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Colloquium Archive
Please select the academic year.
Academic Year 2007-2008
May 21 |
Student presentations |
Students enrolled in PHYS-691, 697, 698 |
May 19 |
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 17 |
Student presentations |
Students enrolled in PHYS-691, 697, 698 |
| December 10 |
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 |
Academic Year 2006-2007
| Spring 2007 |
| June 1 |
Commencement 2007 |
1pm south part of campus |
| May 16 |
Spring 2007 Student Presentations II |
Students enrolled in PHYS-691, 697, 698 |
| May14 |
Spring 2007 Student Presentations I |
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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Job Opening
We have two faculty openings:
- Experimental physics,
- Theoretical physics, with emphasis on computational physics.
Review of applications will start about November 01, 2008
Information on the application process can be found here
Colloquium:
The Colloquium will resume with the start of the semester on January 26, 2009.

The department wishes everyone a happy and successful New Year 2009!
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