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Physics Dept.
All UMass
Presentations from the 2009 Symposium on
Research Opportunities for Graduate Students
Feb. 13, 2009


  • Welcoming Remarks
    Krishna Kumar

  • Black Hole Thermodynamics, or what you *really* want to know about physics addiction.
    Jennie Traschen

  • Coulomb Strings: Assembly and Dynamics
    Murugappan Muthukumar (Polymer Science and Engineering)

  • 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
    (pdf)

  • Opportunities for Physics Graduate Students at the Astronomy Department
    Gopal Narayanan (Astronomy)
    (ppt)

  • Neutrino Physics
    Andrea Pocar, Krishna Kumar, and Laura Cadonati
    (pdf)

  • Single Molecule Biophysics I
    Lori Goldner
    (ppt)

  • Single Molecule Biophysics II
    Jennifer Ross
    (ppt)

  • Experiments on Nonequilibrium Systems
    Narayanan Menon
    (ppt)

  • Continuum Mechanics: Pattern Formation and Dynamics of Soft Matter (2.5)
    Benny Davidovitch

  • Statistical Mechanics of Filamentous Assemblies
    Gregory Grason (PSE)
    (ppt)

  • The Geometry of Complex Fluids and Soft Materials
    Christian Santangelo
    (ppt)

  • Nonlinear Phenomena and PDEs: From Optical to Atomic Physics and Beyond
    Panayotis Kevrekidis (Mathematics)
    (ppt)

  • Elementary Particle Physics Experiment: the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC
    Carlo Dallapiccola, Ben Brau, and Stephane Willocq,
    (ppt)

  • Experimental Nuclear Physics at UMass
    David Kawall, Rory Miskimen, and Krishna Kumar
    (pdf)

  • Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Functional Nanomaterials
    Marc Achermann
    (ppt)

  • Soft Condensed Matter Physics: Colloids, Emulsions and Membranes
    Anthony Dinsmore
    (ppt)

  • Nanoscale Physics, Fuel Cells and Electric Bacteria
    Mark Tuominen
    (ppt)

  • Statistical Physics of Complex and Disordered Systems
    Jonathan Machta
    (ppt)

  • Experimental Granular and Soft Condensed Matter. Quantum Fluids and Solids
    Donald Candela
    (pdf)

  • Quantum Fluids and Solids -- the Magic of the very Cold
    Robert Hallock
    (pdf)

  • Theory of Quantum Fluids, Solids and Gases
    Egor Babaev, Jon Machta, Nikolay Prokof'ev, and Boris Svistunov
    (pdf)




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