Ashis Mukhopadhyay	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University	Length-Scale Dependent Dynamics in Soft Matter
February 24 Thursday	No Colloquium	Winter Recess
March 1 Thursday	No Colloquium	APS March Meeting
March 8 Thursday	Xiaoming Zheng	Department of Mathematics, Central Michigan University	A viscoelastic model of capillary growth: derivation, analysis, and simulation
March 15 Thursday	Fatkhulla Abdullaev	University of Lisbon, Portugal and Physical-Technical Institute, Uzbekistan	Solitons in parity-time symmetric nonlinear lattices
March 22 Thursday	Shuichi Takayama	Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan	Microfluidic Models of the Body
March 29 Thursday	Long-Qing Chen	Department of Material Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University	The colloquium is canceled
April 5 Thursday	Fuxiang Zhang	Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan	Pressure-induced splitting and buckling of Cu-O chains in SrCuO2
April 12 Thursday	Special Biological Physics Colloquium Alex Mogilner	Department of Mathematics and Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California, Davis	Mechanics of cell crawling, turning and symmetry breaking

Fall 2011

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 8 Thursday	Baruch Meerson	Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Extinction of established populations: a physicist's view
September 15 Thursday	Andrei Slavin	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Non-Diffractve Caustic Spin Wave Beams
September 22 Thursday	SPS Meet & Greet
September 29 Thursday	Vasyl Tyberkevych	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Dynamic Magnonic Crystals
October 6 Thursday	Michael Khasin	Department of Physics, Oakland University and Department of Physics, University of Michigan	The spectrum of oscillator with fluctuating mass and nanomechanical mass sensing
October 13 Thursday	Phillip Duxbury	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Multiscale modeling of organic photovoltaics
October 20 Thursday	Annette Ostling	Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan	How can we test neutral theory robustly in ecology?
October 27 Thursday	Ken Elder	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Modelling pattern formation from atomic to micron scales
November 3 Thursday	Victor Berdichevsky	Mechanical Engineering Department, Wayne State University	One more law of thermodynamics?
November 10 Thursday	Peter Ma	Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan	Biomimetic materials, stem cells and regenerative medicine
November 17 Thursday	Bo Gao	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo	A different perspective on the quantum theory of reactions
November 24 Thursday	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving
December 1 Thursday	Hong Im	Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan	Understanding auto-ignition and combustion characteristics through high-fidelity simulation

Winter 2011

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 6 Thursday
January 13 Thursday	Mateusz Ruszkowski	Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan	The interplay between turbulence and conduction in clusters of galaxies
January 20 Thursday	Ronald Larson	Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan	Microfluidic Methods in Biophysics
January 27 Thursday	Jeremy N. Bassis	Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan	The statistical physics of iceberg calving and the emergence of universal calving laws
February 3 Thursday	Christopher Klausmeier	Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University	Theoretical Approaches to Plankton Ecology
February 10 Thursday	Xiangqun Zeng	Department of Chemistry, Oakland University	Surface Modified Electrodes and Their Uses in Chemical and Biosensing
February 17 Thursday	Roberto Ramos	Department of Physics, Drexel University	Demonstration of Multiple Energy Gap Structure and Resonant Activation in Superconducting Magnesium Diboride
February 24 Thursday	No Colloquium	Winter Recess
March 1 Tuesday, 11:55 - 12:55, Room 110 HHS	Xiangshun Lu	Department of Physics, University of Arkansas	Raman spectroscopic studies of chromium in ruby and in diluted magnetic semiconductors
March 10 Thursday	YueJian Wang	Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University	High Pressure: A New Dimension in Nano-dimensional Condensed Matter
March 24 Thursday	No Colloquium	APS March Meeting
March 31 Thursday	Vasyl Tyberkevych	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Parametric excitation of a spin-torque nano-oscillator
April 7 Thursday	Evgeniy Khain	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Front propagation in living systems: from cell invasion to population dynamics
April 14 Thursday	Special Biological Physics Colloquium Lev S. Tsimring	Institute for Nonlinear Science (absorbed into BioCircuits Institute), University of California San Diego	Ordering and instabilities in growing bacterial colonies

