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 |