Seminars & Colloquia
spring 2007
| Date | Speaker | Title | Sem./Coll. |
| 1/30 |
Pengcheng Dai ORNL |
"Understanding High Temperature Superconductors by Neutron Scattering" | Seminar |
| 1/31 |
Bennett Goldberg Boston University |
"Electron Phonon Coupling in Carbon Nanotubes" | Colloquium |
| 2/6 |
Vesna Mitrovic Brown University |
"Spatially Inhomogeneous Properties of Unconventional Superconductors As Probed by NMR" | Seminar |
| 2/7 |
Marcelo Gleiser Dartmouth College |
"The Chirality of Life: A Field Theory Approach" | Colloquium |
| 2/14 |
Pengcheng Dai ORNL |
"How Superconductivity Arises from Antiferromagnetism in High-Transition Temperature Copper Oxides" | Colloquium |
| 2/28 |
Richard Averitt Boston University |
"Probing Dynamics in Complex Materials with Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy" |
Colloquium |
| 3/14 |
John DiTusa Louisiana State University |
"Fe1-xCoxSi: A Silicon-Based, Fully Spin Polarized Magnetic Semiconductor" | Colloquium |
| 3/21 |
Charles Stevens Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
"The Scalable Architecture of the Brain and an Underlying Universal Scaling Law" | Colloquium |
| 4/4 |
John Negele MIT |
"Solving the Quark-Gluon Many Body Problem using Lattice QCD" | Colloquium |
| 4/11 |
Vinothan Manoharan Harvard University | "Colloidal Condensed Matter" | Colloquium |
| 4/16 | Ansgar Liebsch Forschungszentrum Juelich |
"Hybrid Mott Band Metal Insulator Transitions" | Seminar |
| 4/18 |
Bob Hallock UMass Amherst |
"Superfluid Helium: Tidal Waves and Other Magic with Helium in Two Dimensions" |
Colloquium |
| 4/19 |
Gergely Zimany UC Davis |
"Long Range Interactions at Work: The Stripe Glass and the Dislocation Glass" |
Seminar |
| 4/24 |
Lu-Jing Hou University of Waterloo |
"Interactions of Moving Charges with 2D Strongly-Coupled Dusty Plasmas" |
Seminar |
| 4/25 |
Dimitri Basov University of California, San Diego |
"Electrostatic Doping of New Materials: Challenges, Opportunities and First Accomplishments" |
Colloquium |
| 5/4 | Michael Fisher University of Maryland |
"Molecular Motors: Observations and Theory" |
Colloquium |
| 5/8 |
Pengcheng Dai University of Tennessee |
"New Discoveries in Magnetic Excitations of High Tc Superconductors by Neutron Scattering" | Seminar |
| 5/22 |
George M. Schmiedeshoff Occidental College |
"Alpha Uranium and Its Superconductivity" | Colloquium |
| 5/24 |
Henri Alloul Université Paris-Sud |
"Superconductivity, Charge Order and Anomalous Magnetism in Na Cobaltates" |
Seminar |
| 6/18 | Stefano Zapperi University of Rome, Sapienza |
"Collective Effects of Dislocations on Microscale Plasticity " |
Seminar |