Seminars & Colloquia
fall 2007
| Date | Speaker | Title | Sem./Coll. |
| 09/10 & 09/13 |
Yue Yu Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chinese AS |
"Topological Phases of Matter: An Understanding from Exactly Soluble Model Point of View" | Seminar |
| 09/18 |
Yue Yu Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chinese AS |
"Superfluid-Mott insulator transition and number statistics of ultracold atoms on optical lattices" | Seminar |
| 09/19 |
Peter Levai KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian AS |
"Strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma state in relativistic heavy ion collisions" | Colloquium |
| 09/25 |
X.C. Xie Oklahoma State University |
"Spin transport and spin-related charge transport" | Seminar |
| 09/26 |
Patrick Lee MIT |
"Quantum spin liquid: from drought to deluge" | Colloquium |
| 10/03 |
Fotini Markopoulou Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
"Quantum gravity as a problem in condensed matter physics" | Colloquium |
| 10/10 |
Tom Peacock MIT |
"Internal waves: from the lab to the ocean" | Colloquium |
| 10/16 |
R.S. Markiewicz Northeastern University |
"Modelling the Waterfall Effect in the Cuprates" | Seminar |
| 10/17 |
Genady Shvets University of Texas - Austin |
"Sub-wavelength imaging in mid-infrared: from superlenses to transmission lines" | Colloquium |
| 10/24 |
Fivos Drymiotis Clemson University |
"New thermoelectric devices" | Colloquium |
| 10/29 |
Xi Dai Institute of Physics, Beijing |
"LDA+Gutzwiller Method for Correlated Electron Systems" | Seminar |
| 10/30 |
Adam Kaminski Iowa State University |
"Fascinating properties of cuprates" | Seminar |
| 10/31 |
Patrick Weidman University of Colorado at Boulder |
"The Eiffel Tower: a structure molded by wind" | Colloquium |
| 11/05 |
Hari Manoharan Stanford University |
"A Wrinkle in Space: Quantum Isospectral Nanostructures" | Seminar |
| 11/06 |
Nick Bonesteel Florida State University |
"Quantum Computing with Braids" | Seminar |
| 11/07 |
Julia Phillips Sandia National Lab |
"A tour of nanoscience research at Sandia National Laboratories" | Colloquium |
| 11/14 |
Ehud Yariv Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
"Electromagnetically Driven Flows" | Colloquium |
| 11/21 |
Thanksgiving Break |
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| 11/27 | Ganesh Subramania Sandia National Laboratories |
"Complete 3D gap photonic crystals at optical frequencies for light emission control" | Seminar |
| 11/28 |
Thomas Timusk McMaster University |
"Understanding high temperature superconductivity: are we there yet?" | Colloquium |
| 12/05 |
Nicholas Hill |
"Modelling abdominal aortic aneurysms" |
Colloquium |
| 12/11 1pm |
Shan-Wen Tsai |
"Fermions and bosons in natural and artificial lattices" |
Seminar |