Duke Physics

Physics Colloquia Schedule

Spring 2012

The colloquia are held in Room 128 (old number: 114), Physics Building at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesdays unless noted otherwise (please see abstract for specific details). Tea and coffee is available before the colloquium in Room 128. Refreshments will be served after the colloquium (at around 5:00pm), and further discussions with the speaker are encouraged during this time. For additions, corrections, or questions please contact Cristin Paul at cristin.paul@duke.edu.

January 17 (Room 119)	Xiang Cheng Cornell University	Imaging the microscopic structure of shear thinning and thickening colloidal suspensions
January 19 (119 Phyics) begins at 3PM	Cheng Cen IBM	Oxide Nanoelectronics on Demand
January 30	Sami Amasha Stanford University	Pseudo-spin Resolved Transport Spectroscopy of the Kondo Effect
February 2 (FFSC 2237)	Jonathan Simon Harvard University	Building Synthetic Materials from Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Magnetism in an Optical Lattice
February 6	Rajamani Vijayaraghavan University of California, Berkeley	Watching the quantum wavefunction evolve in real time: From quantum jumps to feedback
February 9 (FFSC 2237)	Matteo Mariantoni University of California, Santa Barbara	The Photon Shell Game, the Quantum von Neumann Architecture, and the Surface Code with Superconducting Circuits
February 14 (in Room 119)10am to 11am	Rafael Jaramillo Harvard University	Interfacial Electron Transport in Oxide Films: Fundamentals and Applications to Solar Photovoltaics
February 16 (in room 119) 4PM	Xiaohui Qu University of California, Berkeley	Watching single ribosome translation in real time: a quantitative study of ribosome helicase activity

March 14	Mildred Dresselhaus MIT Department of Physics	London Lecture The Wonders of Low-Dimensional Nanocarbons
April 25	Deborah Jin University of Colorado at Boulder	Ultracold Polar Molecules
May 9	Roy Holt Argonne National Laboratory	Optimizing Luminescent Solar Concentrator Design
May 16	Michael Pepper University College London	Semiconductor Nanostructures- The Engineering of Physics

Past Colloquia:

• Fall 2011 colloquium dates