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Summer Program for Girls

Welcome! This is an outreach program of  the Advanced Atomic Design Group in the Department of Physics at UT. You will not meet the Mad Hatter or the March Hare, but it will be almost as unusual!  If you are a high school female student interested in Physics but not sure whether you will like it, this program is for you.
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The Distinguished Women Lecture Series in Physics at Austin
Implemented in Spring of 2003, the Distinguished Women Lecture Series in Physics has been very successful. It has generated a great deal of student and faculty interest via Department of Physics colloquia, College of Natural Sciences public lectures, research group technical seminars, as well as smaller meetings with women physics graduate students and appointments and lab tours with faculty. Our speakers have come from academia, industry and government, and from different fields in physics, offering UT students a broad view of the opportunities for and accomplishments of women in physics.

　

The invited speakers in this lecture:

 Alex Navrotsky          

Distinguished Professor
Edward Roessler Chair in Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Director, NEAT ORU

Alexandra Navrotsky's research interests lie at the intersection of solid state chemistry, geochemistry, and materials science.

 Tamar Seideman     

Professor in Chemistry department of Northwestern University      
The goal of her work is to understand, control and utilize molecular dynamics in different environments. To that end her group develops and applies quantum mechanical, semiclassical and classical methods in both time and energy domains.

Giulia Galli      

Professor in Chemistry department of the University of California at Davis
She and her group develop and use quantum mechanical simulation tools to understand and predict the properties and behavior of materials (solids, liquids and nanostructures) at the microscopic scale.
        

 Linda E. Reichl 

Professor and Associate Dean in Physics Department of the University of Texas at Austin

Her research has ranged over a number of topics in statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics. They include the theory of low temperature Fermi liquids, quantum transport theory, application of linear hydrodynamics to translational and rotational Brownian motion and dielectric response, the transition to chaos in classical and quantum mechanicalconservative systems and the new field of 'stochastic chaos' theory.
 

      

Karin Rabe 

Professor in Department of Physics and Astronomy at  Rutgers University

Chemical and structural complexity has proved to be an critical factor in producing a variety of fascinating properties of solids, including ferroelectricity, large piezoelectric and dielectric responses, and multiferroicity in metals and insulators, as well as quasicrystallinity and high-temperature superconductivity. The research in her group currently centers on the theoretical investigation of ferroelectrics and related materials, and of magnetic and nonmagnetic martensites. First-principles density-functional methods are used both directly and in the construction of first-principles effective Hamiltonians for theoretical prediction and analysis of properties of materials, both real and as-yet hypothetical, in bulk and thin film forms.

　

Frances Hellmann     

Professor in Physics department of the University of California at Berkeley
Her research group is concerned with the properties of novel magnetic and superconducting materials especially in thin film form. They use specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity, and other measurements as a function of temperature in order to test and develop models for materials which challenge the understanding of metallic behavior. 

 Alessandra Lanzara     

Professor in Physics department of the University of California at Berkeley      
Her group is interested in the study of the electronic and magnetic properties and in the unusual electronic ground state in novel complex materials and nanostructures. Their goal is to reach a full understanding of the quantum theory of solids and to define new pathways for the fabrication of novel materials with desired properties. 

 Ellen Williams     

Distinguished University Professor in Physics Department at University of Maryland    
Her group maps out the positions of individual atoms in very small structures to explore the special consequences of fluctuations that arise at the nanoscale. They're investigating applications that include the control of nanoscale materials fabrication, electromigration, electrical noise in nanoelectronic devices, and flexible electronics.