Seminars begin at 3:30 PM , Coffee
at 3:10 pm
Room 310, Robert H. Flarsheim Hall
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September 7,
Kazuyoshi Ogasawara, Department of Chemistry, Kwansei Gakuin University,
Japan (host W.-Y. Ching)
First-principles calculations
of 4fn → 4fn-1 - 15d transition; (see
abstract)
September 14, Donald Priour, Department of Physics, UMKC
Checking up on the Harris Criterion: A Monte Carlo study of strongly disordered
magnets; (see
abstract)
September 21,
Konstantin Pokhodnya, Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, North
Dakota State University
Molecule-based Magnets: synthesis,
properties and applications; (see
abstract)
October 5
Midwest Solid State conference in Lincoln, Nebraska
October 19,
B.K. Godwal,
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of California,
Berkeley (host M. Kruger)
Electronic Phase Transitions in Elemental Solids and Compounds; (see
abstract)
November 2,
Saikat
Talapatra, Department of Physics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
(host D.-M. Zhu)
Synthesis and Applications of Carbon Nanotube Architectures; (see
abstract)
November 9,
Gregory Triplett,
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering,
University of Missouri, Columbia (host
J. Wrobel)
Investigation of Next Generation Optoelectronic Systems
November 30,
Carsten Timm, Department of
Physics and Astronomy,
University of
Kansas - Lawrence
Transport and Magnetism in
Semiconductors and Molecules
December 7,
Hui Zhao,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Kansas, Lawrence (W.-Y.
Ching)
Nanoscale
ballistic spin and charge transport studied by optical techniques; (see
abstract)