| PHYS 586, University of Washington Department of Physics | Web page for current season |
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Tue Apr 13 4 pm A118 |
David Goodstein CalTech host: Greg Dash |
Fact and Fraud: Tales from the front lines of science |
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Tue Apr 20 4 pm C421 |
Yakov Kopelevich HP Labs host: Cobden |
Fractional quantum Hall effect in graphite |
| Thu Apr 22 |
Wesley
Wong Harvard host: Gundlach |
Mechanical force in nanoscale biology: from protein folding to enzyme kinetics |
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Mon May 10 4 pm A102 |
David Cobden University of Washington |
Phase transitions in nanostructures |
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Tue May 11 4 pm C421 |
David Moehring Sandia Nat Lab host: Blinov |
Ion trapping microsystem development |
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Mon May 17 4 pm A102 |
Chris Monroe Maryland/NIST host: Blinov |
Quantum Networks with Ions, Phonons, and Photons |
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Thu May 20, 3.30 Gates Commons |
Aram Harrow Bristol host: Blinov |
A quantum algorithm for solving linear systems of equations |
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Fri May 21 2.30 pm B042 |
Arend Van Der Zande Cornell hosts: Cobden/Xu |
The structure and mechanics of atomically thin graphene membranes |
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Mon May 24 4 pm A102 |
Dave DeMille Yale host: Gupta |
Diatomic Molecules as Quantum Tools |
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Tue Jun 1 4.30pm A118 |
Wolfgang Ketterle MIT host: Gupta |
Towards quantum magnetism with ultracold atoms |
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Thu Jun 3 2 pm, C421 |
Aaron VanDevender NIST host: Blinov |
Fiber Optics in Surface-Electrode Ion Traps |
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Tue Jan 5 4 pm C421 |
Thomas J. Matula UW Applied Physics |
Exploring the physical and biological consequences of cavitation at 200,000,000 frames per second |
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Thu Jan 7 4 pm A102 |
Daniel Solli University of California, LA host: Markus Raschke |
Real-Time Measurements, Long Tails, and Rogue Events |
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Mon Jan 11 4 pm A102 |
Alipasha Vaziri Howard Hughes Medical Institute host: Jens Gundlach |
Unlocking the Power of Non-linear and Ultrafast Optics in Biology: Applications to New Tools for Bio-imaging and Neuroscience |
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Thu Jan 14 4 pm A114 |
Michael Rust Harvard University host: Wendy Thomas |
Revealing Biological Mechanisms with Mathematical Modeling and Fluorescence Microscopy |
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Thu Jan 21 4 pm A118 |
Xiaodong Xu Cornell Applied Physics host: David Cobden |
Optically probing electron spin and charge in solid state nanostructures |
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Thu Jan 28 4 pm A118 |
Keji Lai Stanford University host: Markus Raschke |
Microwave microscopy of local conductivity - from nano-devices to phase separation in complex materials |
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Mon Feb 1 4 pm A102 |
Naomi Ginsberg University of California, Berkeley host: Jens Gundlach |
Ultrafast physics in photosynthesis: Mapping sub-nanometer energy flow |
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Thu Feb 4 4 pm A118 |
David Schuster Yale University host: David Cobden |
Hybrid Quantum Information Processing with Circuit QED |
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Mon Feb 8 4 pm |
Paul Wiggins Whitehead Institute, MIT hosts: David Cobden, Chip Asbury |
Structuring a bacterial chromosome |
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Thu Feb 11 3.45 pm A118 |
Qiang Lin California Institute of Technology host: Markus Raschke |
Manipulating Motion with Light: Cavity Optomechanics in Nanophotonic Structures |
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Tue Feb 16 4 pm C421 |
Rhonda Dzakpasu Georgetown University host: Boris Blinov |
Dynamics in Networks of Neurons: Simulations and in vitro |
