COSAM Interdisciplinary Colloquium

2018 - 2019

Fall Semester

- September 4th 2018

• Shahriar Khan (Chemistry) - Superatomic nature of Sc(NH₃)_6^0,+: one and two electrons bound to the periphery of Sc(NH₃)₆²⁺ core
• Omar Lopez Ortiz (Physics) - A glimpse into fusion energy and magnetic confinement
• Nick Soltis (Geosciences) - Digging into Discipline Based Education Research (DBER): Applications of Geoscience Education Research

- October 2nd 2018

• Robel Ghebreab (Chemistry) - Making Active recombinant Methyl-coenzyme M Reductase (MCR) in M. maripaludis
• Malorie Hayes (Biology) - Discovering Diversity in the Southeastern United States
• Ahmed Nemer (Physics) - The first evidence of enhanced recombination in planetary nebulae and the implications on photo-ionized plasmas and spectroscopy

- November 13th 2018

• Ismail Abdulrashid (Math) - Dynamical analysis of a chemotherapy model with time-delays
• Nick Parr (Biology) - Shady Critters: One reef organism's dependence on its neighbors
• Basiru Usman (Math) - Long term behavior of a random hopfield neural lattice model

Spring Semester

- February 5th 2019

• Andrew Owens (Math) - Edge Colorings Avoiding Rainbow Cycles
• Isuru Aryarathna (Chemistry) - Aufbau Rules for Solvated Electron Precursors
• Joseph Cortez (Math) - The Intersection Problem for Maximum Packings of K_n with 4-cycles

- March 5th 2019

• Curtis Johnson (Physics) - Spectroscopic Investigation of Tungsten Erosion in Fusion Plasmas
• Gavin Shotts (Biology) - Alabama's Pollination Problems: When Rare Plants Can't Date and Mate
• Al Emran (Geosciences) - Near and Thermal Infrared (NIR-TIR) Spectral Investigations of Siloe Patera, Mars

- April 2nd 2019

• Waliul Khan (Chemistry) - Surface Plasmon Resonance in Electrochemistry
• Richard Strom (Physics) - Momentum Imaging Techniques for Dissociative Electron Attachment and Photoionization of Polyatomic Molecules