Colloquium schedule
The colloquium schedule for the Spring 2008 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 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 |