R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the 2008 Spring Semester
January 2008
- Thursday, January 24th
- Matthew Hastings, Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- How Difficult is Quantum Many-Body Theory?
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Vavilov
- Tuesday, January 29th
- Dwayne Miller Chemistry and Physics University of Tornonto
- Femtosecond Electron Diffraction:'Making the Molecular Movie'
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Eriksson
- Thursday, January 31st
- Evgeny Tsymbal, Physics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Physics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Rzchowski
February 2008
- Thursday, February 7th
- Kyle McElroy, Physics, University of Colorado
- Physics at the University of Colorado
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Chubukov
- Thursday, February 14th
- Jerome Rech, Argonne National Laboratory
- Electronic transport in inhomogeneous quantum wires
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Chubukov
- Thursday, February 21st
- Ilya Gruzberg, Physics Dept. University of Chicago
- Anderson localization transitions, multifractal wave functions, and conformal invariance
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Vavilov
March 2008
- Tuesday, March 4th
- Larry Schulman, Clarkson University
- Title to be announced
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Perkins
- Thursday, March 6th
- Klaus Molmer, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Title to be announced
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Saffman
- Thursday, March 27th
- Wolfram Brenig, Technishce Universitat Branuschweig
- Title to be announced
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Chubukov
April 2008
- Thursday, April 3rd
- Britton Plourde, Syracuse University
- Vortex dynamics in tailored superconducting channels: ratchets and circles
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by McDermott
- Tuesday, April 8th
- Stefano Leoni, Max Planck - Dresden
- The Metal-Insulator Transition (MIT) in MgTi2O4 Spinel
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Perkins
- Thursday, April 10th
- Matthias Steffen, IBM Yorktown Heights
- Quantum computation using tunable flux qubits
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Thursday, April 17th
- Jason Petta, Princeton University
- Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Double Quantum Dots
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Vavilov
- Thursday, April 24th
- Alex Kamenev, University of Minnesota
- Rare events and phase transitions in reaction-diffusion systems
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Vavilov
May 2008
- Thursday, May 1st
- Rogerio de Sousa, University of Victoria
- Magnetic 1/f noise from the semiconductor/oxide interface and spin-dependent scattering in silicon transistors
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Friesen
- Thursday, May 8th
- Ben OShaughnessy, Columbia University
- Force-Producing Machines in Living Cells
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Joynt
- Thursday, May 15th
- Will Oliver, MIT/Lincoln Labs
- Mach-Zehnder Interferometry and Microwave-Induced Cooling in Persistent-Current Qubits
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by McDermott
- Thursday, May 22nd
- Gia-Wei Chern, Johns Hopkins University
- Order by distortion and chiral magnetism in frustrated pyrochlore magnet
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Natalia Perkins
June 2008
July 2008