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Colloquium Archive
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Academic Year 2010-2011
May 9 & 11 |
Students Research Presentations I & II |
Students of the department, CSU Long Beach |
May 2 |
Interaction of Composite Particles |
Z. Papp, CSU Long Beach |
April 25 |
Dark Energy |
B. Desai, UC Riverside |
April 18 |
Magnetothermopower as a Tool for Studying the Electronic Properties of Layered Organic Conductors |
D. Krstovska, National High Magnetic Field Lab., Florida State Univ., & Ss. Cyril and Methodius Univ., Skopje, Macedonia |
April 11 |
Quantum Computing: Harnessing a New Force of Nature |
E. Ladizinsky, D-Wave Systems, Inc. |
April 4 |
Hubble's New View of the Evolving Universe of Galaxies |
M.A. Malkan, UCLA |
Friday, March 25 |
Plasmonics and the Near Field |
M. Moskovits, UC Santa Barbara |
March 21 |
Translational Research in Proton Therapy: A Medical Physics Perspective |
A.J. Wroe, Loma Linda University |
March 14 |
The Development of Relativistic Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: Using Particle Accelerators to Watch Atoms Move in Real Time |
P. Musumeci, UCLA |
February 28 |
Topological Phases of Matter, the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, and the Reality of Non-Abelian Anyons |
M. Peterson, UC Santa Barbara |
February 23 |
Quantum Phases in Ultracold Atomic and Molecular Lattice Systems |
B. Capogrosso-Sansone, ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics and Harvard Physics Department |
February 21 |
Few-Body Physics with Ultracold Quantum Gases: from Efimov Physics to Controllable Chemical Reactions |
J.P. D'Incao, JILA, Univ. of Colorado and NIST |
February 16 |
Topological Insulators: from Clean Energy to Exotic Particles! |
P. Ghaemi, UC Berkeley |
February 14 |
Very Broad Band Sensors for Global Seismic Recording |
T. VanZandt, Metrozet LLC |
February 7 |
The First Realistic Quantum Spin Liquid |
S. White, UC Irvine |
January 31 |
Physics Education Online |
Z. Hlousek, CSU Long Beach |
December 6 & 8 |
Students Research Presentations |
Students enrolled in PHYS-496, 697, 698, CSU Long Beach |
November 29 |
Exploring the Unknown Universe with the LHC |
D. Whiteson, UC Irvine |
November 22 |
Recent Advances in High-Temperature Superconductivity |
N-C. Yeh, Caltech |
November 15 |
Creating an Effective Professional Presentation |
D. Davis, McNair Scholars Program Oral Presentation Instructor |
November 8 |
The Role of Orbital and Spin Ordering in Manganites – A Direct View from Static and Time-Resolved Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering |
S. Zhou, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
November 3 |
Broadband Infrared Near-Field Nanoscopy |
F. Keilmann, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany |
November 1 |
Quantum Phases of Cold Atom Mixtures |
S-W. Tsai, UC Riverside |
October 25 |
Phases of Dense Matter in Compact Stars |
F. Weber, SDSU |
October 18 |
Spectroscopic Characterization of Extra-Solar Planets |
P. Deroo, JPL |
October 11 |
Simplicity Through Innovation - The Path to High Gain Solar |
B. MacDonald, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Skyline Solar |
October 4 |
Progress Towards Discovering the Biophysical Basis of Magnetic Sensing |
T. Ritz, UC Irvine |
September 27 |
Fundamental Studies of Fast-Ion Physics in Magnetically Confined Plasmas |
W.W. Heidbrink, UC Irvine |
September 20 |
What I've Learned - 25 Years Teaching High-School Physics |
Rod Ziolkowski, Whitney High School & Teacher in Residence at CSU Long Beach |
September 13 |
Meet & Mix |
Members of the department |
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Academic Year 2009-2010
May 12 & 14 |
Student presentations |
Students enrolled in PHYS-691, 697, 698 |
May 10 |
An Investigation of Magnetic Reversal at the Nanoscale |
E.D. Dahlberg, University of Minnesota |
