Departmental events

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Jan09
Comprehensive Exams - Part One
Jan11
Comprehensive Exams - Part Two
Jan16
Songbo Jin
 Phase Transitions in Classical and Quantum Spin Systems
Jan23
Adrian Feiguin
Northeastern University
Note special time: 11 AM
 Toward a unified description of spin incoherent behavior at zero and finite temperatures Host: Michael Kolodrubetz
Jan30
Dr. Igor Mazets
Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Atominstitut, TU Wien and Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2:00 PM
 Description of phase fluctuations in atomic quasicondensates via the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic process Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Jan30
Jeffrey Gustafson
 Search for Neutron Oscillation at Super-Kamiokande
Feb06
Dr. Haris Kudrolli
 Job Hunting 101: Applying to Industry Positions
Feb12
Brian Alex Long
 A Search for new Heavy Gauge Bosons Decaying to a Lepton Plus Missing Transverse Energy Using pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV in the ATLAS Detector
Feb25
Dave Newby
 Soft X-ray Studies of Cycloparaphenylene
Feb27
Kun Geng
 Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Materials
Mar04
Alex Kitt
 Strain Dependent Friction is Graphene
Mar06
James Silva
 The Harris Criterion and Fixed Spin Quenched Disorder
Apr01
Luca D'Alessio
 Dynamics of Repeatedly Driven Closed Systems
Apr05
Dr. Titus Neupert
Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
 Topology and Quantum Geometry in Flat Electronic Bands Host: Claudio Chamon
Apr11
Xuqing Huang
 Network Theory and Its Application in Economic Systems
Apr12
Mikkel Jensen
 Regulation of Mechanics and Dynamics of Actin Filaments and Networks by Actin-Binding Proteins
Apr16
Sebastian Remi
 Measurement and Control of Electron-Phonon Interactions in Graphene
Apr17
Moshe Goldstein
Yale University
2:00 PM
 Quantum Impurity Physics with Microwave Photons Host: Claudio Chamon
Apr22
Ted Pudlik
 The Dissipative Dynamics of a Bose-Hubbard Dimer
Apr24
Di Zhou
 Assortativity Decreases the Robustness of Interdependent Networks
Apr25
Zhiqiang Su
 Fermi-Jagla Potential –A Spherically Symmetric Potential Mimics Water
May01
Alan Gabel
 Growing Complex Networks
May01
Anushya Chandran
Princeton University
2:15 PM
 Equilibration and coarsening in the quantum O(N) model Host: Michael Kolodrubetz
May06
Nicholas Lubbers
 Agent Based Economics and the Relationship between Growth and Wealth Inequality
May08
Onuttom Narayan
UC Santa Cruz
2:00 PM
 Energy transport in low dimensional systems Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
May09
Xuan Gu
 Study of Striatal Cholinergic System in Parkinson’s Disease by Optogenetics
May10
Clare Bernard
 Standard Model and Exotic Physics with the Top Quark at ATLAS
May13
Zi Yang Meng
Louisana State University
Note special day/time: Monday, May 13, 2013 11 AM
 Dynamical cluster quantum Monte Carlo studies on strongly correlate electron systems Host: Thomas Lang
May16
Han Han
 A MEMS Based Device for Direct Fabrication of Multilayer Nanoscale Structures
May22
Alioscia Hamma
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
 Topological Entropy after a Quantum Quench Host: Claudio Chamon
May29
Peter Grishin
Vienna University of Technology and Boston University
Note special time 11 AM
 On the road to quantum turbulence: Relaxation and thermalization of a one-dimensional interacting quantum many-body system. Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Aug28
John Butler
 Comprehensive Exam - Part I
Aug29
Sid Redner/Rick Averitt
 New Physics Graduate Student Orientation
Aug30
John Butler
 Comprehensive Exam - Part II