Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Schedule -- Fall 1995

Persons listed as "Host" may be contacted to arrange for meetings with non-local speakers (once their travel arrangements and such have been finalized).

11 September 1995

Speaker: Prof. David Tomanek, Michigan State University

Title: Dipolar Systems: From Magnetic Marbles to Magnetic Memory

18 September 1995

Speaker: Prof. John Quinn, University of Tennessee

Title: Composite Fermion Excitations in Fractional Quantum Hall Systems

Email: jquinn@utk.edu

Host: M. Harrison, harrison@pa.msu.edu

25 September 1995

Speaker: Dr. Bill O'Brien, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Title: Studies of Magnetic Thin Films by X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism

Host: R. Liu, liu@pa.msu.edu

02 October 1995

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Mason, University of Toronto

Title: Spin Fluctuations in Superconducting La_2-xSr_xCuO₄

E-mail: swelter.physics.utoronto.ca

Host: S. Billinge, billinge@pa.msu.edu

09 October 1995

Speaker: Dr. George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory

Title: Vortex Dynamics in Superconductors

E-mail: george_crabtree@qmgate.anl.gov

Host: J. Cowen, cowen@pa.msu.edu

16 October 1995

Speaker: Prof. Muhammad Sahimi, University of Southern California

Title: Rigidity Percolation in Random Networks

E-mail: musahimi@alnitak.usc.edu

Host: P. Duxbury, duxbury@pa.msu.edu

23 October 1995

Speaker: Prof. Gabriel Kotliar, Serin Physics Lab, Rutgers University

Title: Physics of Transition Metal Oxides and the Large d Approach

Host: S. D. Mahanti, mahanti@pa.msu.edu

30 October 1995

Speaker: Prof. Meigan Aronson, University of Michigan

Title: SmB_6: Exotic Metal or Correlation Gap Insulator?

E-mail: mca@pasqual.physics.lsa.umich.edu

Host: J. Cowen, cowen@pa.msu.edu

06 November 1995

Speaker: Prof. Khandker Quader, Kent State University

Title: On a Small Energy Scale in the High-T_c Cuprates

Email: quader@scorpio.kent.edu

Host: S. Billinge, billinge@pa.msu.edu

13 November 1995

Speaker: Prof. Tai-Chang Chiang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Title: Electronic Structures of Metallic Quantum Wells, Multilayers, and Superlattices

E-mail: chiang@uiucmrl.bitnet

Host: R. Liu, liu@pa.msu.edu

20 November 1995

Speaker: Prof. David Grier, University of Chicago

Title: Interactions and Interfaces: Digital Video Microscopy of Colloidal Dynamics

E-mail: grier@fafnir.uchicago.edu

Host: S. Billinge, billinge@pa.msu.edu

27 November 1995

Speaker: Prof. Gang Xiao, Brown University

Title: Colossal Magnetoresistance in Ferromagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Oxides

E-mail: xiao@barus.physics.brown.edu

Host: R. Liu, liu@pa.msu.edu

04 December 1995

Speaker: Prof. Alan Goldman, Iowa State University

Title: Quasicrystals: The State of the Art

E-mail: goldman@iastate.edu

Host: S. Billinge, billinge@pa.msu.edu

11 December 1995

No Seminar - Finals Week

Special accommodations may be requested by calling the Physics & Astronomy Department at 353-5288 two weeks in advance to ensure sufficient time to make arrangements. Requests received after that time will be met when possible.

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