Good morning Department events for week of 11/15/10 Monday, November 15, 2010 5:00 pm Robinson Hall 250 Physics Graduate Students’ JOURNAL CLUB Eleni Kontou “Reheating of the Universe in a Chaotic Inflation Model” (undergraduate students, faculty and anyone interested are also invited: food served at 4:30 pm in Knipp Library) Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:30 pm Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 “Symmetry Breaking in the Sky” Jiro Soda Kyoto University Friday, November 17, 2010 1:00 pm Robinson 251 (Knipp Library) ASTRO-COFFEE DISCUSSION Cemile Marsan and Audrey Mithani will talk on: “Galaxy Formation Theory” Andrew J. Benson http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6TVP-50FGY1M-1-1D&_cdi=5540&_user=201547&_pii=S037015731000150X&_origin=search&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2010&_sk=995049997&view=c&wchp=dGLbVlz-zSkzV&md5=83c00fa1ba72bb653d7064187574d603&ie=/sdarticle.pdf Part 2 Coffee will be served Friday, November 19. 2010 3:00 pm Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Science & Technology Center, Room 136 4 Colby St., Medford Campus “Fabricating Graphene and Metallic Nano-Structures with Atomic Precision” Douglas R. Strachan University of Kentucky One of the greatest challenges in developing nanoelectronics is controlling their fabricating with atomic precision. Graphene is an exciting new 1-atom thick carbon material. Although a variety of methods have been found to control and/or determine the thickness of graphene samples, the lateral control required to cut this material into a variety of useful shapes is still being developed. Towards this goal, we are exploring novel nanofabrication techniques for atomic-scale control of graphene along with a variety of other metallic devices. Two processes we have been exploring for use in atomically controlled fabrication are catalytic etching and electromigration. Refreshments served at 2:30 in STC, Room 124. |