Department of Physics Colloquia - Spring 2006 Schedule

Unless noted otherwise, Physics Colloquia are held at 4:00 pm in Cox 206. Refreshments are served from 3:30 to 4:00 outside of Cox 110.

Monday, January 9

First week of class, no colloquium

Monday, January 16

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, no colloquium

Monday, January 23 - NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION - 4:00pm Dabney Hall, Room 124

Brian Greene
Department of Physics and Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
L. H. Thomas Lecture

Monday, January 30

F. William Hersman
Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of human lungs with hyperpolarized xenon

Monday, February 6

Kevin F. Kelly
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
Molecule Motion on Surfaces & Molecular Machines: Driving NanoCars

Monday, February 13

Frank Klose
Spallation Neutron Source Project / Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Spallation Neutron Source: A Powerful Tool for Materials Research

Monday, February 20

No Colloquium Today

Monday, February 27

Robert M. Dickson
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech
Novel Raman-Active and Highly Fluorescent Noble Metal Quantum Dots

Monday, March 6

Lincoln J. Lauhon
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Semiconductor Nanowires: Visualization of Nanoscale Composition and Carrier Transport

Monday, March 13

Zhiwen Liu
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Manipulation, spectroscopy, and imaging using a white light laser

Monday, March 20

Bruce Hinds
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky
Functional Nanomaterials: nm-Scale Shadow Lithography, Nanowire Diameter Control, and Carbon Nanotube Based Membranes

Monday, March 27

C. Russell Philbrick
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Optical Scattering Applications for Remote Sensing Using LIDAR

Monday, April 3

Michael Schatz
Department of Physics, Georgia Tech
Huygens' Clocks

Monday, April 10

Morrell Cohen
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
Electronic Ferroelectricity

Monday, April 17

Ignacio General
Department of Physics, North Carolina State University
Teaching Graduate Research Ethics with a Physics Focus.

Monday, April 24 - NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION - 4:00pm EB2 (Centennial Campus), Room 1025

Francesco Stellacci
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
Complex Supramolecular Self-Assembly: a tool to generate novel Nano-Materials and Printing Techniques.

Monday, May 1

Final Examinations

Wednesday, May 3 - NOTE SPECIAL SEMINAR TIME AND LOCATION: 1:30pm Cox HAll, Room 400

Slaven Garaj
Physics Department, Harvard University
Coherent electronics with carbon nanotubes: device design, electronic properties, and biological applications.

Monday, May 8

Final Examinations


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