Spring 2008

Date	Speaker	From	Title
Apr 1	Kater Murch	UC Berkeley host: Gupta	Quantum Micro-Mechanics with Ultracold Atoms (abs)
Apr 8	Marcel den Nijs	UW Physics	Power law in the brain (abs)
Apr 15	Jerry Seidler	UW Physics	New Applications of Inelastic X-ray Scattering in AMO and CM Physics (abs)
Apr 22	John Rehr	UW Physics	Parameter free calculations of optical response from visible to X-ray wavelengths (abs)
Apr 25 Friday	Andrey Chubukov	Wisconsin Physics host: Andreev	A ferromagnetic quantum criticality (abs)
Apr 29
	Fei Zhou	UBC Physics host: Spivak	Dynamical generation of fractionalized vortices and vortex lattices in rotating BECs (abs)
	Matt Dietrich	UW Physics	Barium ion qubits (general exam, adv. Boris Blinov) at 10.30 am
May 6	Valery Milner	UBC Chemistry host: Blinov	Quantum State Manipulation with Ultra-Short Laser Pulses (abs)
May 13	Hsin-Ying Chiu	CalTech Physics host: Cobden	Carbon Nanotube Nanomechanical Mass Sensor (abs)
May 20	Tom Butler	UW Physics	Engineered protein nanopore for single-molecule DNA measurements
May 27	Michael Schick	UW Physics	How do we understand the phase behavior of ternary mixtures of saturated and unsaturated lipids and cholesterol?
June 3	Robert Kaindl	LBNL host: Raschke	Ultrafast THz Spectroscopy of Electronic Correlations in Complex Materials

Winter 2008

Date	Speaker	From	Title
Jan 8	Eugene Mishchenko	Utah Physics	Intrinsic Spin-Hall Effect in 2D Electron Systems (abs)
Jan 14	Konstantin Novoselov	U Manchester	Colloquium: QED in a Pencil Trace
Jan 15	Roman Krems	UBC Chemistry host: Gupta	Dynamics of cold and ultracold molecules in external electromagnetic fields (abs)
Jan 22	Dan Chiu	UW Chemistry	Droplet Microfluidics
Jan 28	Etyan Domany	Weizman	Colloquium: Predicting outcome in cancer: Hope, Hype, Physics and ... Biology.
Jan 29	Ping Ao	UW Physics	Robustness in Biological Processes: Can We Quantify It? And a few related issues far from equilibrium (abs)
Feb 4	Paul Yager	UW BioEng	Colloquium: Stumbling into microfluidics along the road to point-of-care medical diagnostics
Feb 5	Mike Brown	UW ESS	Pressure induced high spin to low spin transition in MgO w/6% Fe (abs)
Feb 11	Christopher Jarzynski	U Maryland host: den Nijs	Colloquium: Nonequilibrium thermodynamics at the microscale
Feb 12	Wenying Shou	Fred Hutch CRC	Collaborate or Collapse: Experimental and Mathematical Analysis of a Synthetic Cooperative System (abs)
Feb 19	Dmitri Basov	UC San Diego host: Cobden	Infrared Spectroscopy of Correlated Electron Matter at the Nanoscale (abs)
Feb 26	Mikhail Mogilevsky	Novosibirsk host: Cobden	Crystalline lattices under extreme conditions (abs) Inst. Hydrodynamics, Siberian Division of Rus. Acad. Sciences
Mar 4	Boris Spivak	UW Physics	Quantum superconductor-metal transition

