Departmental Seminar (December 12 through February 28) Wednesday, December 13 10:00 AM K. Grammatikos:Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking phase transitions in Lightcone Conformal Thursday, December 21 10:00 AM Lawson Defense: Strategies for Molecular Junctions with Expanded Degrees of Freedom Wednesday, January 24 2:00 PM J.Shang: Trapping and detecting charged particles and proteins with high frequency field using silicon nanowire field effect transistors Friday, February 16 3:00 PM Russo: Investigating the Electronic Structure of Low dimensional and Strongly Correlated Systems with Soft Resonant Inelastic X-ray scattering