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Time
and location: Tuesdays at 4:10 pm in Webster B17
on the Pullman campus of Washington State University, unless
otherwise noted.
Come meet the speaker over coffee & cookies at 3:45 pm
in Concourse on the Ground floor..
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Speaker
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Host |
January 15 |
Geri Richmond , Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, title: At the Water's Edge: Understanding Environmentally Important Processes at Aqueous Surfaces |
JTD |
| January 22 |
Igor Kuskovsky, Queens College of CUNY, New York, title:The Optical Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Quantum Dots |
YG
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| January 29 |
Charles Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Lab
title: Colloids a Model System to Explore Complex Matter with Competing Interactions
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DB |
January 31
Thursday |
Bogdan Damski, Los Alamos National Lab
title:Dynamics of quantum phase transitions in ultracold atomic gases |
DB |
| February 5 |
Sumanta Tewari, Department of Physics,
University of Maryland
title: ''Phenomenological Theory of Non-Collinear Magnetic States in Multiferroics''
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DB |
February 7
Thursday |
Chuanwei Zhang, Department of Physics,
University of Maryland
title:Topology, Statistics, and Universal Quantum Computation in Ultra-cold Atomic Gases |
DB |
| February 12 |
Cynthia Olson Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Lab
title: Local probes at the nanoscale: Avalanches, melting, and jamming transitions
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DB |
February 14
Thursday |
Daniel McIntosh, Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
title: "Exploring Galaxy Evolution with Modern Surveys'' |
GW |
February 19
12 pm |
Andy Boden, Michelson Science Center, California Institute of Technology
title: Spying on Young Stars (at High Angular Resolution)
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GW
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February 19
4 pm
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Inna Ponomareva, Department of Physics,
University of Arkansas
title: Design and modeling on nanoscale through computer simulations
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DB |
February 21
Thursday |
Denis Ullmo, University of Paris, Orsay, France
title: "Many-body physics and quantum chaos in mesoscopic systems " |
ST |
| February 26 |
Adrienne Juett, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
title: The Wonderful Universe of Low Mass X-ray Binaries |
GW |
February 28
Thursday |
Thomas Puzia, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics,
Victoria, BC
title: Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems: The Swiss-Army Knives of Astrophysics
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GW |
March 11 |
Spring Break
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March 18 |
Oksana Ostroverkhova, Department of Physics,Oregon State University
title: Organic (opto)electronic materials: understanding charge carrier dynamics |
MK |
| March 25 |
Larry Sorensen, Department of Physics, University of Washington
title: Brain Physics: New Signals from the Brain |
MM |
April 3
Thursday |
Mark Jarrell, Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, title: Massively Parallel Simulations of the Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors |
MDM |
| April 8 |
Graduate Student MiniColloquium, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Washington State University
title: Three Great Talks |
JTD |
April 17
Thursday |
Brad Gibson, Centre for Astrophysics, University of Central Lancashire,
title: Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud? |
MDM |
| April 22 |
Elisha Polomoski, Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point,
title:The Cosmic Dust Cycle |
GW |
April 24
Thursday |
Sergej Flach, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany ,
title: Localizing energy through nonlinearity and discreteness - from order to disorder |
MDM |
| May 6 |
Achamveedu Gopakumar, School of Physics and Astronomy, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena,
title: Inspiral dynamics of compact binaries: its applications |
GW |
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