Texas A&M University
COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE Spring 2004
| Physics Department Texas A&M University COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE Spring 2004 |
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| DATE |
NAME |
TITLE |
HOST |
| Thurs. Jan 22 |
David Hyland, TAMU Vice Chancellor and Associate Dean, College of Engineering |
"Entry Pupil Processing: Ramifications for Imaging System Architecture." |
Fry |
| Thurs. Jan 29 |
Claire Gmachl, Princeton University |
Quantum Cascade Lasers |
Belyanin |
| Thurs. Feb 5 |
Susan S. Golden, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, TAMU |
"How does Nature design a clock?" |
Pokrovsky |
| Thurs. Feb 12 |
Savely G Karshenboim, Mendeleev Inst., St. Petersburg/Max Planck Inst. Q. Optics, Garching |
Precision physics in simple atoms: QED and fundamental constants |
Schuessler |
| Thurs. Feb. 19 |
Eiichiro Komatsu, Dept. Astronomy, U. Texas, Austin |
The Physics of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation |
Chin |
| Thurs. Feb. 26 |
Igor Lyuksyutov |
Levitating Femtodroplets, Nanoparticles and Gold |
D. Naugle |
| Thurs. Mar 4 |
Alex Rimberg, Rice University |
Real-Time Electron Counting in Semiconductor Nanostructures |
Sinova |
| Thurs. Mar 11 |
Alexei Kitaev, Caltech |
Topological Quantum Computation |
Pokrovsky |
| Tues. Mar 16 |
Thomas Udem, Max Planck Inst. Q. Optics, Garching |
Femtosecond Metrology |
Schuessler |
| Thurs. Mar 18 |
(spring break campus holiday) |
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| Thurs. Mar 25 |
Berndt Mueller, Duke University |
Messages from a different world: Probing quark deconfinement with RHIC |
Rapp |
| Weds. Mar 31 |
Michael Zudov, University of Utah |
Resistance Oscillations and "Zero-Resistance" States in Microwave-Pumped 2D Electron Systems |
Sinova |
| Thurs. Apr 1 |
Vladislav Yakovlev, U. Wisconson-Milwaukee |
Nonlinear optical interactions on a nanoscale |
Sokolov |
| Thurs. Apr 8 |
Wolfgang Schleich, Abteilung fur Quantenphysik, Univ. Ulm |
Wave packet dynamics, quantum carpets, and factorization of numbers |
Fry |
| Thurs. Apr 15 |
Wenhao Wu, University of Rochester |
The Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Two-Dimensions |
Naugle |
| Mon. Apr 19 |
Radu Silviu Roiban, University of California at Santa Barbara |
String Theory and Strong Interactions |
Sezgin |
| Thurs. Apr 22 |
Roberto Ramos, University of Maryland |
Spectroscopic Evidence for Macroscopic Entangled States
in Two Coupled Josephson Junction Qubits |
Teizer |
| Thurs. Apr 29 |
Steve Girvin, Yale University |
Quantum Bits and Cavity QED with Electrical Circuits |
Sinova |
| Thurs. May 6 |
Robert I. Shekhter, Univ. Goeteborg, Sweden |
Canceled |
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| Weds. May 26 |
Paul Chu, President, Hong Kong Univ. Science and Technology |
A Complex Field-Induced Re-Entrant Novel Phase Diagram
and a Ferroelectric-Magnetic Order Coupling in HoMnO3 |
Naugle |