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Academic Year 2007-2008

Date Title Speaker and Affiliation

Spring 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  
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  
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
Date Title Speaker and Affiliation
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  
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  
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

Date Title Speaker and Affiliation
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

Last update: 10/28/08

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.

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