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TEXAS A&M CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR SERIES: SPRING 2007

Please email Jairo Sinova or Artem Abanov to get your event listed.
Links to other semesters' seminars: Fall 2003 ; Spring 2004 ; Fall 2004 ; Spring 2005 ; Fall 2005 ; Spring 2006 ; Fall 2006 ; Spring 2007 ; Fall 2007 ; Spring 2008 ; Fall 2008
Driving Directions for speakers: from Houston, from Austin, from Dallas, from Waco
Dates and locations in red indicate seminar/colloquium times that are not at 4 p.m. in room ENPH 501
See what GOOD speakers can look forward to as a reward. Remember, we are in Texas!!

DATE SPEAKER TITLE OF TALK HOST
Jan. 10th 2007 Dr. Brian D'Urso from Oak Ridge Nat. Lab High Aspect Ratio Microstructures and Nanostructures: Fabrication and Novel Properties D. Naugle
Jan. 11th 2007 Dr. Andras Kis from UC Berkeley Mechanical Manipulation of Nanotubes Don Naugle
Jan. 15st 2007 Dr. Xuan Gao from Harvard U. The Sensitivity Limits of Nanowire Bio-Sensors Whenhao Wu
Jan. 24st 2007 Dr. Igor Roshchin from U.C. San Diego Unusual Magnetic Properties of Nanostructures and Proximity Effect Winfried Teizer
Jan. 28st 2007 Prof. Alex Finkelstein from Weizmann Inst. Spintronics without magnets: spin-optics Jairo Sinova
Feb. 5th 2007 Alexander Kolomenski from TAMU Coherent oscillations in nanostructures measured with ultrafast photonics W. Teizer
Feb. 6th 2007 Dr. Yong Chen from Rice Univ. Quantum Coherence in Insulators Wenhao Wu
Feb. 7th 2007 Dr. Alexey Kovalev from TAMU Current-driven ferromagnetic resonance, mechanical torques and rotary motion in magnetic nanostructures, Part II Ar.Abanov
Feb. 14th 2007 Prof. Christian Jeandey Magnetic Levitation of Microdroplets in Air and Beads in Liquids Igor Lyuksyutov
Feb. 21st 2007 Dr. V. Pokrovsky from TAMU Fast quantum noise in Landau-Zener transitions  
Feb. 28th 2007 Oleg Tretiakov from Johns Hopkins U. Dissipative dynamics and topology of composite domain walls in magnetic nanostrips. Ar. Abanov
Mar. 7th 2007   APS March Meeting  
Mar. 14th 2007   SPRING BREAK  
Mar. 21st 2007 Dr. Serkan Erdin from Baylor U. Photoinduced Magnetism Caused by Charge-Transfer Excitations in Tetracyanoethylene-Based Organic Magnets Ar. Abanov
Mar. 28th 2007 Yafis Barlas Graphene: A Pseudochiral Fermi Liquid Ar. Abanov
Apr. 4th 2007 Dr. Andrei Bernevig from Stanford University Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Phase Transition in HgTe Quantum Wells Jairo Sinova
Apr. 18th 2007, 4pm, Room 202 Carl E. Patton Spin Wave Solitons, Fractals, and Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Recurrence in Magnetic Films W. Saslow
Apr. 20th 2007 (FRI) 4pm, Room 202 V. Pokrovsky Fast quantum noise in Landau-Zener transitions, Part II  
Apr. 25th 2007 C. J. Tymczak Many-Body Density Matrix Perturbation Theory W. Saslow