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Symposium

Symposium - April 22, 2015
The Topological Insulating State: a New State of Matter


Seminars

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

March 30, 2016
Dr. Deyu Lu

Title: Local representation of the electronic dielectric response function: Theory and applications".

Nuclear and Particle Physics Seminar

January 14, 2015
Markus Diefenthaler, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

Title: The E-906/SeaQuest experiment at Fermilab

March 11, 2015
Yuri Kovchegov, Ohio State University

Title: Sivers function in the Quasi-Classical Approximation

May 6, 2015
Jan Bernauer, MIT

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

April 22, 2015
William C. Stwalley, University of Connecticut
Title: High Resolution Spectroscopy of Long-Range “Trilobite-like” States of Ultracold 85Rb2 Molecules

Materials Seminars

February 12, 2015
Douglas R. Strachan, University of Kentucky
Title: Low-Dimensional Properties of Atomically-Thin Materials and Systems

April 28, 2015
Alexander N. Vasiliev, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
Title: Low-Dimensional Properties of Atomically-Thin Materials and SystemsQuantum Phenomena In Nature: Superconductivity And Peculiar Magnetism In Minerals

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

October 15, 2014
Igor Beloborodov, CSUN
Title: Response properties of composite materials (Condensed Matter Physics Seminar)

October 22, 2014
Jianguo Wen, ANL

Title: Aberration-Corrected Transmission Electron Microscopy for Advanced Materials Characterization

November 12, 2014
Sophie De Brion, Institut Néel - Université Grenoble Alpes / CNRS

Title: THz Magneto-Electric excitations in multiferroic compounds

December 17, 2014
Vincent Meunier, RPI

Nuclear and Particle Physics Seminar

October 29, 2014
Joel Giedt, RPI

Title: Low-lying scalar mesons on and off the lattice

November 26, 2014
J.P. Chen, JLab

Title:  Physics Program with SoLID at JLab

December 10, 2014
Ian Cloet, ANL

Title: Insights into Hadron and Nuclear Structure from Continuum QCD

Colloquium

Fall 2016 Schedule

August 29, 2016
Yugang Sun
Temple University, Chemistry Department

September 12, 2016
Student Progress Reports

September 19, 2016

Guang-Lin Zhao
Southern University and AM College, Baton Rouge, LA
Title: The Puzzle of Anomalous Isotope effect in High and Low Tc Superconductors

September 26, 2016

Saw Wai Hla
Physics Department, Ohio University and Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Exotic Molecular Systems: Molecular Machines to Molecular Superconductors


October 3, 2016
Student Progress Reports

October 10, 2016
Daniel Angerhausen
NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Lab
Title: Sniffing Alien Atmospheres: Exoplanet spectrophotometry (from ground-, airborne- and space-based observatories)



October 17, 2016
Iain Stewart
MIT, Physics Department
Title: New Windows into the Strong Interaction and Beyond

October 24, 2016
Ivan Božović
Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Applied Physics Dept., Yale University
Title: Why is Tc in cuprates so high?

October 31, 2016
Tomasz Skwarnicki
Professor of Physics, Syracuse University
Title: Tetra- and penta-quark results from LHCb

November 7, 2016
Student Progress Reports

November 14, 2016
Kenneth Burch
Boston College, Physics Department
Title: Search for New Excitations in Topological Places

November 28, 2016
Jennifer Hoffman
Harvard University, Physics Department
​Title: Imaging the Surface States of a Strongly Correlated Topological Insulator

Winter Break

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Fall 2015 - Spring 2016 Schedule

August 31, 2015
Student Progress Reports

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After the Colloquium there will be a welcome reception for incoming graduate students at 4:00 pm at SERC mezzanine.
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September 14, 2015
Spiridoula Matsika
Department of Chemistry, Temple University
Title: Photoinitiated processes in biologically relevant molecules

September 28, 2015
Student Progress Reports
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October 5, 2015
Peter Dourmashkin
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: TEAL: A Fifteen Year Experiment in Changing Educational Cultures at MIT
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October 12, 2015
Gary Wiederrecht
Center for Nanoscale Materials,  Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Nanophotonic Structures for Solar Light Harvesting and Ultrafast Optical Responses
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October 19, 2015
Aaron Bernstein
Department of Physics, MIT
Title: Nuclear Weapons: Hiroshima to Today
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October 26, 2015
Barry Holstein
Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title: To be Announced

November 2, 2015
Student Progress Reports

November 9, 2015
Peter Persans
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title: Variations on a Theme: Engaging Students in Introductory Physics

November 16, 2015
Haiyan Gao
Duke University and Duke Kunshan University
Title: Proton Remains Puzzling
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November 30, 2015
Berndt Mueller
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Title: TBA