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Thu Feb 18 3.45 pm A118 |
Alan Bristow JILA and U Colorado, Boulder host: Markus Raschke |
Coherent light-matter interactions: shining new light on nanotechnology |
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Mon Feb 22 4 pm |
Anand Bhattacharya Argonne National Laboratory host: David Cobden |
Digital Synthesis: A pathway to new materials and novel collective states |
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Mon Mar 8 4 pm |
Kai-Mei Fu HP Labs host: Marjorie Olmstead |
Optical spintronics in solids for quantum information processing |
| Thu Mar 11 |
Frank Vollmer Wyss Intitute, Harvard host: Larry Yaffe, Wendy Thomas |
Localizing Light in Photonic Micro- and Nanostructures: Biosensing and BioInspired Engineering |
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Mo Mar 22 12.30 C421 |
Tanmoy Das Northeastern University |
Intermediate coupling model of cuprates: reconciling photoemission, optical and other inelastic scattering spectroscopies |
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Mo Mar 22 4 pm C421 |
Rudi Bratschisch host: Gamelin/Raschke |
Ultrafast quantum optics with solid-state nanosystems |
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Tue Mar 23 4 pm C421 |
Ilja Gerhardt CQT Singapore host: M Raschke |
High Resolution Microscopy on a Single Molecule: From Near-Field Effects to Quantum Optics |
| 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 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 | 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) | |
| Date | Speaker | From | Title |
| 31 Mar | Various | UW Physics | Short talks from the APS March Meeting |
| 7 Apr | Vlad Ivanov | UW Physics | Coherent transport of atomic wavefunctions in modulated optical lattices (abs) |
| 14 Apr | Georg Seelig | UW CSE and EE | Engineering molecular circuitry with DNA (abs) |
| 21 Apr | Alexander Kozhanov | UCSB Physics | Magnetostatic spin waves in ferromagnetic microstructures (abs) |
| 28 Apr | Ira Kalet | UW Radiation Oncology | Computational modeling in support of cancer treatment (Adventures in medical physics and biomedical informatics) (abs) |
| 5 May | Marjie Olmstead | UW Physics | Heteroepitaxial doped Ga2Se3: Candidate dilute magnetic semiconductor |
| 12 May | Fernando Vila | UW Physics | Ab Initio Structure, Dynamics and Spectra of Complex Systems |
| 19 May | Daniel Gamelin | UW Chemistry | Spins in colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals |
| 26 May | Christine Luscombe | UW MSE | Morphology control in polymer photovoltaics |
| 2 Jun | Munira Khalil | UW Chemistry | Ultrafast chemical dynamics: a molecular perspective |
| Date | Speaker | From | Title |
| 5 Jan | David Kleinfeld | UCSD Physics | Encoding the Location of Objects with a Scanning Sensorimotor System (abs) (Colloquium, A102, 4 pm) |
| 6 Jan 11am | Jeff Sherman | U
Oxford host: Blinov |
Demonstration of qubit readout with 99.99% fidelity and novel ion trap designs at Oxford (abs) |
| 13 Jan | Chip Asbury | UW Physiology and Biophysics | How chromosomes move during cell division |
| 20 Jan 1pm | Adam Kleczewski | UW Physics | Measurement of Ba-137 nuclear octupole moment (general exam, chair: Blinov) |
| 20 Jan | CMA faculty | UW Physics | Summaries of ideas in recent proposals - Gupta, Raschke, Cobden |
| 26 Jan | Oscar Vilches | UW Physics | Physisorption revisited: from exfoliated graphite to carbon nanotube bundles & single nanotubes (Colloquium, A102, 4 pm) |
| 27 Jan | CMA faculty | UW Physics | Summaries of ideas in recent proposals - Blinov, Rehr (Beyond Kohn-Sham DFT and Scientific Cloud Computing), Seidler |
| 3 Feb | Aharon Kapitulnik | Stanford Physics | Superconductor-Insulator Transitions in Two-Dimensions (abs) |
| 10 Feb | John Sidles | UW Medicine and QSE | Analyzing Quantum Limits to Magnetic Resonance Microscopy: Insights from Shannon, von Neumann, Feynman (abs) |
| 17 Feb | Ken Brown | Georgia Tech | Trapped atomic ions as probes of molecular ions (abs) |
| 24 Feb | David Thouless | UW Physics | Modern physics and the modern world (abs) |
| 3 Mar | Josh Folk |
UBC Physics host: Cobden |
Ballistic spin resonance (abs) |
| 10 Mar | Shigeyuki Komura |
