University of Washington Department of Physics: Phys 528 |
Winter 2010
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Current Topics in Physics
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This course is intended to introduce first-year graduate students to research going on at UW. Each week there will be three talks by researchers who are seeking to advise Physics students. On average each talk will be half an hour plus questions, with the balance varying somewhat. Lunch: Feel free to bring food along. We'll have coffee and snacks after each talk! |
| Jan 8 | Introduction | |
| Ann Nelson | Particle theory in the era of the LHC | |
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David Cobden |
Nanodevice Physics - Experiments on nanowires and nanotubes (lab tour after) | |
| Jan 15 | Marjie Olmstead | Intrinsic vacancy semiconductors: ferromagnets and transparent conductors |
| Jerry Seidler | Advances in energy science via novel X-ray spectroscopic methods | |
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Gary Drobny |
Biophysical chemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance | |
| Jan 22 | Alejandro Garcia | Experiments in low-energy nuclear physics |
| Nikolai Tolich | Neutrino experiments - Ideas for developing the next generation neutrino detectors | |
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Leslie Rosenberg |
Dark matter detection | |
| Jan 29 | Paula Heron | How students learn physics |
| Toby Burnett | Astrophysics and the search for dark matter with Fermi | |
| Vladi Chaloupka |
Physics, music and society | |
| Feb 5 | Markus Raschke | Ultrafast nano-optics |
| Deep Gupta | Ultracold atoms | |
| Boris Blinov |
Trapped ion quantum computing | |
| Feb 12 | Marcel den Nijs | Scale invariance in dynamic statistical process and in the human cortex |
| Jens Gundlach | DNA through nanopores | |
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Henry Lubatti |
Physics at the Large Hadron collider: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe | |
| Feb 19 | Anton Andreev | Theoretical condensed matter physics, mainly nano |
| David Ginger | Scanning probe microscopy of polymer photovoltaics | |
| David Baker |
Mapping protein folding free energy landscapes | |
| Feb 26 | Paul Kinahan | Medical Imaging with Ionizing Radiation - Detectors to Images |
| Kannan Krishnan | Magnetic nanostructures and films | |
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Jerry Miller |
Nucleon structure | |
| Mar 5 starts 1 pm |
Nathan Kutz | High-energy mode-locked (pulsed) lasers |
| Dam Son | Physics of strong interactions | |
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Robert Holzworth |
The global effects of lightning | |
| Mar 12 | Bob Odom | The UW Applied Physics Lab |
| Huey-Wen Lin | "QCD in a Box" -- An Application of Lattice Gauge Theory | |
| Michael Miller | Neutrino and dark matter detection |