Fall 2010

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 9 Thursday	Katherine Freese	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	The colloquium is canceled
September 16 Thursday	Victor Karpov	Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Toledo	Physics of Thin-Film Photovoltaics
September 23 Thursday	SPS Meet & Greet
September 30 Thursday	Oleg Zikanov	Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn	Effect of magnetic fields on flows of electrically conducting fluids
October 7 Thursday	Michael Morris	Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan	The role of Raman spectroscopy in assessment of skeletal function and skeletal health
October 14 Thursday	Anatoly Maksimchuk	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan	Particle acceleration with ultra-intense ultra-short laser pulses
October 21 Thursday	Wei Lu	Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan	Dynamics of nanoscale self-assembly
October 28 Thursday	Vladimir Zelevinsky	Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University	Many-Body Quantum Chaos: Ideas and Applications
November 4 Thursday	David Tománek	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Creating, probing and removing defects in nanocarbons: Insight from computer simulations
November 11 Thursday	Special Medical Physics Colloquium Elena Rozhkova	Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory	Bio-functional Nanotechnology
November 18 Thursday
November 25 Thursday	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving
December 2 Thursday	John Vandermeer	Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan	Formation of mosaic pattern in tropical ants and its significance for biological control

Winter 2010

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 7 Thursday	No colloquium (Dynamics Days conference)
January 14 Thursday	Yangjin Kim	Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Michigan-Dearborn	Glioma invasion and microenvironment: a mathematical model
January 21 Thursday	Oleg Gnedin	Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan	The Milky Way Galaxy: Keeper of the Darkest Secrets of the Universe
January 28 Thursday	Sandeep V. Pandit	Center for Arrhythmia Research, University of Michigan	Ionic Bases of Cardiac Fibrillation (Role of the Inward Rectifier K+ Currents)
February 4 Thursday	Jonathan A. Dantzig	Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Materials Behavior at Multiple Length Scales using the Phase-Field Crystal Model
February 11 Thursday	Nikolai Priezjev	Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University	Effect of shear rate and surface energy on slip boundary conditions in thin polymer films confined between atomically smooth surfaces: A molecular dynamics study
February 18 Thursday	John McGuire	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Killing One Bird with Two Stones: Carrier Multiplication and “Photoionization” in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
February 25 Thursday	No Colloquium	Winter Recess
March 4 Thursday	Jack Waddell	Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan	Of Tortoises and Hares: Slow versus fast dispersal in competitive population dynamics with fluctuations
March 11 Thursday	Sheldon Gordon	Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University	Wound Repair in a Tissue Monolayer – Investigations on the corneal Endothelium
March 18 Thursday	No Colloquium	APS March Meeting
March 25 Thursday note room change: SEB 185	George Martins	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Iron-pnictides: A brief introduction, effective low-energy models, and RPA results
April 1 Thursday	Special Biological Physics Colloquium Wolfgang Losert	Department of Physics, IPST and IREAP, University of Maryland College Park	Collective Dynamics of Cell Groups
April 8 Thursday	Special Biological Physics Colloquium Igor Aronson	Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory and The Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University	Viscosity of suspension of swimming bacteria
April 15 Thursday	Yeshitila Gebremichael	Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University	Computer Modeling of Biofilaments: Study on Structural and Dynamic Properties
April 26 Monday 165 HHS, 3 pm	Siegfried Stapf	Department of Technical Physics II, Ilmenau University of Technology	The many shapes of collagen: low-field NMR relaxometry study on drying films and cartilage

