Speaker:
Mark Stiles (NIST Gaithersburg)
Transport of Spin in Multilayer Films
Host: Einstein
February 6
Speaker:
Dan Ralph
(Cornell)
Quantum States in Metal Nanoparticles
and Single Molecules
Host: Lobb
February 13
Speaker:
Igor Smolyaninov (UMD)
Light-controlled photon tunneling
through nonlinear nanoholes
Host: Yakovenko
February 20
Speaker:
Alexandre Buzdin (Argonne National Lab)
Superconductor-ferromagnet heterostructures
Host: Yakovenko
February 27
Speaker:
Victor Yakovenko
(University of Maryland)
Andreev bound states in
superconductors: Spontaneous soliton formation and fractional Josephson effect
March 6 - APS March Meeting
March 13
Speaker: James W. Davenport (Brookhaven National
Laboratory)
Surface Magnetism
Host: Williams
March 20 - No seminar
March 27 - No Seminar (Spring Break)
April 3
Speaker:
Ramesh Mani
(Harvard)
Novel radiation induced
zero-resistance states in the GaAs/AlGaAs 2-dimensional electron system
Host: Das Sarma
April 10
Speaker: Girsh
Blumberg (Lucent)
Control of surface plasmons emitted from arrays of
subwavelength apertures
Host: Greene
April 17
Speaker:
David Johnson
(University of Oregon)
Controlling Kinetics and Mechanisms in
Solid State Reactions using Modulated Elemental Reactions: New Compounds with
Designed Nanostructure
Host: Fuhrer
April 24
Speaker:
Krishnendu Sengupta
(Yale)
Mott insulators in strong electric fields: Realization
using optical lattices
Host: Yakovenko
May 1
Speaker:
Steven M. Girvin (Yale)
Prospects for Strong Cavity QED in
Superconducting Electrical Circuits
Host: Das Sarma
May 8
Speaker: Stuart
Lindsay (Arizona State)
Single Molecule Electronics
Host: Fuhrer
May 15
Speaker:
Wayne M. Saslow (Texas A&M
University)
Electrochemical and chemical loading:
How bulk flux and reactions adjust to the impositions of surface fluxes
Host: Einstein
please see the Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Schedule Archive for schedules of past semesters