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Events During the 2010 Summer Semester
May 2010
- Monday, May 3rd
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- H-Mode Relevance and Physics, Fritz Wagner, IPP Greifswald
- Special Astronomy Seminar; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin
- Why So Few? Unconscious Bias and Women in STEM, Meg Urry, Israel Munson Prof. of Physics & Astronomy, Director of the Yale Center for Astrophysics
- Tuesday, May 4th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Effect of order parameter fluctuations on the spectral density in d-wave superconductors, Maxim Khodas, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Who Wants to Know? - The Nature of our Subjective "I", Deric Bownds, UW-Madison, Dept. of Zoology
- Astronomy Colloquium, WISELI Talk - Sponsored by WOWSAP;
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall - Molecular Gas in High-Redshift Galaxies, Meg Urry, YALE
- Wednesday, May 5th
- Department Meeting
- 12:15 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Thursday, May 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Kondo Physics at the Nanoscale: From Kondo Droplets to Kondo Holes, Dirk Morr, University of Illinois-Chicago
- Friday, May 7th
- Last Day of Class
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Benjamin Fuks, IPHC Strasbourg/University of Strasbourg
- Physics Department Colloquium, Distinguished Award Winner;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Does the Nation have a Nuclear Future? The Role of Science in the Regulation of the Nation's Most Controversial Energy Source, Dr. Gregory B. Jaczko, Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Tuesday, May 11th
- Special Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm; 3425 Sterling Hall
- Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems: Relics from the Early Epochs of Galaxy Formation, Dr. Eric Peng, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics & Peking University
- Wednesday, May 12th
- String Theory Seminar, (Note special date & time);
4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall - Stability of non-BPS states in heterotic string theory, Jihye Seo, Harvard University
- Thursday, May 13th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Spin-triplet superconductivity in Co-based Josephson junctions, Norman Birge, Michigan State University
- Atomic Seminar; 2:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin
- Polarization and hyperfine transitions of metastable <sup>129</sup><i>Xe</i> in discharge cell, & Nonlinear Pressure Shifts of Cs Atoms in Neon, Tian Xia, Princeton University
- NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum, Joint Seminar with String Theory;
4:00 pm; 4274 - Inflationary Cosmology on Trial, Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University
- Friday, May 14th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Jong-Chul Park, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
- Thursday, May 27th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Transport experiments on carbon nanotube double quantum dots, Simon Chorley, Cambridge University
June 2010
- Thursday, June 3rd
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Monte-Carlo simulation of Kondo-lattice model on triangular lattice, Yasuyuki Kato, Los Alamos National Lab
- Thursday, June 17th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Study of proximity-induced triplet correlations in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions, Trupti Khaire, Michigan State University
- Tuesday, June 29th
- Special Plasma Seminar; 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- The Fokker-Planck Equation and Applications for RF Physics in Magnetic Fusion Energy Research, R. W. Harvey, Comp-X in Del Mar, CA
July 2010
- (none)
August 2010
- Thursday, August 5th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Electrical transport techniques to probe the ground state of closely spaced electron-hole bilayer, Mike Lilly, Sandia National Laboratory
- Friday, August 6th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Silicon enhancement mode nanostructures for few electron spin devices, Malcolm Carroll, Sandia National Laboratory
- Monday, August 9th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Niobium Oxidation, Metal-oxide Interface Effects, and rf Losses, Juergen Halbritter, Research Center Karlsruhe
- Tuesday, August 10th
- Theory/Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- CP Violation in B_s Mixing: Gateway to new physics?, Ulrich Nierste, Universitaet Karlsruhe
- Monday, August 30th
- Plasma Theory Seminar; 4:00 pm; 514 ERB
- Control of Ideal and Resistive Magnetohydrodynamic Modes in Reversed Field Pinches with a Resistive Wall, Steve Richardson, Los Alamos National Laboratory