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[Postdocs-visitors] DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY EVENTS FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 15, 2010



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.