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Seminars & Colloquia

Seminars & Colloquia - Fall 2008

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.
09/09	Dr. Alexei Fedorov Berkeley Lab	"Photoemission at the synchrotron: experiments at the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley"	Seminar Host: Prof. Ding
09/10	Dr. Hong Ding BC & Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences	"The new iron-based high Tc superconductors"	Colloquium
09/17	Dr. Edward Shuryak SUNY, Stony Brook	"Strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma"	Colloquium Host: Prof. Kalman
09/24	Dr. Jihui Yang General Motors	"Thermoelectric materials by design"	Colloquium Host: Prof. Ren
10/01	Dr. Joseph Heremans Ohio State University	"Beyond nano-thermoelectricity: atomically designed thermoelectric semiconductors"	Colloquium Host: Prof. Ren
10/07	Dr. Bogdan Mihaila LANL	"Strongly-correlated fermionic matter in the dilute limit"	Seminar Host: Prof. Opeil, SJ
10/08	Dr. Matthias Bode Argonne National Lab	"On the imaging of magnetic nanostructures with atomic spin resolution"	Colloquium Host: Prof. Madhavan
10/15	Dr. Goran Karapetrov Argonne National Lab	"Vortex transitions in hybrid mesoscopic superconductors"	Colloquium Host: Prof. Madhavan
10/22	Dr. Peer Fischer Rowland Institute at Harvard	"Refraction and handedness"	Colloquium Host: Prof. Dibartolo
10/28 noon	Dr. Stavroula Foteinopoulou IESL, Greece	"Tailoring light in space and time with nanostructures"(.pdf)	Seminar Host: Prof. Kempa
10/28 2p.m.	Dr. Peter Armitage The Johns Hopkins University	"Towards the Lifshitz transition in elemental bismuth: Light electrons gone heavy at the metal-insulator transition?"	Seminar Host: Prof. Madhavan
10/29	Dr. Jeff Snyder Caltech	"Complex thermoelectric materials"	Colloquium Host: Prof. Ren
11/05	Dr. Li Shi University of Texas, Austin	"Thermoelectric energy conversion in nanostructured materials"	Colloquium Host: Prof. Ren
11/19	Dr. Savvas Koushiappas Brown University	"If it is dark, can you still see it?"	Colloquium Host: Prof. Padilla
11/26		Thanksgiving Break
12/02	Dr. Nan Lin Wang Institute of Physics, China	"Competing orders in the new FeAs-based superconductors"	Seminar Host: Prof. Wang
12/03	Dr. Marco Bettinelli University of Verona, Italy	"UV and light luminescence of lanthanide ions in calcium scandium silicate and calcium yttrium silicate"	Colloquium Host: Prof. Dibartolo
12/09	Dr. J. C. Séamus Davis LASSP, Cornell University	"Quasiparticle interference imaging in the superconducting and pseudogap phases of cuprates" canceled	Seminar Host: Prof. Madhavan
12/10	Dr. Peter Littlewood Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge	"New condensates of matter and light"	Colloquium Host: Prof. Opeil, SJ

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