Seminars & Colloquia
spring 2008
| Date | Speaker | Title | Sem./Coll. |
| 01/30 |
Bernardo Barbiellini Northeastern University |
"Positronium trapping at material surfaces" | Colloquium |
| 02/06 |
Willie Padilla Boston College |
"Spectroscopy of novel materials: new opportunities for the terahertz gap" | Colloquium |
| 02/13 |
David Schurig Duke University |
"Transformation design and metamaterials: tools for conceiving and realizing unique materials" | Colloquium |
| 02/19 |
Michael Boyer MIT |
"Visualizing two gaps in the high-TC superconductor (Bi-Pb)2Sr2CuO6+d" | Seminar |
| 02/20 |
Brad Marston |
"The quantum mechanics of global warming" | Colloquium |
| 02/27 |
Eric Hudson MIT |
"Gaps in our understanding: STM studies of the pseudogap phase of high temperature superconductors" | Colloquium |
| 03/05 |
Spring Vacation |
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| 03/12 |
APS March Meeting |
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| 03/19 10am |
A .V. Balatsky LANL |
"Dirac materials" | Seminar |
| 03/19 |
Bernard Barbara Néel Institute, CNRS |
"Nanomagnetism: from nanoparticles to molecules and ions" | Colloquium |
| 03/26 |
Bruce McCombe SUNY, Buffalo |
"Semiconductor spintronics: approaches to spin injection and manipulation" | Colloquium |
| 04/02 |
Vesna Mitrovic Brown University |
"Response of unconventional superconductivity to a magnetic field" | Colloquium |
| 04/09 |
John Goree University of Iowa |
"Low-dimensionality condensed matter experiments at an atomistic scale using strongly-coupled dusty plasmas" | Colloquium |
| 04/10 |
John Goree University of Iowa |
"Non-Gaussian statistics in a 2-D experimental system" | Seminar |
| 04/16 |
Chris Engelbrecht University of Johannesburg |
"Pulsar glitches in neutron stars" | Colloquium |
| 04/23 |
Mladen Barbic CSU, Long Beach |
"MRI – the quest for atomic resolution" | Colloquium |
| 04/29 |
Gabi Kotliar Rutger University |
"Strongly correlated superconductivity: what are we learning from" | Seminar |
| 04/30 |
Sheldon Glashow Boston University Harvard University |
"Does science progress through blind chance or by intelligent design?" | Colloquium |