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Seminars & Colloquia

Seminars & Colloquia - Fall 2007

All seminars take place in Higgins 235 at 2pm, all colloquia take place in Higgins 310 at 4pm unless otherwise indicated.

Date/ Time	Speaker	Title	Sem./Coll.
09/10 & 09/13	Yue Yu Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chinese AS	"Topological Phases of Matter: An Understanding from Exactly Soluble Model Point of View"	Seminar
09/18	Yue Yu Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chinese AS	"Superfluid-Mott insulator transition and number statistics of ultracold atoms on optical lattices"	Seminar
09/19	Peter Levai KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian AS	"Strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma state in relativistic heavy ion collisions"	Colloquium
09/25	X.C. Xie Oklahoma State University	"Spin transport and spin-related charge transport"	Seminar
09/26	Patrick Lee MIT	"Quantum spin liquid: from drought to deluge"	Colloquium
10/03	Fotini Markopoulou Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics	"Quantum gravity as a problem in condensed matter physics"	Colloquium
10/10	Tom Peacock MIT	"Internal waves: from the lab to the ocean"	Colloquium
10/16	R.S. Markiewicz Northeastern University	"Modelling the Waterfall Effect in the Cuprates"	Seminar
10/17	Genady Shvets University of Texas - Austin	"Sub-wavelength imaging in mid-infrared: from superlenses to transmission lines"	Colloquium
10/24	Fivos Drymiotis Clemson University	"New thermoelectric devices"	Colloquium
10/29	Xi Dai Institute of Physics, Beijing	"LDA+Gutzwiller Method for Correlated Electron Systems"	Seminar
10/30	Adam Kaminski Iowa State University	"Fascinating properties of cuprates"	Seminar
10/31	Patrick Weidman University of Colorado at Boulder	"The Eiffel Tower: a structure molded by wind"	Colloquium
11/05	Hari Manoharan Stanford University	"A Wrinkle in Space: Quantum Isospectral Nanostructures"	Seminar
11/06	Nick Bonesteel Florida State University	"Quantum Computing with Braids"	Seminar
11/07	Julia Phillips Sandia National Lab	"A tour of nanoscience research at Sandia National Laboratories"	Colloquium
11/14	Ehud Yariv Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	"Electromagnetically Driven Flows"	Colloquium
11/21	Thanksgiving Break
11/27	Ganesh Subramania Sandia National Laboratories	"Complete 3D gap photonic crystals at optical frequencies for light emission control"	Seminar
11/28	Thomas Timusk McMaster University	"Understanding high temperature superconductivity: are we there yet?"	Colloquium
12/05	Nicholas Hill University of Glasgow	"Modelling abdominal aortic aneurysms"	Colloquium
12/11 1pm	Shan-Wen Tsai University of California, Riverside	"Fermions and bosons in natural and artificial lattices"	Seminar

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