Fall 2003
PHYG211
PHYG221
PHYG231
Instructor: Prof. Emanuela Barberis
This class will meet every Wednesday at
Sep. 10
Introductory remarks
Prof. Jorge José: “Jorge Jose's
physics and biological physics research”
Sep. 17
Prof. Paul Champion “Exploring Low
Frequency Motions in Biological Molecules Using Femtosecond
Coherence Spectroscopy”
Prof. Alain Karma: “Pattern
Formation in Abiotic and Biotic Systems”
Sep. 24
Prof. Mark Williams: “Single DNA
Molecule Studies Using Optical Tweezers”
Prof. Timothy Sage: “Macromolecules or Nanomachines: Protein Structure
and Dynamics”
Oct. 1
Prof. Dave Garelick:
“Body sway studies”
Prof. Jeff Sokoloff:
“Theory of dry friction”
Oct 8
Prof. Yogi Srivastava:
“Gravitational Waves: Future Options Towards Their
Detection”
Prof. Tom Taylor: “String Theory”
Oct 15
Prof. Don Heiman:
“Materials for Spintronic Applications”
Prof. Sergey Kravchenko:
“”
Oct 22
Prof. Haim
Goldberg: “Is the charge on the electron changing?”
Prof. John Swain: “Experimental Astroparticle Physics”
Oct 29
Prof. Bob Markiewicz:
“How Do You Dope a Mott Insulator and Make It Superconduct?”
Prof. Pran
Nath: “Physics up to the Planck scale”
Nov 5
Prof. Emanuela
Barberis: “Hadron colliders physics: Tevatron”
Prof. George Alverson:
“Physics at the large hadron collider”
Nov 12
Plarenta Vodo: “Imaging by a flat lens”
Wenxiang Cao: "Pathway for Diatomic
Ligand entry and Exit in Myoglobin"
Nov 19
Koneswaran Sinnathamby: “Probing mesoscopic scale dynamics in glassy polymers”
Maryam Rahimi: “Suppression of the
weak localization near the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions”
Dec 3
Dan Ionescu:
“Investigations of NO geminate recombination
dynamics in Myoglobin”
Javier Gonzales: “About
Pierre Auger Observatory's offline calibration”
Dec 10
Flaviu Gruia: “The advantages of
Sol-Gel technique to short time scale, low temperature measurements”
Alexander Barabanschikov:
“TBA”
Spring 2004
PHYG212
PHYG222
PHYG232
Instructor: Prof. Mark Williams
This class will meet every Wednesday at
Jan 7
Stuart Schaffner:
"Mitotic spindles self-assemble through the action of molecular
motors"
Abdellah Dakhama: "Nanoworld, where the Sun is smaller than Earth"
Jan 14
Margareta Cruceanu: “Single molecule DNA
stretching studies of nucleic acid chaperone proteins with and without zinc
fingers”
Tomorr Haxhimali: “Phase field
simulation of 2D crystal growth”
Jan 21
Semih Gulzari: “Anomalous Dimension”
Jan 28
David Drosdoff:
“Gravitational Waves and Metallic Antennae”
Feb 4
Ananth Venkatesan: “Quantum Phase
Transitions and Interference Phenomena in Low Dimensional Electronic Systems”
Feb 11
Hektor Kashuri: “Anisotropy of human
muscle via non-invasive impedance measurements”
Sebastian Gurevich:
“Alloy corrosion - a phase-field model”
Feb 18
Tom McCauley: “Mass composition of
ultra-high energy cosmic rays”
Anastasios Psinas: “Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model encountering the Standard
Model of Particle Physics”
Feb 25
Kuo-An Wu: “Pattern Formation in Solid State Physics: FCC
solid-liquid interface Anisotropy”
Bogdan Leu: “Nitric oxide interaction with heme
proteins: a vibrational approach”
Mar 10
Dan Nissenbaum:
“Effects of electron-electron interaction in a two-dimensional Quantum Dot”
Svetlana Anissimova:
“Giant enhancement of the effective mass in a dilute 2Dimensional Electron
System”
Mar 17
Hassan Oukris: “Violation of the
fluctuation-dissipation theorem and frequency domain study during aging
processes in polymer glasses”
Peyman Khorsand: “Physics in 2
dimensions II, Conformal Field Theory Methods”
Mar 24
Zhenyu Zhang: “Step-scanning vs. Rapid- scanning in Pump-probe
Experiments”
Gianluca Castellani: “Concepts of Mass
(Inertial and Gravitational)”
Mar 31
Dana Vladescu:
“Investigation of Drug-DNA Interactions Using Single Molecule Force
Spectroscopy”
Jian Zhang: “The adiabatic molecular dynamics method and its
applications in friction”
Apr 7
Cancelled
Apr 14
Leila Shokri:
“Resonance Raman Spectroscopy and its Biochemical Applications”
Kiran Pant: “Mechanical
Measurements of Single-molecule Binding Rates: Kinetics of DNA
Helix-destabilization by T4 Gene 32 Protein”