[Seminar] Physics : "Five seminars by Prof. Humphrey J. Maris from Brown University, USA )"

Prof. Humphrey J. Maris from Brown University, USA will be visiting IISc from Jan 10th till Jan 21st. He will deliver five lectures; please find the time and venue of the seminars below. More details will follow.

1) Tuesday, Jan 11, 4PM, Physics Lecture Hall-1
The physics of supersolid helium

2) Friday, Jan 13,2.30 PM, Physics Lecture Hall-1
The physics of nucleation processes in liquids and solids

3) Monday: Jan 17 4PM, Physics Lecture Hall-1
Experiments with single electrons in liquid helium and tests of measurement theory in quantum mechanics

4) Wednesday: Jan 19 4PM, Faculty Hall
Ultra high frequency ultrasonics and studies of phonon dispersion and solitons

5) Friday: Jan 21 4PM, ECE Golden Jubilee
Technology transfer, universities and small business

Humphrey Maris was a student at Imperial College, receiving his PhD degree in 1963. He was a postdoc at Case Institute, before joining the faculty at Brown University. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of East Anglia, Chalmers Institute, and CNRS Grenoble, and visiting professor at the Centro Atomico in Bariloche, the University of Tokyo, the University of Hokkaido, and the Ecole Normale in Paris. He has received the Senior Humboldt Award, the 2007 Klemens prize for phonon physics, and Brown University awards for Technological Innovation and for science teaching. His research interests include phonon physics, ultrasonics, and liquid helium.