Autumn 2007

Date	Speaker	From	Title
Oct 2	Michael Hochberg	UW EE	Integrated Ultrafast Optics in Silicon (abs)
Oct 9	Michael Schurr	UW Chem	Switchability of the helical structure of DNA (abs)
Oct 16	Ania Claire Bleszynski	Yale Physics host: Cobden	Noise Thermometry and Electron Thermometry of a Sample-on-Cantilever System Below 1K: Towards Measurement of Persistent Currents in Normal Metal Rings (abs)
Oct 23	Andreas Bauch	German PTB host: Blinov	Atomic clock development at PTB (abs)
Oct 30, 11 am C520	Fang Fang	Penn State host: Gupta	Progress toward a measurement of the electron electrical dipole moment using ultra-cold atoms (abs)
Oct 30	Riccardo Zecchina	Politecnico di Torino & Microsoft	Statistical physics, optimization and coding theory (abs)
Nov 2, 1pm	Yizhak Yacoby	Racah Institute host: Stern	Imaging thin films with subatomic resolution (abs)
Nov 6	David Cobden	UW Physics	The metal-insulator in vanadium oxide nanowires
Nov 13	Thomas Loftus	UW Physics	Ultra-Cold Atomic Strontium: Sub-Photon Recoil Cooling, Momentum-Space Crystals, and High Precision Optical Metrology (abs)
Nov 20, C520	Will Trimble	UW Physics	Final exam: High-resolution spectroscopy of 115In+ and prospects for an optical frequency reference (abs) - with cookies
Nov 27	Michael Woodside	U Alberta host: Cobden	Force spectroscopy of structure formation in single nucleic acid molecules: from hairpins to riboswitches (abs)
Dec 4	Amy V Spivey	U Puget Sound host: Blinov	Phase decoherence of semiconductor excitons: using nonlinear optics to probe an ensemble of oscillators (abs)
Dec 10, C520	Nathan Kurz	UW Physics	General exam: Femtosecond optical excitation of trapped barium ions

Spring 2007

Date	Speaker	From	Title
Mar 27	Michael Fogler	UCSD host: Andreev	Power-laws in one-dimensional transport: Luttinger liquid or disorder? (abs)
Apr 3	no seminar
Apr 10	no seminar
Apr 17	no seminar
Apr 24	Marcel den Nijs	UW Physics	Dynamic instability transitions in 1D driven diffusive flow with non-local hopping (abs)
April 27 Friday 3.30	Michael Roukes	Caltech host: Spivak	Nonlinear and quantum measurements with nanoelectromechanical systems
May 1	Hailin Wang	U Oregon host: Blinov	Quantum optics with silica microresonators (abs)
May 8 C520	David Coffey	UW Physics advisor: Ginger	Nanoscale characterization and control of plastic solar cell films (final exam)
May 11, Fri 3.30, C520	Adam Sorini	UW Physics advisor: Rehr	Mixed dynamic form factors and stopping powers (general exam)
May 15 Tuesday 9.30	Baruch Feldman in C520	UW Phys/EE advisor: Dunham	Modeling Conduction in Nanoscale Wires & Interconnects (general exam)
May 18 Friday 1.30	Ethan Minot	Oregon State host: Cobden	Biosensing with carbon nanotube devices in solution (abs)
May 22	Jay Sharping	UC Merced host: Blinov	Fiber optical parametric oscillators: a new avenue into the wavelength-tunable ultrafast domain (abs)
May 29 10 am, C520	Dmytro Pesin	UW Physics adv: Andreev	Interacting Electrons in Disordered Low-Dimensional Systems (general exam)
May 29 10.30, B042	Tom Butler	UW Physics adv: Gundlach	Nanopore Analysis of Nucleic Acids (general exam)
May 29 4 pm	John Toner	U Oregon host: Cobden	Squeezing superfluid from a stone: Coupling superfluidity and elasticity in a supersolid (abs)
May 31, Wed 12.30, C520	Tim Fister	UW Physics adv: Seidler	Momentum-dependent X-ray Raman scattering (final exam)
June 1, Fri 11.00, C520	Micah Prange	UW Physics adv: Rehr	Automated full spectrum optical constants (general exam)

