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ARCHIVE - PHYS 586A
Condensed Matter Physics seminar series
Tuesdays at 4pm, Physics-Astronomy Building room C421
Spring 2005
| Date |
Speaker |
From |
Title |
| Mar 29 |
Dmitry Novikov |
Princeton
(host: Andreev) |
Nanotube in external periodic
potential: Probing commensurate electron states (abs) |
| 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 (abs) |
| Apr 26 |
Dmitri Kilin |
UW Chemistry |
Photoinduced vibrational
coherence transfer in nano aggregates (abs) |
| May 3 |
Alexei Ankudinov |
UW Physics |
Beyond Standard Single
Electron Theory of X-ray Absorption (abs) |
| May 10 |
Gabi Kotliar |
Rutgers
(host: Bertsch) |
Dynamical Mean Field Approach to
Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (abs) |
| May 17 |
Konrad Lehnert |
Colorado
(host: Andreev) |
Fast and ultra-sensitive displacement measurements using an atomic point contact |
Wed
May
18 |
John Cardy
12.30 pm C421 |
Oxford
(host: den Nijs) |
Stochastic Loewner equation for
Physicists (abs) |
| May 24 |
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no seminar |
| May 31 |
Michael Tringides |
Iowa State
(host: den Nijs) |
Incommensurate phases of
Pb on Si(111) (abs) |
Winter 2005
| Date | Speaker | From | Title | | Jan 4 | You Qiang | Idaho (Physics)
host: Cobden | Monodispersive nanoclusters and nanocluster-assembled materials (abstract) | | Jan 11 | Jens Koch | Berlin (Physik)
host: Andreev | Franck-Condon blockade and giant Fano factors in transport through single molecules (cond-mat/0409667, abstract) | | Jan 18 | Victor Gurarie | Colorado (Physics)
host: Andreev | Fermi gas with Feshbach resonant interactions (abstract) | | 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 (abstract) | | Feb 15 | Tony Peurrung | PNNL
host: Spivak | Radiation Detection Material Discovery:
Needs and Approaches (abstract) | | Feb 22 | Jerry Seidler | UW Physics | Symmetry and Final State Effects in Inelastic X-ray Scattering (abstract) | | 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 (abstract) |
Autumn 2004
| | 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 (abstract) | | 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 |
Spring 2004
| Date
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Speaker
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From
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Title
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| March 30
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| April 6
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| April 13
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Rene Overney
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UW Chem Eng
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Mesodynamics in confined polymer
systems
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| April 20
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Argyrios Tsolakidis
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Harvard
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Optical response of finite
systems via TDDFT
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| April 27
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Warren Pickett
|
UC Davis
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Charge Disproportionation and
Spin Ordering Tendencies in the Superconducting Layered Cobaltates (abstract)
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| May 4
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Boris Spivak
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UW Physics
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Solutions of the nonlinear
Schroedinger equation
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| May 11
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Gabriel Aeppli
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UCL
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Brute force quantum
computation (abstract)
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| May 18
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Paul Chaikin
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Princeton
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Triplet superconductivity and
nonFermi liquid behavior in organic conductors
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| May 25
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John Close
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ANU Canberra
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Bose Condensates, Atom-Optics,
Atom-Lasers and Cosmological Analogs (abstract)
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| June 1
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Karl-Heinz Ernst
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EMPA Dübendorf
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Chiral molecules at surfaces:
stereochemistry and two-dimensional enantiomorphism (abstract)
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Winter 2004 schedule
| Date
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Speaker
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From
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Title
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| January 6
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cancelled
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thanks
to the
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Thick
Films of Solid Water
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| January 13
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Sam Fain
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UW, Physics
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Annealing Thin Films of Amorphous
Solid Water: Atomic Force Microscopy at T<150K
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| January 20
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(coincides with colloquium)
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| January 27
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Chulan Kwon
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Myongji Univ (Korea)
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Structure of Stochastic Dynamics
near Fixed Points
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| February 3
C520
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Marcus Mueller
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Mainz
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Coarse-Grained Models for Soft
Condensed Matter: Monte Carlo Simulations and Self-Consistent Field
Theory (abstract)
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| February 10
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Stuart Solin
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Washington U, Physics
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Geometry driven interfacial
phenomena in semiconductor-metal hybrid structures (abstract)
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February 18
12.30pm Wed
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Lincoln Carr
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JILA, U Colorado and NIST
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Achieving a BCS transition in an
atomic Fermi gas (abstract)
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February 20
C520
10.30am Friday
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Josh Folk
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MIT/Stanford
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Decoherence in Confined Systems
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February 24
C520
4pm Tuesday
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Nadya Mason
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Harvard
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Local Gate Control of Carbon
Nanotube Quantum Dots (abstract)
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February 26
C520
4pm Thursday
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Kirill Shtengel
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Microsoft
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Non-Abelian Anyons and
Topological Order in Solids (abstract)
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March 2
C520
