Departmental events

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August 1st, 2011 to July 31st, 2012. Previous/next year.
Aug01 Rafael Hipolito - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Aug31 Comprehensive Exams - Part I
Sep02 Comprehensive Exams - Part II
Sep02 Guanliang Li Guanliang Li - Departmental Seminar
Sep02 Incoming Fall 2011 Physics Graduate Student Orientation
Sep06 Ice Cream Social
Sep09 First Year Welcome Party
Sep12 Gustavo Marques Tavares - Explaining the t-tbar Asymmetry with a Light Axigluon
Sep13 Matthias Imboden - Diamond NEMS Resonators: Studies in Dissipation and Superconductivity
Sep14 Tyler Dunn - Nonlinear Dynamics in Nanomechanical Resonators and Oscillators
Sep15 Alex Kitt - The Effects of Strain on the Phonons in Graphene
Sep16 Freshman Welcome Reception
Sep21 Physics Department Annual BBQ (Poster)
Oct05 Gene Stanley Economic Fluctuations and Statistical Physics (Poster)
Oct05 Joseph Larkin - Combining Nanopores and Nanoantennas
Oct06 Ice Cream Social
Oct17 Jingdi Zhang - Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Transport Study of Strongly Correlated Materials: Pr0.7Ca0.3MnO3 and BiFeO3
Oct19 Elena Strekalova Effects of the Structure of the Confinement Matrix on Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition and Density Anomaly
Oct24 Kevin Stockley - The Growth of Dynamic Heterogeneities in Supercooled Water
Oct27 Kaca Bradonjic Unimodular Conformal and Projective Relativity
Oct28 2011 Pumpkin Drop
Oct28 Eitan Anzenberg Nanoscale Surface Structuring during Ion Bombardment of Monatomic Semiconductors
Nov03 Ice Cream Social
Nov08 Diego Guerra Noise in Non-Linear Nanoelectromechanical Systems
Nov09 Chen Liu Cluster Mean-Field Study on a Two-Orbital Quantum Spin Model
Nov14 Jeremy Love A Search for Technicolor at the Large Hadron Collider
Nov14 Mengkun Liu Multiple Routes to Metal Insulator Transition in Vanadium Oxides
Nov18 Joel Tenenbaum From Word Birth to Word Death: Statistical Laws Governing Fluctuations in Word Use
Nov21 Mark Dickison Epidemics on Interacting Networks
Dec01 George Keiser Near Field Coupling in Metamaterials
Dec01 Diego Rybski
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany 		On the estimation of damages due to coastal floods Host: Ronny Bartsch
Dec01 Ice Cream Social
Dec06 Andrew Strikwerda Metamaterial Enhanced Coupling
Dec08 Tyler Dunn Nonlinear Dynamics in Micromechanical and Nanomechanical Resonators and Oscillators
Dec09 Matthias Imboden Diamond Nanoelectromechanical Resonators: Dissipation and Superconductivity
Dec13 Christopher Serino Statistical Properties of Systems with Damage and Defects
Dec13 Daniel Volovik The Role of Reinforcement in Opinion Dynamics
Dec14 Bo Chen Growth and X-Ray Spectroscopy Studies of Correlated Vanadium Oxides
Dec15 Clare Bernard Top Physics with the ATLAS Detector
Dec19 Luis Ibáñez Muon Capture on the Deuteron: The Musun Experiment
Jan11 Comprehensive Exams - Part I
Jan13 Comprehensive Exams - Part II
Jan17 David Sperka The CMS High Level Trigger and W' Searches at 7 TeV
Jan23 Colloquium Lunch
Jan31 Kang Liu Phase Transition Kinetics and Critical Phenomena in the Site Diluted Ising Model
Feb01 Colin Howard Examining the Interaction Between Phonons and Dirac Fermion Quasiparticles on the Surface of the Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 via Helium Atom Scattering
Feb02 Ice Cream Social
Feb07 Colloquium Lunch
Feb14 Colloquium Lunch
Mar06
Date changed to suit speaker		 Colloquium Lunch
Mar08 Ice Cream Social
Mar13 Marcia Barbosa
University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Light refreshment served in 1st floor lounge at 3:15 PM		 Water: The Most Complex Fluid Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Mar19 Wei Li Cascading Failures in Interdependent Lattice Networks: The Critical Role of the Length of Dependency Links
Mar20 Erica Saint Clair Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Archaerhodopsin 3 with Applications to Optogenetics
Mar21 Colloquium Lunch
Mar23 Justin Phillips MuSun: Measuring the Rate of Muon Capture in Deuterium
Mar29 Colloquium Lunch
Apr04 Kaca Bradonjic Unimodular Conformal and Projective Relativity
Apr05 Ice Cream Social
Apr06 Andrew Clough The Effect of Solvent Swelling on the Properties of Polystyrene Thin Films
Apr06 Michael Kruskal Raw Data Analysis of ATLAS Backgrounds
Apr06 Andrew Strikwerda Metamaterial Enhanced Coupling
Apr09 Mark Dickison Epidemics in Dynamic and Interacting Complex Networks
Apr09 Chen Liu Variational Methods and their Applications to Frustrated Quantum Spin Models
Apr09 Daniel Gastler Design of Single Phase Liquid Argon Detectors for Dark Matter Searches
Apr09 Mengkun Liu Ultrafast Far-Infrared Studies of Vanadates
Apr10 James McNerney Applications of Statistical Physics to Technology Price Evolution
Apr10 Colloquium Lunch
Apr11 Jason St. John A Search for New Resonances with the Dijet Angular Ratio Using the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment
Apr12 Elena Strekalova Effects of Confinement on the Thermodynamics of Supercooled Water
Apr13 Qian Li Strategy of Competition between Two Groups based on an Inflexible Contrarian Opinion Model
Apr13 Joel Tenenbaum Finance, Words, and Earthquakes: A Physicist's Perspective
Apr19 Javad Noorbakhsh Modeling Collective Behavior in Dictyostelium Discoideum
Apr24 Colloquium Lunch
Apr26 John Ogren Neurophotonic Rhodopsins: Spectroscopic Characterization of Neuronal Triggers, Silencers, and in vivo Voltage Sensors
Apr27 Xiao Luo MuSun: Muon Capture on Deutron
May02 Philip Lawson Electron Charge Asymmetry in W + Jet Events at CMS
May03 Eitan Anzenberg Nanoscale Surface Structuring during Ion Bombardment of Elemental Semiconductors
May03 Ice Cream Social
May10 Songbo Jin Universal Néel Temperature in Three-Dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnets
May11 Cheng-Wei Liu Quantum Phase Transitions via Quasi-adiabatic Evolution
May23 Dongdong Peng Dongdong Peng - Departmental Seminar
May23 Dongdong Peng Study on Polymer Thin Films using Atomic Force Microscopy
May29 Diego Guerra Noise in Nonlinear Nanoelectromechanical Resonators
Jun20 Duan Wang Quantifying and Modeling Cross-Correlations in Multiple Time Series
Jun29 Welcome Baby Party for Profs. Tsui/Cohen & Jessica Morrison
Jul27 Nicolas Di Fiori Modulating the Speed of DNA Translocation through Solid-State Nanopores using Light