University of Minnesota
School of Physics & Astronomy

Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar

semester, 2004

Tuesday, January 20th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Liviu Movileanu, Texas A&M University
Subject: Single Molecule Biophysics with a Protein Nanopore
Dr. Movileanu is a candidate for the faculty position in experimental biological physics.
Tuesday, January 27th 2004
12:20 pm:
The Seminar will not be held this week.
Tuesday, February 3rd 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Vincent Noireaux, The Rockefeller University, NY, NY
Subject: In Vitro Genetic Circuits to an Artificial Cell
Dr. Noireaux is a candidate for the faculty position in experimental biological physics.
Tuesday, February 10th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Weilin Zhang, University of Minnesota
Subject: Hybrid Model of Stress Cracking
Tuesday, February 17th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Weimin Deng, University of Minnesota
Subject: To be announced
Tuesday, February 24th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Hao Wang, University of Minnesota
Subject: A Study on Spin Dynamics of Permalloy Stripes
Tuesday, March 2nd 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Robert Compton, University of Minnesota
Subject: Spin Polarized Tunneling into Semiconductors
Tuesday, March 9th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: William T. Heller, Ph.D., Condensed Matter Sciences Division and Center for Structural Molecular Biology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Subject: Protein Complex Structure by Small-angle Scattering: Cardiac Troponin and Protein Kinase A
Dr. Heller is a candidate for the faculty position in experimental biological physics.
Tuesday, March 16th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Jonathan Strand, Ming Yan, Suntao Wang, University of Minnesota
Subject: APS March Meeting Practice Talks
Tuesday, March 23rd 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker:  Jorge Estevez, University of Minnesota
Subject: Phage Phi29 DNA Packaging Motor
Tuesday, March 30th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Chushan Tian, University of Minnesota
Subject: Weak Dynamical Localization in Periodically Kicked Cold Atomic Gases
Tuesday, April 6th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Vlad Elgart, University of Minnesota
Subject: Rare Events Statistics in Reaction-diffusion System
Tuesday, April 13th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Peanut McCoy, University of Minnesota
Subject: Fluid Dynamic Oscillator Search for the Josephson Effect in Liquid 4He
Tuesday, April 20th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Ibrahim Elsayed, University of Minnesota
Subject: KT Transition in Josephson Junction Array
Tuesday, April 27th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: You Lin, University of Minnesota
Subject: Molecular Dynamical Simulation of Water-Metal Oxide Interaction
Tuesday, May 4th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Erkan Tuzel, University of Minnesota
Subject: Particle Based Mesoscale Modeling of Flow and Transport in Complex Fluids
Tuesday, May 11th 2004
12:20 pm:
The seminar has ended for the semester.
Tuesday, September 7th 2004
12:20 pm:
The seminar will not be held this week. The Condensed Matter Sack Lunch will begin October 14th.
Tuesday, September 14th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Beth Masimore, University of Minnesota
Subject: Transient Frequencies in Noisy Neurological Data
Tuesday, September 21st 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Xiaohua Lou, University of Minnesota
Subject: Spin Injection and Relaxation in Ferromagnet/Semiconductor Heterostructures
Tuesday, September 28th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Laura Adams, University of Minnesota
Subject: Spectroscopic Evidence of Quantum Chaos in Nanosize Metallic Clusters
Tuesday, October 5th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: John Liu, University of Minnesota
Subject: Search for Critical Point in Liquid Crystal Structures with Resonant X-ray Diffraction
Tuesday, October 12th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Weilin Zhang, University of Minnesota
Subject: Hybrid Model for Stress Cracking
Tuesday, October 19th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Erkan Tuzel, University of Minnesota
Subject: Particle Based Mesoscale Modeling of Flow and Transport in Complex Liquids
Tuesday, October 26th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Melissa Eblen-Zayas, University of Minnesota
Subject: Low temperature Behavior of Ultrathin La_0.8Ca_0.2Mn_O3 Films
Tuesday, November 2nd 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Bradley McCoy
Subject: Design for Liquid 4He Josephson Effect Apparatus
Tuesday, November 9th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Jeff Parker, University of Minnesota
Subject: Comparison of the Effects of Disorder, Magnetic Field, and Magnetic Impurities on the Superconductor-insulator Transition in Homogeneous Ultrathin Films
Tuesday, November 16th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Vlad Elgart, University of Minnesota
Subject: Non-equilibrium Phase Transitions in Systems with Absorbing States
Tuesday, November 23rd 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Kevin Parendo, University of Minnesota
Subject: Electrostatically Tuning the Superconductor-Insulator Transition
Tuesday, November 30th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Nathan Moore, University of Minnesota
Subject: Knotting Forces in Polymer Loops
Tuesday, December 7th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Roman Lutchyn, University of Minnesota
Subject: Decoherence and Dephasing in Superconducting Qbits
Tuesday, December 14th 2004
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Jyotirmoy Saha, University of Minnesota
Subject: Micromagnetic Simulation to Observe the Reversal Mechanism in Exchange Biased System of NiFe/NiMn
Tuesday, December 21st 2004
12:20 pm:
The seminar has ended for the semester.

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