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Spring 2006

4/13	Cynthia Frei	Transport properties of moderately disordered UCu4Pd
4/20	Nicholas Heller	Standing Wave Spectroscopy and Applications to Spintronics
4/27	Joe Davies	Giant Electrocaloric Effect in Thin-Film PbZr(0.95)Ti(0.05)O3
5/4	Chris Varney	Magnetism and superconductivity of strongly correlated electrons on the triangular lattice
5/11	Randy Dumas	Current-induced resonance and mass determination of a single magnetic domain wall
5/18	Jamie Romnes	Piezoelectric Nanogenerators Based on Zinc Oxide Nanowire Arrays
5/25	Norman Paris	Heisenberg and Ising Models in 2d
6/1	Erik Ylvisaker	Why is MgB2 so unusual?  Recent advances in superconductivity theory

Winter 2006

1/12	Chris Varney	Quantum Monte Carlo Study of the 2D Hubbard Model
1/19	Ingrid Neumann	An Introduction to the Phenomenon of Exchange Anisotropy
1/26	Nicholas Heller	Differential Photoelectron Holography
2/2	Ryan Snow	Current-Induced magnetization and spin waves in GMR structures and in Thin Films
2/9	Andrew Baldwin	Improved finite- lattice estimates of the properties of two quantum spin models on the  infinite square lattice
2/16	Michael Mikulis	Re-entrant melting and freezing in a model system of charged colloids
2/23	Aleksander Zujev	Thermodynamics of an incommensurate quantum crystal
3/2	Donna Jolliff	Quantum Annealing of a Disordered Magnet
3/9	Norman Paris	Mott Insulator with Disorder

10/6	Organization
10/13	Erik Ylvisaker	Wannier Functions: A portrait of insulating electrons
10/20	Cynthia Frei	Uniaxial Pressure Effects on Tetragonal Heavy Fermion Superconductors
10/27	Tommaso Pardini	Spin Hall Effect
11/3	Aleksander Zujev	Superfluidity and Feynman-Kikuchi model in 2-D
11/10	Joe Davies	Exchange coupled composite (ECC) media and beyond
11/17	Justin Olamit	Magnetic forms of carbon
12/1	Randy Dumas	Proximity Effects
12/8	Jamie Romnes	Magnetic Force Microscopy