Condensed Matter / Material Physics Seminar Series

Fall 2005

Seminars are held on Tuesday at 1:00 pm in Room 245 of the Physics Research Bldg. unless otherwise noted.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of Talk
September 13	Shiva Patil	Wayne State University	A Study of Confined Liquids with Small Amplitude Atomic Force Microscopy
September 27	Xiangqun Zeng	Oakland University	New Materials for Chemical and Biosensing: Recombinant Antibodies and Ionic Liquids
October 11	Lisa Lapidus	Michigan State University	The Physics of Protein Folding
October 18	Eugene Kim	University of Windsor	Exotic Kondo Physics in Carbon Nanotube Single-Electron Transistors
October 25	Ivan Avrutsky	Wayne State University	Subwavelength and Nanoscale Optics
November 1	Shiva Hullavarad	University of Maryland	ZnO and alloys -The Future Deep UV Emitters beating the blues
November 8	Morten Eskildsen	University of Notre Dame	Exotic Twisters - Vortices in Unconventional Superconductors
November 15	Joerg Lahann	Unniversity of Michigan	Designer Surfaces: Engineering Spatially and Dynamically Controlled Properties
November 22	Victor Bondarenko	Wayne State University	Interlevel Electromagnetic Properties of Quantum Dot Systems
November 29	Siva Vanapalli	University of Michigan	Kolmogorov cascade drives polymer chain scission in turbulence
December 06	Yuri Sikorski	Kettering University	Fabrication and Characterization of Microscopic Structures in Fused Silica Glass for Use in Photonic and Bio-photonic Devices.

For additional information, contact Ashis Mukhopadhyay at (313) 577-2775 or the departmental main office at (313) 577-2721.

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