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Click here for:| Date: | Thursday |
| Time: | 1:30-3:00 PM |
| Place: | 106 B Studio Room, Classroom Building, OSU |
| & Nielsen Hall, Room 104, OU | |
| Inquiries: | s.nandi@okstate.edu or kao@nhn.ou.edu |
| Date: | Thursday |
| Time: | 3:30-4:30 PM |
| Place: | PS 110 |
| Inquiries: | girish.agarwal@okstate.edu or s.nandie@okstate.edu |
| Date: | Friday (bi)weekly |
| Time: | 2:30 PM |
| Place: | PS 147 |
| Inquiries: | perk@okstate.edu |
No talks scheduled: Prelim Exams
First Week of Classes
Martin Luther King Day: Monday, January 18
| Speaker: | Dr. Azar Mustafayev |
| Department of Physics and Astronomy | |
| University of Kansas | |
| Date: | Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:30 PM |
| Place: | 106 B Studio Room, Classroom Building, OSU |
| & Nielsen Hall, Room 103, OU | |
| Title: | SUSY Seesaw and Neutralino Dark Matter |
| Speaker: | Dr. Flera Rizatdinova |
| Department of Physics | |
| Oklahoma State University | |
| Date: | Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
| Time: | 3:30 PM |
| Place: | PS 355 |
| Title: | Status of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider |
ATLAS detector is one of four detectors at the Large Hadron Collider, which started to operate in late November 2009. It is huge experimental setup consisting of several complex subsystems. Now, with the first collider data we started to look at the performance of the detector. I will give an overview of both LHC and ATLAS performances in the first part of my talk. The second part will be devoted to the research of our group that we are planning to do with early data.
Note: The traditional student-speaker chat will begin in Physical Sciences Room 147 at 3.00 PM. All students are welcome! Refreshments will be served.
Cancelled because of winter storm.
| Speaker: | Dr. Yuri Gershtein |
| Department of Physics and Astronomy | |
| Rutgers University | |
| Date: | Thursday, February 4, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:30 PM |
| Place: | 106 B Studio Room, Classroom Building, OSU |
| & Nielsen Hall, Room 103, OU | |
| Title: | Searches for Hidden Valleys |
| Speaker: | Dr. Daqing Piao |
| School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
| Oklahoma State University | |
| Date: | Thursday, February 4, 2010 |
| Time: | 3:30 PM |
| Place: | PS 355 |
| Title: | Probing the Prostate with Diffusive Photons: |
| Principles, Practices, and Diagnostic Prospects |
One in six men in US will face the risk of prostate cancer in their life-time. When screening tests raise the suspicion of prostate cancer, the diagnosis is usually made by trans-rectal ultrasound guided “systematic” biopsy of the prostate gland involving typically 12∼16 needle cores. Sampling the prostate gland at these many cores is largely due to the inadequacy of trans-rectal ultrasound in detecting prostate cancer. The imaging-guidance for accurate focal-biopsy of the prostate cancer remains a challenge.
This presentation introduces a novel approach of prostatic imaging that combines near-infrared light imaging with trans-rectal ultrasound. The approach of trans-rectal diffuse optical tomography acquires a new dimension of tissue information, which when combined with trans-rectal ultrasonography could noticeably improve the specificity and sensitivity of prostate cancer detection.
The presentation discusses the following aspects of this novel approach: (1) the imaging principles and system implementation of trans-rectal diffuse optical tomography that has been integrated with trans-rectal ultrasound, (2) a canine model of prostate cancer developed in OSU, and (3) the results of in vivo imaging on this animal model.
Dr. Piao is the assistant professor of Bioengineering in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University. He received BS (Physics) in 1990 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, MS (Biomedical Engineering) in 2001 and PhD (Biomedical Engineering) in 2003 from University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. After 2 years of post-doctoral training in UCONN and Dartmouth College, he joined Oklahoma State University in 2005 as the first Bioengineering faculty member recruited by OSU College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology (CEAT) under the college-wide multidisciplinary bioengineering initiative on its Stillwater and Tulsa campuses. He was awarded a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from DOD Breast Cancer Research Program, and is the recipient of a New Investigator Award from DOD Prostate Cancer Research Program.
Note: The traditional student-speaker chat will begin in Physical Sciences Room 147 at 3.00 PM. All students are welcome! Refreshments will be served.
| Speaker: | Dr. Satya Nandi |
| Department of Physics | |
| Oklahoma State University | |
| Date: | Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:30 PM |
| Place: | 106 B Studio Room, Classroom Building, OSU |
| & Nielsen Hall, Room 103, OU | |
| Title: | SUSY Seesaw and Neutralino Dark Matter |
| Speaker: | Dr. Bharat Ratra |
| Department of Physics | |
| Kansas State University | |
| Date: | Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
| Time: | 3:30 PM |
| Place: | PS 355 |
| Title: | The “Standard” Model of Cosmology … and Open Questions |
Experiments and observations over the last decade have provided strong support for a “standard” model of cosmology that describes the evolution of the universe from an early epoch of inflation to the complex hierarchy of structure seen today. I review the basic physics, astronomy, and history of ideas on which this model is based. I describe the data which persuade cosmologists that (as yet undetected) dark energy and dark matter are by far the main components of the energy budget of the universe. I conclude with a list of open cosmological questions.
