Autumn Quarter 2007

Time/Place

Presenter

Title

Abstract

4 October 200711:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Marcelo Jaime,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Effects of Geometrical Frustration Revealed by Fine-Tuning Quantum Magnets at High Magnetic Fields   Abstract
18 October 200711:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Arthur Smith,
Ohio University
Combining Magnetism and Nitride Systems: Measuring and Controlling Atomic/Nano-scale Spin Structure    Abstract
1 November 200711:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Berry Jonker,
Naval Research Lab
Electrical Spin Injection into Silicon and Si/AlGaAs/GaAs Heterostructures from Ferromagnetic Metals    Abstract
15 November 200711:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Jagadeesh Moodera,
MIT
Spin Polarized Tunneling: Before and Now    Abstract
29 November 200711:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Sara Majetich,
Carnegie Mellon
Magnetic Nanoparticles: Nanoscale Imaging and Design of Particles for Biomedicine and Data Storage Media    Abstract

Winter Quarter 2008

Time/Place

Presenter

Title

Abstract

10 January 200811:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Jochen Mannhart
Universitat Augsburg
  Interfaces between Functional Electronic Systems Abstract  
24 January 200811:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
James Eckstein,
University of Illinois, Urbana
CANCELLED - Rescheduled for February 28th  
7 February 200811:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Scott Crooker,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Imaging electrical spin injection and transport in semiconductor spintronic devices  Abstract
21 February 200811:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Arthur Nozik,
NREL, University of Colorado, Boulder
Multiple Exciton Generation in Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Novel Molecules: Applications to Third Generation Solar Photon Conversion  Abstract
28 February 200811:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
James Eckstein,
University of Illinois, Urbana
What really happens in the superconducting proximity effect?   Abstract
6 March 200811:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Carmen Almasan,
Kent State University
Vortex Excitations in the Pseudogap Region of Hole-doped Cuprate Superconductors  Abstract

Spring Quarter 2008

Time/Place

Presenter

Title

Abstract

3 April 200811:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Matthias Bode,
Argonne National Laboratory
Imaging Magnetic Surfaces with Atomic Resolution    Abstract
17 April 200811:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Andy Millis,
Columbia University
Optical Conductivity and the Correlation Strength in High-Tc Cuprates: Are the materials Mott insulators and what do we mean by a Mott insulator anyway?    Abstract
8 May 200811:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Ivar Martin
Los Alamos National Laboratory 
Quantum Valley Hall Effect in Graphene   Abstract
15 May 200811:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Amir Yacoby,
Harvard University
Charge Fractionalization in Quantum Wires  Abstract
29 May 200811:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Ali Yazdani,
Princeton University
CANCELLED - Visualizing Pair Formation on the Nansocale and the Riddle of High-Temperature Superconductivity    Abstract