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Archived Seminars (1999-2007)
2007 Colloquia & Seminars
11/28/07:
Paola Barbara, Georgetown University
Carbon-nanotube field-effect transistors
11/14/07:
James Lindesay, Howard University
An Examination of the Physical Coherence of Phenomena
11/7/07:
Theodore L. Einstein, Department of Physics & MRSEC, University of Maryland, College Park
Steps on Crystalline Surfaces: Practical Applications and Intriguing Physics
10/31/07:
Anne Thompson, Penn State University, Dept of Meteorology
Strategic Ozonesonde Networks (SHADOZ & IONS): Looking at Ozone Processes One Profile at a Time
10/24/07:
Marcus Alfred, Howard University
10/17/07:
Dr. Robert Catchings, Department of Physics and Astronomy Howard University
The subject of the 2007 Nobel Prize recently announced to Albert Fert& and Peter Gr_nberg " for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance".
10/3/07:
Prabhakar Misra, Howard University
Exploring NASA-University Research & Education Partnerships
9/26/07:
Theodore Jacobson, University of Maryland
The Unfinished Story of Black Hole Entropy
9/19/07:
George Carruthers, US Naval Research Laboratory and Howard University
The Near-Earth and Solar System Space Environment
2005 Colloquia & Seminars
11/30/05:
Prof. Tepper Gill, Department of Electrical Engineering, Howard University
Analytic Representation for the Square-Root Operator of Relativistic Quantum Theory
11/09/05:
Prof. James Lindesay, Department of Physics, Howard University
Evidence for Quantum Coherence in Macroscopic Systems
11/02/05:
Prof. David Chung, Department of Physics, Howard University
Plasma Glow Discharge in Water – Cold Fusion or CRMS Fiction or True Science
10/26/05:
Dr. William Stockwell, Department of Chemistry, Howard University
Measurements of Solar Actinic Flux and Atmospheric Photolysis Rates
10/12/05:
Dr. Roger Wakimoto, Director, Earth Observing Laboratory National Center for Atmospheric Research
Mesoscale Analysis Techniques
09/28/05:
Dr. Silvina Gatica, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Howard University
A Visit to Nano-Worlds: Molecular Fluids Adsorbed in Nanopores
09/14/05:
Prof. Prabhakar Misra , Department of Physics & Astronomy, Howard University
My Fulbright Experience in India
09/07/05:
Dr. Christine Kennefick, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Howard University
Applied Mathematical Analysis and Computer Modeling for Microstructural Design
07/07/05:
Prof. Belay B. Demoz, Howard University—NASA Administrator Fellow Program
Atmospheric Research at the Howard University—Beltsville Campus
02/02/05:
Ms. Leslie Brown, Howard University Founders Library
Physics Literature Online and on the Shelf
2004 Colloquia & Seminars
12/01/04:
Dr. Gregory S. Jenkins, Director, Department of Astronomy and Physics, Director, Howard University Program in Atmospheric Sciences (HUPAS), Howard University
Eyes Open: A revised perspective on the environment/society by a HU physics professor during a Fulbright Research Fellow in Senegal.
11/10/04:
Dr. William H. Hooke, Director, Atmospheric Policy Program American Meteorological Society
“Atmospheric Policy”— What is it? — and why you should care?
11/03/04:
Dr. Michael King, EOS Senior Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Clouds and Aerosols in the Climate System
10/06/04:
Dr. Nick Nalli, NOAA/NESDIS
The 2004 Aerosol and Ocean Science Expedition (AEROSE): A Unique Database for Remote Sensing Validation
09/29/04:
Prof. Demetrius D. Venable, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Department Video Showing
04/28/04:
Dr. Thomas R. Lettieri, Program Manager, Advanced Technology Program, NIST
Optical Trapping and Manipulation of Micrometer-Sized Particles
04/21/04:
Dr. Everette Joseph, Department of Physics and Astronomy
AEROSE: A Trans-Atlantic Expedition to Study Saharan Dust and Its Impacts
04/14/04:
Dr. Albert Paul, Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials Group, Ceramics Division, Material Science and Engineering Laboratory, NIST
Increasing the Accuracy of Composition Data for Compound Semiconductors with Photoluminescence and MicroRaman Spectroscopy
03/03/04:
Drs. Marcus Alfred & Abdul Rahman, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Graphics User Interface Information Technology in Education
02/25/04:
All Students, Staff and Faculty
Physics Lunch-Chat
02/18/04:
Dr. Jordan Alpert, National Center of Environment Prediction Climate Prediction Center
A 3-Dimensional Animated Display of a Severe Weather Proxy
01/07/04:
Dr. Sen Chiao, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
The impact of the barrier jet in the orographic forcing of heavy precipitation
2003 Colloquia & Seminars
11/19/03:
M. Meyyappan, Director, Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center
An Overview of Recent Developments in Nanotechnology
11/05/03:
Cidambi Kumar, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Howard University
Technology Development for Missile Defense
10/29/03:
Tristan Hübsch, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Howard University
A Dynamical "ET" Censorship in Stringy Brane-Worlds
10/22/03:
James Lindesay, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Howard University
A Decade of Computational Physics at Howard University
10/15/03:
Everette Joseph, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Howard University
