Previous School of Physics / CRANN Postgraduate Seminar Series

Most of the taught elements of our PhD program are concentrated in the first two years. Before confirmation on/transferring from the MSc to the PhD register, students must have successfully completed their ECTS couse requirements.

• Friday 3rd May 2013
  12pm, SNIAM Lecture Theatre
  Thomas Cathcartn 'Van der Waals Forces in Density Functional Theory'
  Michael Sexton 'Sheared Disk Packings as a Model for Complex Dynamics'
  
  
• Friday 12th April 2013
  12pm, SNIAM Lecture Theatre
  Eoin Carley 'Eruptive plasmoids in the solar atmosphere: a study of their dynamics and shock waves'
  Brendan O’Dowd 'Ordered Arrays of Nanowires on Patterned Semiconductor Substrates'
  
  
• Friday 22nd March 2013
  12pm, SNIAM Lecture Theatre
  Eamon O’Gorman 'Radio Interferometric Studies of Cool Evolved Stellar Atmospheres'
  Stephen Connaughton 'Electrical Transport properties of sub-20nm Germanium Nanowires'
  
  
• Friday 22nd February 2013
  12pm, SNIAM Lecture Theatre
  Peter May 'Polymer Composites using Nanoscale Filler Materials'
  Ronan Smith
  
  
• Friday 28th September 2012
  12pm, SNIAM Lecture Theatre
  Barry Murphy 'Surface Reactivity, Phase Transitions and Charged States: Organic Molecules on Surfaces Studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy'
  
  
• Friday 12th October 2012
  Isaac Tobin 'Laser plasma triggered current discharge: Z-pinch and EUV photolithography'
  James Annett 'The Mechanical Properties of Highly Anisotropic Layered Materials'
  
  
• Friday 9th November 2012
  David Racine 'Quantum Theory of a Two-Mode Polariton Condensate'
  Sophie Sorel 'Study of the properties of low dimensional nanostructures for device applications'
  
  
• Friday 7th December 2012
  Sandip Bhattacharya 'Ab-initio estimate of Spin and Charge transport properties in Organic Semiconductors'
  Steven Tobin 'Computational Studies of Foam Drainage'
  
  

For further information on School of Physics / CRANN Postgraduate Seminars contact:

• Prof. Louise Bradley,
  Director of Graduate Studies,
  School of Physics,
  Trinity College,
  Dublin 2, Ireland.
  Phone: +353-1-896 3695
  email: louise.bradley@tcd.ie