Last update:10:31:38 EDT, 2011-04-25
For information or special accommodations please email Cathy Cords at
Michigan State University
Department of Physics & Astronomy
CMP Seminar Schedule Spring 2011
Mondays
at 4:10 pm, Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.
Refreshments at 3:45 pm.
| Date (2011) |
Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 January | First Day of Classes - No Seminar | ||
| 17 January | Martin Luther King Day - No Seminar | ||
| 24 January | Nadya Mason - University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign | Transport through Andreev bound states in a graphene quantum dot | Birge |
| 31 January | Paul Bagus - University of Nothern Texas | Rigorous theoretical analysis of core-level spectra | Zhang/Mahanti |
| 7 February | Alex Levchenko - Argonne National Lab. | Interacting electrons in 1D beyond the Luttinger-liquid limit - transport and relaxation | Duxbury |
| 9 February* start at 11:00am | Valery Yampol'skii - Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics | Nonlinear Josephson plasma waves in layered superconductors | Dykman |
| 14 February | Salvador Barraza-Lopez - Georgia Tech | Charge transport through graphene: the role of metal contacts | Duxbury |
| 21 February | Feng Wang -- University of California, Berkeley | Tunable electronic and optical properties of graphene | McGuire |
| 28 February | Viktor Poltavets -- MSU | Bulk Magnetic Order in a Two-Dimensional Ni1+/Ni2+ (d9/d8) Nickelate, Isoelectronic with Superconducting Cuprates: SDW, Mott insulator or something else? | Mahanti/Ruan |
| 7 March | Spring Break | ||
| 14 March | Tim Gay -- University of Nebraska, Lincoln | One Atom Too Many: An Atomic Physicist’s Attempt to Learn about Simple Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules | Ruan |
| 21 March | March Meeting | ||
| 28 March | Hui Zhao -- University of Kansas | Nonlinear optics with ballistic charge and spin currents in semiconductors | Lai |
| 4 April | An-Ping Li - Oak Ridge National Lab | Electronic Transport Measurements by Four-Probe Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Correlating Transport to Local Structures at the Nanoscale | Zhang |
| 11 April | Milton W. Cole -- Penn State University | Novel phases of films in and on carbon nanotubes | Dykman |
| 18 April | Michael Kellman -- University of Oregon | The Dance of Molecules: New Dynamical Perspective on Highly Excited Molecular Vibrations, with Analogies to Landau Phase Transition Theory | Dykman |
| 25 April | Jian Huang -- Wayne State University | “Electron-electron interaction-driven phenomena in GaAs two-dimensional hole systems,” | Kaplan/Ruan |
| 2 May | Anand Bhattacharya -- Argonne National Laboratory | “Enhanced ordering temperatures and modulation doping in antiferromagnetic manganites,” | McGuire |
Organized by {John McGuire
and Chong-Yu Ruan}
Last update:10:31:38 EDT, 2011-04-25
For information or special accommodations please email Cathy Cords at