May 3 |
Earth's Interior Revealed Through Diamond Anvils |
J.M. Jackson, Caltech |
April 26 |
Ion Transport Through Nanopores: From Living Cells to Diodes and Transistors |
Z. Siwy, UC Irvine |
April 19 |
32nd Nobel Laureate Lecture |
E. Wieschaus, Princeton University |
April 12 |
Exploring the Nanoworld from Visible to Infrared Frequencies |
Y. Abate, CSULB |
April 5 |
Magnetic Moments and Coulomb Interaction |
G. Bergmann, USC |
March 22 |
The Dark Universe: Dark Ages, Dark Matter and Dark Energy |
B. Mobasher, UC Riverside |
March 15 |
Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage: Creating a Sustainable Energy Future |
S. Haile, Caltech |
March 8 |
A Colorful Take on Superconductivity |
P. Jaikumar, CSU Long Beach |
February 22 |
Key Issues in Medical X-ray CT: Radiation Dose, Image Quality and the Tradeoffs Between Them |
M. McNitt-Gray, UCA |
February 15 |
Astrophysical Signatures of Quark-Matter Phase Transition - The Quark-Nova |
R. Ouyed, Univ. of Calgary, Canada |
February 8 |
Solar System Galactic Frontier: Where the Solar Wind Meets Interstellar Medium |
M. Gruntman, USC |
February 1 |
Unruh / Hawkings Radiation for Undergraduates |
D. Singleton, CSU Fresno |
December 7 & 9 |
Students Presentation II |
Students, CSU Long Beach |
November 30 |
Mapping Tissue Microstructure with Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
R.G. Henry, UC San Francisco |
November 23 |
Proximity Effect in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Hybrid Systems |
J. Gu, CSU Long Beach |
November 16 |
NMR and mSR as Probes of Quantum Criticality and Magnetic Frustration |
O. Bernal, CSU Los Angeles |
November 9 |
Investigating Complexity One Atom at a Time: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of High-Temperature Superconductors |
E. Hudson, MIT |
November 2 |
Furlough: Campus closed |
Reason: budgetary cuts of the state of California with catastrophic consequences for our youth |
October 26 |
Frustrated, Degenerate, and Breaking Apart: The Bright Side of Life in Triangular Lattices |
A.L. Chernyshev, UC Irvine |
October 19 |
Inhomogeneity in VO2: Memristance and Other Effects |
T. Driscoll, UC San Diego |
October 12 |
Crystallization of a Solid: The Grain Size Distribution |
A. Bill, CSU Long Beach |
October 5 |
Archimede's Oldest Writings Under X-Ray Vision |
U. Bergmann, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), and SLAC Nat. Accelerator Lab. |
September 28 |
In Case of Abrupt Climate Change, Break Glas |
G. Benford, UC Irvine |
September 21 |
Baryons as Relativistic Three-Quark Systems |
W. Plessas, University of Graz, Austria |
September 14 |
Meet the Students, Meet the Faculty, Meet the Staff! |
Chair and Faculty of the department |
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Academic Year 2008-2009
May 11 & 13 |
Student presentations |
Students enrolled in PHYS-691, 697, 698 |
May 4 |
Can metamaterials make you invisible? |
V.V. Shkunov, Raytheon Corporation |
April 27 |
Graphene: Quantum Transport in a Two-Dimensional Membrane |
J. Lau, UC Riverside |
April 20 |
Making foam flow: what is the real difference between fluids and solids |
M. Dennin, UC Irvine |
April 13 |
Illuminating the ultra-fast and ultra-small: The path to the X-ray free electron laser |
J. Rosenzweig, UCLA |
April 6 |
Reporting of research news for Physics Today |
B. G. Levi, Physics Today |
March 25 |
New physics in multicomponent cold atomic gases |
R. Barnett, Caltech |
March 23 |
Road to discovery Atlas/ LHC |
Y. Gao, CSU Fresno |
March 16 |
The LHC - Journey at the Heart of Matter |
A. Taffard, UC Irvine |
March 9 |
The strange role that Iron may play in new high-temperature superconductors |
J. Rodriguez, CSU Los Angeles |
March 2 |
Introduction to Spintronics and spin transfer torque devices |
C.Y. You, Inha Univ., Korea, and CSU Long Beach |
February 23 |
