Spring 2004 Physics Colloquium Schedule

PAS 224, 3pm
Tea and cookies following the talk

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 23
 Allena Opper
Ohio University		 Charge Symmetry Breaking--from nuclei to quarks
Wed Jan 28
 Stergios Papadakis
Univ. of North Carolina		 Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube-based electromechanical oscillators
Mon Feb 2
 Alex Rimberg
Rice University		 Real-Time Electron Counting in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Wed Feb 3
PAS 218
Klaus Meerholz
University of Koln		 Polymeric Anodes with Adjustable Work Function for Use in Organic Semiconductor Devices
Wed Feb 4
 Matthew Hastings
Los Alamos National Lab		 Lieb-Schultz-Mattis in Higher Dimensions
Feb 6
 Herbert Fertig
University of Kentucky		 Bose Condensation in a Bilayer: Superfluidity in the Quantum Hall Effect
Mon Feb 9
 Michael Zudov
University of Utah		 Resistance Oscillations and "Zero-Resistance" States in Microwave-Pumped 2D Electron Systems
Wed Feb 11
 Cynthia Olson Reichhardt
Los Alamos		 Pattern formation in systems with competing interactions: Applications to materials science
Feb 13
 Charles Reichhardt
Los Alamos		 Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium States for Colloids Interacting with External Fields
Mon Feb 16
 Jay Gupta
IBM		 Studies of molecular motion using the scanning tunneling microscope
Feb 20
 Philippe Jacquod
University of Geneva		 What is Left of Mesoscopic Coherence in the Deep Semiclassical Limit?
Mon Feb 23
 Guillaume Gervais
Columbia/Princeton		 NMR in flatland, and with too few spins
Wed Feb 25
 Ray Simmonds
NIST		 An Improved Josephson Junction Based Quantum Bit
Feb 27
 Adam Durst
Yale University		 Radiation-Induced Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a 2D Electron Gas
Mon Mar 1
 Michel Kenzelmann
NIST		 Bound spinons in an antiferromagnetic S=1/2 chain with a staggered field
Wed Mar 3
 Caio Lewenkopf
University of Rio de Janeiro		 Quantum interference in transport through quantum dots
Mar 5
 Vadim Oganesyan
Princeton University		 Valence bonds, quantum dimers and the Devil's staircase
Mon Mar 8
 Chun Ning Lau
Hewlett-Packards Labs		 Nanoscale superconductivity and Electronics
Wed Mar 10
 Andrei Lebed
Boston College		 How to Observe 1D and 2D Physics in 3D Metals and Superconductors
Mar 12
 Igor Zutic
Naval Research Lab		 Spintronics: Fundamentals and Applications
Mar 19
 Spring Break No Colloquium
Mar 26
 Pierre Meystre
Univ. of Arizona		 Nonlinear Optics of Atoms and Molecules
Apr 2
 Toby Allen
 Cancelled
Apr 9
 Gerald Miller
Univ. of Washington		 Shapes of the Proton
Apr 16
 Roger Carlini
Jefferson Lab		 A Brief Overview of Jefferson Laboratory and Plans to Conduct a Precision Test of the Standard Model of Electroweak Interactions
Apr 23
 Geoffrey West
Los Alamos 		Scaling, Fractals, and the Renormalization Group from Quarks to Animals

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