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Seminars & Colloquia

Seminars & Colloquia - Fall 2009

All seminars take place in Higgins 235 at 2 p.m., all colloquia take place in Higgins 310 at 4 p.m. unless otherwise indicated. Refreshments precede the colloquia in Higgins 230 at 3:30 p.m.

Date/ Time	Speaker	Title	Sem./Coll.
09/04	Steve White University of California, Irvine	"Typical wavefunctions of a quantum system at finite temperature"	Seminar Host: Dr. Wang
09/07	Yan Chen Fudan University, China	"Exploring exotic superfluidity of polarized ultracold fermions in optical lattices"	Seminar Host: Dr. Wang
09/22	Ying Ran UC Berkeley and Boston College	"Dislocations in general topological band structures"	Seminar Host: Dr. Wang
09/23	Vidya Madhavan Boston College	"STM studies of cuprates and pnictides"	Colloquium Host: The Department
09/30	Peter Riseborough Temple University	"Are continuous structural transitions really screened ferroelectric transitions?"	Colloquium Host: Dr. Opeil, SJ
10/07	Kris Kempa Boston College	"Plasmonics"	Colloquium Host: The Department
10/21	Franz-Josef Haug Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland	"Plasmon excitation in thin film silicon solar cells"	Colloquium Hosts: Drs. Naughton, Kempa & Solasta
10/28	Mike Naughton Boston College	"The Boston College nanocoax: A paradigm for integrated science"	Colloquium Host: The Department
11/04	Fio Omenetto Tufts University	"Silk photonics – a new route for silk"	Colloquium Host: Dr. Padilla
11/11	Michael Murillo LANL	TBA	Colloquium Host: Dr. Kalman
11/18	Krishna Rajagopal MIT	TBA	Colloquium Host: Dr. Kalman
11/24	Andrea Damascelli University of British Columbia, Canada	"In situ doping control of the surface of high-temperature superconductors"	Seminar Host: Dr. Madhavan
12/02	Rudi Podgornik Jozef Stefan Institute	TBA	Colloquium Host: Dr. Kalman
12/09	L. Mahadevan Harvard University	“Random problems”	Colloquium Host: Dr. Herczynski

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