 January 12
- Using science to understand the limits of technology: Nanoscale friction and lubrication in disk drives
Mathew Mate
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose Research Center
Abstract
- January 19
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, University Holiday
- January 26
- Designability of Protein Structures
Ned Wingreen
NEC Research Institute
, Princeton
- February 2
- Free Evolution of Superposition States in a Single Cooper Pair Box
Pierre M. Echternach
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Abstract
- February 9
- An Improved Josephson Junction Based Quantum Bit
Raymond Simmonds
Quantum Devices Group,
NIST Boulder Laboratories
Abstract
- February 16
- Presidents Day, University Holiday
- February 23
- Biological Networks Are Robustly Designed
Chao Tang
NEC Research Institute
Abstract
- March 1
- High frequency ultrasonic imaging
Kirk Shung
Ultrasonic Transducer Resource Center,
Biomedical Engineering Department,
School of Engineering, USC
- March 8
- Studying Chromosome Dynamics in the Model Eukaryote S. cerevisiae (Baker's yeast)
Oscar Aparicio
Molecular and Computational Biology,
Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Southern California
- March 15
- Spring Break
- March 22
- No Colloquium: March APS Meeting
- March 29
- Quantum computing and superconducting qubits
Per Delsing
Experimental Mesoscopic Physics Group,
Chalmers University of Technology
- April 5
- 'Space Climate' - An attempt to understand long-term Solar-Terrestrial Relationships and their implications for the Earth's past climate variability
Steve Lund
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California
- April 12
- Decoherence in Quantum Information Processing
Todd Brun
Communication Sciences Institute,
Electrical Engineering Department,
University of Southern California
- April 19
- de Novo Multi-Scale Simulations Applied to Protein Folding, Drug Design, Nanotechnology, Materials Science, and Catalysis
William A. Goddard
Materials and Process Simulation Center,
California Institute of Technology
Abstract
- April 26
- Exotic Photonics: truly strange ways that light can be made to behave in artificial optical media
Duncan Haldane
Department of Physics,
Princeton University
- May 3
- Optical studies of material processes on hard and soft surfaces: from thin film growths to biochemical reactions on chips
Xiangdong Zhu
Department of Physics,
University of California Davis
Abstract
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