Condensed Matter Seminar Series

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The regular time and place for this series is 11:00 am on THURSDAY in Room 298 of the Physics Building.

The main organizer is Gleb Finkelstein :  (Email / Webpage) .

Fall 08 -- Spring 09

                                                                                                                                                          
Aug 25 Hong Jiang, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin
Mon 4:00 f-Electron Systems from the GW Perspective: Applications to Lanthanide Oxides

Sep 11 Matthew Hastings, Los Alamos National Lab
Thu 4:00 Lieb-Schultz-Mattis in Higher Dimensions

Oct 7 Jaewan Kim, KIAS
Tue 11:00 Quantum Entanglement

Oct 30 Konstantin Matveev, Argonne National Lab
Thu 11:00 Resistivity of inhomogeneous quantum wires

Nov 6 Arjendu Pattanayak, Carleton College
Thu 11:00 Hunting Quantum Butterflies: Chaos as a signature of non-monotonicity
in the transition from the microscopic to the macroscopic world

Jan 15 Michael Mehl, Naval Research Lab  
Thu 11:00 Simulation of Materials Properties using the Tight-Binding Method

Feb 5
Paula Mori-Sanchez, Duke Chemistry
Thu 11:00 The Discontinuous Nature of the Exchange- Correlation Functional: Critical for Strongly Correlated Systems

Feb 12 John Shumway, Arizona State University
Thu 11:00 Path Integral Studies of Quantized Conductance and Luttinger Liquid Behavior in GaAs Nanostructures

Feb 19 Jessica Thomas, Physical Review Letters and Physics
Thu 11:00 Physical Review and the battle of the bulge


Mar 5 Dmitrii Maslov, University of Florida
Thu 11:00 Non-Analytic Behavior of Fermi- and Non-Fermi Liquids


April 16 Matthew Hastings, Los Alamos National Lab
Thu 11:00 Entropy in Quantum Information Theory and Condensed Matter Physics

April 27 Vladimir Fal'ko, Lancaster University
Mon 11:00 Quantum transport in disordered graphene: weak localisation and mesoscopics

May 14 Alex Rimberg, Dartmouth College
Thu 11:00 Controlling the Shot Noise of a Quantum Point Contact via Coupling to a Mechanical Resonance 

Previous Seminars

2007-2008
Fall 2006 Fall 2005 Fall 2004 Fall 2003 Fall 2002 Fall 2001 Fall 2000
Spring 2007 Spring 2006 Spring 2005 Spring 2004 Spring 2003 Spring 2002 Spring 2001
Spring 2000
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