Condensed Matter Seminar, Spring 2008

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

Unusual times or locations are noted.

Coordinator: Walter Lambrecht, Department of Physics
Date Speaker Title Host
January 28Sohrab Ismail-Beigi
Dept. of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University
Nanotubes beyond carbon: theory of gallium nitride and boron nanotubes Walter Lambrecht
February 4Bahman Roostaei
CWRU Physics
Bilayer Quantum Hall Effect Rolfe Petschek
February 11Stanislaw Szarek
CWRU Mathematics Dept
Ubiquity of Entanglement Harsh Mathur
February 18Elshad Allahyarov
Case Dept. of Physics
Macrophase ordering in ionomers under external potential Walter Lambrecht
February 25R. A. Lukaszew
Applied Science-Physics, College of William and Mary
Metallic and Magnetic Nanostructured Thin Films Walter Lambrecht
February 28Thursday, 12:45 pm Peter J. Lu
Harvard
Universal Gelation of Particles with Short-ranged Attraction Phil Taylor
March 3S. Duki, C. Mitra, T. Paudel, A. Boonchun, K. Sarasamak
CWRU Physics
APS March Meeting preview W. Lambrecht
March 10Spring break no seminar  
March 17Attendants APS
CWRU Physics
Informal reports from the APS March meeting  
March 24Alex Punnoose
City College of New York
Flow diagram and Quantum critical behavior of the two-dimensional metal-insulator transition (2DMIT). Xuan Gao
March 31Shan-Hu Lee
Kent State University, Chemistry Dept
Laboratory studies of atmospheric aerosol nucleation Phil Taylor
April 7Sanjay Khare
University of Toledo
Some examples of theory and computation of properties of transition metal nitrides Walter Lambrecht
April 14Wolfgang Windl
The Ohio State University
Ab-initio Assisted Process and Device Simulation for Nanoelectronic Devices Walter Lambrecht
April 21Alexander Mintairov
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Near-field optical scanning spectroscopy of photonic nanostructures W. Lambrecht
April 28