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Fall 2007

Date

Speaker

Host
August 13 Dr. Cungeng Yang
University of Utah - Physics Department
Spin Dynamics of Charged Excitations in Π-conjugated Polymers
 Yong Chen
August 14 Dr. Liyuan Zhang
Georgia Tech - School of Physics
Spin-dependent transport in Al grains and single Debye relaxation in BST nanoparticles
 Yong Chen
August 24 Dr. Daoxin Yao
Purdue University
Quasi-Two-Dimensional Spin Systems, Ring Exchange, and Deconfined Quantum Criticality
 Erica Carlson
September 14 Prof. Elbio Dagotto
University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Lab
New Trends in Correlated Electron Systems: the Bulk, the Multilayer, and the Nano
 J. P. Hu
September 21 Prof. Chen Yang
Purdue University
Semiconducting Nanowires for Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics
 Pyrak-Nolte
September 28 Prof. Steve Durbin
Purdue University
Natural focusing of x-rays from ferroelectric lithium niobate wafers
 Roberto Collela
October 05 Prof. N. Peter Armitage
John Hopkins University
A Cooper solid?: Electrodynamics of the 2D Superconductor-Insulator Quantum Phase Transition
 J. P. Hu
October 12 Prof. Nick Bonesteel
Florida State University
Quantum Computing with Braids
 Yong Chen
October 26 Viatcheslav V. Dobrovitski
Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University
Quantum Spin Dynamics and Decoherence in Nanosystems
 Yuli Lyanda-Geller
November 02 Dr. Hui Deng
Scalable quantum networks with atomic ensembles
J. P. Hu
November 09 Prof. Taekjip Ha
University of Illinois - Urbana Champagne
Playing extreme sports with single biological molecules.
 Ritchie
November 16 Dr. Zhigang Jiang
Columbia University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Landau Level Spectroscopy of Graphene
 Yong Chen
November 30 Prof. Anant K. Ramdas
Purdue University
Energy Gaps of Elemental Semiconductors Composed of \"Infinitely\" Massive Isotopes
 Pyrak-Nolte
December 07 Prof. Sudhakar Yarlagadda
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Charge density waves due to electron-phonon interaction in low-dimensional systems
 Giuliani

Spring 2008

Date

Speaker

Host
January 25 Rupert Lewis
University of Maryland
Quantum computing with phase qubits: the good, the bad and the ugly!
 Yong Chen
February 01 David Sears
Collaborating to Innovate: Testing a Method for Developing Adaptive Understanding of Statistics Concepts
 Haugan
February 08 Gene Dresselhaus
MIT
The Novel Nanostructures of Carbon
 AKR
February 15 J.C. Campuzano
UIC
The High Temperature Superconductors: BCS or Not BCS?
 Carlson
February 22 Edward Gerjuoy
University of Pittsburgh
Yong Chen
February 29 Nandini Trivedi
Ohio State University
Carlson
March 07 Professor David Sears
Special Physics Education Seminar: Collaborating to Innovate: Testing a Method for Developing Adaptive Understanding of Statistics Concepts
 Haugan
March 21 Mark Dykman
Michigan State University
Quantum activation, scaling, and quantum measurements
 Lyanda-Geller
March 28 Woowon Kang
The University of Chicago
Toward Topological Quantum Computation Using Non-Abelian Fractional Quantum Hall States
 Rokhinson
April 04 Peter Kiesel
PARC
Compact, microfluidic-based detection platform for on-the-flow analyte characterization
 Nolte
April 11 Dmitry Basov
UCSD
Infrared spectroscopy of correlated electron matter at the nano-scale
 Rohkinson
April 18 Peter Yu
UC-Berkeley
In Search of the Perfect Semiconductor Photon Detector
 Ramdas
May 02 Kun Yang
National High Magnetic Field Laborotry and Florida State University
Novel Quantum Criticality and Emergent Particles in Trapped Cold Atom
 Yong Chen