[Physics-mmm] Get better prepared for the Monday Colloquium

[Tomasz Giebultowicz]

Hi,

The discovery of GMR was truly a milestone event in physics, and it marked 
the beginning of "Spintronics Era" in physics and technology. On Monday, 
Dr. Jansen will give a Colloquium lecture on GMR, so those who don't know 
yet what GMR is and how it works, WILL learn! However, the GMR mechanism 
is not a trivial issue. So, if you don't know much yet about GMR, and you 
want to clearly understand the Moday lecture, it may be a good idea to 
visit the following address:

http://urlcut.com/GMRtutorial

where you will find a "simple-minded GMR tutorial". Actually, this is my 
slide presentation which I gave at  the Solid State and Optics Seminar 
on Jan. 23. The first part (slides 3-33) is strictky about GMR, because I 
wanted to 
stress that the neutron research we are doing on magnetic semiconductors 
is "linked" to the mainstreem spintronics research.

Especially, I recommend going to Slide #17, where you will see not only a 
picture of Prof. Albert Fert (The Nobel winner) personally 
autographed by him, but in the right upper corner you will find a 
clickable link -- and when you click on it, you will hear a magnificent 
performance of the French National Anthem by Roberto Alagna, a leading 
French tenor whose fame may eventually eclipse that of the legendary 
Lucjano Pavarotti!

I want to make this slide show a "permanent" part of my research page, so 
I'm working on adding a voice narration to it. I will aprreciate any 
comments that might help me to make the slide show better, if there are 
some things that are not totally clear, etc.

Sincerely,

Tom