University of Minnesota
School of Physics & Astronomy

Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar

semester, 2006

Tuesday, January 17th 2006
12:20 pm:
There will be no seminar this week.
Tuesday, January 24th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Paul Barsic, University of Minnesota
Subject: First order phase transitions in Ferromagnet/Superconductor layered structures
Tuesday, January 31st 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Dat Nguyen , University of Minnesota
Subject: Molecular dynamics force field modeling for simulating complex polymer (sulfonated polytetrafluoroethylene - Nafion)
Tuesday, February 7th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Weimin Deng , University of Minnesota
Subject: Studies of Wall-film Superfluidity in 3He/4He Mixtures
Tuesday, February 14th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Roman Lutchyn , University of Minnesota
Subject: Kinetics of the superconducting charge qubit in the presence of a quasiparticle
Tuesday, February 21st 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Jun Kyung Chung , University of Minnesota
Subject: "Development of Renormalized Molecular Dynamics with Frequency Filtering"
Tuesday, February 28th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Mun Chan, University of Minnesota
Subject: Optical Detection of Spins Injected into a Normal Metal
Tuesday, March 7th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Various Graduate Students
Subject: APS March meeting practice talks, part I
Tuesday, March 14th 2006
12:20 pm:
No seminar this week.
Tuesday, March 21st 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Wenhao Zhang
Subject: Non-equilibrium magnetotransport in two-dimensional electron systems
Tuesday, March 28th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Robert Joynt, University of Wisconsin
Subject: Exact solution of qubit decoherence models by a transfer matrix method
Tuesday, April 4th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Charlie Blackwell, University of Minnesota
Subject: Effects of nanocrystalline inclusions on the electronic properties of thin film amorphous silicon
Tuesday, April 11th 2006
12:20 pm:
Seminar will not be held this week.
Tuesday, April 18th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker:  Michael Reznikov, Technion, Haifa
Subject: Charge Transfer Statistics Beyond Second Moment
Tuesday, April 25th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Yaroslav Lutsyshyn, University of Minnesota
Subject: Helium atom scattering from superfluid He-4
Tuesday, May 2nd 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Beth Masimore, University of Minnesota
Subject: Detecting transient oscillations in local field potentials
Tuesday, September 5th 2006
12:20 pm:
This Seminar Series will begin next week.
Tuesday, September 12th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Xiaohua Lou
Subject: Electrical spin detection in Fe/GaAs heterostructures
Tuesday, September 19th 2006
12:20 pm:
Seminar will not be held this week.
Tuesday, September 26th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Zengqiang Liu
Subject: Critical point in the Smectic-C alpha* - Smectic-C* Phase Transition
Tuesday, October 3rd 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Joe Skinner
Subject: Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy in the Presence of an Immobilized Fluorescent Species
Tuesday, October 10th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Paul Barsic
Subject: Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams of SFS Junctions
Tuesday, October 17th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Roman Lutchyn
Subject: Kinetics of the quasiparticle trapping in a Cooper-pair box
Tuesday, October 24th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Masaya Nishioka
Subject: Spin Transport in Graphenes
Tuesday, October 31st 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Robert Compton
Subject: Pinning and Dynamics of a Magnetic Vortex
Tuesday, November 7th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Bradley McCoy
Subject: Unexpected stability of an unusual phase sequence and a novel reentrant transition
Tuesday, November 14th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Bin Wu, University of Minnesota
Subject: Probing Chemical Equilibrium in Living Cells with Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy
Tuesday, November 21st 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Yaroslav Lutsyshyn, University of Minnesota
Subject: Identical Atom Scattering by a Superfluid
Tuesday, November 28th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Tao Hu, University of Minnesota
Subject: Hopping Conductivity of a Suspension of Nanowires in an Insulator
Tuesday, December 5th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Alex Levchenko
Subject: Supercurrent Noise in the Tunnel Junctions above the Critical Temperature
Tuesday, December 12th 2006
12:20 pm:
Speaker: Wenhao Zhang
Subject: Magnetotransport of two dimensional electron gas under AC and DC excitations
Tuesday, December 19th 2006
12:20 pm:
Seminar is done for this semester.

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