Physics 528A, Winter
Current Problems in Physics

Instructor: Boris Blinov
Email: blinov (at) u.washington.edu

Office: PAB B436
Telephone: 221-3780

Announcements

Important reminder: this Friday, March 7, the class will meet from 1:30 to 3:20 pm.


Class Schedule

Class meets Fridays from 12:30 - 2:20 pm in room B109

January 11

Prof. D. Cobden
Physics of nanowires and nanotubes

Prof. L. Rosenberg
January 18

Prof. A. Bulgac
Quantum many-body problem in nuclear physics and related fields

Prof. M. Raschke
Dynamics on the nanoscale: optical antennas for imaging with nanometer
spatial and femtosecond temporal resolution

January 25Prof. N. Fortson
T-Violation and the search for a permanent electric dipole moment of the mercury atom
Prof J. Rehr
Unraveling the mysteries of complex systems with x-ray spectroscopy: theory and computation vs experiment
Prof. N. Tolich
The fundamental nature of neutrinos, and using neutrinos to study the Earth
February 1Prof. H. RobertsonProf. O. Prezhdo
DYNAMICS ON THE NANOSCALE: Time-domain ab initio studies of quantum dots and carbon nanotubes
February 8Prof. G. Bertsch
Density Functional Theory in Nuclear Physics
Prof. M. Khalil
Probing ultrafast structural dynamics in solution with novel nonlinear spectroscopies
February 15Prof. A. GarciaProf. V. Chaloupka
From Bach to Einstein and Beyond
February 22Prof. J. GundlachProf. T. Burnett
Gamma-ray astrophysics with the NASA GLAST mission
February 29Prof. M. Stetzer
New insights into student understanding of electric circuits
Prof. G.Miller
A New Look At The Neutron and Proton
March 7Prof. M. den NijsProfs. M. Olmstead/S. Fain
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March 14Prof. S. GuptaProf. S. Keller
Liquid domains in Lipid Membranes