PHYSICS 293
CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR
FALL 2000
SEMINAR TIME AND LOCATION:
Thursday, 4:10-5:00 pm, Physics-Geology 416.
SEMINAR SCHEDULE:
Thursday, October 5:
Dr. W. Ku
University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
``Electronic Excitations in Metals and Semiconductors: Ab Initio Studies
of Realistic Many-Body Systems''
abstract
Thursday, October 12:
Prof. Jon Lawrence
University of California, Irvine
``Slow crossover in YbXCu4 intermediate valence compounds''
abstract
Thursday, October 19:
Dr. L.W. Wang
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
`` Million atom electronic structure calculations of nanostructures''
abstract
Thursday, October 26:
Prof. Douglas Mills
University of California, Irvine
"Spin Excitations in the Ferromagnetic Metal; Their Spectroscopy
and Implications"
abstract
Thursday, November 2:
Prof. Peter Taborek
University of California, Irvine
"Wetting , Prewetting and Sticky Superfluids"
abstract
Thursday, November 9:
Prof. Guenter Ahlers
University of California, Santa Barbara
``Critical Phenomena near Bifurcations
in Systems far from Equilibrium''
abstract
Thursday, November 16:
Prof. Hong-Wen Jiang
University of California, Los Angeles
``Constructing a Basic Building Block for Semiconductor Quantum Computing:
Spin Resonance Transistors''
abstract
Thursday, November 23:
Thanksgiving Holiday
Thursday, November 30:
Dr. Ronald Cohen
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington; and
Visiting Professor of Materials Science and Geophysics,
California Institute of Technology
``Thermoelasticity and equations of
state of metals at high pressures and temperatures"
Thursday, December 7:
Dr. Michael McElfresh
Director, Materials Research Institute
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
``Experimental Investigations of Recent Anomalous
Results in Superconductivity''