Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, October 16, 2014
4:00PM, Fisher Hall 139
Physics and Physicist in Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition
Dr. Ed Augustyniak
Technical Director at Lam Research
Tualatin, Oregon
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday October 9, 2014
4:00 PM Fisher Hall 139
High Spectral Resolution Lidar–Physics at Work in the Atmospheric Sciences
Ed Eloranta
Senior Scientist University of Wisconsin—Madison
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday September 25, 2014
4:00 pm 139 Fisher Hall
Thresholdless nanoscale lasers and the promises of metallic nano-cavities
Mercedeh Khajavikhan
Assistant Professor, College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL), University of Central Florida
Partially sponsored/funded/by the Visiting Women & Minority Lecturer/Scholar Series
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, September 18, 2014
4:00 PM Fisher Hall 139
Scale and Space: Seeing Neil Armstrong’s Footprints
Philip Edward Kaldon
Western Michigan University
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, September 18, 2014
11:00 AM Fisher Hall 139
Layer-Dependent Electronic and Physical Structure of 2D materials
Richard M. Osgood
Columbia University
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, September 11, 2014
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Room 139, Fisher Hall
Chaos, predictability and small scale weather simulation
Prof. Harmen Jonker
Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing (GRS)
Delft University of Technology
CANCELLED
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 24, 2014
at 4:00 pm
Room 139 Fisher Hall
Observing Very High Energy Gamma-ray Emission from Geminga with the HAWC Observatory
Hao Zhou
Advisor: Dr. Petra Huentemeyer
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 24, 2014
at 4:00 pm
Room 139 Fisher Hall
RCI Calculations to Hyperfine Structure Constants in V II
Marwa Abd Almoneam
Advisor: Dr. Donald Beck
Department of Physics Senior Research Oral Presentations
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 17, 2014
3:15 – 5:00pm
Room 139 in Fisher Hall
Undergraduate Presentation Abstracts
PhysicsUndergradPresentations-04-17-14
Formation of the Midcontinent Rift System: Fossil Magnetization of Intrusive Rocks
Darcy Jacobson
Advisor: Dr. Aleksey Smirnov
High-Speed Imaging of Freezing Drops: An Investigation of Contact Nucleation
Joseph Charnawskas
Advisor: Dr. Raymond Shaw
Synthesis of molybdenum disulfide for applications in van der Waal’s heterostructures
By Emily Makoutz
Advisor: Dr. Yoke Khin Yap
Preliminary Search for Exotic Events in the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory Data
Greg Furlich
Advisor: Dr. Brian FIck
Numerical Investigation of Water Vapor Effects in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Michael Adler
Advisor: Dr. Raymond Shaw
Synthesis and Characterization of Boron Nitride Nanosheets for Applications in Heat Dissipation
Sawyer Hopkins
Advisor: Yoke Khin Yap
Boson Sampling Using Optical Microcavities
Stephen Dipple
Advisor: Ramy El-Ganainy
Department of Physics Poster Session
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 17, 2014
1:00 to 3:00pm
Aftermath Atrium in Fisher Hall
Graduate Poster Abstracts
PhysicsGraduatePosterSession-04-17-14
PhysicsGraduatePosterSession-04-17-14a
Investigation of the Resistance to Demagnetization in Bulk Rare-Earth Magnets Comprised of Magnetically-Isolated, Crystallographically-Aligned, Single-Domain Crystallites
Jie Li
Advisor: Dr. Peter Moran
Effective Extraction of Nanomaterials from Water Contaminated with Nanotubes, Nanowires, Nanosheets, and Nanoparticles
Bishnu Tiwari
Advisors: Dr. Yoke Khin Yap and Dr. Dongyan Zhang
Laboratory Measurements of Contact Freezing by Dust and Bacteria at Temperatures of Mixed Phase Clouds
Joseph Niehaus
Advisor: Dr. Will Cantrell
A Multi-band, Unidirectional, Phase-preserved Lensing Invisibility Cloak
Ran Duan
Advisors: Elena Semouchkina and Ravi Pandey
Minimum Principle in Electromagnetic Scattering by Small Particles
Ajarii Mongkolsittisilp
Advisor: Dr. Alex Kostinski