College of Science

Condensed Matter and Biological Physics Seminars

Fall 2006

Date Speaker Host
August 25 Ajay Gupta

UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, India
"“Depth resolved structural studies in multilayer nanostructures using X-ray standing waves”"
Colella
September 01 Klaus Meerholz
Location: PHYS 242
University of Koln, Germany
**WILL BE HELD IN PHYS 242**
Nolte
08 Natalya Zimbovskaya
Location: PHYS 242
University of Puerto Rico-Humacao
""Local Geometry of Fermi Surface and High-Frequency Phenomena in Metals"
Pyrak-Nolte
15 Professor John Quinn
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"“Pseudopotentials, Correlations, and Hierarchy States in Quantum Hall Systems: When the Composite Fermion Picture Works and Why”"
A. K. Ramdas
22 Mark Eriksson
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
Department of Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"“Si/SiGe Quantum Electronics and Quantum Computing”"
Rokhinson
29 OPEN
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
October 06 OPEN
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
13 Philippe Debray
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
Department of Physics
University of Cincinnati
"“Coulomb Drag Between Luttinger Liquids”"
Rokhinson
20 Dr. Andrei Bernevig
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
Princeton University
"“Quantum Spin Hall Effect in HgTe”"
Hu
27 NO SEMINAR

Physics Outstanding Alumni Reception
Hirsch
November 03 J.P. Hu
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
Department of Physics
Purdue University
""Competing Orders in High Temperature Superconductors""
Pyrak-Nolte
10 Vladimir M. Shalaev
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Birck Nanotechnology Center
Purdue University
"Metamaterials: Returning 'Second Hand' to Light"
Nolte
17 OPEN
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
24 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
December 01 OPEN
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
08 OPEN - DEAD WEEK
Spring 2007

Date Speaker Host
January 12 Paul Selvin
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne
"Single Molecule Measurements of Molecular Motors,"
Pyrak-Nolte
19 Professor Minghao Qi
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
Purdue University
"Tunable Microcavities in 3D Photonic Crystals"
Nolte
26 Yuli Lyanda-Geller
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
Department of Physics
Purdue University
"Novel Effects Due to Spin-Charge Coupling"
Pyrak-Nolte
February 02 OPEN
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
09 Mark Friesen
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
University of Wisconsin
"Well-Defined Silicon Qubits: Valley Splitting vs. Rough Interfaces"
Giuliani
16 OPEN
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
23 Giovanni Vignale
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
Department of Physics
University of Missouri-Columbia
"Spin Hall Effect"
Giuliani
March 02 Marco Polini
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
NEST-CNR-INFM
Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy
"Luther-Emery Phase and Atomic-Density Waves in a Trapped Fermion Gas"
Giuliani
09 Bo Sun
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Theoretical Studies of atom-photon, photon-photon and atom-atom Entanglement"
Hu
16 SPRING BREAK
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
23 Kumar S. Raman
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
University of Illiniois Urbana-Champaign
"Microscopic Models of Exotic Phases"
Carlson
30 Professor Nigel Goldenfeld
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
Department of Physics
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Pattern Formation in Materials Physics and Geology: Computational Algorithms and Universality"
Pyrak-Nolte
April 06 Professor Zohar Nussinov
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
Washington University, St. Louis
"Generalized Symmetries, topological orders, and deconfinement on pyrochlore antiferromagnets"
Carlson
13 Professor Matthew Grayson
Location: 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 223
Northwestern University
"Transport Evidence of Lowest Landau Level Spin-Index-Anticrossing in (110) GaAs Two-Dimensional Holes"
Rokhinson
20 Professor Gerardo Ortiz
Location: 1:30PM in PHYS 242
Indiana University
**PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME AND LOCATION**
"Drawing Conclusions From Graphene"
Lyanda-Geller
27 Antonio Castro Neto
Location: PHYS 242 1:30p -2:30p (refreshments at 1PM, PHYS 242)
Boston University
""Drawing Conclusions from Graphene""
Carlson