Winter 2007

Date	Speaker	From	Title
Jan 9	Doug Natelson	Rice University host: Cobden	Single-molecule transistors: tools for physics and physical chemistry (abs)
Jan 16	John Cramer	UW Physics	An experimental test of nonlocal quantum communication
Jan 17	Jiang Wei 1.30 pm, C520	UW Physics advisor: Cobden	General exam: Metal insulator transition in vanadium oxide nanowires
Jan 23	Lih Y. Lin	UW EE	Sub-diffraction integration and non-invasive manipulation by nanophotonics (abs)
Jan 30	David Thouless	UW Physics	The mass of a vortex in a superfluid (abs)
Feb 6	no seminar
Feb 13	Dave Bacon	UW CSE	When Physics and Computer Science Collide: A Cross Cultural Extravaganza (abs)
Feb 20	Xingde Li	UW Bioengineering	Translational Potential of Basic Physics Principles to Bedside Biomedical Applications (abs)
Feb 27	Anton Andreev	UW Physics	Speckle statistics of coherent waves in disordered media (abs)
Mar 6	no seminar		APS March Meeting
Mar 8	Kai Miller 2 pm, C520	UW Physics advisor: den Nijs	Characterization of Brain Surface Spectra for Functional Mapping and Feedback

Autumn 2006

Date	Speaker	From	Title
Sep 26	Natalia Perkins	MPIPKS, Dresden, host: Blinov	The ground state of orbitally degenerate spinels
Oct 3	Ed Stern	UW Physics	Ultrafast XAFS measurements on laser excited Ge films
Oct 10	no seminar
Oct 17	TK Sham	U Western Ontario hosts: Seidler, Cao	Nanoparticles and nanowires – fabrication, morphology and spectroscopy
Oct 24	Markus Raschke	UW Chemistry	Nonlinear optics at surfaces and on the nanoscale: probing electronic structure and ferroelectric order with ultrahigh spatial and temporal resolution
Oct 31	W. Clark Griffith	UW Physics	Search for a CP-violating electron dipole moment of Hg atoms
Nov 7	Raghu Parthasarathy	U Oregon host: Cobden	Spatial organization of, at, and by lipid membranes
Nov 14	Peter Engels	Washington State U host: Blinov	Nonlinear quantum hydrodynamics in Bose-Einstein condensates
Nov 21	Leslie Rosenberg	UW Physics
Nov 28	Andrei Derevianko	U Nevada host: Blinov	Atomic and molecular CP-violating magnetic moments
Dec 5	Dmitry Khokhlov	Moscow State host: Blinov	Doped Lead Telluride-Based Alloys – New Type of Sensitive Detectors of TeraHertz Radiation

Spring 2006

Date	Speaker	From	Title
Mar 28	Dam Son	UW Physics	Phase diagram of a dilute polarized Fermi gas
Apr 4	J Steven Dodge	Simon Fraser host: Cobden	T-Ray tests of Fermi liquid theory
Apr 11	Elaine Li	Boulder, JILA host: Blinov	Exciton Correlations in Semiconductors Probed by Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Apr 18	David Wineland	Colorado Physics host: Blinov	Quantum-mechanically entangled atoms and raising Schrödinger's cat
Apr 25	Konstantin Matveev	Argonne host: Andreev	Conductance of a quantum wire at low electron density
May 2	Marcus Collins	UW Chemistry	Water, water everywhere: physics, proteins and hydrophobicity
May 9	Warren Nagourney	UW Physics	Single trapped Ba and In ions: extremely accurate clocks and a possible measurement of alpha dot/alpha
May 16	Vitaly Efimov	UW Physics	Universal long-range effects in three-atom systems: how can three atoms strongly feel one another's presence miles apart?
May 23	Malcolm Kennett	Simon Fraser host: Cobden	Surface acoustic wave induced zero-resistance states
May 30	Jerry Miller	UW Physics	Free Energy Distribution of Binary Protein-Protein Binding Suggests Cross-Species Interactome Differences
June 13	Sarah Veatch	UBC Microbiology/ Immunology (Keller)	Critical phenomena in three component lipid membranes

