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 2012-Spring 2013

• Friday, October 5, 2012
  Time:  2:00 PM
  Location:  OHE 132
  Dr. R. Stanley Willaims
  Hewlett-Packard Labs
  "Mott Memristors, Spiking Neuristors and Touring Complete Computing with an Electronic Action Potential"

• Thursday, November 15, 2012
  Time:  2:00 PM
  Location:  SGM 101
  Dr. Connie J. Chang-Hasnain
  University of California, Berkeley
  "Flat Photonics Using High Contrast Metastructures"

• Monday, January 14, 2013
  Time:  3:00 PM
  Location:  EEB 248
  Dr. Claire Gmachl
  Princeton University
  "Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers"

• Friday, February 8, 2013
  Time:  2:30 PM
  Location:  EEB 248
  Dr. Konrad Lehnert
  University of Colorado and NIST
  "Micro-electromechanics:  A New Quantum Technology"
  

• Keynote Lecture - Postponed until Fall 2013
  Time: TBA
  Location: TBA
  Dr. Zhores Alferov
  President, St. Petersburg University
  Nobel Laureate, Physics 2000
  “Semiconductor Revolution in the XXth Century-Microelectronics and Photonics - Revolution in Science and Society"
  

 

Fall 2011-Spring 2012

• Wednesday, September 28, 2011
  Time:  3:00 PM
  Location:  HNB 100
  Dr. Julie Brown
  Universal Display Corporation
  "Lighting the way with Organic Lighting Emitting Devices"

• Keynote Lecture
  Friday, January 20, 2012
  Time: 2:30pm
  Location: GER 124
  Dr. Andre Geim
  The University of Manchester
  Nobel Laureate, Physics 2010
  “Random Walk to Graphene

• Wednesday, March 14, 2012
  Time:  2:00 PM
  Location:  EEB 248
  Dr. John D. Joannopoulos
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Nanotechnologies for Enhanced Survivablilty"

• Thursday, March 29, 2012
  Time:  2:00 PM
  Location:  EEB 248
  Dr. Barrie Gilbert
  Analog Devices Inc.
  "The Penny Analog Computer"
  

 

Fall 2010-Spring 2011

• Keynote Lecture
  Friday, November 10, 2010
  2:00 PM
  Location: GER 124
  Dr. John L. Hall
  University of Colorado
  Nobel Laureate, Physics 2005
  “The Optical Frequency Comb - a new tool with remarkable applications in Science, Metrology, and Medical Diagnostics"

•  Wednesday, January 19, 2011
  Time:  2:00 PM
  Location: Olah Library ((Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute)
  Dr. Julie Brown
  Universal Display Corporation
  “Lighting the way with Organic Lighting Emitting Devices"
  

• Thursday, February 17, 2011
  Time:  12:30 PM
  Location:  SSL 150
  Dr. Carver Mead
  California Institute of Technology
  "The Next Revolution in Physical Law"
  

• Wednesday, March 2, 2011
  Time:  2:00 PM
  Location:  HNB 100
  Dr. Werner Goetz
  Philips Lumileds Lighting Company
  "High-power LED Technology and Solid State Lighting"
  

• Tuesday, April 12, 2011
  Time:  2:00 PM
  Location:  EEB 248
  Prof. Charles Lieber
  Harvard University
  "Nanowires:  A Platform for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" 

  

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, March 4, 2010
  11:00 AM
  Location: MHP 106
  Dr. Kaigham J. Gabriel
  Deputy Director, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
  “Breaking Rules, Making Rules”

• Thursday, April 22, 2010
  2:00 PM
  Location: SGM 101
  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"