| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| September 10 | Gavin Buxton Dept. of Physics, CWRU |
Elasticity of Polymer Gels (and a Cytoskeleton in the Closet) |
W. Lambrecht |
| September 17 | Tim Atherton Dept of Physics, CWRU |
Frustration Phenomena in Liquid Crystals in Contact with Patterned Substrates |
C. Rosenblatt |
| September 24 | Alberto Fernandez-Nieves Harvard University |
Defect structures in nematic liquid crystal shells |
C. Rosenblatt |
| October 1 | Nitin Samarth Penn State University |
Looking for the Spin Hall Effect in all the Wrong Places |
W. Lambrecht |
| October 8 | Ganpathy Murthy University of Kentucky |
Disorder, Interactions, and Crossovers in Quantum Dots |
Harsh Mathur |
| October 11Thursday, 12:15 pm | Lorenzo Marrucci Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
"Spinning" and "twisting" a light beam and other
wavefront-shaping tricks performed with suitably patterned liquid
crystals
|
Rolfe Petschek |
| October 15 | Yuri Popov Dept. of Physics, CWRU |
Polyelectrolytes: A Field-Theoretic Perspective |
Phil Taylor |
| October 22Fall Break | No seminar |
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| October 29 | Markus Raschke Dept of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle |
Controlling light on the nanoscale: imaging and spectroscopy with ultrahigh spatial and temporal resolution |
Jie Shan |
| November 5 | Cammy Abernathy University of Florida, Gainesville |
Synthesis and Characterization of GaGdN |
W. Lambrecht |
| November 12 | Sukit Limpijumnong Suranaree University of Technology |
Identifying defect structures by first principles XANES |
Walter Lambrecht |
| November 1412:30pm | Pierre Carlès Université Pierre et Marie Curie /CNRS, Paris |
Thermo-acoustic waves near the liquid-vapor critical point : the sound of heat |
C. Rosenblatt |
| November 19 | Tim Peshek and Tula Paudel Dept of Physics, CWRU |
Phonons in ZnGeN2 and related materials: experiment and theory. |
Walter Lambrecht |
| November 26 | |
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| December 3 | Alexander Mintairov University of Notre Dame, Indiana |
Near-field optical scanning spectroscopy of
photonic nanostructures |
W. Lambrecht |
Physics