| Spring 2008 Semester
The colloquium schedule for the Spring 2008 semester is as shown below. Additional titles and abstracts will be posted as they become available.
| January 28, 2008 - | Professor Katherine Freese Department of Physics, University of Michigan Cosmology in this Millenium | | February 4, 2008 - | Dr. Theo Siegrist Alcatel/LucentBell Laboratories Combining Magnets and Dielectrics: New Phases in the Ba-Fe-Ti-0 System | | February 11, 2008 - | Professor Peter Riseborough Department of Physics, Temple University The Anomalous Hall Effect in Heavy Fermion Semiconductors | | February 18, 2008 - | Professor Jerrold Franklin Department of Physics, Temple University Who is Trouton Noble | | February 25, 2008 - | Professor X.-C. Zhang Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Recent progress of terahertz science and technology | | March 3, 2008 - | Professor Xiao Xing Xi Department of Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineeringand Materials Research Institute,Pennsylvania State University Ferroelectricity at the Nanoscale | | March 24, 2008 - | Professor Mark Jarrell Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati Massively Parallel Simulations of the Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors | | March 31, 2008 - | Professor Chandra M. Varma Department of Physics, University of California Riverside How do electrons attract each other | | April 7, 2008 - | Professor Nora Berrah Department of Physics, Western Michigan University Probing Complexity from Within | | April 9, 2008 - | Professor Yuri V. Rostovtsev Department of Physics and Institute for QuantumStudies, Texas A&M University Nonlinear and Quantum Optics Controlled by Slow Light | | April 14, 2008 - | Professor Qi Li Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University Unusual effects from competing orders:Anomalous magnetoresistance in strained manganite ultrathin films and nanostructures | | April 21, 2008 - | Professor Alan E. Craig Department of Physics, Montana State University Nano-Plasmonics - Optics Below the Wavelength Limit | | April 28, 2008 - | Dr. Girsh Blumberg Alcatel-Lucent Collective phenomena in correlated electron systems: high temperature superconductivity and high temperature density waves |
Time: 3:00 pm Place: Barton Hall, Room BA 106
(coffee, tea, and sweets served at 2:45 pm) |