Schedule

Graduate Journal Club

 

Syllabus

 

PHYG211

PHYG221

PHYG231

 

Instructors: Profs. Brent Nelson and Latika Menon

 

This class will meet every Wednesday at 12 PM in 114 DA. Changes in time or place will be announced by email.

  

Fall 2006

 

Sep. 13

Prof. Armen Stepanyants: Neural Networks

 

Sep. 20

Prof. Robert Markiewicz: Competing Orders and Mott Gap Collapse in the Cuprates

 

Sep. 27

Prof. Mark Williams: Mechanical measurements of single molecule DNA interactions

Prof. Nathan Israeloff: Nanophysics of complex materials

Oct. 4

Prof. Brent Nelson: Supersymmetry at the LHC

Oct. 11

Dr. Plarenta Vodo: "Microwave study of Left-handed Metamaterials"

Oct. 18

Robert Harrington:  "A Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at the Tevatron"

 

Oct. 25

Dan Nissenbaum: "Stickiness in Quantum Monte Carlo calculations"
 

Nov. 1

Prof. Tim Sage: Electromechanics at Atomic Scales

 

Nov. 8

Prof. Darien Wood: "Experimental Particle Physics at Hadron Colliders"
 

Nov. 15

Prof. Don Heiman: "New Materials for Spintronic Applications–Physics and Applications of Nanomaterials"
Prof. Arun Bansil: "Recent Insights into the Workings of Novel Materials"
 

Nov. 22

Thanksgiving Recess

 

Nov. 29

No Journal Club
 

Spring 2007

 

Jan. 17

Prof. J. Sokoloff: "Friction between Polymer Brushes."

 

Jan. 24

No Lecture -- pizza will still be available!

 

Jan. 31

Prof. A. Karma: "Topics in Complexity Theory"

 

Feb. 7

Eugen Panaitescu: "Titanium Oxide Nanotubes: Fabrication, Properties and Applications"

 

Feb. 14

Zhenyu Zhang: "Ultrafast Pump-probe Experiment in Magnetic Field"

Wanzhe Feng: "Study of Combinative Energy Between Two Structural Blocks in High Temperature Cu Oxide Superconductors"

 

Feb. 21

Flaviu Gruia: "Watching the Heme Dance"

Hsin Lin: "Possibility of electron doped bilayer Bi-based cuprate"

 

Feb. 28

Evin Gultepe: "Applications of Nanotemplates and Nanoparticles in Nanomanufacturing and Nanomedicine"

Wael Al-Sawai: "RIXS Spectra for Ladder Cuprate"

 

Mar. 7

Spring break

 

Mar. 14 

Leila Shokri: "Quantifying DNA-protein interactions using an optical trap "

Weiqiao Zeng: "Vibrational Characterization of Myoglobin Compound II"

 

Mar. 21

Adam Friedman: "Transport and Magnetism in Low Dimensional Carbon Structures"

Susmita Basak: "Probing the Higgs Field Using Massive Particles as Sources and Detectors"

 

Mar. 28

Thaya Paramanathan: "Threading Through DNA Bases: A View with Optical Tweezers"

Jingyun Zhang: "SPM Technique And Its Application On NanoStructrual Polymer Material"

 

Apr. 4

Fei Wang: "Study of Chaperone Property of HTLV-1 NC Protein Using Optical Tweezers"

Yunbin Zhang: "Vibrational Dynamics of Iron in Protein"

 

Apr. 11

Hektor Kashuri: "Frequency Dependence of Forearm Muscle Impedance During Isometric Gripping Contractions"

Zuowei Liu: "An Analysis of Z Prime in Stueckelberg Extensions"

 

 

Apr. 18

Hassan Oukris: "FDR Violations in Aging Polymer Glasses"

Zhen Wu: "Fabrication of GaN Nanotubes"