Departmental events

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)
Sep28
Arnab Sen
Boston University
Phase transitions in the frustrated Ising model on the square lattice
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
Oct19
Takuya Kitagawa
Harvard University
Novel topological phenomena in non-equilibrium systems
Oct24
Kevin Stockley - The Growth of Dynamic Heterogeneities in Supercooled Water
Oct26
Jasmine Meroz
Tel Aviv University
Who's Who of Subdiffusive Models
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
Nov16
F. M. Izrailev
Instituto de Fisica, BUAP, Mexico, and Michigan State University
Note: 11:00AM; SCI 328
From classical to quantum chaos:Where are we now? Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov18
Joel Tenenbaum
From Word Birth to Word Death: Statistical Laws Governing Fluctuations in Word Use
Nov18
Roger Melko
University of Waterloo, Canada
Note: 1:30 PM, SCI328
Spin liquid and Deconfined Criticality in a Kagome Lattice Bose-Hubbard Model Host: Anders Sandvik
Nov21
Mark Dickison
Epidemics on Interacting Networks
Nov30
Sidhartha Goyal
KITP at UCSB
Dynamic mutation selection balance as an evolutionary attractor Host: Pankaj Mehta
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
Dec07
Subir Sachdev
Harvard University
Non-Fermi liquids: Field theory vs. holography
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
Feb08
Jay Deep Sau
Harvard University
The search Majorana fermions and non-Abelian statistics in semiconductor-superconductor systems.
Feb14
Colloquium Lunch
Feb16
Michael Kolodrubetz
Princeton University
Non-equilibrium dynamic critical scaling of the transverse-field Ising chain Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Feb23
Michael Rosenblum
Potsdam University
Reconstructing Phase Dynamics of Oscillator Networks Host: Plamen Ivanov
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
Apr04
Dirk Morr
University of Illinois, Chicago
Non-Equilibrium Transport and Current Imaging in Nanoscopic Quantum Networks
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
Apr11
Cristian Batista
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Condensation of Anyons in Quantum Magnets Host: Anders Sandvik
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
May02
Dmitri Feldman
Brown University
Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for chiral systems in non-equilibrium steady states Host: Claudio Chamon
May03
Eitan Anzenberg
Nanoscale Surface Structuring during Ion Bombardment of Elemental Semiconductors
May03
Ice Cream Social
May08
Juan Luis Aragones
University of Madrid
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Phase diagram of water under an applied electric field Host: Feng Wang
May09
Jonathan Simon
Harvard University
Building Synthetic Materials from Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Magnetism in an Optical Lattice Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
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