Department of Physics

Seminar Datesort icon Speaker Institution Title Seminar Type Location Host
Thu, 09/01/2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Chris Van de Walle University of California at Santa Barbara Quantum Computing with Defects Department Colloquia PSF 101 Fernando Ponce
Wed, 09/07/2011 - 4:00am - 5:00am Ralf Bundschuh The Ohio State University Quantitative modeling of nucleosome dynamics Biophysics Seminar Special Location: Biodesign B105 Robert Ros
Wed, 09/07/2011 - 2:45pm - 3:45pm Regents' and Foundation Professor Rogier Windhorst Arizona State University How will the James Webb Space Telescope measure First Light, Reionization, and Galaxy Assembly in the post Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 era? Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics GWC 510 Tanmay Vachaspati
Thu, 09/08/2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Bob Austin Princeton University Can the Biologists Save Physics? Department Colloquia PSF 101 Stuart Lindsay
Mon, 09/12/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Robert Wang School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy, Arizona State Universiy Thermoelectric Energy Conversion and Charge Transport in Thin Films, Nanoparticles, and Nanocomposites Nanoscience Seminar GWC 487 John Shumway
Wed, 09/14/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Ruth Nussinov National Cancer Institute Allostery and Conformational Control in Signaling: The Ubiquitin E3 Ligases Biophysics Seminar Goldwater 487 Banu Ozkan
Wed, 09/14/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm TBA Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics GWC 510 Pushpa Wijesinghe
Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Brian LeRoy University of Arizona Imaging Local Electronic Properties in Graphene Department Colloquia PSF 101 Fernando Ponce
Mon, 09/19/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Robert Nemanich Arizona State University, Department of Physics Energy Conversion Applications Based on Doped Nanocrystalline Diamond Films Nanoscience Seminar GWC 487 John Shumway
Wed, 09/21/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Ying-Cheng Lai Arizona State University Reverse Engineering of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Complex Networks Biophysics Seminar Goldwater 487 Dmitry Matyushov
Wed, 09/21/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm TBA Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics GWC 510 Barry Ritchie
Thu, 09/22/2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Justin Khoury University of Pennsylvania Before the Big Bang Department Colloquia PSF 101 Damien Easson
Mon, 09/26/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Alexandra Ros Department of Chemistry, Arizona State University Dielectrophoretic Manipulation of Biomolecules in Micro- and Nanofluidic Devices Nanoscience Seminar GWC 487 Vladimiro Mujica
Wed, 09/28/2011 - 2:45pm - 3:45pm Thomas Jacques Arizona State University Illuminating Dark Matter through Indirect Detection Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics GWC 510 Damien Easson
Wed, 09/28/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Xu Wang Arizona State University Oligomer structure of the chemokine CCL5 and its interactions with glycosaminoglycans Biophysics Seminar Goldwater 487 Marcia Levitus
Thu, 09/29/2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Jeff Drucker Arizona State University Kinky Nanowires: How Failure Can Help Define Success and Elucidate Growth Physics Department Colloquia PSF 101
Mon, 10/03/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Hui Zhao Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas Nonlinear optics with ballistic currents in semiconductors Nanoscience Seminar GWC 487 John Shumway
Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:45pm - 3:45pm Vitaly Vanchurin Stanford University "Kinetic theory of strings" Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics Goldwater Center Room 510 Tanmay Vachaspati
Wed, 10/05/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm David Leitner University of Nevada, Reno Vibrational signaling in proteins Biophysics Seminar Goldwater 487 Dmitry Matyushov
Thu, 10/06/2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Myron Campbell University of Michigan CDF (1985-2011) Department Colloquia PSF 101 Joseph Comfort
Mon, 10/10/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm John Shumway Department of Physics, Arizona State University Excitonic Coherence in Double Quantum Wells, Graphene, and Topological Insulators Nanoscience Seminar GWC 487 Hongbin Yu
Wed, 10/12/2011 - 2:45pm - 3:45pm Hiroyuki Tashiro Arizona State University The cross-correlation between CMB and 21 cm fluctuations from the EoR Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics Goldwater Center Room 510 Tanmay Vachaspati
Wed, 10/12/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Angel Garcia Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Simulations of the folding/unfolding of biomolecules under solvent, pressure and force perturbations Biophysics Seminar Goldwater 487 Banu Ozkan
Thu, 10/13/2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Rajiv Kalia University of Southern California Multimillion Atom Simulations of Bio-Nano Systems Department Colloquia PSF 101 Michael Thorpe
Mon, 10/17/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Tian-Ling Ren Professor, Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, China; Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA Graphene-Based Novel Device Nanoscience Seminar GWC 487 Hongbin Yu
Wed, 10/19/2011 - 2:45pm - 3:45pm Shufang Su University of Arizona Fourth Generation and Dark Matter Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics GWC 510 Damien Easson