Tokyo Metropolitan host: Schick |
Hydrodynamics in multicomponent biomembranes |
| Date | Speaker | From | Title |
| 29 Sep | Marc Bockrath | CalTech | Carbon nanoelectronics: from correlated electrons to sensors and devices. (abs) (Colloquium, A109, 4 pm) |
| 30 Sep | Marc Bockrath | CalTech Appl
Phys host: Cobden |
Strongly correlated electron behavior in carbon nanotubes |
| 6 Oct | Jeanie Lau | UC Riverside | Graphene quantum electronics and devices Physics colloquium |
| 7 Oct | Jerry Seidler | UW Physics | A Cheaper, Smaller, and Sometimes Better Approach To X-ray Spectroscopy (abs) |
| 13 Oct | Valery Milner | UBC Chemistry | Coherent Scattering with Incoherent Light: New Spectroscopy with Ultra-Short Laser Pulses (Colloquium, A109, 4 pm) |
| 14 Oct | Miguel Morales | UW Physics | 21 cm Cosmology |
| 21 Oct | Marco Rolandi | UW MSE | The atomic force microscope as a patterning tool: lithography, self assembly, and devices |
| 27 Oct | Robert Kaindl | LBNL | Ultrafast electron dynamics in complex materials (Colloquium, A109, 4 pm) |
| 28 Oct | Xiaohu Gao | UW Bioengineering | Imaging, detection, and drug delivery with nanoparticles |
| 4 Nov | David Jones | UBC Physics/Astr host: Blinov |
The continuing evolution of femtosecond frequency combs (abs) |
| 10 Nov | Margaret Murnane | JILA/Boulder | Harnessing Attosecond Science for Coherent X-Ray Generation and Applications (Colloquium, A109, 4 pm) |
| 11 Nov | Veteran's Day | ||
| 17 Nov | Dan Stamper-Kurn | Berkeley | Magnetic phases of a dipolar spin-1 quantum gas (Colloquium, A109, 4 pm) |
| 18 Nov | Michael Elbaum | Weizmann Institute host: Dash |
Getting to the center of the cell: a thermodynamic path to the nucleus, or, how to build a pump with no moving parts |
| 25 Nov | Danilo Pozzo | UW Chem Eng | Small angle neutron scattering: A unique structural probe for soft condensed matter (abs) |
| 2 Dec | Bo Zhang | UW Chemistry | Electron Transfer and Single-Cell Detections using Nano/Micro-sized Electrodes |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
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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) |
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May 11, Fri 3.30, C520 |
Adam Sorini |
UW Physics advisor: Rehr |
Mixed dynamic form
factors and stopping powers (general exam) |
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May 15 Tuesday 9.30 |
Baruch Feldman in C520 |
UW Phys/EE advisor: Dunham |
Modeling Conduction
in Nanoscale Wires & Interconnects (general exam) |
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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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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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) |
| Date | Speaker | From | Title |
| Jan 4 | You Qiang | Idaho (Physics) host: Cobden | Monodispersive nanoclusters and nanocluster-assembled materials |
| Jan 11 | Jens Koch | Berlin (Physik) host: Andreev | Franck-Condon blockade and giant Fano factors in transport through single molecules (cond-mat/0409667) |
| Jan 18 | Victor Gurarie | Colorado (Physics) host: Andreev | Fermi gas with Feshbach resonant interactions |
| Jan 25 | CM group meeting with visitor Jennifer Ogilvie at this time | ||
| Feb 1 | Greg Dash | UW Physics | Evidence for supersolid helium? An alternative explanation. |
| Feb 8 | David Mills | Otolaryngology-HNS | Physics of the ear |
| Feb 15 | Tony Peurrung | PNNL host: Spivak | Radiation Detection Material Discovery: Needs and Approaches |
| Feb 22 | Jerry Seidler | UW Physics | Symmetry and Final State Effects in Inelastic X-ray Scattering |
| Mar 1 | Dan Dessau | Colorado (Physics) host: Andreev | ARPES on CMR and high-T_c materials |
| Mar 8 | Eldad Bettelheim | Hebrew University host: Spivak | The stochastic Loewner equation and c>1 models |
| Speaker | From | Title | |
| Oct 5 | Marjie Olmstead | UW Physics | Structure and Stoichiometry in Semiconductor Heteroepitaxy: The Interesting Case of III-VI/Silicon Heterostructures |
| Oct 12 | Marcel den Nijs | UW Physics | Traffic jams, paper combustion, and polymer localization |
