Departmental events

August 1st, 2012 to July 31st, 2013. Previous/next year.
Aug10
Daniel Volovik
Reinforcement in Opinion Dynamics
Aug20
Kevin Stokely
Thermodynamics and Dynamics of Supercooled Water
Aug29
Comprehensive Exams - Part One
Aug30
Nicolas Di Fiori
Light-Induced Interactions of DNA, Synthetic Fluorophores and Solid-State Nanopores
Aug31
Comprehensive Exams - Part Two
Aug31
Incoming Graduate Student Orientation
Sep12
Guanliang Li
TRANSPORT AND PERCOLATION IN COMPLEX NETWORKS
Sep14
Dr. Bartlomiej Waclaw 
University of Edinburgh
Biological evolution of bacteria - a physicist's point of view Host: Sidney Redner
Sep18
Yiming Xu
A Model Independent Analysis of Dark Matter Direct Detections
Sep21
Department BBQ and Alumni Welcome
Sep21
2012 Alumni Reunion
Sep25
Jiayuan Luo
Behavior of Widom Line near Liquid-Liquid Critical Point
Oct02
Jason Olejarz
Interface Motion and Domain Structure in Nonconserved Coarsening Processes
Oct03
Tatsuhiko Ikeda
University of Tokyo
10 AM SCI 352: Special Day/Time/Place
Foundation of quantum statistical mechanics and eigenstate thermalization hypothesis Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Oct03
Alex Lang
Cellular Identity Landscapes
Oct09
Andrew Clough
Swelling with a Near-Theta Solvent as a Means to Modify the Properties of Polymer Thin Films
Oct15
Kang Liu
Nucleation and Cluster Scaling in the Site Dilute Ising Mode
Oct15
Gary Kazantsev
R & D Machine Learning Group, Bloomberg
SCI 328 at 3 PM; Coffee, cookies served
Tea with Gary Kazantsev from Bloomberg Host: Jiayuan Luo
Oct15
Mikkel Jensen
Stiff or Compliant:Two Different Mechanisms for Actin Regulation
Oct17
Justin Phillips
MuSun: Measuring the Rate of Muon Capture in Deuterium
Oct17
Dr. Ariel Amir
Harvard University
2:00 PM
Universally slow: Aging in glassy systems
Oct24
Nadya Mason
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Note Special Time at 11 AM
Proximity Effects and Metallic States in Mesoscopic Superconductor-Normal Metal-Superconductor Arrays Host: David Campbell
Oct24
Cory Fantasia
Search for WZ Resonances at the CMS Detector
Oct26
Ying Tang
Observing Spinons as Emergent Elementary Particles in Quantum Spin Models
Oct31
Wei Li
Cascading Failures in Complex Network Systems
Oct31
Gordon Baym
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
CANCELLED: TBA Host: David Campbell
Oct31
Joseph Hardcastle
Mobility of Helicobacter Pylori in Gels
Nov01
Xuqing Huang
Cascading Failures in Interdependent Systems and Financial Networks
Nov01
Qian Li
Qian Li - TBA
Nov07
Thierry Giamarchi
University of Geneva
Mobile impurities in quantum systems Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov13
Qian Li
Non-Consensus Opinion Model on Complex Networks
Nov19
Erica C. Saint Clair
FTIR Difference and Resonance Raman Spectroscopy or Rhodopsins with Application to Optogenetics
Nov20
Luca D'Alessio
Many Body Energy Localization Transition in Periodically Driven Systems
Nov28
Dr. Camille Aron
Rutgers University
Strongly Correlated Electrons Driven by an Electric Field Host: Claudio Chamon
Dec12
Karin Dahmen
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2:00 PM
Avalanches, Disorder, and Universality in Condensed Matter Host: David Campbell
Dec14
Jiayuan Luo
Critical Phenomena of Anomalous Liquids
Dec14
Wei Sun
Aberration Compensation with Open-Loop Control in Nonlinear
Dec14
Andrew Clough
Exploring Ways to Control the Properties of Polymer Thin Films
Dec19
Will Morrison
Discovering Spatial Structures in the Astrocytes Cells of the Brain
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
Mar29
Martin Schmaltz/Faculty
Physics Graduate Program Open House 2013
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
Jun12
Dr. Marco Schiro' 
Princeton University
Note special time 11 AM
Quantum Many Body Physics with Strongly Interacting Light-Matter Systems Host: Luca D'Alessio
Jun24
Jason Olejarz
Domain Coarsening and Interface Kinetics in the Ising Model
Jul25
Kang Liu
Critical Phenomena and Phase Transitions in Long-Range Systems