Condensed Matter / Material Physics Seminar Series

Winter 2005

Seminars are held on Tuesday at 1:00 pm in Room 224 of the Physics Research Bldg. unless otherwise noted.

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk
January 18 Andrei Slavin Oakland University Quantized and Localized Spin Wave Excitations in Patterned Magnetic Films
January 25 Jack Bass Michigan State University Current-induced Excitations in Magnetic Multilayers
February 1 Michael Solomon University of Michigan Towards Colloidal Molecules: Shape and Field Effects on the Assembly of Micron-Scale Particles
February 15 Ali Alnaser Kansas State University Probing Molecular Structure and Dynamics with Intense Few-Cycle Pulses
February 22 Sergey Polyakov California Institute of Technology Towards Implementation of a Scalable Quantum Networks
March 1 Lisa Lapidus Michigan State University The Physics of Protein Folding
March 8 Evelyn Goldfield Wayne State University Quantum Dynamics of Nano-Confined Hydrogen and of Entrance-Channel Complexes in a Combustion Reaction
April 5 Jihui Yang General Motors Research and Development Center Thermoelectric Materials for Automotive Waste Heat Recovery
April 12 Sanjay Khare University of Toledo Some examples in Theory and Computation in Nanoscience
April 19 Alexander Benderskii Wayne State University Coherent Time- and Frequency-Domain Vibrational Spectroscopy of Surfaces and Interfaces

For additional information, contact Gerald Dunifer at (313) 577-2751 or the departmental main office at (313) 577-2721.

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