Colloquium schedule
The colloquium schedule for the Spring 2007 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 106
(coffee, tea, and sweets served at 2:45 pm)
January 22, 2007 |
Professor Yi Ji Department of Physics, University of Delaware Spin Injection, Diffusion and Detection in Non-Local Spin Valves |
January 29, 2007 |
Professor Rongjia Tao Department of Physics, Temple University Reducing Viscosity of Liquid Suspensions by Pulsed Electricor Magnetic Fields |
February 5, 2007 |
Professor Jerry Gollub Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania Origins of Irreversibility: Chaotic Particle Interactions and Chaotic Mixing |
February 12, 2007 |
Professor Tom Lubensky Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania Liquid Crystals: what they are and why you should know about them |
February 19, 2007 |
Dr. Amanda J. Ross Universite Lyon, Villeurbanne, France Investigation of Ground Singlet and Triplet States of KLi: Perspectives for Cavity Enhanced Fluorescence Spectroscopy |
February 26, 2007 |
Professor Mahito Kohmoto COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo Quantum Hall Effect and the Topological Number in Graphene |
March 12, 2007 |
Professor Christos Likos Institute for Theoretical Physics II, University of Dusseldorf Charged soft matter in the bulk and under confinement |
| March 19, 2007 |
Professor Carlos Stroud Center for Quantum Optics, University of Rochester Quantum Weirdness: Technology of the Future? This is a special Public Lecture and will be held in Beury Hall, Room 160 at 7:00 pm. Click here for more information |
March 26, 2007 |
Professor Paul Chaikin Department of Physics, New York University Experiments with Colloids and Candies |
April 2, 2007 |
Dr. Charles Santori Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA Making Hardware for Quantum Computers: Optical and Microwave"Manipulation of Single Defects in Diamond" |
April 9, 2007 |
Professor Louis DiMauro Department of Physics, Ohio State University The Attosecond Era |
April 16, 2007 |
Dr. Theo Siegrist Bell Laboratories Growth and Characterization of Single Crystals of Organic Semiconductors |
April 23, 2007 |
Dr. David Villeneuve National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa ON Canada Can a Molecular Orbital Wave Function Be Imaged Using a Femtosecond Laser? |
April 30, 2007 |
Dr. Jacques Soffer Centre de Physique Theorique, CNRS Luminy Case 907 Nucleon Spin Structure and QCD Spin Physics |