Graduate Student Seminars
Presenting in this weekly student seminar is a good opportunity to take a step back, reflect, and put into perspective the research we spend so much time occupied with. Especially for students early in their research careers, formulating storylines and sorting out the central ideas for the sake of an interactive audience of peers can be a very useful and enjoyable experience. The audience of grad students and post-docs comes out of general curiosity, solidarity, and/or to enjoy the refreshments and socialize. There, they have a unique opportunity to ask questions more freely and about more unfamiliar topics than they may have during more formal talks. Newer students who are still in the process of choosing a research group can get an impression of what their prospective lives would be, from the most relevant people: other grad students. The format of the seminars is left entirely up to the presenter, but they often last between 1 and 2 hours, depending on the involvement of the audience, of which there is usually a lot. Every Friday afternoon at 5:00 (4:30 for refreshments).
For questions, please contact Hunter King or Lee Walsh.
| Date | Name | Title of talk |
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| Oct 5, 2012 | Keith Otis |
Developing a Synthetic Spectrum for the Study of Pileup in Borexino
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| Sep 28, 2012 | Tom Goldstein |
Monte Carlo: from dartboards to the quantum Worm Algorithm
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| Sep 21, 2012 | Jess McIver | The Advanced LIGO seismic isolation system |
| Sep 14, 2012 | Derek Wood |
A Bit of Fun with the 4-Color Theorem
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| May 4, 2012 | Luis Cajamarca |
Molecular Adhesion of Curved Filaments: Self-Assembly of Bacterial Flagellar Bundles
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| Apr 27, 2012 | Basem El-Menoufi |
A brief review of gauge-invariance and thinking about gauge non-invariance
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| Apr 20, 2012 | Keith Otis |
The Recent Past and Future of the Borexino Detector: Teaching an Old Dog Neu(trino) Tricks
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| Apr 6, 2012 | Sereres Johnston |
Double Beta Decay and the Compton Telescope technique
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| Mar 30, 2012 | Huajie Ke | Patterned Nano-sized Material with Large Magnetic Permeability at High Frequency |
| Mar 16, 2012 | Hamidreza Shojaei | Adsorption of polyelectrolytes onto curved surface using WKB approximation |
| Mar 9, 2012 | Don Blair | Statistical Mechanics of 2D Foams for Dummies |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Hunter King, Lee Walsh |
The wrinkle transition of a sheet on a drop Hierarchical Stress Focusing in an Elastic Ridge |
| Feb 16, 2012 | Amir Azadi | Defects in Crystalline Packings of Twisted Bundles: Dislocations and Grain Boundaries |
| Feb 9, 2012 | Phil Martel | Measuring Proton Spin Polarizabilities with Polarized Compton Scattering |
| Dec 15, 2011 | Jessica Cook | Inflation |
| Dec 8, 2011 | Jiansheng "Jackson" Feng | Micro-channels Designed for Passive Asymmetric Wicking |
| Dec 1, 2011 | Jon Wexler | PREX: Cleanly Measuring the Neutron Radius of Lead through Parity Violation |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Jaime Hopkins | Chemical Potentials of Individual Polymers in Mixtures of High and Low Molecular Weight PEG in Thermodynamic Equilibrium with a Pore |
| Nov 3, 2011 | Wei Hong | Dynamical slowing down and structural changesin the colloidal glass transition |
| Oct 27, 2011 | Jared Vanasse | Two-Body and Three-Body Scattering and The Fadeev Equation |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Ilke Ercan (EE) | Fundamental heat dissipation limits of information processing in nanocomputing technologies |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Hunter King | Mechanics of Fluid-Supported Films |
| Oct 6, 2011 | German Colon | Search for TeV-Scale Gravity Signatures at the LHC |
| Sept 29, 2011 | Derek Wood | Adventures with superparamagnetic beads: a preliminary exploration of the depletion interaction with an added inter-particle repulsion. |
| Sept 22, 2011 | TJ Blackburn | Quantum corrections to the gravitational scattering of massless particles |
| Sept 15, 2011 | Stefan Dickert | Conductivity and Structural Properties of Nanostructures Fabricated by E-Beam Exposure of Nanoparticle Resists |
