Munushian Visiting Seminar Series

The Munushian Visiting Seminar Series is supported by an endowment of the late Jack Munushian to the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering – Electrophysics to have internationally renowned individuals with visionary perspective on the fields that impact Electrical Engineering present their latest research developments at USC. The Munushian Visiting Seminar Series are targeted towards all USC students and faculty -- as such all are welcome and invited to participate.

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Fall 2009-Spring 2010

• Keynote Lecture
  Friday, November 13, 2009
  2:00 PM
  Location: GER 124
  Dr. Robert B. Laughlin
  Stanford University
  Nobel Laureate, Physics 1998
  “The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind”

• Wednesday, February 3, 2010
  2:00 PM
  Location: HNB100
  Dr. Naomi Halas
  Rice University
  “Nanoshells: From Electromagnetics to Cancer Therapy”
• Thursday, April 22, 2010
  2:00 PM
  Location: EEB 248
  Dr. James Meindl
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  “Nanoelectronics in Retrospect, Prospect and Principle"

Spring 2009

• Monday, January 26, 2009
  3:30 PM
  Location: EEB 248
  Dr. Myriam P. Sarachik
  City College of New York
  “Molecular Nanomagnets”
• Keynote Lecture
  Wednesday, February 11, 2009
  4:00 PM
  Location: GER 124
  Dr. Charles H. Townes
  University of California, Berkeley
  Nobel Laureate, Physics 1964
  “How the Laser Happened: Interaction of Physics and Electrical Engineering”
• Thursday, March 26, 2009
  3:30 PM
  Location: EEB 248
  Dr. Friedrich B. Prinz
  Stanford University
  “Micro- and Nanoscale Fuel Cells and Bioreactors”

Fall 2008

• Friday, November 14, 2008
  3:00 PM
  Location: HNB 100
  Dr. Joe Charles Campbell
  University of Virginia
  “Single Photon Counting Diodes”
• Tuesday, December 2, 2008
  3:30 PM
  Location: EEB 248
  Dr. Jan M. Rabaey
  University of California, Berkeley
  “Future Directions in Wireless”

Spring 2008

• Friday, January 18, 2008
  11:00 AM
  Location: HNB 100
  Dr. Herschel Rabitz
  Princeton University
  "Control in the MicroWorld: From Quantum Systems to Bio-Systems" 
• Keynote Lecture
  Wednesday, February 20, 2008
  3:00 PM
  Location: GER 124
  Dr. Herbert Kroemer
  University of California, Santa Barbara
  Nobel Laureate, Physics 2000
  "Heterostructures: From Physics to Devices and Back (A Personal Perspective)" 
• Tuesday, March 25, 2008
  Time and Location TBA
  Dr. Margaret Murnane
  JILA, University of Colorado
  "Harnessing Attosecond Science for Coherent X-RAy Generation and Applications"

Fall 2007

• Friday, November 2, 2007
  3:00 PM
  Location: HNB 100
  Dr. Kensall Wise
  University of Michigan
  "Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS): Coming Revolution in the Gathering of Information"   
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• Monday, December 3, 2007
  3:00 PM
  Location: HNB 100
  Dr. Amnon Yariv
  California Institue of Technology
  "Slow Light and Dark Modes"
• Tuesday, January 23, 2007
  3:30 PM
  Location: OHE 100C
  Dr. Tatsuo Itoh
  UCLA
  "Microwave Applications of Metamaterials Structures"
• Thursday, February 22, 2007
  11:00 AM
  Location: HNB 100
  Dr. Frederico Capasso
  Harvard University
  "Harnessing Vacuum Fluctuations: exotic physics and micromechanics of the Casimir effect"
• Tuesday, April 10, 2007
  3:00 PM
  Location: GER 124
  Dr. Steven Chu
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Nobel Laureate, Physics 1997
  "The World's Energy Problem and What We Can do About It"
• Wednesday, April 25, 2007
  11:00 AM
  Location: HNB 100
  Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus
  MIT
  "Photophysics of Carbon Nanotubes"