Winter 2006

Date	Speaker	From	Title
Jan 3	Josh Folk	UBC Physics host: Cobden	Two-electron spin states in a Random Nuclear Field
Jan 10	Jens Koch	Berlin (Th. Physik.) host: Andreev	Pair tunneling through single molecules
Jan 17	John Beamish	Alberta Physics host: Vilches	Flow in (Super)solid Helium
Jan 24	Yejun Feng	Chicago host: Seidler	New results on charge and spin in Chromium
Jan 31	Andrea Damascelli	UBC Physics host: Cobden	Fermi Surface and Quasiparticle Excitations of overdoped Tl2Ba2CuO6+
Feb 7	Daniel A. Steck	Oregon Physics host: Blinov	Quantum measurement and control of atomic motion
Feb 14	Dave Bacon	UW Comp Sci Eng	Building Robust Qubits Using Many-Body Strongly Interacting Quantum Systems
Feb 21	no seminar
Feb 28	Boris Spivak	UW Physics	Does the theory of laser linewidths exist?
Mar 7	Nguyen Toan	UCLA Physics host: Schick	How to design a virus: shape transformation of viral capsids
Mar 9 Special	Subhadeep Gupta	UC Berkeley Physics host: Blinov	Ultracold Atoms and Bose-Einstein Condensates in Storage Rings and Optical Cavities

Autumn 2005

Date	Speaker	From	Title
Oct 4	Greg Dash	UW Physics	Latest on 'supersolid helium'
Oct 11	John Sidles	UW Medicine	Emerging Techniques for Solving NP-Complete Problems in Maths, Biology, Engineering and Physics
Oct 18	David Thouless	UW Physics	Supersolids and dense superfluids
Oct 25	Oded Agam	UW Physics/Hebrew University	Dispersive regularization approach to Laplacian growth problems
Nov 1	Boris Blinov	UW Physics	Quantum computing with atoms and photons
Nov 8	Oleg Prezhdo	UW Chemistry	Photoexcitation dynamics on the nanoscale
Nov 15	Jeff Sherman	UW Physics	Optical frequency combs (Nobel prize 2005)
Nov 22	Mehmet Sarikaya	UW Mat Sci Eng	Genetically engineered peptides as molecular erectors
Nov 29	Peter Feibelman	Sandia (host: Rehr)	Atomic-scale theory of wetting: Structural inferences from theory & spectroscopy
Dec 6	David Allender	Kent State (host: Schick)	The biaxial nematic liquid crystal phase

Spring 2005

Date	Speaker	From	Title
Mar 29	Dmitry Novikov	Princeton (host: Andreev)	Nanotube in external periodic potential: Probing commensurate electron states
Apr 5	Anton Andreev	UW Physics	Quantum charge fluctuations in a superconducting grain
Apr 12	Michael Kozlov	Tel Aviv (host: Schick)	Actin filaments capped by formin: a model for processive capping and force-driven polymerization
Apr 19	G. Malcolm Stocks	Oak Ridge (host: Rehr)	Novel Phenomena in Nanomagnets: Simple Models and First Principles Theory
Apr 26	Dmitri Kilin	UW Chemistry	Photoinduced vibrational coherence transfer in nano aggregates
May 3	Alexei Ankudinov	UW Physics	Beyond Standard Single Electron Theory of X-ray Absorption
May 10	Gabi Kotliar	Rutgers (host: Bertsch)	Dynamical Mean Field Approach to Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
May 17	Konrad Lehnert	Colorado (host: Andreev)	Fast and ultra-sensitive displacement measurements using an atomic point contact
Wed May 18	John Cardy	Oxford (host: den Nijs)	Stochastic Loewner equation for Physicists
May 24			no seminar
May 31	Michael Tringides	Iowa State (host: den Nijs)	Incommensurate phases of Pb on Si(111)