Applications of lasers in science, technology, and health care |
Zsolt Bor, University of Szeged, Hungary, and AMO |
February 16 |
Exploring Casimir effects in quantum vacuum: is vacuum really empty? |
W.-J. Kim, Yale University |
February 9 |
Neutron stars: astrophysical laboratories for superdense matter |
P. Jaikumar, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India |
February 2 |
Chemical microscopy and spectroscopy at the nanometer scale |
Y. Abate, UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
January 28 |
Using numerical simulations to study the formation and evolution of galaxies |
T. Cox, Harvard-Smithonians Center for Astrophysics |
January 26 |
Extreme nonlinear optics: from models and simulations to understanding physics |
M. Kolesik, Univ. of Arizona |
| Fall 2008 |
December
1& 8 |
Student presentations II |
Students enrolled in PHYS-691, 697, 698 |
| November 24 |
Cancelled |
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| November 17 |
Potential Disasters from Quantum Black Holes Being Produced at the LHC CERN Labs |
P. Nicolini, Univ. of Trieste & INFN, CSU Fresno |
| November 10 |
Three-Body Scattering Without Asymptotic Boundary Conditions |
R. Shakeshaft, USC |
| November 3 |
Neutrino Oscillations: Recent Triumphs and Future Challenges |
R.D.McKeown, Caltech |
| October 27 |
Faster, Smaller, Smarter: Using Light to See Things Smaller than the Wavelength of Light! |
A. Small, Cal Poly Pomona |
| October 20 |
Supersolid Order for Frustrated Hard-Core Bosons in a Triangular Lattice System |
D.N. Sheng, CSU Northridge |
| October 13 |
On the Fundamental Limitations of the Optical Transparency of Dielectrics |
A. Matsko, OEwaves, Inc., Pasadena |
| October 6 |
Sputtered Depleted Uranium for Applications in Inertial Confinement Fusion |
H. Wilkens, General Atomics, San Diego |
| September 29 |
Classification of Topological Insulators and Superconductors |
A. Schnyder, Kavli Institute, UC Santa Barbara |
| September 22 |
Teaching Electrons New Tricks: Pure Spin Currents |
A. Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois |
| September 15 |
The Radio and Infrared View of
Extreme Star Formation in the Local Universe |
J.L. Turner, UCLA |
| September 8 |
Welcome meeting of the Physics Department |
Students, staff and faculty |
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Academic Year 2007-2008
May 19 & 21 |
Student presentations |
Students enrolled in PHYS-691, 697, 698 |
May 12 |
No Colloquium. Department review |
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April 28 |
Magnetization Dynamics Excited by Spin-Polarized Current |
I. Krivorotov, UC Irvine |
April 21 |
Heterostructures and Nanostructures Engineering of Complex Oxides |
J. Wei, Univ. 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 Natl. Lab. |
March 31 |
Spring Break |
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March 24 |
Nuclear Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanostructures |
I. Tifrea |
March 17 |
Quantum Well Photovoltaics: Microscopic Theory and Numerical Simulations |
U. Aeberhard, Paul Scherrer Institute, ETH Zurich |
March 3 |
Status of the Search for Gravitational Waves with LIGO |
A. Weinstein, Caltech |
February 25 |
Bose Einstein Condensation, Superfluidity and the Quantum Hall Effect |
J. Eisenstein, Caltech |
February 18 |
An Overview of Fusion Energy Research: Taming Turbulence and Transport in Magnetized Plasma |
T. Carter, UCLA |
February 11 |
Computational Physics: An Improved Path for Physics Education? |
R. Landau, Oregon State Univ. |
February 4 |
Magnetic Fingerprints |
K. Liu, UC Davis |
January 21 |
Interstellar Travel at Superluminal Speeds- The Physics of a Warp Drive |
Z. Hlousek, CSU Long Beach |
| Fall 2007 |
December
10 & 17 |
Student presentations |
Students enrolled in PHYS-691, 697, 698 |
| December 3 |
Cancelled |
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| 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 |