Wed, 10/19/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Dave Case Rutgers University Simulating biomolecules with implicit solvent models Biophysics Seminar Special Location: Biodesign B105 Banu Ozkan
Thu, 10/20/2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Jose Menendez Arizona State University Germanium's Comeback: An Old Semiconductor Learns New Tricks Department Colloquia PSF101
Mon, 10/24/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Kaushal Rege Arizona State University, Department of Chemical Engineering Stable Gold Nanorod-Based Assemblies and Matrices: Photothermally Responsive Materials for Therapeutics, Sensors, and Scaffolds Nanoscience Seminar GWC 487 Vladimiro Mujica
Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:45pm - 3:45pm Jan Pieter van der Schaar University of Amsterdam Constraints on excited states in effective field theories of inflation Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics Goldwater Center Room 510 Maulik Parikh
Wed, 10/26/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Ernst-Ludwig Florin University of Texas at Austin Microtubules: A prototype for biological and manmade fiber bundles Biophysics Seminar Goldwater 487 Robert Ros
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Eiichiro Komatsu University of Texas, Austin Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe Using the Cosmic Microwave Background Department Colloquia PSF 101 Damien Easson
Mon, 10/31/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Russell Cowburn Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge Magnetic Nanostructures for Digital Memory and Logic Nanoscience Seminar GWC 487 Hongbin Yu
Wed, 11/02/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Kim Sharp University of Pennsylvania Calculating entropy changes for proteins- Blowing hot and cold Biophysics Seminar Goldwater 487 Dmitry Matyushov
Wed, 11/02/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm TBA TBA TBA Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics TBA Andrei Belitsky
Thu, 11/03/2011 - 3:15pm - 5:00pm Colin Humphreys University of Cambridge 2011 Cowley Distinguished Lectureship Distinguished Lecture PSF 101 David Smith
Thu, 11/03/2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Sir Colin Humphreys University of Cambridge Cowley Distinguished Lecture 2011: How electron mircoscopy can help solve some of the world's energy problems Department Colloquia PSF 101 John Spence
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Kai Liu Physics Department, University of California Davis Probing and Controlling Magnetic Vortices in Nanomagnets Nanoscience Seminar GWC 487 Tingyong Chen
Wed, 11/09/2011 - 2:45pm - 3:45pm Dejan Stojkovic University at Buffalo - State University of New York Vanishing dimensions: theory and phenomenology Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics Goldwater Center Room 510 Tanmay Vachaspati
Wed, 11/09/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Paul Fenimore Los Alamos National Laboratory Protein Fluctuations and Coupling to the Solvent Biophysics Seminar Goldwater 487 Dmitry Matyushov
Thu, 11/10/2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm David Snoke University of Pittsburgh Superfluid Phase Transition of Long-Lifetime Polaritons Department Colloquia PSF 101 José Menéndez
Mon, 11/14/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Shufeng Zhang Department of Physics, University of Arizona Electric Control of Magnetization Dynamics Nanoscience Seminar GWC 487 Tingyong Chen
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 2:45pm - 3:45pm David Skinner Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Wilson Loops in Twistor Space (or, How to Tie Your Shoelaces in Three Complex Dimensions) Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics Goldwater Center Room 510 Andrei Belitsky
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Douglas Tobias University of California -- Irvine Atomistic modeling of the ups and downs of voltage sensing by voltage-gated potassium and proton channels Biophysics Seminar goldwater 487 Dmitry Matyushov
Thu, 11/17/2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Frances Hellman University of California, Berkeley Spin Electronics: Magnetic Moments and Amorphous Semiconductors Department Colloquia PSF 101 David Smith
Mon, 11/21/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm John Venables Arizona State University Thermodynamics and Kinetics in Adsorption and Crystal Growth on Substrates Nanoscience Seminar GWC 487 Peter Bennett
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 2:45pm - 3:45pm Francesc Ferrer Dark matter annihilation fluxes à la Eddington Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics Goldwater Center Room 510
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Gregory Voth University of Utah Theory and Simulation of Biomolecular Systems: Surmounting the Challenge of Bridging the Scales Biophysics Seminar Goldwater 487 Dmitry Matyushov
Thu, 12/01/2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Matt Chisholm Oak Ridge National Laboratory Structural and Chemical Modifications of Graphene Department Colloquia PSF101 David Smith
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm PSM Graduating Students ASU PSM in Nanoscience PSM Capstone Conference Nanoscience Seminar PSF 462 and surroundings John Venables
Wed, 12/07/2011 - 2:45pm - 3:45pm Levon Pogosian Fables of reconstruction: controlling bias in the dark energy equation of state Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics Goldwater Center Room 510 Tanmay Vachaspati
Wed, 12/07/2011 - 2:45pm - 3:45pm Levon Pogosian Fables of reconstruction: controlling bias in the dark energy equation of state Cosmology, Particle and Astrophysics Goldwater Center Room 510 Tanmay Vachaspati