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Fall 2008

Date

Speaker

Host
August 29 Adam Wasserman
Purdue
Time-dependent density functional theory: Rydberg excitations, electron-atom scattering, and interaction-induced chaos
September 05 Nandini Trivedi
Ohio State
Probing the quantum critical point for cold atoms in optical lattices
 Erica Carlson
September 12
September 19 A. Sushkov
Univ. Maryland
Electromagnons in multiferroics
 JP Hu
September 26 Vittorio Pellegrini
NEST-Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy) and Columbia University, New York (USA)
Spectroscopic signatures of excitonic and metallic quantum phases in Quantum Hall Bilayers
 Gabriele Giuliani
October 03 Gil Refael
Caltech
Superfluid-insulator transition in strongly disordered Boson chain: new
 JP Hu
October 10 Gang Cao
Univ. Kentucky
Ca3Ru2O7: A new paradigm for spintronics
 JP Hu
October 17
October 24 Xianfan Xu
Purdue
Ultrafast Excitation and Detection of Coherent Phonons in Energy Conversion Materials
 Yong Chen
October 31 Igor Mazin
Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Lab
Superconductivity and magnetism in ferropnictides
 JP Hu
November 07 Wensheng Vincent Liu
University of Pittsburgh
Crystalline superfluidity of ultracold Bose and Fermi gases
 JP Hu
November 14 Anders Sandvik
Boston University
Valence-bond solid states in two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets
 Daoxin Yao and Erica Carlson
November 21 Jerry Woodall
Purdue ECE
A High Energy Density Material for Safe Energy Storage, Transport and Splitting Water to Make Hydrogen on Demand
December 05 Andrew Sachrajda
NRC Canada
Coherent Transport Through Three Few Electron Quantum Dots
 Leonid Rokhinson

Spring 2009

Date

Speaker

Host
January 16 Jean-Paul Allain
Schools of Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Purdue
Simulated Experiments of Particle and Plasma-Surface Interactions at the Nanoscale
 Yong Chen
January 30 Luming Duan
U. Michigan
Quantum simulation of many-body physics with ultracold atoms
 Yong Chen
February 13 Jeremy Levy
University of Pittsburgh
Oxide Nanoelectronics On Demand
 Yong Chen
February 27 Alexander Balaeff
Duke University
Charge Transfer in Nucleic Acids: Structural Fluctuations and Sequence Effects
 Lyanda-Geller
March 13 dr. Giuseppe Santoro
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) and CNR-INFM Democritos National Simulation Center and International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
Computation and Optimization using Quantum Mechanics: Recent
 Giuliani
March 27 Kirill Shtengel
UC Riverside
Non-Abelian anyons: New particles for less than a billion
 Rokhinson
April 03 Hyunjung Kim
Department of Physics & nterdisciplinary Program of Integrated Biotechnology, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
Advanced X-ray Scattering Techniques for Nanostructures and Surface Dynamics
 Anant Ramdas
April 10 Brian deMarco
UIUC
Experiments on Dirty Bosons
 Yong Chen
April 17 Dean Chapman
Distinguished Alumnus Seminar - University of Saskatchewan, Team Leader, Biomedical Imaging and Therapy Beamlines Project, Canadian Light Source
Developing New Sources of X-ray Imaging Contrast and Imaging Systems with Biomedical Applications at a Synchrotron
 Roberto Colella
April 24 Zahid Hassan
Princeton University
Observation of a New Class of Topological Phases of Matter
 Yong Chen
May 01 Joerg Appenzeller
EE/Birck Purdue
Graphene Field Effect Transistors
 Yong Chen