USC Physics & Astronomy
Department Colloquium

The Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium is held on Monday afternoons at 4:15 p.m. in room SLH 102 unless otherwise noted.

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August 27

Yet Another Solar Neutrino Talk
Werner Däppen
Dept. of Physics, University of Southern California

September 3

No Colloquium: Labor Day, University Holiday

September 10

No Colloquium

September 17

Periodic Analysis of the Labeled Release Experiments from the Viking Landers
Joe Miller
Dept. of Cell and Neurobiology, USC School of Medicine

September 24

Wetting, Prewetting, and Sticky Superfluids
Peter Taborek
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Irvine

October 1

High Performance Computing and Visualization: Opportunities and Challenges at the Information-Bio-Nano Interface
Priya Vashishta
Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulations, Louisiana State University

October 8

Scaling Behavior of Cracks in Dynamic Fracture: Multiscale Simulations from Atoms to Continuum
Rajiv K. Kalia
Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulations, Louisiana State University

October 15

Trillions of Quantum Dots, Fingerprints, Nanolithography with Diblock Copolymers, and the Formation of Striped Patterns
Paul Chaikin
Dept. of Physics, Princeton University
Abstract

October 22

Nonlinear and Quantum Atom Optics
Michael G. Moore
Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

October 29

Nanomechanics
Kamil L. Ekinci
Condensed Matter Physics, California Institute of Technology
Abstract

November 5

Experiments with Laser-Cooled Ion Crystals
Jason Kriesel
Ion Storage Group, Time & Frequency Division, NIST, Boulder
Abstract

November 12

Manipulation of Magnetic Flux Quantum to Realize 100 GHz+ Digital Logic
Nate Newman
Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Arizona State University
Abstract

November 19

Physics with Rare Isotopes
Thomas Glasmacher
Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL),
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

November 26

Charge Transport in Nanoscale Devices
Jia G. Lu
Electrical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis

December 3

Surface Melting of Ice
Yuen-Ron Shen
Department of Physics, Univ. of California, Berkeley

December 10

Fun with Dirac-like Quasiparticles in a d-wave Superconductor
Phuan Ong
Dept. of Physics, Princeton University
Abstract