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Monthly Calendar of Events

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Interaction effects in graphene: Where are they?

Who:  Daniel Sheehy - (Louisiana State University)
Where:  Smith Seminar Room (1080 PRB)
When:  Monday, November 2, 2009 at 11:30
Type:  Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Description: Graphene, a one-atom thick sheet of graphite, has received a large amount of attention following its experimental isolation in 2005.... [More]


CANCELLED-String Axiverse

Who:  Asimina Arvanitaki - (University of California, Berkeley)
Where:  1080 PRB, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 04:00
Type:  Colloquium

Description: String theory is the leading candidate for a theory unifying quantum mechanics with gravity. It predicts the existence of new... [More]


Getting the most out of dark matter observations and experiments

Who:  Annika Peter - (Caltech)
Where:  PRB 4138
When:  Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 12:30
Type:  CCAPP Seminar

Description: Dark matter, constituting a fifth of the mass-energy in the Universe today, is one of the major "known unknowns" in... [More]


TBA

Who:  Mike Strickland - (Gettysburg)
Where:  PRB 4138
When:  Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 01:30
Type:  Nuclear Seminar

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Research Area(s): Current research effort is to explore novel physics and phenomena of nanoscale systems such as nanowires, carbon nanotubes and orgainc molecules.

Who:  Jeanie Lau - (Univ. of California, Riverside)
Where:  1080 Physics Research Building
When:  Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 11:30
Type:  Condensed Matter Experiment Seminar

Description: [More]


TBA

Who:  Jacob Bourjaily - (Princeton University)
Where:  PRB M2015
When:  Friday, November 6, 2009 at 12:30
Type:  HEP/Astro Seminar

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Fractional statistics and beam splitters in quantum Hall systems

Who:  Smitha Vishveshwara - (UIUC)
Where:  Smith Seminar Room (1080 PRB)
When:  Monday, November 9, 2009 at 11:30
Type:  Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Description: One of the most fascinating aspects of the two dimensional world is the possible existence of anyons, particles which obey... [More]


Optimizing ligand-protein interactions via SILCS: Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation

Who:  Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr - (University of Maryland)
Where:  1080 Physics Research Building, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Monday, November 9, 2009 at 01:30
Type:  Biophysics Seminar

Description: Fragment-based methods for drug optimization have great potential; however, time, expense and sensitivity considerations associated with NMR and X-ray crystallographic... [More]


Ground and Excited State Dynamics Determine Thymine Dimer Formation in DNA

Who:  Yu-Kay Law - (Kohler lab, OSU)
Where:  1080 Physics Research Building, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Monday, November 9, 2009 at 02:30
Type:  Biophysics Seminar

Description: Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers have been shown to be the most prevalent mutagenic photolesions found upon UV photoirradiation of DNA. Of... [More]


TBA

Who:  Jane Jackman - (Department of Biochemistry, OSU)
Where:  1080 Physics Research Building, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Monday, November 9, 2009 at 03:30
Type:  Biophysics Seminar

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From the Ising model to biological sequence analysis

Who:  Ralf Bundschuh - (Departments of Physics and Biochemistry, OSU)
Where:  1080 PRB, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 04:00
Type:  Colloquium

Description: The life sciences accumulate an enormous amount of biological sequence information. E.g., GenBank, the central repository, currently holds about 250... [More]


TBA

Who:  Marco Van Leeuwen - (Utrecht)
Where:  PRB 4138
When:  Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 01:30
Type:  Nuclear Seminar

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TBA

Who:  Lara Anderson - (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Where:  PRB M2015
When:  Friday, November 13, 2009 at 03:30
Type:  HEP/Astro Seminar

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Nonequilibrium effects in single channel and two-channel Kondo systems

Who:  Aditi Mitra - (NYU)
Where:  Smith Seminar Room (1080 PRB)
When:  Monday, November 16, 2009 at 11:30
Type:  Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Description: It is now experimentally possible to realize both a single channel as well

[More]


Let's go Skating ... and do some Physics on the Ice

Who:  Charlotte Elster - (Ohio University)
Where:  1080 PRB , Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 04:00
Type:  Colloquium

Description: Skating is fun! Figure skating is fun, great exercise and beautiful to watch. Though I skated as a child on... [More]


Identifying Protein Association by Brightness Microscopy: From Principles to Retroviral Assembly

Who:  Joachim D. Mueller - (University of Minnesota)
Where:  1080 PRB, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:00
Type:  Biophysics Seminar

Description: A hallmark of biological systems is the assembly of proteins into complexes that perform specialized functions within the cell. But... [More]


Nuclear receptors, ligands and coactivators: A study of their interactions using Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy

Who:  Yan Chen - (University of Minnesota)
Where:  1080 PRB, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 01:15
Type:  Biophysics Seminar

Description: Nuclear receptors are ligand inducible transcription factors. Upon

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Probing the Isospin-Dependence of Nuclear Equation of State with Heavy-Ion Reactions

Who:  Bao-An Li - (Texas A&M)
Where:  PRB 4138
When:  Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 01:30
Type:  Nuclear Seminar

Description: [More]


"Nanostructural Evolution FeCo/Ferrite and FeNi Nanoparticles and their Use in Ferrofluids and Polymeric Nanocomposite Systems for Biomedical Applications"

Who:  Michael McHenry - (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
Where:  1080 Physics Research Building
When:  Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 11:30
Type:  Condensed Matter Experiment Seminar

Description: [More]


TBA

Who:  Joseph Marsano - (University of Chicago)
Where:  PRB M2015
When:  Friday, November 20, 2009 at 02:30
Type:  HEP/Astro Seminar

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What the most metal-poor stars tell us about the early Universe

Who:  Anna Frebel - (CfA)
Where:  PRB 4138
When:  Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:30
Type:  CCAPP Seminar

Description: The chemical evolution of the Galaxy and the early Universe is a key topic in modern astrophysics. Since the most... [More]


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Who:  Xiaoliang Qi - (Stanford)
Where:  Smith Seminar Room (1080 PRB)
When:  Monday, November 23, 2009 at 11:30
Type:  Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Description: [More]


TBA

Who:  Shlomo Razamat - (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Where:  PRB M2015
When:  Monday, November 23, 2009 at 02:30
Type:  HEP/Astro Seminar

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Probing theBCS-BEC crossover using photoemission spectroscopy.

Who:  Deborah Jin - (NIST, Boulder)
Where:  1080 PRB, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 04:00
Type:  Colloquium

Description: [More]


Critical Measures of Galaxy Environment: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Who:  Darren Croton - (Swinburne)
Where:  PRB 4138
When:  Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 12:30
Type:  CCAPP Seminar

Description: From small to large scales, galaxy environment is one of the key pillars on which our current understanding of galaxy... [More]





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