Michigan State University

Department of Physics & Astronomy

CMP Seminar Schedule Spring 2006

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

(*: Special time and date. Joint seminar with IQS will be held on Wednesdays at 5:20 pm, Room 4270)

Date
(2006)

Speaker

Title

Host

9 January

 

NO SEMINAR

 

16 January

 Donnie Reinhard
MSU

Fabrication and Properties of Ultranano, Nano and Microcrystalline Diamond Membranes and Sheets

Ghosh

23 January

Daniel Stein

New York University

Large Fluctuation, Classical Activation, Quantum Tunneling and Phase Transitions

Dykman

30 January

M. Zahid Hasan

Princeton

Emergence of Novel Quantum Properties:  Electrons in a Triangular World

Billinge

8 February*

Alan McDonald

Current Driven Dynamics of Quantum Hall Superfluids

  Joint CMP/IQS Seminar

13 February

John Cumings

University of Maryland

The Anomalous Hall Effect in a Paramagnetic 2DEG

 

20 February

Paul Crowell

University of Minnesota

Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Vortices

W. Pratt

27 February

Thomas Kaplan

MSU

Novel Magnetic Structures of Mn and Co Chromite

 

9 March

(Thursday)

Maxim Mostovoy

Univ. of Groningen

Ferroelectricity in Spiral Magnets

Special CMP Seminar Dykman

13 March

No Seminar

APS MARCH MEETING

 

20 March

Takashi Imai

McMaster University

CANCELLED

  Billinge/Duxubyr

22 March*

Robert Onofrio

Dartmouth

Quantum Vacuum and Casimir Effects

Joint CMP/IQS Seminar

27 March

John Williams

Auburn

Passivation or the SiO2/4H-SiC Interface for Improved MOSFET Performance

Ghosh

3 April

Anne Reilly

College of William & Mary

CANCELLED

 

10 April

Roger Koch

IBM Research

Josephson Qubits for Quantum Computing

Birge

17 April

Nandini Trivedi

Ohio State University

Can Disorder Induce Metallic Behavior in a Mott Insulator?

 

18 April

(Tuesday)

Takashi Imai

McMaster University

A Square Lattice Becomes a High-Temperature Superconductor.  What About a Triagular Lattice in a Battery Material?

Billinge

24 April

Martin Eickhoff

Walter Schottky Inst.

Munich, Germany

Biochemical Analytics with Group III-Nitride Devices

 

Organized by Ruby Ghosh
Last update: April 17, 2006
For information or special accommodations please email Cathy Cords at cords@pa.msu.edu.