Fall 2009

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 10 Thursday	Cancelled
September 17 Thursday	Aaron A. King	Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan	Inapparent infections hold the key to cholera dynamics
September 24 Thursday	SPS Meet & Greet
October 1 Thursday	Rachel Maitra	Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics, University of Amsterdam	The Factor-Ordering Problem in Quantum Gravity
October 8 Thursday	David Garfinkle	Department of Physics, Oakland University	Inhomogeneous cosmology
October 15 Thursday	Leonard M. Sander	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Biomechanics of cell motility in Dictyostelium
October 22 Thursday	Nian X. Sun	Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Northeastern University	Novel Multifunctional Materials and Devices for RFIC and MMIC
October 29 Thursday	Michal Zochowski	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	From cells to networks: understanding network dynamics underlying healthy and pathological brain function
November 5 Thursday	Anna Maria Spagnuolo	Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University	A Mathematical Model for Vibrio Cholerae Colonization of the Human Intestine
November 12 Thursday	David Lubensky	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Patterning Neurogenesis: A dynamical model of ommatidial crystal formation
November 19 Thursday	Hui Deng	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	When Quantum Grows Macroscopic
November 26 Thursday	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving
December 3 Thursday	Ramakrishna Mukkamala	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University	Hemodynamic Monitoring for the 21st Century

Winter 2009

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 8 Thursday	Stephen Robinson	Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital and Department of Physics, Oakland University	MEG Functional Brain Imaging using a Current Multipole Expansion Source Model
January 15 Thursday	Cancelled
January 22 Thursday	Peter Smereka	Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan	Efficient Computation of Heteroeptixial Growth using Kinetic Monte Carlo
January 29 Thursday	Jacques Amar	Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Toledo	Effects of shadowing and steering in oblique incidence epitaxial growth
February 5 Thursday	Bradley J. Roth	Department of Physics, Oakland University	A Mechanical Model of Neural Tissue Displacement During Lorentz Effect Imaging Using MRI
February 12 Thursday note room change: SEB 185	Weidian Shen	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Eastern Michigan University	Characterization of Mechanical and Tribological Properties of Mold-in-Color Polypropylene Used in Automobile Industry
February 19 Thursday note room change: SEB 185	Fabian Heitsch	Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan	The Physics of Star Formation: Cooling, Gravity and Geometry
February 26 Thursday	No Colloquium	Winter Recess
March 5 Thursday note room change: SEB 185	Eugene Surdutovich	Department of Physics, Oakland University	The physics of ion-beam cancer therapy à la carte
March 12 Thursday note room change: SEB 185	Cagliyan Kurdak	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Diamagnetism and Persistent Eddy Currents in Quantum Hall Liquids
March 19 Thursday	Robert Deegan	Department of Physics, University of Michigan	Vertical structures in shear thickening fluids
March 26 Thursday	No Colloquium	APS March Meeting
April 2 Thursday	Cancelled
April 9 Thursday	Guowei Wei	Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University	Multiscale modeling of biomolecular systems
April 16 Thursday	Zhixian Zhou	Department of Physics, Wayne State University	Electron transport in carbon nanotubes and graphene

Fall 2008

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 9 Tuesday Gold Room A, Oakland Center	Sergei Urazhdin	Department of Physics, West Virginia University	Current-Induced Dynamical States of Nanomagnets
September 18 Thursday	Farhad Ghoddoussi	Department of Physics, Oakland University	High Resolution Magic Angle Spinning (HR-MAS) Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (¹H-MRS): A Novel, Non-invasive, Clinically Translatable Method for Measuring Neurochemistry
September 25 Thursday	SPS Meet & Greet
October 2 Thursday	Alberto Rojo	Department of Physics, Oakland University	The Quantum Supermarket Cart
October 9 Thursday	Ilia Solov'yov	Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies	Magnetoreception mechanisms in birds - towards the discovery of the sixth sense
October 16 Thursday	Omer Berenfeld	Center for Arrhythmia Research, University of Michigan	Electrical Turbulence and Vortex-Like Reentry in the Mammalian Heart
October 23 Thursday
October 30 Thursday	Jay Burmeister	Department of Radiation Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine
November 6 Thursday	Tamir Epstein	Department of Physics, University of Michigan
November 13 Thursday	Juan Peralta	Department of Physics, Central Michigan University	Magnetic Properties from Noncollinear Spin Density Functional Theory
November 20 Thursday	Christopher Chen	Hospital for Special Surgery	Why rheumatologist should care about mechanics?
November 27 Thursday	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving
December 4 Thursday	Michael Khasin	Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University	Simulation of quantum many-body dynamics using dynamical coarse-graining
December 11 Thursday	Cancelled

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