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Welcome to the Physics & Astronomy Colloquium!
Colloquia are scheduled on Mondays at 11:00am in Petterson Hall 2, Room 110 (PH2-110, map). Coffee and cookies are served at 10:45am
Master's Thesis Presentation
Classical Scattering of Charges in the Presence of a Magnetic Monopole
Yigal Weinstein
B.A. 2003, UC Santa Cruz
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
1:00PM, Room PH2-110
We consider the classical scattering of monoenergetic charges emitted from an isotropic point source in a magnetic monopole field. Individual paths are geodesics on a guiding cone (Poincare). However, the scattering characteristics depend on the entire field of trajectories emitted in different directions from the source.
The trajectories trace out a complex geometrical pattern ordered by an infinite sequence of turning surfaces, classical boundaries of motion that represent singularities of the scattering cross section and shape the density profile. They are closely related to the caustics of wave optics. We present numerical and analytical results from trajectories, caustics, and density maps.
Our study are a prerequisite for the future semiclassical treatment of electron waves in the monopole field.
For information and suggestions about the colloquium please contact the colloquium coordinator:
Name: Prof. Andreas Bill
Phone: (562) 985-8616
Email: abill@csulb.edu
Directions to Campus
- Access to Campus
- Campus Maps
- Parking on campus: contact the coordinator of the colloquium. If not reachable, call the department office (562) 985-7925. If none of these are available at the time you need information, call (562) 985-4146 or go to the drive-through information booth at the main campus entrance (on Beach Drive, near the crossing to Bellflower).
- Walk (or ask for a ride on an on-campus shuttle) to the department office: Peterson Hall 1, room 210 (PH1-210). The coordinator will provide the necessary informations.
Any question or problem: call the colloquium coordinator or the department office (562) 985-7925.
Colloquia Sponsors:
We acknowledge with gratitude donations and support from the following sponsors:
- H.E. and H.B. Miller
- Benjamin Carter
- Sandra Dana
- Anonymous
If you wish to support the Colloquium, please contact the colloquium coordinator or the department chair. Thank you!
Colloquia Schedule
Academic Year 2007-2008
| Spring 2008 |
| May 21 |
Spring 2008 Student Presentations II |
Students enrolled in PHYS-691, 697, 698 |
| May 19 |
Spring 2008 Student Presentations I |
Students enrolled in PHYS-691, 697, 698 |
| May 5 |
Cancelled! |
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| April 28 |
Magnetization Dynamics Excited by Spin-Polarized Current |
I. Krivorotov, UC Irvine |
| April 21 |
Heterostructure and Nanostructure Engineering of Complex Oxides |
J. Wei, University of Toronto, Canada |
| April 14 |
Interaction of composite particles |
Z.Papp, CSU Long Beach |
| April 7 |
Engineering Dirac fermions in graphene |
A. Lanzara, UC Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley Lab. |
| March 31 |
Spring break! No colloquium |
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| March 24 |
Nuclear spin dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures |
I. Tifrea, CSU Fullerton |
| March 17 |
Quantum well photovoltaics: microscopic theory and numerical simulation |
U. Aeberhard, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland |
| March 3 |
Status of the Search for Gravitational Waves with LIGO |
A. Weinstein, Caltech |
| February 25 |
Bose Condensation, Superfluidity, and the Quantum Hall Effect |
J.P. Eisenstein, Caltech |
| February 18 |
An overview of fusion energy research: taming turbulence and transport in magnetized plasmas |
T. Carter, UCLA |
| February 11 |
Computational Physics: an improved path for physics education? |
R. Landau, Oregon State University |
February 4 |
Magnetic fingerprinting |
K. Liu, UC Davis |
January 28 |
Warp drive: travel at super-luminal speeds
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Z.Hlousek, CSU Long Beach |
| Fall 2007 |
| December 17 |
Student presentations |
Students enrolled in PHYS-691, 697, 698 |
| December 10 |
Student presentations |
Students enrolled in PHYS-691, 697, 698 |
| November 26 |
Brain teasers using single molecules |
U. Mohideen, UC Riverside |
| November 19 |
Selected problems in few-body quantum mechanics |
Z. Papp, CSU Long Beach |
| November 12 |
Veteran's day: campus closed |
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| November 5 |
Tropical cyclones and upper ocean interactions |
Claudia Pasquero, UC Irvine |
| October 29 |
YBa2Cu3O(7-x) Coated Superconductors:
Forging Ahead with New Superconductors |
P.N. Barnes, Air Force Research Laboratory, Patterson Base, OH |
| October 22 |
Femtosecond Lasers to Femtosecond X-rays |
F. Raksi, Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. |
| October 15 |
A Long, Strange Trip: Cascade Physics Program at CSUDH |
J. Price, CSU Dominguez Hills |
| October 8 |
The Search for Dark Matter |
J.L. Feng, UC Irvine |
| October 1 |
New Tools and Methods for Teaching Physics |
G.Pickett, Z.Papp, P.Kenealy, A.Bill, CSU Long Beach |
| September 24 |
Introductory lecture: Organic Semiconductors: Structural and Electrical Properties of Thin Films |
T. Gredig, CSU Long Beach |
| September 17 |
Special seminar: Contemporary Introductory Physics
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R. Chabay & B. Sherwood, North Carolina State Univ.
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| September 10 |
Meet the Students, Meet the Faculty, Meet the Staff! |
Members of the department |
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Colloquium:
Monday, February 12, 2007, at 11am in SLH-50
Soft-pulse refocusing and decoherence for solid-state quantum computation
L. Pryadko, UC Riverside
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