TEXAS A&M CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR SERIES: SPRING 2007
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 |