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
Graduate School Announces Summer 2014 Doctoral Finishing Fellowship Awardees
The Graduate School is pleased to announce that Douglas Banyai, PhD candidate in Physics, has earned a Doctoral Finishing Fellowship.
Yoke Khin Yap (Physics) has received $166,750 from the US Department of Energy for the first year of a potential two-year research project totaling $333,500, “Hetero-Junctions of Boron Nitride and Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis and Characterization.”
PI Claudio Mazzoleni and Co-PIs Raymond Shaw, Will Cantrell (Physics) and Lynn Mazzoleni (Chemistry), “Cloud-Processing of Brown and Black Carbon Aerosol from Biomass Burning: Spectroscopic, Chemical and Physical Properties—A Laboratory Study in Michigan Tech Turbulent Cloud Chamber,” NASA
Ravi Pandey (Phys) has received $75,000 (with a potential award total of $726,291) from the US Department of Defense-Army Research Laboratory for the first year of a potential three-year research and development project titled “First Principles Studies of Structure-Property Relationships in Two-dimensional Nanomaterials Beyond Graphene for Defense Applications.”
Robert Nemiroff (Phys) has received $30,000 of $238,362 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the first year of a three-year project titled “Supporting Astronomy Picture of the Day.”
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
Professor John Jaszczak (Physics), adjunct curator at the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, published a paper in the September/October issue of The Mineralogical Record, “Spectacular Sulfides from the Merelani Tanzanite Deposit, Manyara Region, Tanzania.” The paper’s coauthors are Simon Harrison, Mike Keim, Mike Rumsey (Natural History Museum, London) and Michael Wise (Smithsonian Institution).
Vol. 45, No. 5 September – October 2014
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