Autumn 2010 pdf
“First-principles Study of Atomic-Scale Engineered Spin Chains“
Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
Monday, October 18, 2010 – 11:30a.m.
1080 Physics Research Building
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
“The Carbon New Age“
Antonio de Castro Neto, Boston University
Monday, October 25, 2010 – 11:30a.m.
1080 Physics Research Building
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
“Controlling Nanomagnet Dynamics: A New Paradigm for Fundamental Studies of Ferromagnetism“
Mas Crawford, University of South Carolina
Thursday, October 28, 2010 – 11:30a.m.
1080 Physics Research Building
Condensed Matter Experiment Seminar
“Toward Graphene-Based Photovoltaics“
Liang-shi Li, Indiana University, Bloomington
Friday, October 29, 2010 – 2:30p.m.
2015 McPherson Chemical Laboratory
Chemistry, Inorganic Division Seminar
“Cameras, Cars and Carbon“
Kevin Kelly, Rice University
Monday, November 1, 2010 – 4:00p.m.
2015 McPherson Chemical Laboratory
Chemistry, PCSLS Young Faculty Seminar
“Optomechanics with a Silicon Nitride Membrane Approaching the Quantum Regime“
Jack Sankey, Yale University
Thursday, December 2, 2010 – 11:30a.m.
1080 Physics Research Building
Condensed Matter Experiment Seminar
Spring 2010
“Electron Spin Coherence in Silicon: The Long and Short of It”
Dr. Stephen A. Lyon, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
2:00-3:00 pm, Smith Seminar Room
1080 Physics Research Building
CEM Colloquia
“Porous Nano-size Transition Metal Oxides for Selective Oxidations and Biocatalysis”
Steve Suib, University of Connecticut
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 – 4:00 p.m.
2015 McPherson Chemical Labs
Chemistry Colloquium
“Electronically Driven Interface Magnetoelectric Effects”
Evgeny Tsymbal, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Thursday, April 1, 2010 – 11:30 a.m.
1080 Physics Research Building
Condensed Matter Experiment Seminar
“Electrical, Mechanical and Chemical Properties of Graphene”
Kirill Bolotin, Vanderbilt University
Thursday, April 15, 2010 – 11:30 a.m.
1080 Physics Research Building
Condensed Matter Experiment Seminar
“Non-Autonomous Microwave Dynamics of a Nonlinear Spin-Torque Oscillator Driven by Deterministic and Stochastic Signals”
Andrei Slavin, Oakland University
Thursday, April 15, 2010 – 11:30 a.m.
1080 Physics Research Building
Condensed Matter Experiment Seminar
“Engineering the Future of Human Health”
Subra Suresh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 – 2:30 p.m.
U.S. Bank Conference Theatre – Student Union
IMR Colloquium
Mark Bockrath, California Institute of Technology
Research Area: Electronics and Mechanics of Systems that have Critical Dimensions on the Nanometer Scale
Thursday, May 13, 2010 – 11:30 a.m.
1080 Physics Research Building
Condensed Matter Experiment Seminar
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley
Research Area: Thin Film Oxide and Materials Physics of Complex Oxides; Oxide Thin Film Heterostructures, Nanoscale Characterization
Thursday, May 27, 2010 – 11:30 a.m.
1080 Physics Research Building
Condensed Matter Experiment Seminar
Winter 2010
“Extreme Materials Engineering: From Jet-Engine Turbines to Graphene Devices”
Dr. Nitin P. Padture, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Director, Center for Emergent Materials, OSU
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 – 4:00 p.m.
1080 Physics Research Building
Physics Colloquium
“Dynamics of a Magnetic Vortex in a Perpendicular Field”
Olivier Klein, Service de Physique de l’Etat Condensé (CEA-Saclay, France)
Friday, January 15, 2010 – 11:30 a.m.
1080 Physics Research Building
ENCOMM Seminar
“New Measurements of Persistent Currents in Normal Metal Rings”
Jack Harris, Yale University
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 – 4:00 p.m.
1080 Physics Research Building
Physics Colloquium
Ilya Krivorotov, University of California, Irvine
Research Area: Nanoelectronics and nanospintronics, spin dynamics in magnetic nanostructures
Thursday, February 11, 2010 – 11:30 a.m.
4138 Physics Research Building
Condensed Matter Experiment Seminar
“Making Multifunctional Oxide Heterostructures Atom by Atom”
Chang-Beom Eom, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 – 4:00 p.m.
1080 Physics Research Building
Physics Colloquium
“Lateral Spin Transport and Electrostatic Gating in Silicon”
Dr. Ian Appelbam, Dept. of Physics & Center for Nanophysics & Advanced Materials, University of Maryland
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
4:00-5:00 pm, Smith Seminar Room
1080 Physics Research Building
CEM Colloquia