Past Theoretical Physics Seminars

Under the coordination of:
Alex Flournoy
Office: Meyer Hall 340
Phone: (303) 273-3712
E-mail: aflourno (at) mines.edu
(in reverse chronological order)


5/3/10 Jeremy Bundgaard, Mark Dvorak

4/26/10 Nickolas Huebner, Daniel Noland

4/19/10 Zhibin Lin "Multi-Exciton Generation (MEG) in Quantum Dots"

4/12/10 Michael Wall "Tunable Molecular Many-Body Physics and the Hyperfine Molecular Hubbard Hamiltonian"

3/29/10 Dr. Yufeng Zhao from NREL "Towards Rational Design of Functional Nanostructures: Predictive Theory Based on “Mechanism-Structure-Property” Paradigm"

3/22/10 Professor Mark Lusk "Defect Engineering on Graphene"

3/1/10 Dr. Yi Zhu, CU Boulder "Conical Diffraction in Honeycomb Lattices"

2/22/10 Rachel Miller "Nonlinear Scattering of BECs on a Finite Barrier"

2/8/10 Miguel-Angel Garcia-March "Bosons in a Three Dimensional Tilted Potential"

2/1/10 Brainstorm Session

1/25/10 Professor Lincoln Carr "Tunable Molecular Quantum Many Body Dynamics"

11/23/09 Scott Strong, CSM "The Locally Induced Dynamics of Thin Cored Vortex Geometries"

11/16/09 Daniel Wilson, CSM "The Limiting Mass of a Neutron Star"

11/9/09 Elliot Hoefflin, CSM "Image Enhancement by Parallel Diffusion Processing"

11/2/09 Prof. Mahadevan Ganesh "T-matrix Computations in Three Dimensional Electromagnetic Scattering"

10/26/09 Prof. David Wood, CSM "Practical Choices in the Evolution of Electron Structure Theory"

10/12/09 Prof. Zhigang Wu, CSM "Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Excited and Ground-State Properties of Nanostructures"

10/5/09 Alex Flournoy, CSM "Quantum Field Theory: What it is and what did we hope it is?"

9/28/09 Walter Unglaub, CSM "Calculation of Feshbach Resonances in Rubidium Atoms Using Realistic Potentials to Constrain Seperable Potentials"

9/21/09 Torey Battelle-Semi, CSM "Vacancy Migration in Uranium Dioxide"

9/14/09 Laith Haddad, CSM "Quasiparticle Spectrum of 2-D Dirac Vortices in Optical Lattices"

9/7/09 Prof. Mark Coffey, CSM "A Fully Connected Qubit Network Model for Quantum Information Processing Applications"

Under the coordination of:
Prof. Lincoln Carr
Office: Meyer Hall 375
Phone: (303) 273-3759
E-mail: lcarr (at) mines.edu

4/27/09: Undergraduate Journal Club: Jeremy Salankey, Nick Saylor, Patrick Stoever, and Matthew Westacott

4/20/09: Undergraduate Journal Club: Zac Jones, Daniel Noland, and Charles Pearl

4/13/09: Undergraduate Journal Club: Alyssa Allende-Motz, Carter Ferrel, and Kevin Herring

4/6/09: Prof. William Navidi, CSM, Title TBA

3/30/09: TBA

3/23/09: TBA

3/16/09: Brainstorm Session

3/9/09: Spring Break

3/2/09: TBA

2/23/09: TBA

2/16/09: TBA

2/9/09: Brainstorm Session

2/2/09: TBA

1/26/09: Prof. Robin Cote, University of Connecticut, title TBA

1/19/09: Prof. Rina Kanamoto, "Quantum phase transition, symmetry breaking, and Goldstone mode in a periodic one-dimensional Bose gas" (joint theory seminar and physics colloquium)

12/1/08: Undergraduate Journal Club: Garret Jennison, "Thermal Effects of Stability in Nuclear Reactors"; Walter Unglaub, "Modeling Feshbach Resonances"

11/24/08: Thanksgiving

11/17/08: Undergraduate Journal Club: John Claus, "M-Theory and Investigations into a Multi-dimensional Universe"; James Edge, "Hawking Radiation Evaporation of Black Holes"; Katie Smith, "Optical Holography"

11/10/08: Undergraduate Journal Club: David Carey, "Density Functional Theory Calculations for a ZnO Hydrogen Passivated Surface"; Joseph Glick, "Quantum entangled bright solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices"; Brett Manning, "Anderson Localization: Introduction and Scope"

