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CMP Seminars

Schedule Spring 2012

Mondays at 4:10 pm, Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.
Refreshments at 3:45 pm.

Date Speaker Title Host
9 January Chris Middleton - University of Wisconsin  New Techniques Bring New Insights: Coherent 2D IR Spectroscopy Reveals How Drugs Alter Protein Aggregation Lapidus
12 January (Special Seminar)
12:00 BPS 1400
Matt Comstock - University of Illinois Seeing structure and function of biological molecular machines simultaneously in real-time: combining angstrom-resolution optical trapping with single molecule fluorescence microscopy Lapidus
16 January Megan Thielges - Stanford  Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Protein Dynamics, and Biological Molecular Recognition Lapidus

19 January

(Special Seminar)

12:00 BPS 1400
Xiaohui Qu - University of California Watching single ribosome translation in real time: a quantitative study of ribosome helicase activity Lapidus
23 January Yinghao Wu - Columbia University Multiscale studies of cadherin-mediated cell adhesion Lapidus
26 January
(Special Seminar)
12:00 BPS 1400
Tim Stasevich - Osaka University Towards a Single Cell, Single Molecule View of Eukaryotic Gene Activation Lapidus
30 January Nikolai Sinitsyn - Los Alamos National Laboratory  Geometric phases in stochastic kinetics: application to molecular motors   Levchenko
6 February     OPEN  
10 February Pablo Jarillo-Herreto - MIT Quantum Transport and Optoelectronics on Graphene on hBN devices Birge
20 February

OPEN  
24 February
(Special Seminar)
10:00 a.m. BPS 1400
Lin Tian - UC Merced Quantum wavelength conversion and sideband cooling in optomechanical systems Lai
27 February   No Seminar - APS March Meeting   
5 March Spring Break
12 March Mikhail Raikh - University of Utah    Quantum Hall Effect in Vanishing Magnetic Field Dykman
19 March Jens Koch - Northwestern University  From few to many degrees of freedom: quantum coherence in superconducting circuits Levchenko
26 March Feng Wang - Univ. of California at Berkeley Tunable optical properties of graphene McGuire
2 April Ying Liu - Penn State TBA Birge
9 April Karen Michaeli, MIT Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Oxide Interface Structures: Possibility of Finite Momentum Pairing  
16 April Xiaoqin Li - University of Texas at Austin Light Scattering from the Collective Modes of Electrons Zhang
23 April Jianhua Yang - Hewlett Packard Labs Memristive Nanodivices: Mechanisms, Promises and Challenges  Zhang
30 April Mark Rudner, Ohio State University Spin-nanomechanical coupling in carbon nanotube quantum dots  


Last update: 11:47:50 EST, 2012-01-06

For information or special accommodations please email Cathy Cords at cords -AT- pa dot msu dot edu