R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the 2009 Spring Semester
January 2009
February 2009
- Thursday, February 5th
- Yung-Fu Chen, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab, UIUC
- Probing Electron Energy Distribution in Carbon Nanotubes
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Thursday, February 12th
- Ruslan Prozorov, Iowa State University & Ames Laboratory
- Precision Measurements of the London Penetration Depth and Pairing Symmetry in Superconductors
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Andrey Chubukov
- Friday, February 20th
- Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Disorder-induced superfluid-to-insulator transition in an optical lattice
- 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Maxim Vavilov
March 2009
- Tuesday, March 3rd
- Yan He, University of Chicago
- Radio Frequency Spectroscopy in Ultra-cold Fermi gases Undergoing BCS-BEC Crossover
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Friesen
- Thursday, March 5th
- Boris Blinov, University of Washington - Seattle
- Quantum computing with Ba ions
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Natalia Perkins
- Tuesday, March 10th
- Rakesh Tiwari, Ohio State University
- Single-Particle Properties of Graphene: Magnetotransport and Superlattice-Controlled Band Gap
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert Joynt
- Thursday, March 12th
- Vladimir Dobrosavljevic, Florida State University
- Coulomb Correlations and the Wigner-Mott Scenario for the 2D-MIT
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert Joynt
- Thursday, March 19th
- Spring Break
- No Herb Seminar scheduled
- Spring Break
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin
- Monday, March 23rd
- Matteo Mariantoni, Walther-Meissner-Institut and Technical University
- Circuit QED2: Two amplifiers, two resonators, and two photons
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Thursday, March 26th
- Branislav Nikolic, University of Delaware
- What can we learn from spin-dependent shot noise in semiconductor and graphene nanostructures?
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Irena Knezevic, Elect. & Comp. Engineering
- Tuesday, March 31st
- Baseer Haider, University of Alberta
- Room Temperature demonstration of Quantum Cellular Automata formed by Single Si Atom Quantum Dots
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Friesen
April 2009
- Thursday, April 2nd
- Aditi Mitra, New York University
- Nonequilibrium effects in single-channel and two-channel Kondo systems
- 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Maxim Vavilov
- Thursday, April 9th
- Passover
- Alex Kamenev, University of Minnesota
- Coulomb drag in quantum circuits
- 4:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Maxim Vavilov
- Thursday, April 16th
- Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico
- Quantum Control and Measurement of Spins in Cold Atomic Gases
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Saffman
- Thursday, April 23rd
- Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University
- BCS-BEC Crossover in Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Fluctuations and Vortices
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Andrey Chubukov
- Thursday, April 30th
- Andrei Varlamov, INFM & CNR, Italy, Moscow Technological University, Russia
- Giant Nernst Effect due to Fluctuating Cooper Pairs in Superconductors
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Maxim Vavilov
May 2009
- Wednesday, May 6th
- Yun-Pil Shim
- Electronic, spin and transport properties of a triple quantum dot molecule
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Friesen
- Thursday, May 7th
- Jay Kikkawa, University of Pennsylvania
- Let there be light: from graphene oxide to dark excitons
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert Joynt
- Thursday, May 14th
- Zhihao Hao, Johns Hopkins University
- Fermionic spinons in two and three dimensions
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Natalia Perkins
- Friday, May 15th
- Michael Weissman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Title to be announced
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Tuesday, May 19th
- Amrit De, University of Iowa
- Electrical Control of a Hydrogenic Donor's Spin in Semiconductor Nanostructures
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert Joynt
- Thursday, May 21st
- Ilya Eremin, TU Braunschweig and MPI Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
- Rare-earth impurities in conventional and unconventional superconductors: Pr-based filled-skutterudite and UPd2Al3
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Andrey Chubukov
June 2009
- Friday, June 5th
- Jon Prance, Cambridge University
- Electronic refrigeration of two-dimensional electron gases
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Thursday, June 11th
- Umesh Patel, Argonne National Lab
- Intriguing Magneto-transport Behavior in Nanostructured NbN Superconductors and in Nanowires of the NbSe3 Charge Density Wave System
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert McDermott
July 2009
- Thursday, July 2nd
- Neil Zimmerman, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Quantum Dots and Quantum Information
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Susan Coppersmith