Note: The traditional student-speaker chat will begin in Physical Sciences Room 147 at 3.00 PM. All students are welcome! Refreshments will be served.
| Speaker: | Dr. LeAnne D. Duffy |
| Elementary Particles and Field Theory (T-8) | |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
| Date: | Thursday, February 18, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:30 PM |
| Place: | 106 B Studio Room, Classroom Building, OSU |
| & Nielsen Hall, Room 103, OU | |
| Title: | TBA |
| Speaker: | Dr. Sheena Murphy (to be confirmed) |
| Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy | |
| University of Oklahoma | |
| Date: | Thursday, February 18, 2010 |
| Time: | 3:30 PM |
| Place: | PS 355 |
| Title: | TBA |
TBA
Note: The traditional student-speaker chat will begin in Physical Sciences Room 147 at 3.00 PM. All students are welcome! Refreshments will be served.
| Speaker: | Dr. Pierre Ramond |
| Institute for Fundamental Theory | |
| Department of Physics | |
| University of Florida | |
| Date: | Thursday, March 11, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:30 PM |
| Place: | 106 B Studio Room, Classroom Building, OSU |
| & Nielsen Hall, Room 103, OU | |
| Title: | TBA |
| Speaker: | Dr. Pierre Ramond |
| Institute for Fundamental Theory | |
| Department of Physics | |
| University of Florida | |
| Date: | Thursday, March 11, 2010 |
| Time: | 3:30 PM |
| Place: | PS 355 |
| Title: | TBA |
TBA
Note: The traditional student-speaker chat will begin in Physical Sciences Room 147 at 3.00 PM. All students are welcome! Refreshments will be served.
Spring Break
| Speaker: | Dr. Saibal Mitra |
| Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Materials Science | |
| Missouri State University | |
| Date: | Thursday, March 25, 2010 |
| Time: | 3:30 PM |
| Place: | PS 355 |
| Title: | TBA |
| Speaker: | Dr. Feng Gai |
| Department of Chemistry | |
| University of Pennsylvania | |
| Date: | Thursday, April 1, 2010 |
| Time: | 3:30 PM |
| Place: | PS 355 |
| Title: | Ultrafast Protein Folding Dynamics |
Protein folding may be described as the motion of an ensemble of protein conformations on an energy landscape that is biased toward the native state. Thus, folding processes can take place over a broad range of timescales, depending on the shape and ruggedness of the energy landscape. In this talk, we will focus our discussion on the ultrafast aspect of the protein folding dynamics. Several examples will be presented to elucidate how studies on early folding events might provide useful insight into our understanding of the mechanism of protein folding.
Note: The traditional student-speaker chat will begin in Physical Sciences Room 147 at 3.00 PM. All students are welcome! Refreshments will be served.
| Speaker: | Dr. Sandip Pakvasa |
| High Energy Physics Group | |
| Department of Physics and Astronomy | |
| University of Hawaii | |
| Date: | Thursday, April 8, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:30 PM |
| Place: | 106 B Studio Room, Classroom Building, OSU |
| & Nielsen Hall, Room 103, OU | |
| Title: | TBA |
| Speaker: | Dr. Sandip Pakvasa |
| High Energy Physics Group | |
| Department of Physics and Astronomy | |
| University of Hawaii | |
| Date: | Thursday, April 8, 2010 |
| Time: | 3:30 PM |
| Place: | PS 355 |
| Title: | TBA |
TBA
Note: The traditional student-speaker chat will begin in Physical Sciences Room 147 at 3.00 PM. All students are welcome! Refreshments will be served.
| Speaker: | Dr. Stuart Raby |
| High Energy Theory Group | |
| Department of Physics | |
| Ohio State University | |
| Date: | Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:30 PM |
| Place: | 106 B Studio Room, Classroom Building, OSU |
| & Nielsen Hall, Room 103, OU | |
| Title: | TBA |
| Speaker: | Dr. Sally Dawson |
| High Energy Theory Group | |
| Department of Physics | |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | |
| Date: | Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:30 PM |
| Place: | 106 B Studio Room, Classroom Building, OSU |
| & Nielsen Hall, Room 103, OU | |
| Title: | TBA |
| Speaker: | Dr. Sally Dawson |
| High Energy Theory Group | |
| Department of Physics | |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | |
| Date: | Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
| Time: | 3:30 PM |
| Place: | PS 355 |
| Title: | TBA |
TBA
Note: The traditional student-speaker chat will begin in Physical Sciences Room 147 at 3.00 PM. All students are welcome! Refreshments will be served.
Prefinals Week
| Speaker: | Dr. Albert T. Rosenberger |
| Department of Physics | |
| Oklahoma State University | |
| Date: | Thursday, April 29, 2010 |
| Time: | 3:30 PM |
| Place: | PS 355 |
| Title: | TBA |
TBA
Note: The traditional student-speaker chat will begin in Physical Sciences Room 147 at 3.00 PM. All students are welcome! Refreshments will be served.
Finals Week
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This page was prepared by Helen Au-Yang and Jacques H.H. Perk.
jhhp@jperk.phy.okstate.edu