Spring 2018 Condensed Matter Seminars

All seminars are held at 1:30 p.m. in CW 119 unless otherwise stated.

Date Speaker Organization Title
1/19 No Seminar
1/26 Organizational Meeting
2/2
2/9 Nelson Ramallo K-State CMS Physics Entanglement effects in antibody solutions
2/16 Osku Kemppinen K-State CMS Physics Airborne digital holography instrument design
2/23

CANCELLED

Raiya Ebini/Jessica Changstrom

K-State CMS Physics

Raiya: The sol-to-gel transition

Jessica:Temperature Dependent Solubility of ZnS Nanoparticles in Methanol Water Solution

3/2 Max Yurkin ICKC

The discrete dipole approximation for light-scattering simulations

3/9 No Seminar
3/16 Tien Phan K-State CMS Physics Do impurities always hinder kinetics of nucleation?
3/23 Spring Break
3/30 Lianjie Xue /Justin Maughan K-State CMS Physics

Lianjie: Orientation-dependent Multiphoton Ionization in Hexagonal Boron Nitride single crystals

Justin: Diffraction and the scaling approach

4/6 Justin Wright/Peter Anderson K-State CMS Physics

Justin: Spectroscopy of Detonation Graphene

Peter: Holographic imaging of rough surfaces

4/13 Tam Phien/Prakash Gautam K-State CMS Physics

Tam: A Simple Model for Amyloid Aggregation in Huntington’s Disease

Prakash: Setting up a Multi-angle Light Scattering Device


4/20 Krishna Panta/Kamal Bhandari K-State CMS Physics

Krishna: Electrode Design for Neural Recording and Stimulation

Kamal: Phase Separation of Membrane-less Organelles

4/27 Gobind Basnet/Ramesh Giri K-State CMS Physics

Gobind: Stochastic Heating at an Electrochemical Interface

Ramesh: Approximating Scattering Patterns from Holograms using Huygen's Principle

5/4 Arjun Nepal K-State CMS Physics Progress towards the mass production of graphene