Mixing Oil and Water
10/01/03:
Kevin Laws, National Center of Environmental Prediction Climate Prediction Center
The NOAA Climate Prediction Center's Role in the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS-Net)
10/22/03:
Tabbetha A. Dobbins, NIST, Ceramics Division
Of Industrial Thermal Barrier Coating (Tbc) And Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (Sofc) Materials: Bringing Synchrotron Characterization Methods To The Power Industry
04/09/03:
Steve Zubrick, National Weather Service, Sterling,Virginia, USA
The Washington DC Tornado of 24 September 2001
10/22/03:
Prof. Jose D Fuentes, Department of Environmental Science University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
On the environmental importance of phytogenic hydrocarbons
01/22/03:
Dylan Bryce A. Jones, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Estimating Surface Emissions of Precursors of Tropospheric Ozone Using Satellite Observations
02/07/03:
Guy Guelachvili and Nathalie Picqué, Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, Unité Propre du CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud
Wide-band infrared molecular spectroscopy with kilometric absorption paths
01/22/03:
Gregory S. Duane, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Synchronized Chaos in Climate Dynamics
2002 Colloquia & Seminars
12/04/02:
Prof. Gilberto A. Vicente, George Mason University - Fairfax VA
Center for Earth Observing and Space Research - SCS Connecting satellite research to health and environmental applications
11/20/02:
Prof. Harshvardhan, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue Univ., GEST, UMBC/NASA Goddard
Retrieval of Microphysical and Thermodynamic Properties from Non-Uniform Cloud Fields
11/13/02:
Dr. Biswadev Roy, NASA Goddard
On Global Positioning System and Atmospheric Applications
11/06/02:
Dr. Tung Tsang, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Non-Calculus Introduction to Chaos
10/16/02:
Dr. Gregory S. Jenkins, Department of Meteorology, Penn State University
Chemistry and hydrology related research problems as determined from remotely sensed platforms in West Africa
09/18/02:
Dr. Paul Ginoux, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
The effects of dust aerosol on the Earth system: A modeling perspective
09/17/02:
Dr. George Caruthers (Astronomy Class Students) Astronomy
05/01/02:
Dr. Everette Joseph, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University
Climate Research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy
04/24/02:
Dr. Warren Washington, Senior Scientist NCAR
What Should We Believe About Climate Change?
04/17/02:
Prof. Prabhakar Misra, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University
Sustained Supersonic Flight Over Water and Land by 2025: A Pipe Dream?
04/10/02:
Dr. Robert Livezy, Climate Services Division, National Weather Service, NOAA
Extended Range Forecasting
03/27/02:
Teresa Palmer, DTIC
Collaboration with the US Department of Defense
03/13/02:
Dr. Tim Killeen, Director, NCAR
Research and Education at NCAR
03/06/02:
Dr. Steven Lord, Director, Environmental Modeling Center, NCEP
An Introduction to Data Assimilation and Modeling at the NCEP Environmental Modeling Center
02/27/02:
Prof. Eugenia Kalnay, Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park
Error Growth and Predictability
2001 Colloquia & Seminars
11/28/01:
Dr. Gregory Jenkins, Pensylvania State University
Challenging the historical view of West African Weather regimes: consequences for understanding climate variability and change
10/03/01:
Dr. James A. Stith, Director, Physics Resources Center, American Institute of Physics
Revitalization: A Personal Perspective
09/24/01:
Dr. Keith O. Baker, Jefferson Lab & Department of Physics, Hampton University
Strange Physics at Jefferson Lab
04/25/01:
Dr. Ramon E. Lopez, Department of Physics, University of Texas at El Paso
Storms from the Sun: The science of space weather
04/18/01:
Dr. Everette Joseph, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University
Preliminary Results from a Study of IR Multiple Scattering in a Cloudy Atmosphere
04/11/01:
Dr. Yehuda Salu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University
The Preparing Future Physics Faculty Program (PFPF) at HU
03/28/01:
Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Rainfall Morphology in Small Sub-Tropical Convective Systems: Implications for TRMM and Latent Heat Retrieval
03/14/01:
Dr. Anthony Reynolds, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University
Temperature Diffusion Waves in Magnetized Plasmas
03/07/01:
Dr. Charles K. Gatebe, Goddard Earth Sciences & Technology Center
Questions about aerosols: What do we know about aerosols and what don't we know?
02/28/01:
Dr. Wassila Thiaw, Climate Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Impacts of SSTs and atmospheric characteristics associated with tropical hydrologic anomalies
02/21/01:
Dr. Sylvester J. Gates, Jr., Department of Physics, University of Maryland
Superstring/M-theory In South Africa
02/07/01:
Dr. Markus Luty, Department of Physics, University of Maryland
Supersymmetric Extra Dimensions
02/02/01:
Dr. Qilong Min, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Albany
Aerosol, cloud, and O2 A-band Spectroscopy
01/31/01:
Dr. Bala Balachandran, Lucent Technologies
Inverse Mapping: Modification Needed for Better Space Weather Prediction?
