Michigan State University

Department of Physics & Astronomy

CMP Seminar Schedule Spring 2007

Mondays at 4:10 pm, Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.

Refreshments at 3:45 pm.

*These seminars are at 10:00 am with refreshments at 9:45

Date (2007)	Speaker	Title	Host
8 January		NO SEMINAR
15 January	Prof. Kimitoshi Kono – Riken, Japan	Surface Texture in Superfluid ^3HE Probed by Surface State Electrons	Dykman
22 January	Alvin Compaan - Univ. of Toledo	Materials Issues in Thin-Film Solar Cells
29 January	Clare Grey – SUNY StonyBrook	Optimizing Materials for Battery and Fuel Cell Applications: NMR, Diffraction and Electrochemical Studes	Billinge
*1 February	David Callaway – New York University	Coupled Nanosecond Protein Domain Motion Revealed by Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy	Birge
5 February	Huiqiu Yuan – Univ. of Illinois	Novel Superconducting Pairing States in Heavy Fermion Systems and Non-Centrosymmetric Materials	Birge
*8 February	Xuan Gao – Harvard University	The Sensitivity Limits of Nanowire Bio-Sensors	Birge
12 February	Rogerio de Sousa Univ. of California – Berkeley	Noise and Decoherence in Nanostructures: Microscopic Origin and Control	Dykman
13 February	Gang Chen – Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent	Electrostatic Trapping of Dipolar Excitons	Birge
*15 February	Chih-Wei Lai – Stanford University	Photons and Excitons in Semiconductor Nanostructures – more or less	Birge
*22 February	Yong Chen – Rice University	Quantum Coherence in Insulators	Birge
26 February	Norman Mannella – Stanford University	Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites and High Temperature Superconductors: So Different, Yet So Similar	Birge
5 March	Spring Break & APS March Meeting
12 March	Prabodh Shukla – North Eastern Hill University, Shillong India	Hysteresis in Random Fields	Duxbury
19 March	Jesus Zapata – Universidad de Atlantico, Barranquilla Columbia	Dipole-dipole scattering in 1D optical lattices	Moore
*22 March	Eyal Buks – Microelectronics Research Center	Bifurcation Amplifiers: From Nanomechanical Beams to Superconducting Striplines	Birge
26 March	Gil Refael – Caltech	Dissipation and Quantum Fluctuations in Mesoscopic Josephson Junction Arrays and Superconducting Nanowires	Dykman
2 April	Yuri Strzhemechny – Texas Christian Univ.	The Role of Defects at Nanoscale Semiconductor Interfaces	Mahanti
9 April		OPEN
16 April	David Seiler – NIST	CANCELLED	Loloee/Ghosh
23 April		OPEN
30 April		OPEN

Organized by Phillip Duxbury
Last update: March 20, 2007
19:04:18 EDT, 2007-08-26 
For information or special accommodations please email Cathy Cords at