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.
----ALL LECTURES are on Fridays at 3:00 pm in Lecture Room 5 UNLESS
OTHERWISE NOTED.
Fall 2005 Schedule
| Date | Topic |
| 08/22 | First Day of Fall 2005 Classes |
| 08/30 |
Marcel Lucas, Materials Science Centre School of Materials, U. of
Manchester, UK "Raman Spectroscopic Study of the Effect of Strain Upon Carbon Nanotubes" |
|
|
|
| 09/05 | Official School Holiday |
| 09/12 |
Alex H. Lacerda, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory "Condensed Matter Physics at Extreme Conditions: High B, and Low T" (Host: Dr. Sa de Melo) Note: This is Monday |
| 09/20 |
Suzi Jarvis, Nanoscale Function Group, Ctr. Research on Adaptive
Nanostructures and Nanodevices, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland "Surface Proximity Effects on Water and Solvated Ions" (Host: ) Note: Rm. N110, Tuesday, 11:00 AM |
| 09/21 |
Ray Goldstein, Dept. of Physics, U. of Arizona "The Physics of Multicellularity" (Host: B. Kennedy) |
| 09/23 |
Tianbo Li, School of Physics, Georgia Tech "Growth and Characterization of Ultrathin Epitaxial Graphite films on Silicon Carbide" (Host: P. First) |
| 09/30 |
James Gole, Stephen Lewis, Sharka Prokes, and Andrei Federov,School of Physics, Georgia Tech "Nanostructures and Porous Silicon: Activity and Phase Transformation in Sensors and Photocatlytic Reactors" |
|
|
|
| 10/07 |
Robert Szoszkiewicz, School of Physics, Georgia Tech "Nanoscale Capillary Bridges Investigated by Friction Force Microscopy" (Host: E. Riedo) |
| 10/14 |
Uzi Landman, School of Physics, Georgia Tech "Small is Different: Some Emergent Physics and Chemistry at the Nanoscale" |
| 10/17~18 | Fall 2005 Recess |
| 10/21 |
Michael Pustilnik, School of Physics, Georgia Tech "Kondo Effect in Nanostructures" |
| 10/28 |
Alexei Marchenkov, School of Physics, Georgia Tech "Quantum Transport in Fully Characterized Atomic-Size Contacts" |
|
|
|
| 11/04 |
Dragomir Davidovic, School of Physics, Georgia Tech "Electron-Waves and Spin-Texture in Nanomagnets" (Reserved by P. Cvitanovic) |
| 11/11 |
Jiang Xao, School of Physics, Georgia Tech "Spin Transfer Torque in Nanomagnets" (Host: A. Zangwill) |
| 11/18 |
John Cooke, Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory "Oak Ridge National Laboratory Facilities, Your New Windows to the Unknown – Plus the Itinerant Magnetism Saga" (Host: M-Y. Chou) |
| 11/24~25 | Official School Holiday |
|
|
|
| 12/02 |
Cecile Naud, LEPES-CNRS Grenoble-France "Quantum Transport in Nanostructures" (Host: C. Berger) |
| 12/09 |
Ray Simmonds, NIST, Boulder, CO "Investigating Coherence with Josephson Phase Qubits" (Host: A. Marchenkov) |
| 12/09 | Last Day of Classes |
|
|
|
| 01/09 | Spring Term 2006 Classes Being |
