TEXAS A&M CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR SERIES: SPRING 2006
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| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE OF TALK | HOST |
| Jan. 5th 2006 | Dr. Xiaoliu Chi from TAMU at Kingsville | Organic Electronic Materials | Don Naugle |
| Jan. 18th 2006 | Dr. Janice Guikema from TAMU | Experimental Studies of Single-Molecule Transistors | Jairo Sinova |
| Jan. 19th 2006 | B. Altshuler from Colombia Univ. | Colloquium: Mesoscopic physics: from Brownian motion to quantum devices | Valery Pokrovsky |
| Jan. 20th 2006 | B. Altshuler from Colombia Univ. | Metal-insulator transition in a weakly interacting many-electron system with localized single-particle states | Valery Pokrovsky |
| Feb. 1st 2006 | Dr. Sami Mitra senior editor of PRL | Physical Review Letters: The editorial office, the peer-review process, and recent changes | Jairo Sinova |
| Feb. 8th 2006 | James E Gubernatis from LANL | Electronic Ferroelectricity: some new results for a new phenomena | Siu Chin |
| Feb. 15th 2006 | Doming Seo from TAMU | Thin Firlm Fabrication and Alignment of Single Molecular Magnets | Winfried Teizer |
| Feb. 22nd 2006 | Kirill Rivkin from Northwestern U. | Dynamic Response of Magnetic Nanostructures in the Discrete Dipole Approximation | Wayne Saslow |
| Feb. 28th 2006 | Noah Bray-Ali from Berkely | Ordering near percolation threshold in models of interacting bosons with quenched dilution | Jairo Sinova |
| Mar. 1st 2006 | Prof. Jim Erskin from U. of Texas | Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Thin Films and Microstructures | Jairo Sinova |
| Mar. 8th 2006 | Prof. Eugene Mishchenko from U. of Utah | Optical conductivity of a two-dimensional electron liquid | Jairo Sinova |
| Mar. 15th 2006 | No Seminar: March Meeting | ||
| Apr. 4th 2006 | Dr. Kim Michelle Lewis from LSU | Colloquium: Development of Single Electron Devices and Hybrid Nanostructures | Don Naugle |
| Apr. 5th 2006 | Dr. Igor Roshchin from UC San Diego | Colloquium: Proximity Effects and Magnetism at Nanoscale | Don Naugle |
| Apr. 6th 2006 | Prof. Nitin Samarth from Pen Sate U. | Colloquium: Spin control in semiconductor quantum devices | Michael Weimer |
| Apr. 10th 2006 | Dr. Alexandre Kolomenski from TAMU | Colloquium: Laser excitation and detection of phonons and plasmons at the nanoscale | Don Naugle |
| Apr. 12th 2006 | Dr. Robert Riehn from Princeton University | Colloquium: A nanofluidic toolbox for DNA analysis | Don Naugle |
| Apr. 13th 2006 | Robert Kaindl from Lawrence Berkeley NL | Colloquium: Ultrafast Terahertz Probes of Excitons and Cooper Pairs | Don Naugle |
| Apr. 19th 2006 | Prof. David Reitze from U. of Florida | The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory: Lasers and Optics Probing the Frontiers of Astrophysics | Alexey Belyanin |
| Apr. 19th 2006 | Dr. Madalina Furis from LANL | Colloquium: Probing Bright Excitons and Anisotropy Exchange in CdSe Colloidal Nanocrystal Quantum Dots | Jairo Sinova |
| Apr. 21st 2006 | Dr. Ofer Naaman from NIST | Colloquium: A real-time look at individual tunneling events in single-Cooper-pair transistors | Winfried Teizer |
| Apr. 25th 2006 | Dr. Tami Pereg-Barnea from U. of Texas | A dual vortex lattice - from a phase fluctuating superconductor to a vibrating pair Wigner crystal | Jairo Sinova |
| Apr. 27th 2006 | Prof. Philip Phillips from U. of Illinois | Colloquium: Much Ado about Zeros: Mottness in the Cuprates | Jairo Sinova |