Texas A&M University
COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE Spring 2007
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Department of Physics Texas A&M University COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE Spring 2007 |
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| DATE |
NAME |
TITLE |
HOST |
| Weds. Jan 10 | Brian R. D'Urso, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | High Aspect Ratio Microstructures and Nanostructures: Fabrication and Novel Properties | Ross |
| Thurs. Jan 11 | Andras Kis, University of California, Berkeley | Mechanical Manipulation of Nanotubes | Teizer |
| Mon. Jan 15 | Xuan Gao, Harvard University | The Sensitivity Limits of Nanowire Bio-Sensors | Wu |
| Tues. Jan 16, 1:30 PM room 501 ENPH | Anatoly Svidzinsky, TAMU | Interface between AMO, quantum optics and many body theory: Dimensional scaling analysis of molecules, BEC statistics and correlated spontaneous emission of N atoms | Welch |
| Tues. Jan 16 | Daniel Wasserman, Princeton University | Novel Sources for Mid-Infrared Emission | Welch |
| Thurs. Jan 18, 2 PM room 501 ENPH | Michael Spanner, University of Toronto | Entanglement- and timing-based mechanisms in the coherent control of reactive scattering | Welch |
| Fri. Jan 19, 9:30 AM room 501 ENPH | David Ward, Harvard University | Adventures in Light Scattering: THz Polaritonics, Negative Refractive Index Materials, and Single Nanoparticle Scattering | Welch |
| Mon. Jan 22, 2 PM room 501 ENPH | Hou-Tong Chen, Los Alamos National Lab | Terahertz for Materials & Metamaterials for Terahertz | Welch |
| Mon. Jan 22 | Dieter Bauer, Max Planck Inst. for Nuclear Physics | Intense laser-atom interaction: from the single active electron to laser-driven correlated electron dynamics | Welch |
| Weds. Jan 24 | Dr. Igor Roshchin, University of California - San Diego | Unusual Magnetic Properties of Nanostructures and Proximity Effect | Teizer |
| Thurs. Jan 25, 2 PM room 501 ENPH | Alexey Sergeev, Tulane University | Perturbation parameters, analytical continuation and singularity structure of the energy function: applications in atomic, molecular and nuclear physics | Welch |
| Thurs. Jan 25 | Dr. Paul Corkum, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, NRC Canada | Mapping Attosecond Science onto Electron Interferometry | Fry |
| Fri. Jan 26, 11 AM room 501 ENPH | Prof. Alexander Finkelstein, Weizmann Institute | Spintronics without magnets: spin-optics | Sinova |
| Thurs. Feb 1 | Prof. Vladislav Yakovlev, Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | Imaging, manipulating, simulating and controlling the motion of single molecules with light | Welch |
| Mon. Feb 5 | Dr. Alexandre Kolomenskii, TAMU | Coherent oscillations in nanostructures measured with ultrafast photonics | Naugle |
| Tues. Feb 6 | Dr. Yong P. Chen, Rice University | Quantum Coherence in Insulators | Agnolet |
| Mon. Feb 19 | Prof. Mike Douglas, Rutgers University | Are there testable predictions of string theory? | Lu |
| Tues. Feb 20 | Sean Liddick, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Probing the Limits of Nuclear Existence | Hardy |
| Thurs. Feb 22, 1:30 PM room 501 ENPH | Oren Cohen, University of Colorado | Attosecond Nonlinear Optics | Welch |
| Thurs. Feb 22 | Dr. Maria Elena Monzani, Columbia University | Direct Detection of Dark Matter with the XENON Experiment | Webb |
| Tues. Feb 27 | Andreas Schiller, Michigan State University | On the selective population and neutron decay of excited states in semi-magic 23O | Hardy |
