CM Journal Club
Spring Semester
Monday, February 1st 2010
Speaker: Joe Pastika, University of Minnesota
Subject: J. H. Christenson, J. W. Cronin, V. L. Fitch, and R. Turlay. Evidence for the 2π decay of the k2 meson. Phys. Rev. Lett., 13(4):138–140, Jul 1964.
Students are welcome to read the paper and come discuss! (Professors are less welcome.)
Monday, February 8th 2010
Speaker: Chad Geppert, University of Minnesota
Subject: M. N. Baibich, J. M. Broto, A. Fert, F. Nguyen Van Dau, F. Petroff, P. Eitenne, G. Creuzet, A. Friederich, and J. Chazelas. Giant Magnetoresistance of (001)Fe/(001)Cr Magnetic Superlattices. Phys. Rev
Students are welcome to read the paper and come discuss! (Professors are less welcome.)
Monday, February 15th 2010
Speaker: Chad Geppert, University of Minnesota
Subject: M. H. Anderson, J. R. Ensher, M. R. Matthews, C. E. Wieman, and E. A. Cornell. Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Atomic Vapor. Science, 269(5221):198–201, 1995.
Students are welcome to read the paper and come discuss! (Professors are less welcome.)
Monday, March 15th 2010
There will be no journal club this week.
Monday, March 22nd 2010
There will be no journal club this week.
Monday, March 29th 2010
Speaker: Abdul Naseer, University of Minnesota
Subject: J. Bardeen, L. N. Cooper, and J. R. Schrieffer. Microscopic theory of superconductivity. Phys. Rev., 106(1):162–164, Apr 1957.
Students are welcome to read the paper and come discuss! (Professors are less welcome.)
Monday, April 12th 2010
Speaker: Xiangwei Tang, University of Minnesota
Subject: S. Lundquist. Experimental investigations of magneto-hydrodynamic waves. Phys. Rev., 76(12):1805–1809, Dec 1949.
Students are welcome to read the paper and come discuss! (Professors are less welcome.)
Monday, April 19th 2010
Speaker: Alexey Finkel, University of Minnesota
Subject: S. W. Hawking. Black holes and thermodynamics. Phys. Rev. D, 13(2):191–197, Jan 1976.
Students are welcome to read the paper and come discuss! (Professors are less welcome.)
Monday, April 26th 2010
Speaker: Joe Pastika, University of Minnesota
Subject: S. Abachi /et al./ (D0 Collaboration), "Observation of the Top Quark," Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2632 (1995)
Students are welcome to read the paper and come discuss! (Professors are less welcome.)
Monday, May 3rd 2010
Speaker: Joe Pastika, University of Minnesota
Subject: S. Abachi /et al./ (D0 Collaboration), "Observation of the Top Quark," Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2632 (1995)
Students are welcome to read the paper and come discuss! (Professors are less welcome.)
Monday, May 10th 2010
There will be no seminar this week.
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