Material Science Colloquia Fall 2007 Spring 2008 Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Current

Condensed Matter Seminar, Fall 2009

Usual Time and Place » Monday: 12:30pm - 1:30pm / Miller Room, Rockefeller 221

Unusual times or locations are noted.

Coordinator: Walter Lambrecht and Xuan Gao, Department of Physics
Date Speaker Title Host
August 31Elena Dormidontova
Macromolecular Science and Engineering, CWRU
 Computer Simulations of Self-Assembly of Metallo-Supramolecular Networks Philip Taylor
September 16Wednesday 12:30 PMOksana Ostroverkhova
Oregon State University
 Recent Advances in Organic (Opto)electronic Materials Ken Singer
September 21 Denis Demchenko
Virginia Commonwealth University, Physics Dept.
 Formation and properties of Cu_2S-CdS and Ag_2S-CdS Nanorod Heterostructures Walter Lambrecht
September 28Andrew Preston
Boston University, Dept of Physics
 Band structure information from soft x-ray spectroscopy Walter Lambrecht
October 5Li Shi
University of Texas at Austin
 Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Energy Conversion in Nanomaterials Xuan Gao
October 14Wednesday, 12:30pmMark Kuzyk
Washington State University
 A birds-eye view of nonlinear optics: using scale invariance to optimize the molecular response Ken Singer
October 19Wei Lu
University of Michigan, Electr. Eng.
 Nanoscale memristive devices for memory and logic applications Xuan Gao
October26John M. Zavada
North Carolina State University and U.S. Army Research Office
 Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth Doped GaN Walter Lambrecht
November 2Arthur Heuer
Materials Science and Engineering, CWRU
 Quantum Mechanics of Point Defects and Diffusion in α-Al2O3 Walter Lambrecht
November 9Shengbai Zhang
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 From Water Splitting to Hydrogen Storage: The Art of First-Principles Predictions in Materials Design Walter Lambrecht
November 16   
November 30Jong Han
University of Buffalo
 Quantum Simulation of Strongly Correlated Quantum Dots Out of Equilibrium Walter Lambrecht
December 144:00pmAndre Petukhov
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
 Spin Fluctuations in Magnetic Quantum Dots. Walter Lambrecht