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• Coherent control of cold atoms in a double-well optical lattice

  Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Reiss 502 Trey Porto JQI of NIST and UMD Ultra-cold atoms trapped in optical lattices provide a platform for studying quantum systems in a many body context.

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• Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Noble-Metal Nanocrystals

  Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 2:45pm - 4:00pm Reiss 112Younan Xia Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis Control of nanocrystal shape may initially seem like a scientific

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• Probing Sub-Cellular Force Transduction and Soft Matter using Magnetic Nanowires

  Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 502Daniel ReichJohns Hopkins University Magnetic microparticles and nanoparticles are playing an ever-increasingly important role in the study of soft matter

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• Do Electrons in a Metal have the Same Charge as Free Electrons in Vacuum?

  Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 502 Neil Zimmerman NIST Single electron tunneling (SET) devices, based on the Coulomb blockade, offer us the amazing ability to move electrons one-by-one. We

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• Topological insulators and fractionalization

  Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 502Michael LevinUniversity of Maryland Recently, an entirely new kind of band insulator was discovered. These new electronic states -- called "topological ins

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• POSTPONED – DATE TBD: Do Electrons in a Metal have the Same Charge as Free Electrons in Vacuum?

  Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 502Neil ZimmermanNIST Single electron tunneling (SET) devices, based on the Coulomb blockade, offer us the amazing ability to move electrons one-by-one. We ca

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• Superconductivity in nanograins: smaller is different

  Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 502 Antonio Garcia-Garcia Lisbon University In the first part of the colloquium I introduce the physics of superconducting nanograins: theories, experiments

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• Molecular Switches: Can a two-state conductance be controlled in single porphyrin molecules?

  Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 502Kim Michelle LewisRensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Physics Realizing how one can manipulate conductance switching in molecular junctions can

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• 2011 Colloquia Archive

  Molecular Switches: Can a two-state conductance be controlled in single porphyrin molecules? Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 3:15pm Kim Michelle Lewis Superconductivity in nanograins: smaller is diff

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• Directed Migration and Signal Relay in Dictyostelium Aggregation

  Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Reiss 502 Erin Rericha University of Maryland Directed Migration of cells is vital to a wide array of biological processes: from the coordinated migration

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