Schedule

 

Winter 2003

 

PHY 3312

PHY 3322

PHY 3332

 

Instructor: Prof. Mark C. Williams

 

This class will meet every Monday at 12:30 PM in 325 CH. Changes in time or place will be announced by email.

 

Jan. 6

 

Prof. Bob Markiewicz: “Magnetism vs Superconductivity: Correlation and Competition in the Cuprates

 

Jan. 13

 

Xiong Ye: “Ultrafast laser spectroscopy”

 

Jan. 20

 

University Holiday

 

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”

 

Florin Gruia: “Temperature effects on the ultrafast dynamics of heme proteins”

 

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”