Winter 2003
PHY 3312
PHY 3322
PHY 3332
Instructor: Prof. Mark C. Williams
This class will meet every Monday at
Jan. 6
Prof. Bob Markiewicz:
“Magnetism vs Superconductivity: Correlation and
Competition in the Cuprates”
Jan. 13
Xiong Ye: “Ultrafast laser
spectroscopy”
Jan. 20
University
Jan. 27
Koneswaran Sinnathamby: “Nanoscale
probing of time dependent polarization noise in glassy polymer near the glass transition temperature”
Javier Gonzalez: “Pierre Auger
Observatory, calibration of the ground detector”
Feb. 3
Tom McCauley: “Mass composition of
cosmic rays”
Feb. 10
Ananth Venkatesan: “Electrons in 1 and 2
dimensions: a Parallel”
Peyman Khorsand: “Physics in 2
dimensions”
Feb. 17 – Postponed until Feb. 20
Margareta Cruceanu: “Nucleic acid chaperone
activity of HIV-1 Gag components”
Wenxiang Cao: “Effects of the Heme Side Chains on Ligand
Rebinding - kinetics of CO binding to porphine
reconstituted myoglobin”
Feb. 24
Svetlana Anissimova:
“Strongly enhanced effective mass in a dilute 2D electron system”
Mar. 3
Sebastian Gurevich:
“Dealloying a binary alloy: a phase field model”
Spring 2003
PHY 3313
PHY 3323
PHY 3333
Mar. 24
Prof. Jorge Jose: “General
overview of who we are and what we do in the physics department”
Mar. 31
Abdellah Dakhama: “Making semiconductors
magnetic”
Sivasubramanian Somu: “Ordered States of Water”
Apr. 7
Bogdan Leu: “A Heme
Protein Mimic: Computational Predictions and Experimental Results”
Raza Syed: cancelled
Apr. 14
Dan Ionascu:
“Ultrafast spectroscopy of biomolecules
at low temperatures”
Maryam Rahimi: “Suppression of the weak
localization near the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions”
Apr. 21
Kiran Pant: “Kinetics of single DNA molecule denaturation by T4
Gene 32 protein”
Nazih Hakim: “Microwave measurements on MgB2”
Apr. 28 (last day to be considered for Lawrence Award)
Alex Barabanschikov:
“String Theory”
May 5
Plarenta Vodo: “Negative refraction in
left-handed metamaterials and in microwave photonic
crystals”
Tomorr Haxhimali: “Orientation Selection
for Crystal Growth (Al alloys)”
May 12
Shomeek Mukhopadhyay: “Dynamics of supercooled liquids”
Semih Gulzari: “Functional Integration”
May 19
Daisuke Sato: “Spectral statistics
of microwave disordered billiards”
Mohammed Sakr:
“Magnetization measurements in a 2D electron system”