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• Ultra-wideband radio frequency signal analysis using spatial-spectral holography

  Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 2:45pm Reiss 502 Dr. Kristian D. Merkels2corporation I will cover the basics of the interaction of coherent light with cryogenically cooled crystal absorbers and how th

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• Solar Photovoltaics – Technology, Challenges, and Value

  Tuesday, November 2, 2010 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Reiss 112Ken ZweibelThe GW Solar Institute at The George Washington University This is a light-handed survey of the PV technology, its value as a source of

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• The Physics and Applications of Superconducting Metamaterials

  Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 3:15pm Reiss 502Steven AnlageUniversity of Maryland, Department of Physics The optical properties of materials with a negative index of refraction were first considered th

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• Near-surface bacterial motility during biofilm formation

  Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 3:15pm Reiss 502 Jacinta C. Conrad Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston Up to 99% of bacteria live in biofilms, which are multicellular

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• Interfacing Nanoscience and Biomedical Research

  Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Reiss 502Jong-in HahmDepartment of Chemistry, Georgetown University This talk gives an overview of our on-going nanomaterials research, aiming to provide mo

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• Searching for exotic ground states of quantum many-body systems. What's out there?

  Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 3:15pm Reiss 502Gregory Fiete University of Texas at Austin In this talk we will highlight the some of the recent advances made in the theory of ``exotic" phases of qua

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• Folding Landscapes of RNA – CANCELED

  Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 2:45pm - 4:00pm Reiss 262 Dave Thirumalai Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland This is a j

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• Scandal in Physics: The Affair of Jan Hendrik Schön at Bell Labs

  Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 3:15pm - 4:30pm Reiss 502Eugenie Samuel Reich In 2002, physicists were shocked to learn that a staff scientist at Bell Labs in New Jersey, Jan Hendrik Schön, had faked a

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• Quantum computing with entangled atoms and photons

  Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Reiss 502Boris Blinov Department of Physics, University of Washington Trapped atomic ions are excellent carriers of quantum information, with demonstrate

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• Ultrasensitive Superconducting Photon Detectors

  Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 3:15pm Reiss 502Prof. Daniel ProberYale University This talk will describe the physics, development and uses of single photon detectors, covering photon energies from MeV to m

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