Seminars & Colloquia
fall 2008
| Date | Speaker | Title | Sem./Coll. |
| 09/09 |
Dr. Alexei Fedorov Berkeley Lab |
"Photoemission at the synchrotron: experiments at the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley" | Seminar Host: Prof. Ding |
| 09/10 |
Dr. Hong Ding BC & Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
"The new iron-based high Tc superconductors" | Colloquium |
| 09/17 |
Dr. Edward Shuryak SUNY, Stony Brook |
"Strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma" | Colloquium Host: Prof. Kalman |
| 09/24 |
Dr. Jihui Yang General Motors |
"Thermoelectric materials by design" | Colloquium Host: Prof. Ren |
| 10/01 |
Dr. Joseph Heremans Ohio State University |
"Beyond nano-thermoelectricity: atomically designed thermoelectric semiconductors" | Colloquium Host: Prof. Ren |
| 10/07 |
Dr. Bogdan Mihaila LANL |
"Strongly-correlated fermionic matter in the dilute limit" | Seminar Host: Prof. Opeil, SJ |
| 10/08 | Dr. Matthias Bode Argonne National Lab |
"On the imaging of magnetic nanostructures with atomic spin resolution" | Colloquium Host: Prof. Madhavan |
| 10/15 | Dr. Goran Karapetrov Argonne National Lab |
"Vortex transitions in hybrid mesoscopic superconductors" | Colloquium Host: Prof. Madhavan |
| 10/22 |
Dr. Peer Fischer Rowland Institute at Harvard |
"Refraction and handedness" | Colloquium Host: Prof. Dibartolo |
| 10/27 noon |
Dr. Stavroula Foteinopoulou IESL, Greece |
"Tailoring light in space and time with nanostructures" | Seminar Host: Prof. Kempa |
| 10/28 2p.m. |
Dr. Peter Armitage The Johns Hopkins University |
"Towards the Lifshitz transition in elemental bismuth: Light electrons gone heavy at the metal-insulator transition?" | Seminar Host: Prof. Madhavan |
| 10/29 |
Dr. Jeff Snyder Caltech |
"Complex thermoelectric materials" | Colloquium Host: Prof. Ren |
| 11/05 | Dr. Li Shi University of Texas, Austin |
"Thermoelectric energy conversion in nanostructured materials" | Colloquium Host: Prof. Ren |
| 11/19 |
Dr. Savvas Koushiappas Brown University |
"If it is dark, can you still see it?" | Colloquium Host: Prof. Padilla |
| 11/26 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| 12/02 | Dr. Nan Lin Wang Institute of Physics, China |
"Competing orders in the new FeAs-based superconductors" | Seminar Host: Prof. Wang |
| 12/03 |
Dr. Marco Bettinelli University of Verona, Italy |
"UV and light luminescence of lanthanide ions in calcium scandium silicate and calcium yttrium silicate" | Colloquium Host: Prof. Dibartolo |
| 12/09 | Dr. J. C. Séamus Davis LASSP, Cornell University |
"Quasiparticle interference imaging in the superconducting and pseudogap phases of cuprates" | Seminar Host: Prof. Madhavan |
| 12/10 | Dr. Peter Littlewood Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge |
"New condensates of matter and light" | Colloquium Host: Prof. Opeil, SJ |