U of Alabama, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Fall 2008 Colloquia

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held in room 227 at 3:45pm with coffee at 3:30

Aug 27 Intro to Faculty Research Williams, Mankey,Keel,Clavelli
Sep 3 Intro to Faculty Research II Stancu, Mewes, LeClair,Buta
Sep 10 Materials Design for Spintronics     (abstract) Bill Butler, UA
Sep 24 The EXO double beta decay experiment: a status report     (abstract) Andreas Piepke, UA
Oct 1 Fine Tuning and Fundamental Physics     (abstract) John Donoghue, U Mass
Oct 8 Interaction of Solar and Stellar Winds with the Interstellar Medium     (abstract) G.P. Zank,  CSPAR and Dept. of Physics, UAH
Oct 15 Building Disk Galaxies in a Violent Universe     (abstract) Sheila Kannappan, U of North Carolina
Oct 22 Dark Energy and the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe     (abstract) Bob Scherrer,  Vanderbilt
Nov 19 New approaches for determining the dark matter content in spiral galaxies     (abstract) Marc Seigar, U of Arkansas, LR
Dec 3 Laser and Aerosol Processes in the Synthesis of Calcium Phosphate Bioceramics     (abstract) Renato Camata, UAB
Jan 28 Multi-messenger studies of gamma-ray bursts     (abstract) Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Tech