Research Opportunities for Graduate Students 2007
Presentations from the 2007 Symposium on Research Opportunities for Graduate Students
Feb. 2, 2007
- Experimental Nuclear Physics at UMass
- David Kawall, Rory Miskimen, and Krishna Kumar (ppt)
- Exploring Physics at the TeV Scale: the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
- Stephane Willocq, Carlo Dallapiccola, and Guy Blaylock (ppt)
- General Relativity and High Energy Physics
- Lorenzo Sorbo, Jennie Traschen, John Donoghue, Barry Holstein, Eugene Golowich, and David Kastor (ppt)
- Searching for Gravitational Waves with LIGO
- Laura Cadonati (ppt with movie)
- Physical Biology
- Murugappan Muthukumar (Polymer Science and Engineering) (ppt with movie)
- Biophysics of Microtubules and Molecular Motors
- Jennifer Ross (ppt with movie)
- Using Geometry to Understand Soft Materials
- Christian Santangelo (ppt)
- Nonequilibrium Physics: Pattern Formation and Dynamics of Soft Matter
- Benny Davidovitch (ppt)
- Experiments on Nonequilibrium Systems
- Narayanan Menon (ppt)
- Statistical Mechanics of Colloids, Vesicles, Emulsions, Suspended Nanoparticles
- Anthony Dinsmore (ppt with movie)
- Statistical Physics of Complex and Disordered Systems
- Jonathan Machta (ppt)
- Time-Resolved Optical Spectroscopy of Functional Nanomaterials
- Marc Achermann (ppt)
- Nanoscale Magnetics, Electronics and Photonics
- Mark Tuominen (ppt)
- Experimental Granular and Soft Condensed Matter. Quantum Fluids at Very Low Temperatures
- Donald Candela (ppt)
- Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena in Nanomagnets and SQUIDs
- Jonathan Friedman (Amherst College) (ppt)
- Nonlinear Waves in Atomic and Optical Physics
- Panos Kevrekidis (Mathematics and Statistics) (ppt)
- Quantum Fluids and Solids
- Robert Hallock (Tate Wilson ) (ppt)
- Novel Quantum Fluids: from Bose Condensates to the Projected Liquid Metallic State of Hydrogen
- Egor Babaev (ppt)
- Exotic States of Quantum Matter
- Nikolay Prokof'ev and Boris Svistunov (ppt)