Special CMP Seminar
		    Thursday, February 28, 2002
	  11:30 am, Room 224 Physics-Astronomy Building


			Tigran Shahbazyan
		      Vanderbilt University

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Spin Dynamics in Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconductors

The dynamics of spins in semiconductor structures is an important
issue in solid state physics as well as in technological applications.
Ultrafast nonlinear optical spectroscopy is a powerful tool enabling
us to probe condensed matter at the time scales of most scattering
processes and correlations between elementary excitations.
In this talk, I will describe the application of this technique
for studying of spin-sensitive phenomena in semiconductors.
I will then discuss the physics of many-body spin correlations
originating from the interaction of light with localized spin states.

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