| Sept 8, 2011 | New Grad Student Welcome | |
| Aug 18, 2011 | Ben Gamari | The limitations of FRET in observing conformational dynamics |
| Aug 11, 2011 | Jessica McIver | Data Quality Studies for LIGO and Virgo |
| Aug 4, 2011 | Tom Goldstein | A Brief Introduction to Feynman Diagrams and the Worm Algorithm |
| July 28, 2011 | Jiansheng "Jackson" Feng | A prelude to Arduino: think it, make it |
| July 14, 2011 | Don Blair | The Smallest Square-full Donut |
| July 7, 2011 | John Mergo (Cornell) | Melting Dynamics of Colloidal Crystals |
| June 30, 2011 | Sheema Rahman Seresht | Fluorescent Correlation Spectroscopy |
| June 24, 2011 | No Seminar | |
| June 16, 2011 | Nesrin Senbil | Capillarity vs. Curvature |
| June 9, 2011 | Craig Versek | Mechanisms and Measurements of Bulk Proton Conductivity in Protogenic Small Molecule Solvents |
| June 3, 2011 | Ning Ouyang | A theoretical description of polymers under confinement |
| May 27, 2011 | Marcelo Dias | Unfolding Mysteries with Gauss Maps |
| May 20, 2011 | Ben Gamari | An Introduction to Bayesian Inference in Data Analysis |
| May 13, 2011 | Jared Vanasse | Parity Violation in neutron deuteron scattering in Pionless Effective Field Theory |
| May 6, 2011 | Johan Carlstrom | Multi component superconductors and type-1.5 superconductivity |
| Apr 29, 2011 | Luis Cajamarca | Condensed Helical Flagella |
| Apr 22, 2011 | Derek Wood | Beating the Diffraction Limit |
| Apr 15, 2011 | Yipeng Yang | Self-assembly of P3HT and PCBM Nanoparticles |
| Apr 8, 2011 | Sereres Johnston | Building a giant Toroidal Spectrometer |
| Apr 1, 2011 | Daniel Hoak | Detecting Gravitational Waves for Fun and Profit |
| Mar 25, 2011 | Jiansheng Feng | Superhydrophobic Surfaces by E-Beam |
| Mar 11, 2011 | Richard Buckman | FCS, FRET, and Cavity QED |
| Mar 4, 2011 | Ufuk Aydemir | Emergent symmetry: An alternative to unification |
| Feb 25, 2011 | Don Blair | The Parallel Computational Complexity of the Percolation Model |
| Feb 18, 2011 | Amir Azadi | Conformation of semiflexible chiral filaments |
| Feb 11, 2011 | Lee Walsh | D-cone interactions on a cylindrical surface |
| Feb 4, 2011 | Jaime Hutchison | (Haiku title) lipid vesicles - are introduced to protein - curvature changes |
| Jan 21, 2011 | Tianyu Yang | Ferromagnetic Nanoring for MRAM application |
| Jan 14, 2011 | Bugra Toga | Wrinkling of an Annulus |
| Dec 17, 2010 | Stefan Dickert | Basic fabrication techniques in nanotechnology |
| Dec 10, 2010 | Jared Vanasse | Effective Theories For Dummies |
| Dec 3, 2010 | Emily Thompson | Everything you always wanted to know about CERN and the LHC |
| Nov 19, 2010 | Peter Morgan | Double beta decay experiments and measurement of the neutrino mass |
| Nov 12, 2010 | Peker Milas | Method for better understanding length scales in FRET measurements |
| Nov 5, 2010 | Mina Baghgar Bostanabad | Investigation of light scattering of gold nanoparticles via NSOM |
| Oct 29, 2010 | Colm Kelleher (NYU) | Particles at fluid interfaces |
| Oct 15, 2010 | Liquan Pei | Melting and Freezing of 2D Col. Crystals with Short Range Interactions |
| Oct 7, 2010 | Dong Chen | Phase Behavior of Vesicles of DOPC/DPPC Mixtures |
| Oct 1, 2010 | Marcelo Dias | 1D Variational Problems in Elasticity of Curves |
| Sep 24, 2010 | Selcuk Yasar | Casimir/Lifshitz Interaction - Exper. with DNA Solutions |
| Sep 17, 2010 | Craig Versek | Double-Layer Capacitance in Salt Solutions |
| Sep 10, 2010 | Ben Ett | Kerr-Schild Formalism in GR (Part II) |
| Sep 3, 2010 | Ben Ett | Kerr-Schild Formalism in GR |
| Aug 27, 2010 | Hongqiang Wang | Granular Gas Experiments |
| Aug 6, 2010 | Dominique Cambou | Densely Crumpled Films |
| Jul 23, 2010 | Ben Gamari | Fun with Fluorescent Molecules |
| Jul 9, 2010 | Hunter King | Granular Surfactant vs. Elastic Particle Raft |
| Jul 2, 2010 | Greg Farrell | Mysteries in Stat. Geom. of Hard Sphere Packings |
| Jun 25, 2010 | Chuan Zeng | Particles at Curved fluid Interfaces |
| Jun 18, 2010 | Jiansheng Feng | Nano-fluid-lithography |
| Jun 11, 2010 | Huajie Ke | High Permeability Low Loss Magnetic Systems |
| Jun 4, 2010 | Michael Ray | Experiments with Supersolid Helium |
| May 21, 2010 | Don Blair | Percolation in Stat Mech Simulation |
| May 14, 2010 | Marcelo Dias | Mobius Strip, Diff. Geom. in Thin Film Theory |
| May 7, 2010 | Hunter King | Experiments with Wrinkling Thin Films |