Schedule

Graduate Journal Club

 

PHYG211

PHYG221

PHYG231

 

Instructor: Professor Brent Nelson

 

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

  

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Fall 2007

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Sep. 12

Prof. Brent Nelson

"Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC" 

Sep. 19

Prof. Jeffrey Sokoloff

"Theoretical Mechanisms for Super-Lubricity: Is there a Theory that Predicts the Occurrence of Friction?"

Sep. 26

Prof. Don Heiman

"Nanomagnetism for Spintronics"

Oct. 3

Prof. Srinivas Sridhar

"Applications of Nanoscience"

Oct. 10

Prof. Brent Nelson (emergency replacement for Prof. Taylor)

"A Geometrical Approach to Particle Physics"

Oct. 17

Prof. Emanuela Barberis

"Physics at Hadron Colliders"

Oct. 24

Prof. Tomasz Taylor

"Strings, Twistors and Fundamental Theory"

Oct. 31

Prof. Latika Menon

"Nanomaterials Using Porous Templates"

Nov. 7

Prof. Robert Markiewicz

"Can Waterfalls Solve the Problem of High-Temperature Superconductivity?"

Nov. 14

Prof. Haim Goldberg

"Black Holes, Neutrinos and High Energy Cosmic Rays"

Nov. 21

NO JOURNAL CLUB

 

Nov. 28

Dr. Tom Paul

"Studying High Energy Cosmic Rays at the Pierre Auger Observatory"

Dec. 5

Prof. Paul Champion

"Coherent motions in biomolecules and their role in biological reactions"

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Spring 2008

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Jan. 16

Tanmoy Das: "Two gap behavior in electron and hole doped high-Tc superconductors"

TBA

Jan. 23

Prof. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

"Human Dynamics: From priority setting to human travel patterns"

Jan. 30

NO JOURNAL CLUB

 

Feb. 6

NO JOURNAL CLUB

 

Feb. 13

Prof. Pran Nath

"From the Electroweak Scale to the Planck Scale"

 

Feb. 20

Evin Gultepe: "Physics of Nanoplatforms and Their Applications"

 

Feb. 27

Nan Wang: "Phase-field model of grain-boundary premelting"

Hsin Lin: "Appearance of Universal Metallic Dispersion in a Doped Mott Insulator"

 

Mar. 5

SPRING BREAK

 

Mar. 12

Dan Feldman: "Sparticles at the LHC and Direct Detection of Dark Matter"

 

Mar. 19

Thaya Paramanathan: "Threading Into the Secret of Life"

 

Mar. 26

Wael Al-Sawai: "Self Energy Corrections for Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) in the Cuprates"

 

Apr. 2

NO JOURNAL CLUB

 

Apr. 9

Michael Holmes: "Supersymmetric Dark Matter Signals and Distinguishing Models"

Tarec Fares: "Neuron Morphology and Synaptic Connectivity in the Brain"

 

Apr. 16

Hassan Oukris: "Fluctuation Dissipation Relation and Scaling Behavior in Glassy Polymers"

Ismet Altunkaynak: TBA