Physics Research Opportunities Seminars

Unless noted, seminars take place on Mondays from 12-12:50 PM in the Commons Room, on the 11th floor of the Gamow Tower in Duane Physics. Each week there will be two 20 minute talks presented.

Lunch will be served

To schedule a talk, please contact Bill Ford, William.Ford at colorado.edu

Fall 2013

Date Speaker Website Title of Presentation
Sept 16 Markus Raschke Website Optics in the near-field: from microscopy to Casimir forces
Sept 16 Shanta de Alwis Website String theory, Phenomenology and Cosmology
Sept 23 Loren Hough Website In cell NMR as a probe of intrinsically disordered proteins
Sept 23 David Nesbit Website Laser Studies of Cold Molecular Physics: Gas Phase and Gas-Liquid-Interfaces
Sept 30 Shijie Zhong Website Research Opportunities in Geophysics
Sept 30 James Thompson Website Breaking Quantum and Thermal Limits
Oct 7 Dmitri Uzdensky Website Adventures in Plasma Astrophysics
Oct 7 Ivan Smalyukh Website Soft condensed matter: from self-assembly to renewable energy and nanophotonics applications
Oct 14 Eric Zimmerman Website Neutrino physics at CU
Oct 14 Mathias Weber Website Vibrational Spectroscopy of Clusters - Probing Charge Distribution and Charge Transfer Between Molecules
Oct 21 Minhyea Lee Website Basics and applications in experimental condensed matter physics
Oct 21 Tom Perkins Website Precision Single Molecule Biophysics
Oct 28 Joe Maclennan Website Shedding Light on Liquid Crystals
Oct 28 Zoltan Sternovsky Website Hypervelocity dust impacts in the laboratory and applications for space research
Nov 4 Dmitry Reznik Website Looking under the hood of quantum materials by scattering neutrons, x-rays, and light
Nov 4 Juliet Gopinath Website Ultrafast and ultrabright lasers
Nov 11 Jiansong Gao Website Superconducting detectors, amplifiers and qubits
Nov 11 Milos Popovic Website Nanoscale photonic devices and circuits for classical and quantum control of light
Nov 18 Margaret Murnane Website Science at the Timescale of the Electron
Nov 18 Xiaobo Yin Website When Structured Light Meets Structured Matter: Light-Matter Interactions at the Nanoscale
Nov 25 FALL BREAK No Seminar
Dec. 2 Dan Dessau Website Phun with Photoelectrons: the electronic structure of high Tc superconductors and other novel materials
Dec. 2 Sean Shaheen Website Harnessing Solar Energy with Pi-Conjugated Electrons: Device Physics of Organic Photovoltaics
Dec. 9 Steve Pollock / Melissa Dancy Website Graduate Student Opportunities in Physics Education Research

Previous Years

Fall 2012 Fall 2011 Fall 2010 Fall 2009 Spring 2009