| Saturday October 30, 2004 |
| 8:00 AM |
Registration: Corridor Physics Room 112/114 |
8:30-9:00
Room 112
Physics |
Welcoming remarks:
Jon Harbor, Associate Dean for Research, College of Science
Anant K. Ramdas, Conference Chairman |
9:00-10:00
Room 112
Physics |
Plenary Session:
James P. Wolfe, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Excitons and Phonons - a tale of three crystals"
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| 10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break Atrium MSEE |
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Session I A: Chairman
Sergio Rodriguez
Room 112, Physics |
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Session I B: Chairman
Jorge Rodríguez
Room 114, Physics |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Ercan Alp
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
"Applications of High Energy Resolution Inelastic X-Ray Scattering in Materials Science" |
10:30-11:00 |
Erica Carlson
Department of Physics, Purdue University
"Magnetic Excitations of Stripes" |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Ian Robinson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Structure of Nanocrystalline Materials through Coherent X-ray Diffraction" |
11:00-11:30 |
Ulrich Welp
Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
"Magnetic Domain Structure and Magnetic Anisotropy in Ga 1-xMn xA" |
| 11:30-12:00 PM |
David Reis
FOCUS Center and Department of Physics, University of Michigan
"X-ray Diffraction Studies of Ultrafast Laser-Matter Interactions" |
11:30-12:00 |
Karin Dahmen
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Barkhausen Noise, Subloops, Demagnetization Curves, and universal scaling tuning Disorder, Field Sweep Rate, and History" |
| 12:00-1:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 1:30-3:30 |
Poster Session I. Atrium MSEE - Coffee Break |
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Session II A:
Room 112, Physics |
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Session II B:
Room 114, Physics |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Supriyo Datta
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University
"Electrical Resistance: An Atomistic View" |
3:30-4:00 |
Leigh Smith
Department of Physics,
University of Cincinnati
"Controlling nanomagnets with light" |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Bruce Wessels
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University
"Ferromagnetic Semiconductors for Spintronics" |
4:00-4:30 |
Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho
Department of Physics,
Ohio State University
"Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases: Current Issues and Future Prospects" |
| 4:30-5:00 |
M. Dobrowolska
Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame
"Investigating magnetic anisotropy in
GaMnAs by magneto-optics" |
4:30-5:00 |
Anupam Garg
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
"Spin Orientation Tunneling in Magnetic Molecules" |
| 6:30 |
Banquet, Purdue Memorial Union, East, West Faculty Lounges |
| Sunday October 31, 2004 |
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Session III A: Chairman Room 112, Physics |
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Session III B: Chairman Room 114, Physics |
| 9:00-9:30 AM |
Brage Golding
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University
"Advances in the Growth of Diamond" |
9:00-9:30 AM |
Stephen Durbin
Department of Physics, Purdue University
"A New Window into Heme Protein Dynamics: Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy" |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Patricia Thiel
Ames Laboratory, and Departments of Chemistry and Materials & Science Engineering, Iowa State University
"Quasicrystals: Friction and Growth" |
9:30-10:00 |
Suchi Guha
Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Missouri-Columbia
"Photophysics of Light-Emitting Organic Semiconductors" |
| 10:00-10:30 |
R. Sooryakumar
Department of Physics,
The Ohio State University
"Engineering Acoustic Phonons |
10:00-10:30 |
Jorge Rodriguez
Department of Physics, Purdue University
"Computational Electronic Structure of Spin-Dependent Processes in Biomolecular Nanostructures" |
| 10:30-12:30 |
Poster Session II. Atrium MSEE - Coffee Break |
| 12:30-12:45 PM |
Closing Session Room 112, Physics |
