Colloquia, Special Seminars, and PhD and MS Oral Presentations during the Fall 2009 Semester

Optics Building, Rooms 234-237

Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30pm (Unless otherwise specified.)

August

25

"The Structure of the Outer Heliosphere: Numerical Simulations vs. Spacecraft Observations"
Nikolai Pogorelov, UAHuntsville Department of Physics

September

1

"Effects of an Intracavity Resonant Medium on an Optical Cavity"
Krishna Myneni, Redstone Arsenal

8

"Sun-Earth Connection: A Tale of Two Ends from a Personal Perspective"
Qiang Hu, UAHuntsville CSPAR

15

"Electron Kinetics in Gas Discharges "
Vladimir Kolobov, Computational Fluid Dynamics Research Corp.

22

"The Acceleration of Charged Particles at Collisionless Shocks in Space and Astrophysics"
Jakobus le Roux, UAHuntsville Department of Physics

29

"The Legacy of the Ulysses Mission " (no abstract)
Steve Suess, NASA MSFC

October

6

"Interferometer as an Imaging System "
Joe Geary, UAHuntsville CAO

7

MS Thesis Presentation:  8:30 AM
"Using Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy for Detuned Laser Locking"
Charles Schambeau, Department of Physics

12

Special Seminar:  2:30 PM
"Mathematica in the Classroom"
Aaron Pollock, Wolfram Research

13

"Termination Shock Surfing "
Ross Burrows, UAHuntsville CSPAR

20

"Simulation of Relativistic Shocks and Associated Radiation from Turbulent MagneticFfields"
Ken-Ichi Nishikawa, NASA MSFC

27

"Coherent nanophotoics: How to subdue optics of metallic nanoparticles via semiconductor quantum dots"
Seyed Sadeghi, Department of Physics

November

2

MS Thesis Presentation:  8:30 AM
"An Experimental Study on Microwave Clock Transfer via Free Space Frequency Comb"
Ayshah Alatawi, Department of Physics

3

"Heliospheric Calculations with Adaptive Mesh Refinement " (no abstract)
Sergey Borovikov, UAHuntsville CSPAR

10

"Radio Interferometry and High Frequency Radio Observations of Radio Galaxies"
Nazirah Jetha, UAHuntsville Department of Physics

17

"Title TBA" (no abstract)
Lingze Duan, UAHuntsville Department of Physics

24

"The Interaciton of Turbulence with Shock Waves"
Xianzhi Ao, UAHuntsville CSPAR

December

1

"Current Models of Solar Coronal Heating "
Amy Winebarger, Alabama A&M University
Last Colloquium of the Fall 2009 Semester... Happy Holidays!