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Colloquia Series

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 Cvitanovic , Raman, or Wood.

--ALL LECTURES ARE ON WEDNESDAYS AT 3:00 P.M. IN LECTURE HALL 5 UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
--THE RECEPTION WILL BE AT 2:30 PM IN ROOM N201.

 

Fall 2006 Schedule

 
Date Topic
08/21 First Day of Fall 2006 Classes
08/23 Mei-Yin departmental gathering
(Host: M-Y. Chou)
08/28 Chris Monroe, U. of Michigan
"Quantum Computers and Trapped Ions"
(Host: M. Chapman)
Note: time is 4pm in Lecture Room 3 (reception at 3:30 in N201).

09/04 Official School Holiday
09/13 Anthony D. Kennedy, Physics, University of Edinburgh
"Computational Physics -- Numbers or Understanding?"
(Host: P. Cvitanovic)
09/20 Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory
Biomagnetic Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles
"Shaken Not Stirred, A New Approach to Biomagnetic Sensing"
(Host: D. Davidovic)
09/27 Michael Marder, Department of Physics and Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, The University of Texas at Austin
"How Things Break"
(Host: M. Schatz)

10/04 Steve Yates, Departments of Chemistry, Physics & Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington
(Host: W. David Kulp)
10/11 Robert Pisarski, Brookhaven National Lab
"Chasing the Unicorn"
(Host: P. Cvitanovic')
10/16-17 Fall 2006 Recess Break
10/19 Earl McDaniel Memorial Colloquium (Physics)
Steve Chu, U C Berkeley
"The Energy Problem and what we can do about it"
Note: Howey Lecture Room 4 at 3:00 pm
Reception at 2:15 in Howey N201
10/25 Federico Rosei, Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials INRS Energie, Materiaux et  Telecommunications,
Université du Québec, Canada
"Strategies for Controlled Assembly at the Nanoscale"
(Host: E. Riedo)

11/01

Dave Bacon, Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Washington
"When Physics and Computer Science Collide!"
Host: M. Chapman
Note: Lecture Hall 5, 3:00 P.M.

11/08

Andre D. Bandrauk, Canada Research Chair in Molecular Photonics, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
"Attosecond Science: How to control electrons on their own timescale"
Host: T. Uzer

11/15

Jabez McClelland, Electron Physics Group,
NIST-Gaithersburg
"Nanotechnology with Atom Optics"
Host: P. First

11/22

Phil Stamp - Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics and University of British Columbia
"The Rise and Fall of Decoherence"
Host: M. Pustilnik

11/23-24 Official School Holiday
11/29 TBA

12/06

Bernie Yurke - Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
"Powering the nanoworld with DNA"
Host: B. Kennedy

12/08 Last Day of Classes
12/11-15 Final Exmas
12/16 End of Fall 2006

01/08 Classes Begin Spring Term 2007

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