Solid State Seminar schedule, Winter 2006

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January 11    No Seminar

January 18    Prof. Bill Warnes, ME Dept, OSU
              "Cryogenic Transport Properties of Bulk Metallic Glass"

January 25    Prof. Roger Ely, Dept. of Bioengineering, OSU
              "Solar Biohydrogen: A Tiny Response to a Colossal Energy Challenge"

February 1    Prof. Greg Rorrer, ChE Dept, OSU
              "Biological Fabrication of Nanocomposite Metal Oxide Materials
                  Possessing Optoelectronic Properties"

February 8    Zach Wiren, Physics, OSU
              "TBA"

February 10   Dr. Owen Vajk
Friday, 11am   Neutron Scattering Studies of a Multiferroic: Spin Waves and Magnetic Order in HoMnO3 
Wngr 304

February 14   Dr. Eric Helgren
Tuesday, 11am  THz Electrodynamics of Magnetic Electron Glasses 
Wngr 304

February 15   No Seminar

February 17   Dr. Willie Padilla
Friday, 11am  POSTPONED
Wngr 304

February 21   Dr. Barry Zink
Tuesday, 11am  "Tunneling States, Excess Modes, and Other Thermal Adventures in Amorphous Thin Films" 
Wngr 304

February 22   No Seminar

February 24   Dr. Markus Raschke
Friday, 11am   "Optics at mesoscopic lengths scales - seeing with the nano-eye" 
Wngr 304

February 28   Dr. Ethan Minot
Tuesday, 11am "Tuning the band structure of carbon nanotubes"
Wngr 304

March 1       No Seminar

March 3       Dr. Richard Hennig
Friday, 11am   From atomic-scale processes to properties of real materials
                 Extending the accuracy of first-principles methods 
Wngr 304

March 7        Dr. Timo Thonhauser
Tuesday, 11am   Chern insulators, van der Waals systems, and beyond... 
Wngr 304

March 8       No Seminar

March 10      Dr. Angelo Bongiorno
Friday, 11am   Ab-initio calculations in biophysics 
Wngr 304

March 15      No Seminar

March 17      Dr. Guenter Schneider
Friday, 11am   Transport in strongly correlated 1D systems: Real-Time Dynamics in DMRG 
 
March 21      Dr. Na Sai
Tuesday, 11am  TBA 
Wngr 304

March 24      Dr. David Roundy
Friday, 11am   Sources of mechanical loss in nanotube oscillators, and a density
               functional theory for hydration 
Wngr 304