Winter 2010 Schedule:

• January 21



Prof. Peter Voorhees, Department Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Title: "Interfacial Motion at the Nanoscale: from Grain Growth in Nanocrystalline Materials to Quantum Dots"

• January 28



Prof. Alan Schwartz, Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati
Title: "The Belle II Experiment: Flavor Physics in the LHC Era"

• February 4



Dr. Jesse Berezovsky, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University
Title: "Imaging coherent electron transport in graphene"

• February 11



Dr. Jian Huang, Department of Physics, Taylor University
Title: "Into the Flat Land -- Novel transport of strongly correlated two-dimensional holes"

• February 18



Dr. Manh-Huong Phan, Department of Physics, University of South Florida
Title: "Magnetocaloric Effect: from Refrigeration to Physics of Complex Oxides"

• February 23 (Tuesday)



Dr. Farida Selim, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Washington State University
Title: TBA

• February 25



Dr. Susumu Takahashi, Department of Physics and Institute for Terahertz Science and Technology, University of California Santa Barbara
Title: "Spin decoherence at high magnetic fields"

• March 4



Physics Graduate Research Conference

• March 11



Dr. Mohan Karulkar, Ford Research Laboratory
Topic: Lithium-Ion batteries

• March 25



Prof. Sean Gavin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University
Topic: Nuclear theory

• April 1



Vaden Miles Memorial Lecture: Prof. Young-Kee Kim, Deputy Director, Fermilab; Department of Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago

• April 8



Prof. Donald Lamb, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
Topic: Computer models of exploding stars

• April 15



Martin Luther King/Cesar Chavez/Rosa Parks Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Bennie F.L. Ward, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Baylor University

• April 22



Dr. James A. Warren, Leader, Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group, Metallurgy Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Topic: Materials Science

Fall 2009 Schedule:

• September 10



Prof. Robert Johnson, Department of Physics, University of California Santa Cruz
Title: "The First Year of Science from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope"

• September 17



Dr. G. Brian Stephenson, Group Leader, Synchrotron Radiation Studies, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: "Real-time X-Ray Studies of (In,Ga)N Growth by MOCVD"

• September 24



Dr. Chris Quigg, Theoretical Physics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Title: "The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics"

• October 1



Prof. J. Craig Wheeler, Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin
Title: "Asymmetric Supernovae: Polarization, Rotation, and Magnetic Fields"

• October 8



Prof. Ranjan Gupta, The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), India
Title: "Interstellar Extinction and Modeling of Dust"

• October 15



Prof. Robert Ziff, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan
Title: "Percolation: thresholds, universality, fractal dimensions, hulls, and the harmonic measure"

• October 22



Prof. Mark Paul, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
Title: "Exploring Spatiotemporal Chaos in Fluid Convection"

• October 29



Department Activity

• November 5



Prof. Laurence Lurio, Department Chair, Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University
Title: "Measuring Dynamics in Soft Matter Using Coherent X-rays"

• November 12



Prof. Nikolas Provatas, Department Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University, Canada
Title: "Multi-Scale Modeling of Phase Transformations: From Classical Density Functional Theory to Phase Field Methods"

• November 19



Prof. Clifford M. Surko, Department of Physics, University of California San Diego
Title: "Physics with Low-energy Antimatter"

• December 3



Prof. Dietrich Muller, Department of Physics, University of Chicago
Title: "The Cosmic-Ray Enigma: New Measurements and old Problems"

• December 10



Prof. Carl Bromberg, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
Title: "Neutrino oscillations & proton decay with a next generation detector"