Texas A&M University
COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE Fall 2004
All talks 4:00 PM in room 202 ENPH unless othewise noted
| Physics Department Texas A&M University COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE Fall 2004 All talks 4:00 PM in room 202 ENPH unless othewise noted |
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| DATE |
NAME |
TITLE |
HOST |
| Thurs. Sept 9 | Sam Bader, Leader, Magnetic Films Group, Argonne National Laboratory | Opportunities in Nanomagnetism | Pokrovsky |
| Weds. Sept 22 | Emmanuel Rashba, MIT | Spintronics: Concepts, Goals, Realities | Sinova |
| Thurs. Sept 23 | Vitaly Kocharovsky, TAMU | New Type of Semiconductor Lasers (Nonlinear Mixing Lasers) and Review of Other Recent Results (on ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, γ-ray bursts, gravity-matter creation, nonequilibrium BEC, Unruh radiation in cavity QED) (and see abstract) | Hu |
| Weds. Sept 29 | Rudi Podgornik, NIH / University of Ljubljana | The Physics of DNA | Saslow |
| Thurs. Sept 30 | --- | No colloquium; College of Science faculty meeting | --- |
| Thurs. Oct 7 | Eric Linder, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Exploring the History and Fate of the Universe (601 Rudder Tower) | Kattawar |
| Thurs. Oct 14 | David Toback, TAMU | Searching for New Particles at the Fermilab Tevatron | Hu |
| Thurs. Oct 21 | Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory | Cosmology with Thermonuclear Supernovae | Kattawar |
| Mon. Oct. 25 | Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke University | Search for the Doubly-Charged Higgs Boson at Fermilab | Toback |
| Thurs. Oct 28 | Jonathan Dowling, LSU | Schrödinger's Rainbow: The Renaissance in Quantum Optical Interferometry | Zubairy |
| Fri. Oct 29 | Peter Wittich, University of Pennsylvania | Measuring top quark properties as a window into particle physics | Toback |
| Mon. Nov 1 | Andrei Mikhailov, California Institute of Technology | Classical strings in AdS/CFT correspondence | Sezgin |
| Wed. Nov 3 | Donna Sheng, Cal. State University | The transport properties and quantum phase transitions in bilayer quantum Hall system | Sinova |
| Thurs. Nov 4 | Anatoly V. Andreev, Moscow State University | Nuclear Processes in Laser Plasma | Kocharovskaya |
| Fri. Nov 5 | Flera Rizatdinova, Kansas State University | High energy physics from bottom to top | Toback |
| Mon. Nov 8 | Hanguo Wang, UCLA | ZEPLIN - A direct WIMP Dark Matter Search Program | Toback |
| Thurs. Nov 11 | Sergio Ulloa, Ohio Univeristy | Polarons in solids and molecules: delocalization, stretching and twisting | Sinova |
| Fri. Nov 12 | Eric Hawker, Western Illinois University | GeV Scale Neutrino Physics | Toback |
| Mon. Nov 15 | Melanie Becker, University of Maryland | Flux Compactifications of M-Theory, Cosmology and the Standard Model of Elementary Particles | Sezgin |
| Wed. Nov 17 | Carsten Timm, Free Univ. Berlin | Transport in magnetic systems | Sinova |
| Thurs. Nov 18 |
--- | No colloquium - Bonfire Memorial dedication | --- |
| Fri. Nov 19 12:30 PM 501 ENPH | Morgan Wascko, Louisiana State University | MiniBooNE and the Physics of Neutrino Oscillations | Toback |
| Mon. Nov 22 | Jeff Berryhill, Univ. of California - Santa Barbara | The Physics of Flavor: Half a Billion b Quarks at BaBar | Toback |
| Tues. Nov 23 | Sergey Frolov | Multi-Spin Strings, Spin Chains and AdS/CFT duality | Sezgin |
| Thurs. Nov 25 | --- |
(Thanksgiving holiday) | --- |
| Tues. Nov 30 | Zohar Nussinov, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Glassy Behavior in Geometrically Frustrated Systems | Sinova |
| Thurs. Dec 2 | |||
| Mon. Dec 6 | Leon Mualem, University of Minnesota | Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations | Webb |
| Tues. Dec 7 | Iddo Ussishkin, University of Minnesota | The Nernst Effect in High Temperature Superconductors | Sinova |
| Thurs. Dec 9 | Artem Abanov, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Quantum Criticality. The Fate of Adiabaticity | Sinova |
| Mon. Dec 13 | Katrin Becker, University of Utah | Traveling through the M-theory landscape | Sezgin |
| Thurs. Dec 16 |
Thomas Udem, MPI for Quantum Optics, Garching | (Canceled - look for rescheduled visit in spring 2005) | Schuessler |