| Oct 19 | Alex Levine | Amherst (host: Seidler) | Semiflexible polymer networks: Implications for cellular mechanics |
| Oct 26 | David Baker | UW Biochemistry | What is Biophysics? |
| Nov 2 | Sarah Keller | UW Chem/Phys | Liquid domains in lipid membranes |
| Nov 9 | Physics CDO Networking Day | ||
| Nov 16 | Milton Cole | cancelled | |
| Nov 23 | David Cobden | UW Phys | Nonlinear transport in carbon nanotubes |
| Nov 30 | Graziano Vernizzi | Saclay (host Schick) | Predicting RNA secondary structures with pseudoknots: a topological approach |
| Dec 7 | Irfan Siddiqi | Yale (host: Spivak) | Amplifying quantum signals with the Josephson bifurcation amplifier |
| Date | Speaker | From | Title |
| March 30 | |||
| April 6 | |||
| April 13 | Rene Overney | UW Chem Eng | Mesodynamics in confined polymer systems |
| April 20 | Argyrios Tsolakidis | Harvard | Optical response of finite systems via TDDFT |
| April 27 | Warren Pickett | UC Davis | Charge Disproportionation and Spin Ordering Tendencies in the Superconducting Layered Cobaltates |
| May 4 | Boris Spivak | UW Physics | Solutions of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation |
| May 11 | Gabriel Aeppli | UCL | Brute force quantum computation |
| May 18 | Paul Chaikin | Princeton | Triplet superconductivity and nonFermi liquid behavior in organic conductors |
| May 25 | John Close | ANU Canberra | Bose Condensates, Atom-Optics, Atom-Lasers and Cosmological Analogs |
| June 1 | Karl-Heinz Ernst | EMPA Dübendorf | Chiral molecules at surfaces: stereochemistry and two-dimensional enantiomorphism |
| Date | Speaker | From | Title |
| January 6 | cancelled | thanks to the | Thick Films of Solid Water |
| January 13 | Sam Fain | UW, Physics | Annealing Thin Films of Amorphous Solid Water: Atomic Force Microscopy at T<150K |
| January 20 | (coincides with colloquium) | ||
| January 27 | Chulan Kwon | Myongji Univ (Korea) | Structure of Stochastic Dynamics near Fixed Points |
| February 3 C520 | Marcus Mueller | Mainz | Coarse-Grained Models for Soft Condensed Matter: Monte Carlo Simulations and Self-Consistent Field Theory |
| February 10 | Stuart Solin | Washington U, Physics | Geometry driven interfacial phenomena in semiconductor-metal hybrid structures |
| February 18 12.30pm Wed |
Lincoln Carr | JILA, U Colorado and NIST | Achieving a BCS transition in an atomic Fermi gas |
| February 20
C520 10.30am Friday |
Josh Folk | MIT/Stanford | Decoherence in Confined Systems |
| February 24
C520 4pm Tuesday |
Nadya Mason | Harvard | Local Gate Control of Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots |
| February 26
C520 4pm Thursday |
Kirill Shtengel | Microsoft | Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Order in Solids |
| March 2
C520 4pm Tuesday |
Peter Armitage | UCLA | A 'Taxonomy' of Electron Glasses |
| March 5
C421 1.30 pm Friday |
Jack Harris | Harvard/MIT | From the quantum Hall regime to 'spin friction' with micromechanical detectors. |
| March 9 | No seminar | ||
| Date | Speaker | From | Title |
| September 30 | Ed Stern | UW Physics | Subnanosecond X-ray probing of the kinetics of laser excited Germanium |
| October 7 | Larry Sorensen | UW Physics | How magnets remember/forget |
| October 14 | Anatoly Kolomeisky | Rice Chemistry | Lattice Models of Electrolytes |
| October 15 | Joan Adler | Technion Physics | Visualizing bulk and surface melting |
| October 21 | Albert Folch | UW Bioengineering | Cell Biology on a Soft Chip |
| October 28 | James Anglin | MIT Physics | Do vortices have mass? |
| November 4 | Josh Folk | MIT Physics | Creation and Detection of Spin Currents in Nanoscale Devices |
| November 5 12.30pm |
Konstantin A. Chishko | Verkin Institute | 2D cryocrystals on a substrate: thermodynamics and magnetism |
| November 7 2 pm (C520) |
Philip Pillips | Urbana Physics | The Elusive Bose Metal |
| November 11 | no seminar - Veterans Day holiday | ||
| November 18 | David Ginger | UW Chemistry | From Nanoparticles to Nanolithography: Quantum Dots, Diodes, and DNA |
| November 25 | Marc Bockrath | Caltech Physics | Nano-scale electronics |
| December 2 | James Phillips | UMKC Physics | Thermal disorder, fluctuations and breakup of finite one-dimensional atomic chains |
