Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar
semester, 2009
Tuesday, January 20th 2009
There will be no seminar this week.
Tuesday, January 27th 2009
Speaker: Prof. Vidya Madhavan, Boston College
Subject: New Developments in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of High Temperature Superconductors
The speaker is a candidate for the Cond. Matter Experimentalist Asst. Prof. position.
Thursday, January 29th 2009
Speaker: Xian Leng, University of Minnesota
Subject: Interfacial Superconductivity
Note the different day, time and place this week only.
Tuesday, February 3rd 2009
There will be no CM Sack Lunch Seminar this week. There will be two CM Seminars.
Speaker: Ania Bleszynski-Jayich, Yale University
Subject: Measurements of persistent currents in normal metal rings using a micromechanical magnetometer
Ania Bleszynski-Jayich is a candidate for the Cond. Matter Experimentalist Asst. Prof. position.
Tuesday, February 10th 2009
Speaker: Hung-Sheng Chiang, University of Minnesota
Subject: Nonlinear transport in 2D electron systems
Tuesday, February 17th 2009
Speaker: Yu Chen, University of Minnesota
Subject: Magnetic field induced superconductivity in Zn nanowires
Tuesday, February 24th 2009
Speaker: Eric Garlid, University of Minnesota
Subject: Large Interfacial Spin Accumulation in Lateral Fe/GaAs Devices
Tuesday, March 3rd 2009
Speaker: Thomas Dunn, University of Minnesota
Subject: Spin Torque and Magnetic Switching
Tuesday, March 10th 2009
Speaker: Matt Parker, Hung-Sheng Chiang, Yen-Hsiang Lin, Te-Yu Chen, University of Minnesota
Subject: Talks for the the APS March Meeting
Tuesday, March 17th 2009
There will be no seminar this week.
Thursday, March 26th 2009
Speaker: Mike Erickson, University Minnesota
Subject: Temperature dependence of the non-local spin signal in Cu-based lateral spin-valves
Tuesday, March 31st 2009
Speaker: Tanner Schulz, University of Minnesota
Subject: Ordered Vortex Arrays in Superconducting Niobium Films
Tuesday, April 7th 2009
Speaker: Nin Ji, University of Minnesota
Subject: XMCD study on FeCo based nanocrystals
Tuesday, April 14th 2009
Speaker: Lee Wienkes, University of Minnesota
Subject: Optical Absorption Spectra of Mixed Phase Thin Film Semiconductors
Tuesday, April 21st 2009
Speaker: Chunyong He
Subject: Doping fluctuation-driven magneto-electronic phase separation in La1-xSrxCoO3 single crystals
Tuesday, April 28th 2009
Speaker: Brian Skinner
Subject: Charge inversion and non-monotonic swelling of a large molecule
Tuesday, May 5th 2009
Speaker: Elizabeth Smith, University of Minnesota
Subject: Quantifying Protein Expression in Living Cells
Thursday, May 7th 2009
Speaker: Matthew Loth, University of Minnesota
Subject: Non-mean-field screening by multivalent counterions
Note different day, time and place: second CM sack Lunch this week
Tuesday, May 12th 2009
No seminar this week. Finals week.
Tuesday, September 8th 2009
Speaker: Shun Wang, University of Minnesota
Subject: Discovery of a novel smectic liquid crystal phase
Tuesday, September 15th 2009
Speaker: Thomas Dunn, University of Minnesota
Subject: Spin Torque and Magnetic Switching
Thursday, September 17th 2009
Speaker: Professor Maxim Vavilov, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Subject: Microwave photoconductivity in 2D electron systems with mixed disorder.
Tuesday, September 22nd 2009
There will be no seminar this week.
Tuesday, September 29th 2009
Speaker: Te-Yu Chen, University of Minnesota
Subject: Nonlinear Magnetic Vortex Dynamics in the Presence of Pinning
Tuesday, October 6th 2009
Speaker: LiDong Pan, University of Minnesota
Subject: "Surface Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystal Films"
Tuesday, October 13th 2009
Speaker: Matthew Loth, University of Minnesota
Subject: Ionic conductivity on a wetting surface
Tuesday, October 20th 2009
Speaker: Matt Parker, University of Minnesota
Subject: Extinction in a Predator-Prey System
Tuesday, October 27th 2009
Speaker: Lee Wienkes, University of Minnesota
Subject: Hopping Transport in Amorphous Silicon
Tuesday, November 3rd 2009
Speaker: Brian Skinner, University of Minnesota
Subject: The world's thinnest capacitor
Tuesday, November 10th 2009
Speaker: Yen-Hsiang Lin, University of Minnesota
Subject: Indirect magnetic-field-tuned superconductor-insulator transitions
Tuesday, November 17th 2009
Speaker: Anthony Hatke, University of Minnesota
Subject: Shubnikov-de Haas Oscillations in Microwave-irradiated 2D Electron Systems
Tuesday, November 24th 2009
Speaker: Professor Jorge Vinals, McGill University
Subject: Pattern formation in extended systems.
Tuesday, December 1st 2009
Speaker: Feng Guo, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Noise is the signal: Noise Measurements in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Tuesday, December 8th 2009
Speaker: Stephen Snyder, University of Minnesota
Subject: Magnetic Field Enhanced Superconductivity in Zn Nanowires
Tuesday, December 15th 2009
Speaker: Xiang Leng, University of Minnesota
Subject: Electrostatic Tuning of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition
Tuesday, December 22nd 2009
Speaker: Hung-Sheng Chiang, University of Minnesota
Subject: Non-linear Magnetoresistance Oscillations in Intensely Irradiated Two-Dimensional Electron Systems Induced by Multi-Photon Processes
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