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Spring 2015

Date Title of Talk Speaker Speaker's Institution Host

Jan. 22
3:30 PM
119 Nicholson

"Investigation of modern photon, electron and proton radiotherapy technologies for pediatric and breast cancer patients"
Rui Zhang Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center & LSU Wayne Newhauser
Jan. 29 "Instrumentation driven science for unraveling emergent phenomena"
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory John Ditusa and Ward Plummer

Feb. 2
3:30 PM
435 Nicholson

"Early Prediction of Clinical Outcome in Cervical Cancer during Radiation Therapy"
Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø Wayne Newhauser
Feb. 5 "Heating in atomic- and molecular-scale junctions"
Rice ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø Ilya Vekhter

Feb 10
3:30 PM
119 Nicholson

"Use of PET for proton therapy verification and hybrid nanoparticles"
Jongmin Cho UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Wayne Newhauser
*Canceled*

Feb. 12
"Quantum Fluctuations and Phase Transitions"
The Ohio State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø Ilya Vekhter and Phil Adams
Feb. 19        
Feb. 26        

*Canceled*

March 5

"DANCEing with the Stars: Neutron Capture and the Stellar Origins of the Heavy Elements"
Aaron Couture Los Alamos National Lab Jeff Blackmon
March 12 "Hysteresis, Avalanches, and Slow Relaxation: Complex non-equilibrium spin dynamics in a simple Zeeman-limited superconductor"
Philip Adams Louisiana State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø Ilya Vekhter
March 19 "Thirty Meter Telescope: The Next Generation of Ground Based Optical/Infra Red Observatory"
Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory Corp. Robert Hynes
March 26 "The miracle of molecules: quantum magnetism in ultracold matter"
Rice ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø Jonathan Dowling
April 2 "Manipulation of Phonon and Spin Dynamics at the Nanoscale"
¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Maryland Jiandi Zhang
April 16 "Quantum Gravity Comes of Age"
¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Florida Ivan Agullo
April 23 "The quantum and classical world of atomic spins on surfaces"
Jiandi Zhang
April 30 "Direct Detection of Dark Matter: From Microphysics to Observational Signatures"
¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Louisiana - Lafayette James Matthews
May 7 "Implications to High Tc Superconducting Mechanism from Iron-Based Superconductors"
Purdue ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø Rongying Jin