4pm Tuesday
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Peter Armitage
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UCLA
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A 'Taxonomy' of Electron Glasses (abstract)
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March 5
C421
1.30 pm Friday
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Jack Harris
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Harvard/MIT
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From the quantum Hall regime to
'spin friction' with micromechanical detectors. (abstract)
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| March 9
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No
seminar
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Autumn 2003 schedule
| Date
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Speaker
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From
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Title
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| September 30
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Ed Stern
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UW Physics
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Subnanosecond X-ray probing of
the kinetics of laser excited Germanium
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| October 7
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Larry Sorensen
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UW Physics
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How magnets remember/forget (abstract)
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| October 14
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Anatoly Kolomeisky
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Rice Chemistry
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Lattice Models of Electrolytes
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| October 15
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Joan Adler
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Technion
Physics
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Visualizing
bulk and surface melting
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| October 21
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Albert Folch
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UW Bioengineering
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Cell Biology on a Soft Chip
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| October 28
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James Anglin
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MIT Physics
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Do vortices have mass?
(abstract)
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| November 4
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Josh Folk
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MIT Physics
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Creation and Detection of Spin
Currents in Nanoscale Devices
(abstract)
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November 5
12.30pm
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Konstantin
A. Chishko
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Verkin
Institute
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2D
cryocrystals on a substrate: thermodynamics and magnetism
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November 7
2 pm (C520)
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Philip
Pillips
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Urbana
Physics
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The
Elusive Bose Metal
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| November 11
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no seminar -
Veterans Day holiday
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| November 18
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David Ginger
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UW Chemistry
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From Nanoparticles to
Nanolithography: Quantum Dots, Diodes, and DNA
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| November 25
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Marc Bockrath
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Caltech Physics
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Nano-scale electronics
(abstract)
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| December 2
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James Phillips
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UMKC Physics
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Thermal disorder, fluctuations
and breakup of finite one-dimensional atomic chains
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| December 9
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Charlie Campbell
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UW Chemistry
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Calorimetric Studies of the
Energetics of Adsorption and Thin Film Growth on Single Crystal Surfaces
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Spring 2003 schedule
| Date
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Speaker
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From
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Title
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| April 1
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Kirill Shtengel
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Microsoft
(host Kirill Katsov)
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Topological Order and Quantum
Computation (abs)
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| April 8
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Kevin Smith
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Boston University
(host Marjie
Olmstead)
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Exploring Many Body Physics in
Low Dimensional Solids using Photoemission Spectroscopy (abs)
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| April 15
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Jens Gundlach
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UW Physics
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Nanopore DNA sequencing
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| April 22
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Kiril Tsemekhman
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UW Chemistry
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Describing electrons in the
lattice with Wannier functions: old approach with new applications
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| April 29
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Chao Tang
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NEC Princeton
(host Jerry Seidler)
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Designability of Protein
Structures (abs)
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| May 6
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Bill Reinhardt
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UW Chemistry
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Progress in the computation of
free energies of granular-like materials, and in the folding and
unfolding of model RNA loops (abs)
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| May 13
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Peter Nellist
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Nion
(host David Cobden)
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Aberration Corrected Scanning
Transmission Electron Microscopy. (abs)
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| May 20
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Chris Stubbs
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UW Phys/Astronomy
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Fundamental physics through
astrophysics
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| May 27
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No seminar
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coincides with department colloquium
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| June 3
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Alexei Ankudinov
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UW Physics
