Seminar in Physics Fall, 2005

The seminar in physics serves to introduce incoming graduate students to the wide variety of research done in the department.
Everyone is welcome to attend. Coke and cookies are provided for the seminar.

The seminar is held each Tuesday at 3:20 in SEC 217.

Date Speaker Title
Sept. 6 R. Ransome Welcome and introduction to the graduate program.
Sept. 13 none Welcome Party for new faculty and students
Sept. 20 M. Gershenson Experimental condensed matter physics: from ultra-low-temperature quantum computing to room-temperature organic electronics and (almost) everything in between
Sept. 27 F. Zimmermann Shedding Laser Light on Surface Dynamics
Oct. 4 H. Kojima Supersolid Phase of Matter
Oct. 11 J. Lebowitz Statistical Mechanics and Emergent Cooperative Behavior
Oct. 18 S. Thomas The Physics of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
Oct. 25 E. Etkina and A. van Heuvelen Physics Education Research: An exciting mulit-disciplinary field which combines physics, brain research, human cognition, etc.
Nov. 1 L. Zamick TBA
Nov. 8 S. Goldstein What is quantum mechanics?
Nov. 15 E. Andrei Superconductors, two dimensional electron layers and ferroelectric polymers - studies of matter from nano to macro scales
Nov. 22 J. Hughes X-raying the Hot Universe
Nov. 29 Y. Chabal Building materials one atomic layer at a time
Dec. 6 G. Goldin TBA