Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Schedule -- Spring 1995

MSU P-A CMP Seminars are held in Room 224 of the Physics-Astronomy Building on the Michigan State University campus at 4:10 pm on Mondays of Fall and Spring Semesters. Refreshments are available at 3:50 pm.

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

16 January 1995
Speaker: Dr. Arthur P. Ramirez, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Title: Geometrical Frustration in Magnetism: Materials, Mechanisms and Ground-states
Host: Simon Billinge, billinge@pa.msu.edu
23 January 1995
Speaker: Dr. Richard A. Klemm, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Problems in Determining the Symmetry of the Order Parameter in High Temperature Superconductors
Host: S. D. Mahanti, mahanti@pa.msu.edu
30 January 1995
Speaker: Dr. Sang-Wook Cheong, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Title: Charge Ordering & Charge Segregation in Layered Compounds: (La,Sr)_2 NiO_4 and (Sr,La)_2 MnO_4
Host: Simon Billinge, billinge@pa.msu.edu
06 February 1995
Speaker: Dr. Jih-Shiuan Luo, National Renewable Energy Lab
Title: Investigation of Ordering Mechanism in Ga_0.5 In_0.5 P Using Reflectance Difference Spectroscopy
Host: Roger Tobin, tobin@pa.msu.edu
13 February 1995
Speaker: Prof. Jerry Cowen, Michigan State University
Title: A Search for Quantum Magnetic Tunnelling
Host: Simon Billinge, billinge@pa.msu.edu
20 February 1995
Speaker: Mr. David Kubinsky, Ford Scientific Laboratory
Title: Giant Magneto-Resistance in Granular Alloys
Host: Peter Schroeder, schroeder@pa.msu.edu
27 February 1995
Speaker: Dr. Alan Bishop, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Coherence and Complexity: Josephson Junction Arrays and Surface Growth
Host: Simon Billinge, billinge@pa.msu.edu
06 March 1995
No Seminar - Spring Break
13 March 1995
Speaker: Prof. Gwyn Williams, University of Manitoba, Canada
Title: Critical Properties of Ferromagnets - A New Look at an Old Problem
Host: Jerry Cowen, cowen@pa.msu.edu
20 March 1995
No Seminar - 1995 APS March Meeting, San Jose, CA
27 March 1995
Speaker: Prof. Paul Sokol, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Phase Transitions of Liquids and Solids in Restricted Geometries
Host: Simon Billinge, billinge@pa.msu.edu
03 April 1995
Speaker: Prof. Thomas Timusk, McMaster University
Topic: Spectroscopy of High-Temperature Superconductors
Host: to be announced
10 April 1995
No Seminar - CFMR Symposium
17 April 1995
Speaker: Prof. Michael Klein, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Metal-Ammonia Solutions and Expanded Metal Compounds
Host: to be announced
24 April 1995
Speaker: Dr. Subhendu Guha, United Solar Systems Corporation
Topic: Amorphous Semiconductors and Photovoltaics
Host: Roger Tobin, tobin@pa.msu.edu
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MSU Physics-Astronomy CMP Seminar Schedule page, created by George J. Perkins.
Updated 1995.03.09