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 Harold Baranger :  (Email / Webpage) .

Fall 11 -- Spring 12


Sep 8
Matt Hastings, Duke University
Thu 4:00 Exotic Quantum Critical Points

Sep 22 Norman Birge, Michigan State University
Thu 11:30 Spin-Triplet Supercurrent in Ferromagnetic Josephson Junctions

Oct 14
Carlos Sa de Melo, Georgia Tech
Fri 1:30
Topological Phase Transitions in Ultra-Cold Fermi Superfluids: The Evolution from BCS to BEC Under Zeeman and Spin-Orbit Fields

Oct 20
Kookrin Char, Seoul National University
Thu 2:30
Looking for Equal-Spin Triplet Superconductivity in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Bilayer by Tunneling Spectroscopy

Nov 10
Markus Kindermann, Georgia Tech
Thu 11:30 Landau Quantization in Epitaxial Graphene

Nov 18
Paul Fendley, University of Virginia
Fri 1:30
Exact and Simple Results for the XYZ and Strongly Interacting Fermion Chains

Dec 1 Mark Dykman, Michigan State University
Thu 11:30 Ripplonic Lamb Shift for Electrons on Helium Surface

Dec 15
Janet Anders, University College London
Thu 11:30
The Power of Quantum Correlations in Physics and Computation


Feb 15
David Jasnow, University of Pittsburgh
Wed 3:30
Adventures in Biological Physics: Rare events, neural networks, and nuclear pore transport

Feb 22
Roger Melko,  University of Waterloo
Wed 10:30
Monte Carlo Studies of Spin Ice

Mar 15
Mildred Dresselhaus, M.I.T.
Thu 11:00
The Promise of Nanomaterials for Thermoelectric Applications

Apr 5 Dmitri Khveshchenko, UNC Chapel Hill
Thu 11:00
Josephson Junctions Between Unconventional Superconductors and Their Arrays

Apr 19
Serge Florens, Institut Neel, Grenoble
Thu 11:00 Percolation Physics from Local Spectroscopies and Transport in Quantum Hall Systems: Theory and Experiment

Apr 26
Soumya Bera, Institut Neel, Grenoble
Thu 11:00
Integer Quantum Hall Transition: Interaction and Multifractality

Apr 27
Luis Bonilla, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Fri 2:00
Defects and Ripples in Graphene

May 17
Michael Pepper, University College London
Thu 11:00
Spin Effects in One Dimensional Electronic Conduction


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