| December 9 | Charlie Campbell | UW Chemistry | Calorimetric Studies of the Energetics of Adsorption and Thin Film Growth on Single Crystal Surfaces |
| Date | Speaker | From | Title |
| April 1 | Kirill Shtengel | Microsoft (host Kirill Katsov) |
Topological Order and Quantum Computation |
| April 8 | Kevin Smith | Boston University (host Marjie Olmstead) |
Exploring Many Body Physics in Low Dimensional Solids using Photoemission Spectroscopy |
| April 15 | Jens Gundlach | UW Physics | Nanopore DNA sequencing |
| April 22 | Kiril Tsemekhman | UW Chemistry | Describing electrons in the lattice with Wannier functions: old approach with new applications |
| April 29 | Chao Tang | NEC Princeton (host Jerry Seidler) |
Designability of Protein Structures |
| May 6 | Bill Reinhardt | UW Chemistry | Progress in the computation of free energies of granular-like materials, and in the folding and unfolding of model RNA loops |
| May 13 | Peter Nellist | Nion (host David Cobden) |
Aberration Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. |
| May 20 | Chris Stubbs | UW Phys/Astronomy | Fundamental physics through astrophysics |
| May 27 | No seminar | coincides with department colloquium | |
| June 3 | Alexei Ankudinov | UW Physics | Physics of X-ray excited states: nonspherical corrections and dynamic screening effects |
| Date | Speaker | From | Title |
| January 14 | Roberto Ramos | Maryland, Physics (host Oscar Vilches) | Quantum computation using superconducting devices |
| January 14 1.30pm, B417 |
Mathieu Fevre | LEM-ONERA-CNRS (host John Rehr) |
Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics
investigations of thermal transport properties in Zr (Computational Materials Science Seminar) |
| January 21 | Heiko Wende | FU Berlin, Physics (host John Rehr) |
Induced magnetism at thin film interfaces probed by x-ray magentic circular dichroism |
| January 23 3pm, C421 |
Meir Weger | Hebrew University (host Ed Stern) |
Electron-Ion Interaction in a Nearly Ferroelectric Metal |
| January 28 | Sam Fain | UW Physics | Nanoscale dynamics of amorphous and crystalline ice at T<150K |
| February 4 | Eric Shirley | NIST Gaithersburg (host John Rehr) |
When a photon meets an electron, or, choreographing two particles in a crystal lattice |
| February 11 | Oscar Vilches | UW Physics | Adsorbed gases on ideal and real carbon nanotube bundles |
| February 18 | Igor Herbut | Simon Fraser, Physics (host David Cobden) |
Theory of fluctuating d-wave superconductors: the QED3 and beyond |
| February 25 | Michael Wortis | Simon Fraser, Physics (host Mike Schick) |
A New Length Scale for Hydration Forces between Neutral Lipid Surfaces |
| March 4 | No seminar - APS March Meeting | ||
| March 11 | John Sidles | UW Mech Eng | Critical Design Elements for Quantum Molecular Observation |
| March 18 | Marcus Mueller | Gutenberg, Physics | Wetting of polymer solutions |
| March 21 1 pm, C421 |
Vadim Frolov |
Frumkin Institute of
Electrochemistry, Russia (host Mike Schick) |
Shape bistability of a tubule made of bimolecular lipid film: experiments, models and implications for biological processes |
| Date |
Speaker |
From |
Title |
| October 1 |
Gerald Pollack |
UW Bioengineering |
Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life: A Fresh Paradigm
for Cell Function |
| October 8 |
no seminar |
(coincides with address of President McCormick) |
|
| October 15 |
David Weitz |
Harvard |
Elasticity of Actin Networks |
| October 22 |
Jim Hone |
Caltech |
NEMS with nanomaterials: carbon nanotubes and
metal nanowires |
| October 29 |
David Pengra |
Ohio Wesleyan |
Electrokinetics: Another Tool for Studying Interfaces
in Porous Media - abs |
| November 5 |
Kirill Katsov |
UW Physics |
Modelling membrane fusion |
| November 12 |
Bryan Reed |
UW MSE |
Electronic properties of carbon nanotubes via aloof electron
energy-loss spectroscopy |
| November 19 |
Boris Spivak |
UW Physics |
Phase separation in a 2D electron gas |
| November 26 |
Joosi Timonen |
Jyvaskyla |
Interfaces in inhomogeneous materials: experimental
'determination' of the evolution equation |
| December 3 |
Andrea Liu |
UCLA |
Jamming Cancelled!!! |
| December 10 |
Mark Topinka |
Stanford |
Imaging Electron-Wave Flow Through a Quantum Point Contact |