Each semester, the School of Physics invites a variety of speakers to come share their exciting research with students and faculty at Georgia Tech. All students and faculty are invited. If you have questions or would like to set up an appointment with one of the speakers, please contact Jim Gole, Predrag Cvitanovic', Dragomir Davidovic.
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| --ALL LECTURES ARE ON WEDNESDAYS AT 3:00 pm in LECTURE ROOM 5 UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
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January 4-- Classes begin
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| 01/09/02 |
Cheng Zhu, Mechanical and Bioengineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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| 01/11/02 |
Mette Gaarde, Lund Institute, Sweden
"Attosecond Science - Extreme Non-Linear Optics on Ultrafast Time Scales"
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| 01/16/02 |
Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota
"Electron Glasses, Metals, Superconductors and Quantum Critical Points: The Physics of Disordered Ultr Thin Metal Films"
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| 01/18/02 |
Roland Kawakami, Department of Physics, U. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
"Ferromagnetic Imprinting of Nuclear Spins in Semiconductors"
(Note: starts at 2:00 p.m.)
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January 21-- Official School Holiday
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| 01/23/02 |
Tom Sanders, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Metal Oxide Precursors for Metal Honeycomb Structures"
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| 01/25/02 |
Michael Pustilnik, Theoretical
Physics Institute, U. of Minnesota
"Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots"
(Note: starts at 2:00 p.m.)
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01/30/02
(Note:
Change in Time) |
Alex Dalgarno, Harvard University
4th Earl McDaniel Memorial Lecture
"X-Rays in the Solar System"
(Note: starts at 2:00 p.m.) |
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| 02/18/02 |
Barry
Barker
"STM Studies of Individual Ti Impurity Atoms in Sr2RuO4" |
| 02/20/02 |
Mohan Srinivasarao, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Intriguing Issues in Soft Matter Physics: Irrational Self-Assembly and Anchoring Transitions in Liquid Crystals"
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| 02/27/02 |
Charles Marcus, Department of Physics, Harvard U.
"Small Electronics and Quantum Chaos"
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| 03/01/02 |
Xiao-Min Lin
"Gold Nanocrystal Arrays: Synthesis, Self-Assembly and Electronic Transport"
(Note: starts at 2:00 p.m.) |
| March 4-8-- Spring Break |
| 03/13/02 |
Catherine Brechignac
"Stability of Nanostructures: Nanofractal Films and Cluster Fission"
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| 03/20/02 |
Bill Mc Curdy
"Electron-Impact Ionization of Atoms: Finally Solving the Most Basic Example"
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| 03/27/02 |
Peidong Yang, Department of Chem, U.C. Berkeley
"Nanowire Building Blocks: Rational Synthesis and Novel Properties"
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| 04/03/02 |
Charles Clark, NIST
"Superfluid and Laser Analogies in Quantum Gases"
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| 04/10/02 |
Alfred Marchetti
"The Formation and Spectroscopic Manifestation of Inorganic Clusters on Silver Bromide Interfaces"
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| 04/17/02 |
Michael Duncan, University of
Georgia
"New Forms of Infrared Spectroscopy to Probe Metal Containing Clusters in the Gas Phase"
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| 04/24/02 |
Lynn Boatner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"'Smart' Metal-Insulator-Transition and Magnetic Nanocomposite Layers Formed by Ion Beams"
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April 26-- Last Day of Classes
May 5--End of Term
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