Winter 2011

Jan 11 (CM): Lisa Manning - faculty candidate, Princeton University, “Structural soft spots control flow in disordered solids”


Jan 18 : Li Lu - faculty candidate, MIT, “Electronic Compressibility and Magnetization of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructure Interface”


Jan 25 : Jack Sankey - faculty candidate, Yale University




Feb 1 (AMO): A. Kumar, York University


Feb 3 : Shuyun Zhou - faculty candidate, Berkeley 


Feb 8 : Edward Shuman - faculty candidate, Yale University


Feb 15 (AMO): Wen Li, Wayne State University “Strong field dynamics and its applications in physics and chemistry”


Feb 22 (CM): Hong Lui, MIT, “Holographic non-Fermi liquids and quantum phase transitions: many-body physics through a gravitational lens”


Mar 8 (AMO): Mona Jarrahi, University of Michigan, “Plasmonic Photoconductive Terahertz Radiation Sources”


Mar 15 (CM): Edo Waks, University of Maryland


Mar 22 (AMO): Bo Gao, University of Toledo “A new perspective on the quantum theory of reactions”


Mar 29 (CM): Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Ohio State University, “Materials for multifunctional spintronics”


Apr 5 (AMO):


Apr 12 (CM): Milton Cole, Penn State “New phases and novel dimensionality of matter inside and outside of nanotubes”


Apr 19 (AMO): Zhaohui Zhong, University of Michigan, EECS, “Carbon nanoelectronics and nanophotonics”