Past Arfken Scholars-In-Residence

 

Daniel Steck, November 7-11, 2011, University of Oregon  Poster
 

Public Lecture: "Chaos, Quantum Mechanics, and Cooling Atoms with Laser Light"

Physics Seminar: "Controlling the Motion of Ultracold Atoms"

Short Courses: "Optical Lattices and the Casimir-Polder Effect," & "Dynamics Under Continuous Position Measurements"

 

Evgeny Tsymbal, February 15-18, 2011, University of Nebraska - Lincoln  Poster
 

Public Lecture: "Magic of Magnetism: From Compass Needle to Data Storage"

Physics Seminar: "Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions: Controlling Electron and Spin Transport by Ferroelectric Polarization"

Short Courses:  "Physics of Spin Dependent Tunneling," & "Electronically-Driven Magnetoelectric Phenomena at Interfaces"

 

Julio Gea-Banacloche, November 2-6, 2009, University of Arkansas  Poster
 

Public Lecture: "Fate and the Physicists"

Physics Seminar: "Energy Restraints for Quantum Computation"

Short Courses: "Entanglement in Cavity QED," "The Giant Kerr Effect," & "Quantum Information Processing"

 

Eugenia Etkina, January 14 - 16, 2009, Rutgers University  Poster

 

Public Lecture: "Physics on Rollerblades"

Physics Seminar: "Can Students Develop Scientific Habits of Mind in an Introductory Physics Course"

 

Josef C. Frisch, March 24 - 28, 2008, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
 

Public Lecture: "Colossal Microscopes: The Technology of Accelerators"

Physics Seminar: "Electron Beam Diagnostics for SLAC Linac Coherent LIght Source"

 

Wei Zhong, February 26 - March 1, 2007, Harvard Medical School
 

Public Lecture: "Light and Molecules: Directions in Biomedical Imaging"

Physics Seminar: "The Quest to Beat the Resolution Limit of Light"

Short Courses: "Biomedical Microscopy" & "Photodynamic Therapy and Photodiagnosis"

 

Mark D. Havey, November 15 - 18, 2005, Old Dominion University
 

Public Lecture: "Order, Disorder and Discovery"

Physics Seminar: "Mesoscopic Electromagnetic Dynamics in Atomic Gases"

Short Courses: "Precision Measurements with Quantum Beat Spectroscopy" & "Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Atomic Physics"

 

Derek C. Richardson, November 16 - 18, 2004. University of Maryland
 

Public Lecture: "Asteroids: Shedding New Light on Old Rocks"

Physics Seminar: "Gravitational Reaccumulation in the Solar System"

Short Course: "Numerical Methods in Planetesimal Dynamics"

 

Henry I. Smith, March 8 - 10, 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

Public Lecture: "The Role of Lithography in Nanoscale Science and Engineering"

Physics Seminar: "Lithography: the Key Enabler of Current and Future Research and Industries"Short Course: "The Art & Science of Electron-Beam Lithography"

 

William E. Evenson, November 3 - 8, 2002. Brigham Young University
 

Public Lecture: "The Discovery of Radioactivity and Randomness in Nature"

Physics Seminar: "Size-Dependent Melting of Indium Nanostructures"

Short Course: "PAC with Time-Dependent Perturbations"

 

Luis A. Orozco, March 24 - 29, 2002. SUNY Stony Brook
 

Public Lecture: "Waves and Particles in Quantum Optics"

Physics Seminar: "Spectroscopy of Laser Cooled Francium"

Short Course: "Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics"

 

Eric E. Fullerton, November 13 - 17, 2000. IBM-Almaden Research Center
 

Public Lecture: "Bits of the Future: What's in Store for Hard Drives?"

Physics Seminar: "Physical Limits of Magnetic Storage"

Short Course: "Magnetic Properties of Materials"

 

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