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Physics of X-ray excited states:
nonspherical corrections and dynamic screening effects
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Winter 2003 schedule
| Date
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Speaker
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From
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Title
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| January 14
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Roberto Ramos
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Maryland, Physics (host Oscar Vilches)
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Quantum computation using superconducting
devices
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January 14
1.30pm, B417
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Mathieu Fevre
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LEM-ONERA-CNRS
(host John
Rehr)
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Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics
investigations of thermal transport properties in Zr
(Computational Materials Science Seminar)
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| January 21
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Heiko Wende
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FU Berlin, Physics
(host John Rehr)
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Induced magnetism at thin film interfaces probed by x-ray magentic circular dichroism
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January 23
3pm, C421
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Meir Weger
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Hebrew University
(host Ed Stern)
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Electron-Ion
Interaction in a Nearly Ferroelectric Metal (abstract)
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| January 28
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Sam Fain
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UW Physics
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Nanoscale dynamics of amorphous and crystalline ice at T<150K
(abstract)
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| February 4
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Eric Shirley
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NIST Gaithersburg
(host John Rehr)
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When a photon meets an electron, or, choreographing two particles in a crystal lattice (abstract)
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| February 11
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Oscar Vilches
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UW Physics
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Adsorbed gases on ideal and real carbon nanotube bundles
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| February 18
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Igor Herbut
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Simon Fraser, Physics
(host David Cobden)
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Theory of fluctuating d-wave superconductors: the QED3 and beyond
(abstract)
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| February 25
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Michael Wortis
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Simon Fraser, Physics
(host Mike Schick)
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A New Length Scale for Hydration Forces between Neutral Lipid Surfaces
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| March 4
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No seminar - APS March
Meeting
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March 11
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John Sidles
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UW Mech Eng
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Critical Design Elements for Quantum Molecular Observation
(abstract)
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| March 18
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Marcus Mueller
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Gutenberg, Physics
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Wetting of polymer solutions
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March 21
1 pm, C421
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Vadim Frolov
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Frumkin Institute of
Electrochemistry, Russia
(host Mike Schick)
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Shape bistability of a tubule
made of bimolecular lipid film: experiments, models and implications for
biological processes (abstract)
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Autumn 2002 schedule
Date
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Speaker
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From
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Title
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October 1
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Gerald Pollack
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UW Bioengineering
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Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life: A Fresh Paradigm
for Cell Function
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October 8
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no seminar
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(coincides with address of President McCormick)
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October 15
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David Weitz
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Harvard
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Elasticity of Actin Networks
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October 22
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Jim Hone
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Caltech
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NEMS with nanomaterials: carbon nanotubes and
metal nanowires
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October 29
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David Pengra
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Ohio Wesleyan
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Electrokinetics: Another Tool for Studying Interfaces
in Porous Media - abstract
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November 5
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Kirill Katsov
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UW Physics
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Modelling membrane fusion
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November 12
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Bryan Reed
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UW MSE
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Electronic properties of carbon nanotubes via aloof electron
energy-loss spectroscopy
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November 19
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Boris Spivak
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UW Physics
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Phase separation in a 2D electron gas
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November 26
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Joosi Timonen
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Jyvaskyla
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Interfaces in inhomogeneous materials: experimental
'determination' of the evolution equation
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December 3
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Andrea Liu
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UCLA
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Jamming
Cancelled!!!
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December 10
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Mark Topinka
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Stanford
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Imaging Electron-Wave Flow Through a Quantum Point Contact
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