Hari Manoharan (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Quantum Mirages
Host: Ellen Williams

Konstantin Matveev (Department of Physics, Duke University)
Electron transport in quantum wires connected to quantum dots
Host: Victor Yakovenko

James Hone (Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania)
Carbon Nanotubes:  Electrons and Phonons on the Nanoscale
Host: Ellen Williams

Grzegorz Karczewski (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
Optical properties of  two-dimensional electron gas in II-VI quantum well structures
Host: Bob Anderson

Issaak Khalatnikov (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia and Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Conductivity of  Two-Dimensional Three-Component Regular Composites
Host: Sergey Novikov.  Dr. Khalatnikov is visiting UMD from mid-February to mid-March 2000

Alexey Bezryadin (Harvard University)
Quantum superconductor-insulator phase transition in ultrathin nanowires
Host: Ellen Williams

Michael Fuhrer (University of California at Berkeley)
Connecting Carbon Nanotubes
Host: Ellen Williams

Ray Phaneuf (University of Maryland)
Novel Microscopies for Studying Small Device Structures
Host: Ellen Williams

Zhen Yao (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Carbon Nanotube Wires and Junctions
Host: Ellen Williams

Philip Stamp (Spinoza Institute, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Mechanisms of Decoherence
Host: Victor Yakovenko

Chongwu Zhou (Department of Chemistry, Stanford University)
Molecular Electronics: Conjugated Molecular Wires and Carbon Nanotubes
Host: Ellen Williams

Chandan Dasgupta (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Pattern formation in surface growth
Host: Sankar Das Sarma

Paola Barbara (Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland)
Josephson-Junction Array Masers

No seminar:  Spring Break

Andrei Lopatin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University)
Hall effect in a system of coupled Luttinger chains
Host: Victor Yakovenko

Philip Allen (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Self-localized holes and electron-hole pairs in LaMnO₃
Host:  Jaroslav Fabian

Woowon Kang (Department of Physics, University of Chicago)
Ferromagnetic Ordering and Relaxation in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime of a Two Dimensional Electron System
Host: Victor Yakovenko

Victor Yakovenko (Department of Physics, University of Maryland)
Electrons on edge

Paul Crowell (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota)
Magnetism in Semiconductors
Host: Igor Zutic

Ricardo Decca (Indiana University Perdue Universtity Indianapolis)
Anomalous Proximity Effect in Underdoped YBa₂Cu₃O_6+x Josephson Junctions
Host: Dennis Drew

Marco Colombini and Sergei Sukharev (Department of Biology, University of Maryland)
Gating of membrane channels by voltage and stretch
Host: Victor Yakovenko

please see the Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Schedule Archive for schedules of past semesters