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Thursday, January 22nd 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Jay A. Gupta, IBM Almaden Research Center
Subject: Nonlinear Conductance of Hydrogen in a Tunnel Junction
Dr. Gupta is a candidate for the faculty position in experimental condensed matter physics.
Thursday, January 29th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
The seminar will not be held this week.
Thursday, February 5th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Jack Harris, Harvard University
Subject: Cold Atoms Without Laser Cooling: the Frontier of Buffer-gas Trapping
Dr. Harris is a candidate for the faculty position in experimental condensed matter physics.
Thursday, February 12th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Nadya Mason, Harvard University
Subject: Local Gate Control of Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots
Dr. Mason is a candidate for the faculty position in experimental condensed matter physics.
Thursday, February 19th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Britton L. T. Plourde, University of California, Berkeley
Subject: Quantum Coherence in Nanoscale Superconducting Devices: Flux Qubits
Dr. Plourde is a candidate for the faculty position in experimental condensed matter physics.
Thursday, February 26th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
The seminar will not be held this week.
Thursday, March 4th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
This seminar will not be held this week.
Thursday, March 11th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
The seminar will not be held this week.
Thursday, March 18th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Melissa Eblen, Anand Bhattacharya, Jooho Park & Laura Adams, University of Minnesota
Subject: APS March Meeting Practice Talks (10 min. each)
Thursday, March 25th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
The seminar will not be held this week.
Thursday, April 1st 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Jerome Koopmann, ETH, Zurich
Subject: Weak- to Strong Pinning Crossover
Thursday, April 8th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
The seminar will not be held this week.
Thursday, April 15th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
There will be no Condensed Matter Seminar
Thursday, April 22nd 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Subhasish Chakraborty, University of Minnesota
Subject: Charge Accumulation Imaging of a Two-Dimensional Electron System
Thursday, April 29th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Professor David Blank, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
Subject: Directly Probing the Response of the Local Environment During Ultrafast Dynamic Events in Solution
Thursday, May 6th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Serkan Erdin, University of Minnesota
Subject: Self Consistent Tight Binding Studies of Low-Index Titanium Surfaces and Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles
Thursday, May 13th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
The seminar has ended for the semester.
Thursday, September 9th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Prof. Andy Taton, University of Minnesota, Department of Chemistry
Subject: Complementary Assembly and Organization of Organic and Inorganic Nanomaterials: Size (and Shape) Matters
Thursday, September 16th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Prof. Eckhard Krotscheck, Johannes Kepler Universitaet, Linz, Austria
Subject: Quantum Fluids in Confinement"
Thursday, September 23rd 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Heiko O. Jacobs, University of Minnesota
Subject: Self-assembly Based Manufacturing
Thursday, September 30th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Amit Meller, Harvard University
Subject: Translocation and Unzipping Kinetics of DNA Molecules Using a Nanopore
Thursday, October 7th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Eugene Terentjev , Cavendish Lab, UK
Subject: Liquid Crystal Colloids
Thursday, October 14th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota
Subject: "Magnetoelectronic Phase Separation in Doped Cobaltites"
Thursday, October 21st 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Markus Garst, University of Minnesota
Subject: Grueneisen Parameter and Magnetocaloric Effect Near Quantum Critical Points
Thursday, October 28th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Jordan, University of Geneva
Subject: Transport and Fluctuation Statistics, a Stochastic Path Integral Approach
Thursday, November 4th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Jonathan Strand, Department of Physics, University of Minnesota
Subject: Spin Dynamics and Hyperfine Interactions in Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Heterostructures
This is the public portion of Mr. Strand's PhD Thesis defense.
Thursday, November 11th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
Speaker: James Sethna, Cornell University
Subject: Questions in the Transitions Between Scales
Thursday, November 18th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Professor Phuan Ong, Princeton University
Subject: Life of a Triangular Lattice -- Physics of the Na-doped Cobalt Oxide
Monday, November 22nd 2004
12:00 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Dr. D. Polyakov, Karlsruhe Research Center
Subject: Disordered Luttinger Liquids: Dephasing and Low-temperature Transport
Please note special day and time.
Thursday, December 2nd 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Dung-Hai Lee, University of California at Berkley
Subject: A Dichotomy between the Nodal and Antinodal Excitations of the High Temperature Superconductors
Thursday, December 9th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Prof. Daniel Fisher, Harvard University
Subject: Simple Models of Jamming in Glasses and Granular Media
Thursday, December 16th 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
The seminar will not be held this week.
Thursday, December 23rd 2004
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 170 Physics
The seminar has ended for the semester.
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