PHYS 586, University of Washington Department of Physics
Condensed Matter and Atomic (CMA) Physics Seminars

Tuesday, 4-5 pm, C421 Physics/Astronomy Building

Organised by David Cobden (condensed matter) and Boris Blinov (atomic/molecular)


Autumn 2009
Date Speaker From Title
Oct 6 David Allender Kent State Physics
currently at UW		 Possibility for an LCD that switches faster than existing ones: the biaxial nematic cell
Oct 13       
Oct 20 Dan Steck U Oregon Physics
host: Blinov		 Atomic One-Way Barriers and Quantum Measurements
Oct 27 Markus Raschke UW Chemistry Optical antennas for nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy of elementary excitations in solids
Nov 3 Andy Kim Seattle University Exploring quantum vacuum using a torsion balance (abs)
Nov 10 Prabhakar Pradhan Northwestern
host: Anantram		 Mesoscopic light transport properties of a single biological cell: Early detection of cancer (abs)
Nov 16 Mon Renee Diehl Penn State Sam Fain’s Legacy – Keep it Simple! (Colloquium) Sam Fain Memorial.
Reception: Monday afternoon, C520
Nov 17 Michael F Toney Stanford Size & composition dynamics of nanoparticle electrocatalysts (Nanotech Seminar, 12.30 pm)
Nov 17 Hoydoo You Argonne
host: Seidler		 From electron diffraction in Sam Fain's lab to X-ray diffraction in National Labs
Nov 24 Chulan Kwon Myongji University
host: Thouless		 Non-equilibrium and Fluctuation Theorems
Dec 1 Dan Ratner UW BioEngineering Carbohydrate Surface Modification for Label-Free Biosensing
Dec 8 Kathy-Anne Soderberg Chicago
host: Blinov		 Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms in Optical Lattices (abs)

Winter 2010
Date Speaker From Title
Jan 5 Thomas J. Matula UW Applied Physics Exploring the physical and biological consequences of cavitation at 200,000,000 frames per second
Jan 12      
Jan 19       
Jan 26      
Feb 2      
Feb 9      
Feb 16 Rhonda Dzakpasu Georgetown
host: Blinov		  
Feb 23      
Mar 2       
Mar 9        

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