SUMMER 2006 DEPARTMENT SEMINARS & COLLOQUIA
(Archive)

Wednesday, July 12, 2006
HEFTI Seminar
Speaker: Harald Fritizsch (Universitat Muenchen)
Title: "Natural Constants in Physics and their Time Dependence"
Time & Location: 2:00pm at 432 PHY/GEO

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Ross Mckenzie (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
Title: "Interplay of magnetic frustration and strong electronic correlations: insights into NaxCoO2 from dynamical mean-field theory"
Time & Location: 2:00pm, Room 416 PHYS/GEO

Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Vladimir I. Anisimov (Institute of Metal Physics, Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Title: "Orbital densities functional"
Time & Location: 2:00pm, Room 416 PHYS/GEO

Tuesday, August 1, 2006
NEAT & CCSE Seminar
Speaker: J. Christian Schön
Title: "Towards rational planning of syntheses in solid state chemistry: Predicting new compounds without recourse to input from experiment via investigation of their energy landscapes"
Time & Location: 1:10pm, Room 416 PHYS/GEO

Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Neat & CCSE Seminar
Speaker: Kristopher E. Anderson (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Reasearch Laboratory, Washington, DC)
Title: "Interface structure and device properties of SrTiO3 on Si (001)"
Time & Location: 3:10pm, Room 416 PHYS/GEO

Monday, September 18, 2006
HEFTI Seminar
Speaker: Neil Barnaby (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
Title: "Nongaussianity from Tachyonic Preheating in Hybrid Inflation"
Time & Location: 11am, Room 432 PHYS/GEO

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Nuclear Physics Seminar
Speaker: Corey Reed
Title: Collisions of heavy ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have opened the door to a new understanding of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions
Time & Location: 4:10pm, Room 416 PHYS/GEO

Thursday, September 21, 2006
HEFTI Seminar
Speaker: Paolo Creminelli (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
Title: "Starting the Universe: Stable Violation of the Null Energy Condition and Non-standard Cosmologies"
Time & Location: 3:30pm, Room 416 PHYS/GEO