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 16
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, no colloquiumMonday, January 23 - NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION - 4:00pm Dabney Hall, Room 124
Brian GreeneDepartment of Physics and Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
L. H. Thomas Lecture
Monday, January 30
F. William HersmanDepartment of Physics, University of New Hampshire
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of human lungs with hyperpolarized xenon
Monday, February 6
Kevin F. KellyDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
Molecule Motion on Surfaces & Molecular Machines: Driving NanoCars
Monday, February 13
Frank KloseSpallation Neutron Source Project / Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Spallation Neutron Source: A Powerful Tool for Materials Research
Monday, February 20
No Colloquium TodayMonday, February 27
Robert M. DicksonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech
Novel Raman-Active and Highly Fluorescent Noble Metal Quantum Dots
Monday, March 6
Lincoln J. LauhonDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Semiconductor Nanowires: Visualization of Nanoscale Composition and Carrier Transport
Monday, March 13
Zhiwen LiuDepartment of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Manipulation, spectroscopy, and imaging using a white light laser
Monday, March 20
Bruce HindsDepartment 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 PhilbrickDepartment of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Optical Scattering Applications for Remote Sensing Using LIDAR
Monday, April 10
Morrell CohenDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
Electronic Ferroelectricity
Monday, April 17
Ignacio GeneralDepartment 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 StellacciDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
Complex Supramolecular Self-Assembly: a tool to generate novel Nano-Materials and Printing Techniques.
Monday, May 1
Final ExaminationsWednesday, May 3 - NOTE SPECIAL SEMINAR TIME AND LOCATION: 1:30pm Cox HAll, Room 400
Slaven GarajPhysics Department, Harvard University
Coherent electronics with carbon nanotubes: device design, electronic properties, and biological applications.