Graduate Colloquium Description:

The Colloquium will be held most Wednesdays during the spring semester. The schedule below will note the exceptions. It will start at approximately 12:30 in Grigg Hall Room 132 and last for about an hour. Two graduate students will split the hour and give a seminar on their research. Bring your lunch!

Graduate Colloquium Spring 2008 Schedule

Graduate Colloquium Instructor Contact Information:

Angela D. Davies, Ph.D.
Center for Precision Metrology
Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications
Department of Physics and Optical Science
208 Grigg Hall
UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC  28223-0001
PH:  704-687-8135
FX:  704-687-3106

Student Goals and Benefits:

• The colloquium will give students a friendly forum in which they can present their work
• Students will receive valuable practice in giving presentations
• Students will practice asking questions
• Students will practice answering questions
• Students will receive feedback from their peers
• Students will receive feedback from faculty

Faculty Goals and Benefits:

• Faculty attendance at the colloquia will enhance the experience for our students
• Faculty are encouraged to attend when their student is presenting
• Faculty are encouraged to attend when a student on whose committee they serve is speaking
• Faculty are encouraged to announce the colloquium to their research group and to ask all group members to attend
• Faculty participation will ensure continuation of the colloquia series for the Fall 2007 Semester