Texas A&M University
COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE Spring 2006
All talks 4:00 PM in room 202 Engineering Physics Building unless othewise noted
(ENPH Building is also called the Cain Building--see MAP.)
| Department of Physics Texas A&M University COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE Spring 2006 All talks 4:00 PM in room 202 Engineering Physics Building unless othewise noted (ENPH Building is also called the Cain Building--see MAP.) |
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| DATE |
NAME |
TITLE |
HOST |
| Thurs. Jan 19 | Prof. Boris Altshuler, Princeton University | Mesoscopic physics: from Brownian motion to quantum devices | Pokrovsky |
| Fri. Jan 20 | Prof. Boris Altshuler, Princeton University | Metal-insulator transition in a weakly interacting many-electron system with localized single-particle states | Pokrovsky |
| Thurs. Jan 26 | Dr. Anatoly Svidzinsky, Texas A&M University | Bose-Einstein condensation: fundamental concepts and fluctuations | Scully | Fri. Jan 27, 2 PM room 256 CHEN | Prof. Vladislav V. Yakovlev, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | Towards in vivo optical imaging and manipulation of biological nanostructures | Sokolov |
| Thurs. Feb 2 | Prof. Georg Bollen, NSCL, Michigan State University | First High-Precision Mass Measurements with Thermalized Beams from Projectile Fragmentation | Schuessler |
| Thurs. Feb 9 | Prof. Boris Altshuler, Princeton University | Zero dimensional Fermi-liquid and classical integrability of quantum condensates | Pokrovsky |
| Thurs. Feb 16 | Prof. Mark Raizen, University of Texas | Experiments with a "Particle in a Box": Bose Einstein condensates, and Maxwell's Demon | Kocharovskaya |
| Thurs. Feb 23 | Prof. Moses Chan, Penn State University | Superfluidity in solid helium and solid hydrogen | Saslow |
| Mon. Feb 27, 11 AM room 301 ENPH | Prof. Freeman J. Dyson, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton | Project Orion | Hu |
| Tues. Feb 28 | Dr. William D. Phillips, National Institute of Standard and Technology | A Bose Condensate in an Optical Lattice: cold atomic gases meet solid state physics | Hu |
| Thurs. Mar 2 | Prof. Ennio Arimondo, University of Pisa | Quantum Optics with Bose-Einstein Condensates | Kocharovskaya |
| Thurs. Mar 9 | Dr. Michael Ramsey-Musolf, California Institute of Technology | Sub-Z Supersymmetry: Precision Electroweak Physics Below the Z-Pole | Hardy |
| Thurs. Mar 16 | (no colloquium) | (spring break holiday) | --- |
| Mon. Mar 20 | Prof. Rainer Fries, University of Minnesota | Ultrahot Matter at The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider | Rapp |
| Fri. Mar 24 | Dr. Justin Albert, Caltech | CP Asymmetry in Nature: Past, Present, and Future Investigation | Toback |
| Mon. Mar 27 | Dr. Carter Hall, Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory | Neutrinoless double beta decay: a window on the origin of neutrino mass | Toback |
| Weds. Mar 29 | Dr. Jason Jones, JILA | Femtosecond frequency combs: from precision spectroscopy to extreme nonlinear optics | Schuessler |
| Thurs. Mar 30 | Prof. John Hardy, Texas A&M University | Superallowed Nuclear Beta Decay: a Window on the Weak Interaction (Bonner Prize Talk) | Hu |
| Fri. Mar 31, 2 PM | Dr. Richard Schnee, Case Western Reserve University | What's the Matter in the Universe? Looking for WIMPs with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search | Toback |
| Mon. Apr 3, 2 PM Room 501 | Dr. Irina Novikova, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Manipulation of light with atomic ensembles (and vice versa) | Schuessler |
| Mon. Apr 3 | Dr. Derek Teaney, SUNY Stony Brook | The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma and RHIC | Rapp |
| Tues. Apr 4, 11 AM Room 501 | Dr. Alexandre Kolomenski, TAMU | Ultrafast laser light from IR to XUV for spectroscopy and coherent control | Schuessler |
| Tues. Apr 4 | Dr. Kim Michelle Lewis, Louisiana State University | Development of Single Electron Devices and Hybrid Nanostructures | Hu |
| Weds. Apr 5, 2 PM Room 501 | Dr. Pengqian Wang, Kansas State University | Molecular dynamics in intense femtosecond laser fields | Schuessler |
| Weds. Apr 5 | Dr. Igor Roshchin, University of California San Diego | Proximity Effects and Magnetism at Nanoscale | Naugle |
| Thurs. Apr 6, 10 AM Room 501 | Dr. Aleksander Rebane, Montana State University | Tetrapyrroles: from quantum interference to cancer therapy | Schuessler |
| Thurs. Apr 6 | Prof. Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University | Spin control in semiconductor quantum devices | Sinova |
| Fri. Apr 7, 11 AM Room 501 | Dr. Denis Yavuz, University of Wisconsin | Quantum Computing with Trapped Neutral Atoms | Schuessler |
| Fri. Apr 7, 2 PM | Dr. Jamal Jalilian-Marian, University of Washington | Forward Physics at RHIC and LHC | Rapp |
| Mon. Apr 10 | Dr. Alexandre Kolomenski, TAMU | Laser excitation and detection of phonons and plasmons at the nanoscale | Naugle |
| Weds. Apr 12 | Dr. Robert Riehn, Princeton University | A nanofluidic toolbox for DNA analysis | Ross |
| Thurs. Apr 13 | Dr. Robert Kaindl, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Ultrafast Terahertz Probes of Excitons and Cooper Pairs | Sokolov |
| Sat. Apr 15, 3 PM, Rudder Theater | Prof. Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University | The Physics of Star Trek (Public Lecture associated with Physics Festival 2006) | Allen |
| Mon. Apr 17 | Dr. Hanguo Wang, UCLA | WIMP dark matter search with the ZEPLIN II large liquid xenon discriminating detector | Toback |
| Tue. Apr 18, 2 PM Room 301 ENPH | Dr. Anna Stasto, Brookhaven National Laboratory | Ultrahigh energy neutrino physics | Rapp |
| Tues. Apr 18 | Dr. Madalina Furis, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Probing Bright Excitons and Anisotropy Exchange in CdSe Colloidal Nanocrystal Quantum Dots | Sinova |
| Thurs. Apr 20 | Prof. Norman Hackerman, UT-Austin and Welch Foundation; Past President, Rice University | Science and Its Pursuit | Scully |
| Fri. Apr 21, 2 PM Room 501 ENPH | Dr. Steve Pierson, Head of Government Relations, American Physical Society | Federal Funding, Physical Sciences Research, China, and the U.S. Congress | McIntyre |
| Fri. Apr 21, 4 PM | Dr. Ofer Naaman, NIST Boulder | A real-time look at individual tunneling events in single-Cooper-pair transistors | Naugle |
| Mon. Apr 24 | Dr. Leon Mualem, University of Minnesota | Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations: First results from MINOS | Toback |
| Tue. Apr 25 | Dr. Weng W. Chow, Sandia National Laboratory | Microscopic theory of optical response: from thermal emission of photonic crystals to many-body effects in semiconductor lasers | Welch |
| Thurs. Apr 27 | Prof. Philip Phillips, University of Illinois | Much Ado about Zeros: Mottness in the Cuprates | Sinova |
| Fri. Apr 28 | Dr. Lifan Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | The Supernovae Illuminated Universe | Hu |