Graduate Student Seminar

Spring 2009


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Seminars are held on Fridays at noon in the Physics Room 299 this semester.

The seminars are given by Duke Physics graduate students and post-docs and run between 20 and 40 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.


January 16th: Min Huang, Qiujian Ye (Nonlinear Series)
Simulation study of earthquakes based on Spring-Block model release

January 23rd: Georgios Laskaris
Study of the BIS MDT of the Experiment ATLAS at CERN release

January 30th: Huaixiu Zheng, Yuan Lin, Yu Song (Nonlinear Series)
Chaotic Encryption for Digital Communications

February 6th: Abhijit C Mehta (pre-preliminary)
A Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Interacting Electrons in a Quantum Wire

February 13th: Baolei Li
Optical vortices: Laguerre-Gaussian mode of laser beams

February 20th: Mark Steadman
Supernova Neutrinos

February 27th: Christopher E. Coleman-Smith, Taritree M Wongjirad (Nonlinear Series)
The Hopfield Model

*Spring Break*

March 17th: Dong Liu (pre-preliminary)
The Quantum Monte Carlo Method for Quantum Impurity Problem

March 20th:Mary F Kidd
one practical application of physics in the realm of medicine

March 27th: Bryon Neufeld
The Sound Produced by a Fast Parton in the Quark Gluon Plasma is a Crescendo
                 Hung-Ming Tsai
Phenomenology of the three-flavor PNJL model and thermal strange quark production

April 3th: Xianrui Cheng, Sam Gong (Nonlinear Series)
Mathematical Models of Developmental Regulatory Systems

April 9th: Horacio A Carias (pre-preliminary)
Floquet Analysis for IR Driven Electron Tunneling

April 10th: Dan Gauthier (the Chair of the Department of Physics)
Grads-Chair Meeting

April 17th: Wangzhi Zheng (pre-preliminary)
A search for neutron Electric Dipole Moment



This semester, the seminars will include but not limit to:

Nonlinear Series

Pre-Preliminary/Pre-Dissertation Series


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Please contact Yu Song to schedule a seminar or alter an incorrect entry.