Schedule

PHY 3313

PHY 3323

PHY 3333

Spring 2002

Instructor: Prof. Mark C. Williams

This class will meet every Monday at 12:30 PM in 114 Dana. Changes in time or place will be announced by email.

Apr. 1

12:00 noon (note early meeting time) Election of graduate student representative

Koneswaran Sinnathamby: “Probing Cooperatively rearranging regions [CRR] near the glass transition”

Peyman Khorsand: “Tachyon Condensation in String Theory”

Apr. 8

Mohammed Sakr: “Global phase diagram and forbidden transitions between quantum Hall and insulating states”

Maryam Rahimi: “Magnetoresistance of a 2-dimensional hole system in the presence of a tilted magnetic field”

Apr. 15

12:00 noon (note early meeting time) We are meeting early to allow students to fill out a graduate assistant survey. This is an important opportunity to give feedback to the Office of the Provost regarding your assistantships. Pizza will be served at noon, so be sure to show up for the survey and lunch!

Nazih Hakim: “RF and Microwave Measurements on Various Samples of MgB2”

Sivasubramanian Somu: “Radiation and Ferromagnets”

Apr. 22

Javier Gonzalez: “Detecting Inclined Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Air Showers at Pierre Auger Observatory”

Kiran Pant: “Destabilization of DNA by the Replication Protein T4 Gene 32”

Apr. 29 (last day to be considered for Lawrence Award)

Bogdan Leu: “Nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy of a heme protein”

Artan Kaso: “Left Handed Metamaterials”

May 6

Dan Ionascu: “Investigations of heme proteins using femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy”

Raza Syed: cancelled

May 13

Philip Crider

Achille Corsetti: “Supersymmetric quantum mechanics”

May 20

Abdellah Dakhama: “Magnetic Semiconductors: A route to Spintronics”

Flaviu Gruia: “Ways of improving signal to noise ratio in FCS experiments”