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

 

Spring 2007

 

Jan. 17

Prof. Sokoloff: "Friction between Polymer Brushes."
 

 

Jan. 24

 

Jan. 31

 

Feb. 7

Eugen Panaitescu

 

Feb. 14

 

Feb. 21

 

Feb. 28

 

 

Mar. 7

Spring break

 

Mar. 14 

Leila Shokri

 

Mar. 21

Adam Friedman

Wael Al-Sawai

 

Mar. 28

Thaya Paramanathan

 

Apr. 4

Fei Wang

 

Apr. 11

 

 

Apr. 18

Hassan Oukris

Zhen Wu