TIME AND LOCATION: Friday, 11:00-11:50 pm, Physics 432.

PRESENTATION SCHEDULE:

Friday, April 9: Brian Neal
"Band structure and itinerant magnetism in quantum critical NbFe2", Alaska Subedi and David Singh, Phys. Rev. B81, 024422 (2010).

Friday, April 16: Amandeep Kaur
"Enhancement of Pairing Interaction and Magnetic Fluctuations toward a Band Insulator in an Electron-Doped Lix ZrNCl Superconductor" Y. Kasahara etal, PRL 103, 077004 (2009).

Friday, April 23: Jim Lin
"235U nuclear relaxation rates in an itinerant antiferromagnet USb2" S.-H. Baek, N.J. Curro, H. Sakai, E.D. Bauer, J.C. Cooley, and J.L. Smith, Physical Review B81, 054435 (2͑010).

Friday, April 30: Jason Kaszpurenko
"Synthesis and magnetic properties of Mn doped ZnO nanowires Sasanka Deka, P.A. Joy, Solid State Communications 142 (2007) 190–194."

Friday, May 7: Hahnbidt Rhee
"Effects of strain on electronic properties of graphene"

Friday, May 14: Alex Saw
"Synthesis and Characterization of Nearly Monodisperse CdE (E = S, Se, Te) Semiconductor Nanocrystallites"

Friday, May 21: Elias Assmann
Jaksch, D., Bruder, C., Cirac, J.I., Gardiner, C.W. & Zoller, P. Cold Bosonic Atoms in Optical Lattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3108 (1998).

Friday, May 28: Adam Dioguardi
"Decoupling of the superconducting and magnetic/structural phase transitions in electron-doped BaFe2As2", P.C. Canfield, S.L. Bud’ko, Ni Ni, J.Q. Yan, and A. Kracher, Phys. Rev. B80, 060501R (͑2009).