URI Physics Colloquium Fall 2015/Spring 2016 Colloquium Schedule Fridays at 4 PM, East Hall, Room 112 Date Speaker Title (click on the link for abstract) Host 09/11/15 Dmitri Toptygin,Ph.D Effect of Diffusion on Resonance Energy Transfer Rate Distributions: Implications for Distance Measurements Oleg Andreev 09/18/15 Wei Chen, Ph.D Nanoparticle Based Photodynamic Therapy and Photothermal Therapy For Cancer Treatment Oleg Andreev 09/25/15 10/02/15 Wolfgang Peti, Ph. D Turning Intrinsically Disordered Proteins into Drug Targets – How is that Possible? Oleg Andreev 10/09/15 10/16/15 10/23/15 10/30/15 11/06/15 11/13/15 Douglas Gobeille, Ph.D 2015 Nobel prize in physics. Neutrino Oscillations: A Hint of Hot Dark Matter Oleg Andreev 11/20/15 12/04/15 Peter Cornillon,Ph.D Physical Oceanography – Perspective, Fundamentals & Cool Stuff Oleg Andreev 02/19/16 Walter Besio. Ph.D Concentric Electrodes: From Research to Commercial Availability Oleg Andreev 03/11/16 Christina M. Othon .Ph.D Collective Dynamics and Hydration in Biological Self-Assembly Oleg Andreev 03/18/16 Theyencheri Narayanan.Ph.D Structure and dynamics of soft matter probed by synchrotron radiation Yana Reshetnyak 04/01/16 James Hainfeld. Ph.D Gold and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Imaging and Cancer Therapy Michael Antosh 04/08/16 F. William Hersman. Ph.D Hyperpolarized xenon MRI of lungs Michael Antosh 04/15/16 Albert Steyerl. D.Sc Stories about Ultracold Neutrons Oleg Andreev