Date: February 16, 2018 Time: 1:30-2:30pm Location: PSB 160/161 Speaker: Hari Srikanth, Professor of Physics (University of South Florida) Title: Functional Magnetic Oxides for Nanomedicine and Spin Caloritronics Abstract: Magnetic nanoparticles are promising for nanomedicine applications such as contrast enhancement in MRI and magnetic hyperthermia treatment of cancer. There is a need to improve the specific absorption rate (SAR) …

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Date: March 2, 2018 Time: 1:30-2:30pm Location: PSB 160/161 Speaker: Scott M. Ransom Title: Millisecond Pulsars, Basic Physics, and NANOGrav Abstract: Pulsars are some of physics and astrophysics' most exotic objects, and …

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Date: March 9, 2018 Time: 1:30-2:30pm Location: PSB 160/161 Speaker: Kyung-Han Hong (MIT) Title: Strong-Field Physics Using Waveform-Controlled Mid-Infrared Pulses Abstract: One of the unique features of strong-field light-matter interactions is its dependence on electric field, E(t), of driving laser pulses unlike typical nonlinear interactions that rely on laser intensity profile, I(t). This enables to control tunnel-ionized free electrons …

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Date: March 21, 2018 Time: 1:30-2:30pm Location: PSB 160/161 Speaker: Klaus Bartschat (Drake University) Title: Coherent Control and Attosecond Dynamics with Pulsed XUV and IR Radiation Abstract: The enormous advances in the generation of advanced light sources have enabled the exploration of the ultrafast dynamics in atoms and molecules, thereby promising a rich field of possibilities in …

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Date: March 23, 2018 Time: 1:30-2:30pm Location: PSB 160/161 Speaker: Jianwei Miao (University of California Los Angeles) Title: Exploring the 3D Nano and Atomic World: Coherent Diffractive Imaging and Atomic Electron Tomography Abstract: The discovery and analysis of X-ray diffraction from crystals by Max von Laue, William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg in 1912 marked the birth of …

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