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Seminars are held on
Fridays at noon in the faculty lounge (Physics Room 234).
The seminars are given by Duke Physics graduate students and post-docs
and run between 25 and 50 minutes in length. The atmosphere is intended
to be friendly and that of a learning experience for everyone involved.
No faculty attend the seminar, to enhance the atmosphere of a meeting of
equals.
All Duke
Physics graduate students are strongly encouraged to attend and all
post-docs are invited.
Lunch, usually pizza, is provided.
Please bring at least $0.25 to help with the tip on days when there is pizza.
The 2003 and 2004
schedules are also available.
Schedule
January 7th :
No Talk, Winter recess
January 14th :
Matt Kiser - Physics at the
Phytotron
January 21st :
James Esterline - Double Beta
Decay
January 28th :
Nick Early - Automated Counterterm Computation for Renormalizable QFT
February 4th :
Nate Kundtz - Tertiary Detector
Element for the Auger Observatory
February 11th :
Ji-Woo Lee - Monte Carlo methods
- Worms and Clusters
February 18th : Andy Dawes - Ultra-Low Power Optical Switching
February 25th :
Brad Marts - Effects of
Inhomogeneities on Spiral Wave Dynamics in the
Belousov-Zhabotinsky Chemical Reaction
March 4th :
John Foreman - Unprecedented
Optical Properties of ZnO Nanowires
March 11th :
Matthew Blackston - Measuring the Polarizability
of the 3He Nucleus
March 18th :
Samadrita Roychowdhury
- High
Brightness Electron Beams
(
Spring
Break)
March 25th : Kevin Chalut - Electron Pulse Tomograpgy at the FELL
(
March Meeting)
April 1st :
John Wambaugh - Circulation in Asymmetric Granular Hoppers
April 8th :
Le Luo - Quantized Vortex in
Superfluid Fermi Gases
April 15th :
Bason Clancy - Sound Velocity in a
Strongly-Interacting, Degenerate Fermi Gas
April 22nd : Ken McKenzie - A Brief History and Overview of
Cryptography
April 29th :
Heejeong Jeong - Observation of
Optical Precursors
(
Graduate Reading Period)
May 6th :
Trush Majmudar - Contact Force Measurements and Stress Induced Anisotropy in 2D Granular Systems (
Final Exams)
May 13th: Shomeek Mukhopadhyay - Starbursts and related instabilities in surfactant laden droplets
May 20th:
Xin Qian - Probing the Light Quark Sea Flavor Asymmetry and Measuring the
Neutron Transversity in Semi-inclusive Charged Meson Electroproduction
May 27th:
Brad Marts - Disease Dynamics on Networks
June 3rd:
James Esterline - Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: A Plausible Tool for Measuring Neutrino Mass
June 10th:
Ilarion Melnikov - Clouds on the Horizon: Observations Versus Naturalness
June 17th:
Peng Li - Polarized Incandescent Light Emission from Carbon Nanotube
June 24th:
Qiang Ye (Alan) - Recent progress on neutron EDM experiment, Nanjing University and Tibet
July 1st:
Seth Henshaw - Interpolation of Magnetic Fields: An Application of the Lagrange Interpolation Technique
July 8th: Phillip Wu - Quantum Dots: What are quantum dots, how do they work, and why are they important
July 15th:
Ilarion Melnikov - Fields, Strings, Circles, Kaluza, and Klein
July 22nd:
Rob Saunders - Monte Carlo modeling of photon scattering in x-ray imaging
July 29th:
Arya Roy - Conformal Field Theory
August 5:
Joel Greenberg - Investigation of Uniform Plasma Channel Generation for Short Laser Pulse Amplification
August 12:
James Joseph - RF Spectroscopy in 6Li - At the BEC-BCS Crossover
August 19:
Xing Zong (Michael) - Compton scattering on a Polarized 3He target at HIGS
August 26:
John Wambaugh - Graph Percolation as an Analog to Granular Force Networks
September 2:
Anne Catlla - Pattern Formations In Impulsively Forced Faraday Waves, Vol. I
September 9:
Anne Catlla - Pattern Formations In Impulsively Forced Faraday Waves, Vol. II
September 16:
MengRu Li - Synchronous wave propagation in a weakly coupled network - Bird brain study
September 23:
Zheng Gao - Building neural networks in culture
September 30:
Brad Marts - Nonlinear mode mixing and period doubling to explain 6:1 resonance
October 7:
Samadrita Roychowdhury - Tranverse Laser Beam Shaping in High Brightness Eelctron Gun
October 14:
Martin Frank - Activation of the GABA(A) Receptor
October 21:
James Esterline - Analyzing Powers of Neutron-Helium-3 Elastic Scattering and Helium-3
Three-body Photodisintegration
October 28:
Andrew Dawes - Slow-Light in Optical Fiber
November 4:
Brian Tighe - Elastic Response Functions
November 11: Martin Frank
November 18:
Carolyn Berger - Evidence for a border collision bifurcation in paced cardiac tissue
November 25:
No Talk Thanksgiving Break
December 2:
Fabio Altomare - Quantum Phase Slips in 1D
superconducting aluminum nanowire
December 9:
Matthias Sperl - Glass Transitions in Soft Matter
December 16:
Matt Kiser - NSECT, Beef Liver, Napoleon, and JFK: an introduction to neutron activation analysisi
December 23:
Holiday break
December 30:
Holiday break
Please contact Andy Dawes to
schedule a seminar or alter an incorrect entry.