| Thurs. Mar 1 | Prof. Andre Geim, University of Manchester | QED in a pencil trace | Pokrovsky |
| Tues. Mar 6 | Dan Melconian, University of Washington | Probing fundamental properties of the weak interaction: Some recent experimental progress | Hardy |
| Thurs. Mar 8 | Jeffrey Guest, Argonne National Laboratory | TBA | Welch |
| Mon. Mar 12 | Hannan Amro, University of Notre Dame | (7Be,3He) Reaction: A promising new tool for nuclear spectroscopy | Hardy |
| Mon. Mar 19 | Jason Clark, Yale University | Making mass measurements to model an assortment of astrophysical anomalies | Hardy |
| Thurs. Mar 22 | Dr. Mayly Sanchez, Harvard University | Measuring the Elusive: Neutrino Oscillations in MINOS and Beyond | Webb |
| Tues. Mar 27 | Dr. Patricia Vahle, University College London | Observation of Muon Neutrino Disappearance with the MINOS Detectors in the NuMI | Webb |
| Thurs. Mar 29 | Dr. Michael Kordosky, University College London | Understanding Nature's Shyest Particle | Webb |
| Thurs. Apr 5 | Dr. Heather Ray, Columbia University | The Future of Neutrino Physics in a Post-MiniBooNE Era | Webb |
| Thurs. Apr 12 | Prof. Jeffrey Olafsen, Baylor University | Tabletop Experiments in Non-equilibrium, Biological, and Chaotic Systems | Teizer |
| Thurs. Apr 19 | Prof. Eva M. Silverstein, Stanford University | Models of Inflation and Dark Energy in String Theory | K. Becker |
| Thurs. Apr 26 | Prof. Jaan Laane, Dept. of Chemistry, Texas A&M University | Spectroscopic Determination of Molecular Structures and Vibrational Potential Energy Surfaces in Ground and Excited Electronic States | Fry |
| Thurs. May 10, room 501 ENPH | Yuri Rostovtsev, Texas A&M University | Nonlinear Optics Controlled via Slow Light | Welch |
| Mon. May 14, room 501 ENPH | Carlos Lobo, University of Trento | Normal State of a Polarised Fermi Gas at Unitarity | Kocharovskaya |
| Thurs. May 17, room 501 ENPH | Ofir Alon, University of Heidelberg | Some Hot Affairs of Cold Atoms | Welch |
| Mon. May 21, 2 PM room 501 ENPH | Michael Wood-Vasey, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Supernovae, Large-Scale Surveys, and the Nature of Dark Energy | Allen |
| Mon. May 21, room 501 ENPH | Andreas Becker, Max Planck Inst. Phys. Complex Systems | Ultrafast few-body dynamics in intense laser pulses | Allen |
| Tues. May 22, room 301 ENPH | Lucas Macri, National Optical Astronomy Observatory | Constraining the Properties of Dark Energy with an Improved Cepheid Distance Scale | Suntzeff |
| Thurs. May 24, room 501 ENPH | Robert Smith, University of Pennsylvania | Probing Dark Energy Through Understanding Large Scale Structure Formation | Allen |
| Fri. May 25, room 501 ENPH | Darren Depoy, Ohio State University | Current and Future Surveys for type Ia Supernovae | Suntzeff |
| Weds. May 30, room 501 ENPH | Thushara Perera, University of Massachusetts | Discovering and Understanding the Earliest Galaxies: New Advances in a Young Field | Webb |
| Thurs. May 31, room 301C ENPH | Kim-Vy Tran, University of Zurich | Cosmic Collisions: Forming the Most Massive Galaxies in the Universe | Suntzeff |
| Weds. June 6, room 501 ENPH | Casey Papovich, University of Arizona | Studying Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution in the Era of the Great Observatories | Suntzeff |
| Weds. June 20, room 501 ENPH | Helmut Katzgraber, Swiss Federal Inst. Technology Zurich | Do Spin Glasses Order in a Field? | Sinova |
| postponed due to visa problems | Li-Xin Li, Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysics | TBA | Suntzeff |