BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//RLASKEY//CALENDEROUS//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122102Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120404T150000Z DTEND:20120404T160000Z UID:event903@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/903 SUMMARY:Unimodular Conformal and Projective Relativity DESCRIPTION:Featuring Kaca Bradonjic\n\nPart of the PhD Final Oral Exams.\n \nExamining Committee:\nJohn J. Stachel\, Gregg Jaeger\, Karl F. Ludwig\, J r.\, Robert Carey\, Kenneth D. Lane LOCATION:PRB 365\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122102Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120406T200000Z DTEND:20120406T210000Z UID:event907@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/907 SUMMARY:Metamaterial Enhanced Coupling DESCRIPTION:Featuring Andrew Strikwerda\n\nPart of the PhD Final Oral Exams .\n\nExamining Committee:  Richard Averitt\, Robert Carey\, Claudio Ch amon\, Shyamsunder Erramilli\, Xin Zhang LOCATION:SCI 352\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122102Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120409T140000Z DTEND:20120409T150000Z UID:event908@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/908 SUMMARY:Epidemics in Dynamic and Interacting Complex Networks DESCRIPTION:Featuring Mark Dickison\n\nPart of the PhD Final Oral Exams.\n\ n LOCATION:PRB 365\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122102Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120409T170000Z DTEND:20120409T180000Z UID:event878@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/878 SUMMARY:Variational Methods and their Applications to Frustrated Quantum Sp in Models DESCRIPTION:Featuring Chen Liu\n\nPart of the PhD Final Oral Exams.\n\nExam ining Committee: \nAnders SandvikAnatoli PolkovnikovRobert CareyRichar d AverittPankaj Mehta LOCATION:SCI 352\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122102Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120409T180000Z DTEND:20120409T190000Z UID:event905@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/905 SUMMARY:Design of Single Phase Liquid Argon Detectors for Dark Matter Searc hes DESCRIPTION:Featuring Daniel Gastler\n\nPart of the PhD Final Oral Exams.\n \nExamining Committee: Edward Kearns\, Steve Ahlen\, Andrew Cohen\, Karl Lu dwig\, Lee Roberts LOCATION:PRB 261\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122102Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120409T183000Z DTEND:20120409T193000Z UID:event891@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/891 SUMMARY:Ultrafast Far-Infrared Studies of Vanadates DESCRIPTION:Featuring Mengkun Liu\n\nPart of the PhD Final Oral Exams.\n\nE xamining Committee: Richard Averitt\, Shyam Erramilli\, Claudio Chamon\, La wrence Zigler\, Xin Zhang\n\nIn my thesis\, I mainly focus on utilizin g ultrafast optical and THz spectroscopy to study phase transition dynamics as well as electron-phonon coupling in high quality V2O3 and VO2 thin films on different substrates. I also discuss the possibility of multiple routes for inducing the insulator to metal transition with ultrafast p ulses at different photon energies. LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122102Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120410T143000Z DTEND:20120410T153000Z UID:event877@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/877 SUMMARY:Applications of Statistical Physics to Technology Price Evolution DESCRIPTION:Featuring James McNerney\n\nPart of the PhD Final Oral Exams.\n \nExamining Committee:\nSidney RednerJ. Doyne Farmer - video conference\n(P roxy:  William Klein)Edward KearnsKarl Ludwig\nJessika Trancik LOCATION:PRB 261\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122102Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120411T140000Z DTEND:20120411T150000Z UID:event904@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/904 SUMMARY:A Search for New Resonances with the Dijet Angular Ratio Using the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment DESCRIPTION:Featuring Jason St. John\n\nPart of the PhD Final Oral Exams.\n \nExamining Committee:\nJames Rohlf\, Robert Carey\,  Kenneth Lane\, C laudio Chamon\, Rama Bansil LOCATION:PRB 261\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122102Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120412T140000Z DTEND:20120412T153000Z UID:event902@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/902 SUMMARY:Effects of Confinement on the Thermodynamics of Supercooled Water DESCRIPTION:Featuring Elena Strekalova\n\nPart of the PhD Final Oral Exams. \n\nExamining Committee:H. E. StanleyKenneth RothschildRobert CareyAnatoli PolkovnikovGiancarlo Franzese (skype)William Skocpol (proxy)Sergey Buldyrev LOCATION:PRB 261\, 3 Cummington Street\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122102Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120413T173000Z DTEND:20120413T183000Z UID:event894@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/894 SUMMARY:Finance\, Words\, and Earthquakes: A Physicist's Perspective DESCRIPTION:Featuring Joel Tenenbaum\n\nPart of the PhD Final Oral Exams.\n \nDissertation Committee: H.E. Stanley\, William Skocpol\, Anders Sandvik\, Richard Averitt\, Sheldon Glashow LOCATION:SCI 352\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120516T122102Z LAST-MODIFIED:19991130T050000Z DTSTART:20120503T140000Z DTEND:20120503T150000Z UID:event917@buphy.bu.edu URL:http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/917 SUMMARY:Nanoscale Surface Structuring during Ion Bombardment of Elemental S emiconductors DESCRIPTION:Featuring Eitan Anzenberg\n\nPart of the PhD Final Oral Exams.\ n\nExamining Committee:\n Karl Ludwig\nWilliam Klein\nOphelia Tsui\nRi chard Averitt\nRobert Carey LOCATION:SCI 352\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR