Seminars are presented at 11:30 AM on alternating Thursdays in the Smith Seminar Room (1080 Physics Research Building)



Autumn Quarter 2009

Time/Place

Presenter

Title

Abstract

1 October 200911:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Jairo Sinova,
Texas A&M University
"Spin-injection Hall Effect: a new member of the spintronics Hall family and its implications in nano-spintronics"     Abstract
8 October 200911:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Anand Bhattacharya,
Argonne National Lab
" Digital Synthesis: A pathway to new materials and novel collective states"     Abstract
22 October 200911:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Raffi Budakian,
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Observation of Fractional Fluxoid States in Mesoscopic Rings of Sr2RuO4 by Ultrasensitive Cantilever Magnetometry"   Abstract
5 November 200911:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau,
Univ. of California, Riverside
  "Electrons in the Flatland: Graphene Nanoelectronics"   Abstract
19 November 200911:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Michael McHenry
Carnegie Mellon University
  "Nanostructural Evolution FeCo/Ferrite and FeNi Nanoparticles and their Use in Ferrofluids and Polymeric Nanocomposite Systems for Biomedical Applications"   Abstract

Winter Quarter 2010

Time/Place

Presenter

Title

Abstract

28 January 2010 11:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Alec Talin,
NIST
  "Electronic transport in nanostructures: why size matters:   Abstract
11 February 2010 11:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Ilya Krivorotov
University of California, Irvine
"Nonlinear magnetization dynamics excited by spin-polarized currents"   Abstract
25 February 2010 11:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
S.Lance Cooper, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 "Tuning Frustration in the Hunt for Orbital and Spin Liquids "   Abstract

Spring Quarter 2010

Time/Place

Presenter

Title

Abstract

1 April2010 11:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Evgeny Tsymbal
Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln
"Electronically Driven Interface Magnetoelectric Effects"   Abstract
15 April 2010 11:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Kirill Bolotin
Vanderbilt University
 "Electrical, mechanical, and chemical properties of graphene"   Abstract
29 April 2010 11:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Andrei Slavin
Oakland University
"Non-autonomous microwave dynamics of a nonlinear spin-torque oscillator driven by deterministic and stochastic signals"   Abstract
13 May 2010 11:30 am
1080 Physics Research Building
Mark Bockrath
University of California, Riverside
"Carbon Nanoelectronics and Sensors"   Abstract