01/17/01:
Dr. Ben Zeidman, Argonne National Laboratory
Electroproduction of Strange Particles on Light Nuclei
2000 Colloquia & Seminars
12/06/00:
Dr. Joe Peñano, Leading Edge Technologies Corporation
Propagation of Ultrashort Pulses in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator
11/29/00:
Dr. Nat Gopalswamy, Center for Solar Physics and Space Weather, Catholic University
Origin, Propagation and Terrestrial Impact of Coronal Mass Ejections
11/20/00:
Special Seminar: Dr. Philip W. Phillips, 2000 Edward A. Bouchet Award Winner, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
2e or not 2e in Strongly Repulsive Electronic Systems in 2D?
11/15/00:
Dr. Bill Amatucci, Head, Space Experiments Section, Naval Research Laboratory
Laboratory Comparison of Low-Altitude Ionospheric Ion Heating Mechanisms
11/01/00:
Dr. Michael C. Wittmann, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park
Evaluating Student Model Building in Quantum Physics
10/25/00:
Dr. Ja Hyun Lee, Department of Physics, Hampton University
Thermal-Electric Tandem Propulsion
10/18/00:
Dr. Apollo Mian, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Western Maryland College
The role of thermal lensing in high repetition rate Z-scan experiments
10/04/00:
Dr. Tristan Hubsch, Department of Physics, Howard University
Models of Spacetime in XX Century Physics
09/20/00:
Prof. Lewis Klein, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University
Determination of Dynamic Gradients in High Energy Density Plasmas
09/06/00:
Dr. Edward H. Dowdye, Jr., Research Associate, Howard University
Extinction Shift Principle
07/24/00:
Dr. Raj Rajeswari, NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center & Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland
Physics and Technological Applications of Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites
05/10/00:
Dr. Beth Brown, NRC Research Associate, Goddard Space Flight Center
Environmental Role on X-Ray Emission from Elliptical Galaxies & New Discoveries in Astronomy
04/19/00:
Prof. Prabhakar Misra, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University
Optical-Thermal Testing of the Vegetation Canopy Lidar (VCL) Telescope
04/12/00:
Dr. Ziad Maassarani, Department of Physics, University of Virginia
Quantum Integrable Models and Their Applications
04/05/00:
Dr. Everette Joseph, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University
State of the Art Global Climate Models and the Treatment of Cirrus IR Properties
03/29/00:
Prof. Walter Gekelman, Department of Physics, University of California Los Angeles
Phantom in the vacuum… Laboratory Experiments on Space Plasmas
03/08/00:
Prof. Edward Van Keuren, Department of Physics, Georgetown University
Third Order Nonlinear Optics in Organic Materials
03/01/00:
Dr. George Minic, Center for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology & University of Southern California
The Cosmological Constant Problem
02/09/00:
Prof. Lewis Klein, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University
Physics of High Energy Density Matter
02/02/00:
Dr. Anthony Reynolds, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University
Instability, Plasma Physics, and Quantum Mechanics
1999 Colloquia & Seminars
12/01/99:
Prof. Stuart Prager, Distinguished Lecturer, APS; Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin
Dynamo and Magnetic Fields in Plasmas
11/17/99:
Dr. Ping Yang, Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer in Ice Crystal clouds: Applications to Remote Sensing and Climate Research
11/16/99:
Mr. Abdul Rahman, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University.
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
10/13/99:
Dr. Carl E. Bonner, Jr., Associate Director, Center for Materials Research, Norfolk State University
Optical Characterization and Laser Design Using Nd Doped Apatites
10/06/99:
Dr. Belay B. Demoz, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus and Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology
Raman Lidar: Atmospheric Applications
9/29/99:
Dr. John C. Travis, physicist, Analytical Chemistry Division, NIST
Origins of the Optogalvanic Effect
9/15/99:
Tristan Hübsch, Howard University Physics & Astronomy
Superstrings: What, Why and How
9/8/99:
Dr. Haridas Chandran, Howard University Physics & Astronomy
Comet Tails System of CO+
9/1/99:
Dr. Apriel K. Hodari, University of Maryland, College Park
Effects of Ethnicity and Gender on Physics Learning
4/28/99:
Dr. Donnell Walton, Howard University
Timing is Everything: Direct Measurement of the Time Structure of Ultrashort X-Ray Pulses from a Storage Ring
4/21/99:
Dr. Pamela Chu, NIST
SRD 79, The NIST Quantitative Infrared Database of Hazardous Air Pollutants
4/14/99:
Mr. Edward Dowdye, Howard University
FTIR Assesment of Low Concentration Atmospheric Species and the Adsorption effects on Absorption
3/31/99:
Dr. Thomas R. Lettieri, NIST
University Participation in the NIST Advanced Technology Program
3/17/99:
Dr. Everette Joseph, Howard University
Cirrus Cloud Radiative Treatment in Climate Modelling