CONDENSED MATTER SEMINARS
Fall 2009: Tuesdays, 12:30-2:00PM - RLM 11.204 (unless otherwise noted)

If you have questions, please contact Alex Demkov at 471-8560 or demkov at physics dot utexas dot edu

DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
September 1 Rod Ruoff
The University of Texas at Austin
Graphene-based Materials
September 8 Dimi Culcer
Singlet-triplet qubits in silicon quantum dots
September 15 Rafi Bistritzer
The University of Texas at Austin
High Tc superfluidity in bilayer graphene
September 22 Alex de Lozanne
The University of Texas at Austin
Manganites and Magnetite: Something old, something new...
September 29 Serdar Ogut
The University of Illinois, Chicago
Electronic and Optical Excitations in Silver Clusters and Silicon Nanoshells: Density Functional versus Many-Body Theories
October 6 Igor Roshchin
Texas A&M University
Vortices and unusual magnetic properties of nanodots
October 13 Emilia Morosan
Rice University
Tailoring the crystal structure towards optimal superconductors
October 20 Agham Posadas
The University of Texas at Austin 
Epitaxial complex oxides as gate dielectrics for silicon
October 27 Rytis Dargis
Theps University of Texas at Austin
Epitaxial growth and thermal stability of silicon on rare earth metal oxide
November 3 Jacques Distler
UT Austin
K-Theory in High Energy Physics
November 10 Wayne Saslow
Texas A&M University
Irreversible Thermodynamics and Damping in Conducting Magnets
November 17 Emanuel Tutuc
The University of Texas at Austin
Electron transport in graphene bilayers
November 17 SPECIAL SEMINAR AT 3:30 PM John A. Marohn
Cornell University
What's going on down there? Insights into fundamental processes in organic electronic materials and devices from electric force microscopy
November 24 Li Shi
The University of Texas at Austin
Phonon Transport, Energy Dissipation, and Thermoelectric Conversion in Nanostructures
December 1 Dima Pesin
The University of Texas at Austin
TBD

CONDENSED MATTER QUALIFIERS AND DEFENCES

TIME/PLACE
EXAM TYPE
STUDENT/ADVISOR
TITLE
November 20, 10am-12noon/TBD
QUALIFIER
Alex Slepko / Prof. Demkov
TBD