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Seminars & Colloquia

Seminars & Colloquia - Spring 2006

All Seminars take place in Higgins 235 at 3pm.
All Colloquia take place in Higgins 310 at 4pm.

Date/ Time	Speaker	Title	Sem./Coll.
1/19 2pm	Edward Son MIPT	"Complex Plasma Hydrodynamics and Kinetics"	Seminar
1/24 3pm	Guokui Liu Argonne National Laboratory	"Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Dynamics of Lanthanides in Nano-phosphors"	Seminar
1/30 4pm	Robert McDermott UC Santa Barbara	"High Fidelity Josephson Qubits: Toward a Practical Quantum Computer"	Colloquium r. 235
2/1 4pm	Owen Vajk NIST	"Neutron Scattering Studies of a Multiferroic: Spin Waves and Magnetic Order in HoMnO₃"	Colloquium
2/6 4pm	Filip Ronning LANL	"Hidden Order at a Heavy Fermion Quantum Critical Point"	Colloquium r. 235
2/8 4pm	Gareth Cook Boston Globe	"Stem Cells and the "Truth": Ethics, Fraud, and Politics in Science"	Colloquium r. 300
2/15 4pm	Sasha Balatsky LANL	"Locality and Inhomogeneity in Superconductors and in DNA"	Colloquium
2/17 3pm	Willie Padilla Los Alamos	"Investigation of the Terahertz, Infrared, and Optical Properties of Novel Materials: From Metamaterials to High Temperature Superconductors"	Colloquium r. 235
2/22 4pm	David Soane	"Applications of Nanotechnology for Mature Industries'	Colloquium
2/28 3pm	Z.Y. Weng Tsinghua University	"Nature of Upper and Lower Pseudogap Phases"	Seminar
3/1 4pm	Pat Doherty & Brian Sullivan ISR	"An Overview of the Institute for Scientific Research at Boston College"	Colloquium
3/7 2pm	Jungseek Hwang McMaster University	"Optical Self-energy Effects in the Cuprates"	Seminar
3/22 4pm	Khandker Quader Kent State	"Fermion Pairing, Ultra Cold Fermi Atoms, and Crossing-symmetric Equations"	Colloquium
3/29 4pm	Nanidini Trivedi Ohio State	"High Temperature Superconductivity: Recent Progress and Open Questions"	Colloquium
4/4 3pm	Ian Spielman NIST	"2D Bosons in an Optical Lattice: An Experimental Study "	Seminar
4/5 4pm	Angel Garcia RPI	"Temperature and Pressure Effects on Folding/Unfolding of Proteins"	Colloquium
4/10 7:30 pm	Michael A'Hearn NASA	"Deep Impact: A Journey in Physics"	Colloquium
4/11 3pm	Brad Marston Brown University	"Actinides in Solution: Disproportionation, Strong Correlations, and Emergence"	Seminar
4/18 3pm	Jianyu Huang Boston College	"Integrated Studies of Structural, Electrical, and Mechanical Properties of Individual Carbon Nanotubes by Using a TEM-STM System"	Seminar
4/19 4pm	Paul LaMarche '75 Princeton	"Going Underground to Look at the Sun"	Colloquium
4/26 4pm	Andrei Lebed University of Arizona	"Type-IV Superconductivity and Dimensional Crossovers in a Magnetic Field"	Colloquium
5/2 3pm	Paul Weidman University of Colorado at Boulder	"On the Regimes of Terminal Motion of Sliding Spinning Disks with Uniform Coulomb Friction"	Colloquium r.235

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