Michigan State University

Department of Physics & Astronomy

CMP Seminar Schedule Fall 2004

Mondays at 4:10 pm, Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building
Refreshments at 3:45 pm

(unless otherwise specified)

Date
(2004)
Speaker Title Host
Thursday
16 September
9:30 am
Po Zhang
Virginia Tech
Fiber Optic Sensors Ghosh
20 September Vadim Smelyanskiy
NASA Ames Research Center
Quantum Information Processing with Shallow Donors in Multivalley Semiconductors Dykman
Wednesday
22 September
10:00 am
George Crabtree
Argonne National Laboratory
Nanoscale Fabrication and Science Using Electrochemical Self-Assembly Schroeder
27 September Peter Hoffman
Wayne State University
Tapping Atoms and Squeezing Molecules: Nanomechanics with a Novel Atomic Force Microscope Tessmer
Wednesday
06 October
5:30 pm
joint w/IQS
Nikolai Zhitenev
Bell Labs
Molecular Electronics: Recent Progress and Outstanding Challenges Tessmer
11 October Sergio Ulloa
Ohio State University
Control and Decoherence of Excitonic States in Quantum Dot Systems Piermarocchi
18 October (no seminar this week)
25 October Marcos Dantus
Michigan State University
Optical Control Ruan
Postponed until 17 January 2005
08 November
4:00pm
Joint w/IQS
Robert Schoelkopf
Yale University
Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: Doing Quantum Optics with Superconductors Dykman
Wednesday
10 November
5:30pm
Joint w/IQS
Dmitri Novikov
Princeton University
Carbon Nanotubes in a Periodic Potential Dykman
15 November Junikiro Kono
Rice University
Excitons in Nanotubes Piermarocchi
22 November Mikhail Feigelman
Landau Institute, Moscow
Dephasing in Disordered Metal with Superconductive Islands Birge
29 November David Drabold
Ohio University
Complex Materials Billinge
06 December Tom Kaplan
Michigan State University
The Chemical Potential
13 December John Sipe
University of Toronto
Spin Batteries Piermarocchi

Organized by Carlo Piermarocchi
Last update: 11/19/2004
For information or special accommodations please email Cathy Cords at cords@pa.msu.edu.