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Spring 2011

Date

Speaker

Host

January 14 Nadya Mason
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Transport through Andreev bound states in a graphene quantum dot
Gabor Csathy
January 21 Robin Cote
University of Connecticut
Controllable binding of polar molecules and meta-stable of 1-D dipolar gases with attractive dipole forces
Yong Chen
January 28 Peter Love
Department of Physics Haverford College
Convex Roof Optimization from Cartan Decompositions
Sabre Kais
February 04 Raffi Budakian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Evidence for Half-Integer Fluxoid States in Mesoscopic Rings of Sr2RuO4
Gabor Csathy
February 11 Lloyd Engel
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University
Microwave and rf spectroscopy of two-dimensional electron solids
Gabor Csathy
February 18 Joseph Lyding
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Influence of edge structure, substrate structure and grain boundaries on the electronic properties of graphene quantum dots and transferred graphene
Yong Chen
February 25 Zhe-Yu Jeff Ou
IUPUI Indianapolis
Changing the color of photons, one by one
Yong Chen
March 04 Maxim Tsoi
The University of Texas at Austin
Spin Transfer Torque (STT) in Magnetic Nanostructures
Leonid Rokhinson
March 11 TBD
March 25 Nan-Lin Wang
Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences
Optical spectroscopy study on Fe-pnictides/chalcogenides
Jiangping Hu
April 01 Herbert A. Fertig
Indiana University, Bloomington
Learning about Relativistic Quantum Mechanics from Graphene
Gabor Csathy
April 08 Lichang Wang
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Chemistry of Transition Metal Alloy Nanoparticles
Oana Malis
April 15 Alexey Belyanin
Texas A&M University
Nonlinear optical interactions in quantum cascade lasers: intracavity frequency conversion, phase synchronization, and mode locking
Oana Malis
April 22 Douglas Natelson
Rice University
Nanoscale junctions: Optical effects, heating, and taking temperature on the nanometer scale
Michael Manfra
April 29 Jason Alicea
University of California Irvine
A recipe for turning graphene into a robust topological insulator using adatoms
Yong Chen