11/3/08: Prof. David Flammer, CSM, "Surface Plasmon Polaritons: Theory and Application"

10/27/08: Dr. Alex Flournoy, CSM, "Physics of the 2008 Nobel Prize"

10/20/08: Nate Hamm, "Application of Band Characteristics as a Function of Structural Geometry to Phase Minima Predictions"

10/13/08: Fall Break

10/6/08: Prof. Qi Han, CSM, "Taming the Uncertainty in Supporting Real-time Sensor Applications"

9/29/08: Prof. John Bohn, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Coming Together, Falling Apart: Instability in a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate"

9/22/08: Prof. Dinesh Mehta, CSM, "Optimal Layout of Antennae in a Radiotelescope Array"

9/15/08: Prof. Mark Coffey, CSM, "Quantum Lattice Gas Approach for the Maxwell Equations"

9/8/08: Scott Strong, "Nonlinear Evolution Equations - Clay Mathematics Institute Summer School 2008"

9/1/08: Prof. David Wu, CSM, "An Introduction to Jamming and Granular Rigidity"

8/25/08: Prof. Mark Lusk, CSM, "Fundamental Studies of Polyoxometallate Based Nano-Materials for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting"

4/28/08: Undergraduate Journal Club: Justin Anderson, "Fractal Dimension"; Joe Schneiderwind, "Quantum Computing with NMR-based qubits"

4/21/08: Undergraduate Journal Club: John Garlick, "Overview of CPT Symmetry and Anti-Hydrogen Trapping"; Joseph Glick, "Implications of the Bose-Hubbard Model"

4/14/08: Undergraduate Journal Club: Erik Hill, "First Empirical Evidence for Dark Matter"; Joshua Morain, "Exact Quantum Solutions for the Triple Well"

4/7/08: Matthew Heller, "Nonlinear Scattering Theory"

3/31/08: Laith Haddad, "The Nonlinear Dirac Equation"

3/24/08: Daniel Whitenack, "Ab initio Study of the Vibrational Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Sheets Functionalized with Transition Metal Atoms"

3/17/08: Victor Snyder, "Quantum Fluctuations in Collapsing Bose-Einstein Condensates"

3/3/08: Prof. Mark Lusk, CSM, "Nano-Engineering Defect Structures on Graphene"

2/25/08: Rachel Miller, "Nonlinear Scattering Theory"

2/11/08: Prof. James McNeil, CSM, "Similiarity Renormalization Group, Part II"

2/4/08: Prof. James McNeil, CSM, "Similiarity Renormalization Group, Part I"

1/28/08: Colin Justis, "A Brief Introduction to Metamaterials and Negative Refraction"

1/21/08: Prof. David Wu, CSM, "Topological Effects in the Field Theory for Polymers"

1/14/08: Prof. Lincoln Carr, CSM, "Exact Dynamics of Multi-component Bose-Einstein Condensates on an Optical Lattice"

12/3/07: Undergraduate Journal Club: Orbifold string theory; Fractals; Nonlinear Vacuum; Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

11/26/07: Undergraduate Journal Club: Orientfold String Theory; WIMP Theory of Dark Matter; Quantum Trimer; Nucleosynthesis

11/12/07: Dr. Alex Flournoy, CSM, "String Consistency"

11/5/07: Prof. David Wood, CSM, "An Introduction to Computational Electronic Structure"

10/29/07: Prof. Mark Coffey, CSM, "An Introduction to Quantum Search"

10/22/07: Prof. John Scales, CSM, "Can You See a Piece of Broccoli in Glass of Milk?"

10/8/07: Michael Wall, "Controlling atom motion through the dipole-dipole force"

10/1/07: Sean Santos, "Numerical Investigations of the 2D Bose-Hubbard Model"

9/24/07: Ryan Mishmash, "Complex Quantum Dynamics of Ultracold Bosons on One-Dimensional Optical Lattices: Theory, Computation, and Solitons"

9/17/07: Brahm Van Der Geest, "Density Functional Theory: Theory, Tools, and Materials Investigations"

9/10/07: Daniel Schirmer, "Classically Simulating a Quantum World: An Introduction to Complex Quantum Dynamics and Ultra-Cold Optical Lattice Systems"

9/3/07: David Appelhans, "Numerical simulations of the Non-Linear Schrodinger Equation and their application to pulse shaping in Femtosecond laser cavities"

8/27/07: First Meeting, Scheduling and Introductions