Colloquium schedule
The colloquium schedule for the Fall 2009 semester is as shown below. Additional titles and abstracts will be posted as they become available.
Time: 3:00 pm
Place: Barton Hall, Room BA 108
(coffee, tea, and sweets served at 2:45 pm)
| September 14, 2009 | Professor Roberto Ramos Department of Physics, Drexel University Superconducting-based Artificial atoms for Quantum Computing |
| September 21, 2009 | Professor Eric Mazur Department of Applied Physics, Harvard University Nonlinear Optics at the Nanoscale |
| September 28, 2009 | Graduate Student Progress Reports |
| October 5, 2009 | Graduate Student Progress Reports |
| October 12, 2009 | Graduate Student Progress Reports |
| October 19, 2009 | Professor Peter Weinberger Technical University Vienna, Austria Anisotropic electric properties – a new field in solid state physics |
| October 26, 2009 | Professor David Weiss Department of Physics, Penn State University How does a quantum mechanical system thermalize? |
| November 2, 2009 | Dr. Dmitri Vainchtein Mechanical Engineering Department, Temple University Resonance phenomena: a tool for mixing, a tool for control |
| November 16, 2009 | Professor Michele Parrinello Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Coloring the Noise |
| November 23, 2009 | Professor Charles Kane University of Pennsylvania Topological Insulators and Topological Band Theory |
| November 30, 2009 | Dr. B.-S Skagerstam
What is a Photon – A Mind-Boggling Concept? |
| December 7, 2009 | Dr. Jiping Huang
Department of Physics, Harvard University The “Invisible Hand” in Resource Allocation |