December 2, 2015
Simon Sirca
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 
Title: The Roper Resonance: Ignoramus Ignorabimus?
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December 7, 2015
Jeff Neaton
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley
Title:  "Charge transport and energy conversion at the nanoscale: from single-molecule circuits to solar cells"

WINTER BREAK


January 11, 2016
Jun Ye

JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: Making the world's best atomic clock
 
January 25, 2016

Peter Fischer
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: 
Magnetism in the Spotlight of Polarized X-rays

February 1, 2016
Siu-Tat Chui
Department of Physics, University of Delaware

Title: Spin Plasmonics

February 8, 2016
Jianwei Sun
Physics Department, Temple University
Title: Developing and Applying DFT to Study/Design Molecules and Materials for Clean Energy and Pharmaceuticals


February 15, 2016
Peter Armitage
Department of Physics,
 Johns Hopkins University
Title: On Ising's Model of Ferromagnetism
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February 22, 2016
Student Reports
Physics Department, Temple University
Title:
Student Progress Reports


March 7, 2016
Douglas Beck
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
From yeV to PeV: Searching for the Neutron Electronic Dipole Moment

March 14, 2016
Student Reports
Physics Department, Temple University
Title: Student Progress Reports

March 21, 2016
Student Reports
Physics Department, Temple University
Title: Student Progress Reports

March 28, 2016
Vidya Madhavan

Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Massless and Massive Electrons: Relativistic Physics in Condensed Matter Systems

April 4th, 2016
Adam Burrows
Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Title: The Emerging Theory of Supernova Explosions

April 11, 2016
Robert W. Field; Haslam and Dewey Professor
Chemistry Department, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Title: Molecules Behaving Badly

April 18, 2016
Richard Milner
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: A History of Spin

April 25, 2016
Pete Fischer
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: Magnetism in the Spotlight of Polarized X-rays



Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 Schedule

September 8, 2014
Michelle Dolinski

Physics Department, Drexel University
Title: Neutrino physics with EXO-200 and beyond
 
September 15, 2014
Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

Physics Department, Yale University
Title: Using polarity to control transport or orbital configuration at transition metal oxides interfaces

September 29, 2014
Jorge Hirsch

Physics Department, University of California, San Diego
Title: A new conception of superconductivity that is consistent with Faraday’s law

October 13, 2014
Mohit Randeria

Department of Physics, Ohio State University
Title: Skyrmions and spirals in chiral magnets

October 20, 2014
Arunava Gupta

Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama
Title: Magnetic Spinel Ferrite Thin Films and Nanostructures

October 27, 2014
Michael Pennington

Jefferson Lab, Theory Center
Title: The Brief Life of a Hadron

November 3, 2014
Marsha Lester

Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Title: A New View on Tropospheric Chemistry of Alkenes

November 10, 2014
François Légaré

Institut National de la Recherche Scientific, Canada
Title: Ultrafast X-ray science at ALLS

November 17, 2014
Duncan Haldane

Physics Department, Princeton University
Title: Topology and Geometry in Quantum Condensed Matter Physics

December 1, 2014
Student Progress Reports

Announcement

December 8, 2014
David De Mille

Physics Department, Yale University
Title: Diatomic Molecules and Quantum Tools
Winter Break

January 12, 2015
Student Progress Reports

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January 26, 2015
Andrew Zangwill
School of Physics, Georgia Tech
Title: 
Walter Kohn and the Creation of Density Functional Theory

February 2, 2015
Student Progress Reports

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February 16, 2015
Dong H. Wu
US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
Title: 
High-power, high-resolution terahertz-spectroscopy technologies and their applications

February 23, 2015
Heidi Newberg
Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title: 
Not Your Mother's Milky Way: Lumpy Halo, Wiggly Disk

March 9, 2015
Paul J. Wiita
Department of Physics, The College of New Jersey
Title: Measuring and Modeling Variability in Quasars and Blazars

March 16, 2015
John F. Zasadzinski
Illinois Institute of Technology & Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: 
Superconductivity in Accelerator and Particle Physics 

March 23, 2015
John Wei
Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Title: Visualizing Diamagnetic Depairing in a Multiband Superconductor with STM Spectroscopy 


March 30, 2015
Josh Klein
Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Neutrinos, Antineutrinos, and No Neutrinos


April 6, 2015
Andrey Viselov
Department of Chemistry, University of South California
Title: X-ray Coherent Diffraction Imaging of Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets

April 13, 2015
Kyungwha Park
Department of Physics, Virginia Tech
Title: Proximity effects on topological surface states of Bi2Se3 at non-magnetic and magnetic interfaces from first
principles


April 20, 2015
Katherine Willets
Department of Chemistry, Temple University
Title: Super-resolution Imaging of Plasmonic Nanostructures 


April 27, 2015
Martin Savage 
University of Washington
Title: Nuclear Forces from Quantum Chromodynamics

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