R. Chabay & B. Sherwood, North Carolina State Univ. |
| September 10 |
Meet the Students, Meet the Faculty, Meet the Staff! |
Members of the department |
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Academic Year 2006-2007
| Spring 2007 |
| June 1 |
Commencement 2007 |
1pm south part of campus |
| May 14 & 16 |
Spring 2007 Student Presentations II |
Students enrolled in PHYS-691, 697, 698 |
| May 7 |
Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Metal Nanoclusters |
V. Kresin, USC |
| April 30 |
First Oscillation Results from MiniBooNE |
M. Wascko, Imperial College London |
| April 23 |
Adaptive quantum design for nanoscience |
S. Haas, USC |
| April 16 |
DNA origami: Folding DNA to create nanoscale shapes and patterns |
P.W.K. Rothemund, Caltech |
| April 9 |
Spin transport and recent results on graphene |
R.K. Kawakami, UC Riverside |
| March 26 |
Investigating local properties in superconductors using scanning laser microscopy |
C. Kwon, CSULB |
| March 19 |
A New Look at Nuclear Forces: towards a simpler model of nuclear stability |
S. Moszkowski, UCLA |
| March 12 |
Scaffolding carbon nanotubes into single-molecule circuitry |
P.G. Collins, UC Irvine |
| March 6 |
How advances in science are made |
D. Osheroff, Stanford University |
| February 26 |
Patently interesting (well, maybe): An overview of patent law and patent attorneys |
S. Byers, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, law firm |
| February 19 |
Positronium-positronium spin exchange quenching collisions |
A. Mills, UC Riverside |
| February 12 |
Soft-pulse refocusing and decoherence for solid-state quantum computation |
L. Pryadko, UC Riverside |
| February 5 |
Ultrathin Ferromagnets: Basic Physics and Applications |
D.L. Mills, UC Irvine |
| January 29 |
Formation of Self Assembled Monolayers |
K. Wong, UC Riverside |
| January 25 |
Organic Nanosensors: Structure, Magnetism, and Charge Transport |
T. Gredig, UC San Diego |
| January 23 |
Astrophysics in the lab: Investigating accretion disk instabilities with rotating fluid flows |
M. Burin, Pomona College |
| Fall 2006 |
| December 4 |
Weyl's scale invariance and the standard model of particle interactions |
S. Rajpoot, CSULB |
| November 27 |
Origami-inspired self assembly II |
G. Pickett, CSULB |
| November 20 |
Nonlinear Integrated Optical Devices in Silicon |
M. Hochberg, Caltech |
| November 13 |
Carbon Nanotube Based Nano-devices |
B. Bourlon, Caltech |
| November 6 |
The NASA Space Exploration Vision Plan Moon, Mars, and Beyond-Apollo on Steroids |
M.J. Sanders, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| October 30 |
Discovery of a Hot Geyser on Enceladus, the Icy Satellite of Saturn |
B. Buratti, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| October 23 |
Bits of the Past/Bits of the Future Magnetic Recording: History, Present, and Possible Future |
M. Carey, Hitachi Research Center |
| October 16 |
How Satellites Have Revolutionized Oceanography: A Historical Perspective |
J. Vasquez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| October 9 |
Spin transport in magnetic tunnel junctions |
N. Kioussis, CSU Northridge |
| October 2 |
Origami-Inspired Self Assembly |
G. Pickett, CSULB |
| September 18 |
Formation of Self Assembled Monolayers on a Metal Surface |
K.L. Wong, UC Riverside |
| September 11 |
Quantum Balistic Motion |
C. Bracher, CSULB |
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Thesis Presentation
Electronic Properties of Graphene Multilayers and Graphite Thin Films
Julius de Rojas, CSU Long Beach
Thursday, August 26, 2010, 11am PH2-110
Colloquium
Meet & Mix!
Information session for undergraduate & graduate students of the department
Monday Sept. 13, 2010, 11am PH2-110
The Physics Department wishes everyone a good and productive summer!
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