R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the 2011 Spring Semester
January 2011
- Thursday, January 27th
- Alexander Abanov, Stony Brook University
- Shock waves in cold Fermi atoms
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Andrey Chubukov
February 2011
- Thursday, February 3rd
- Andres Santander, CSNSM - Université Paris-Sud, France
- Two-dimensional electron gas with universal subbands at the surface of SrTiO3
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Natalia Perkins & Andrey Chubukov
- Thursday, February 10th
- Dan Ward, Rice University
- Electrical and Optical Characterization of Molecular Nanojunctions
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Thursday, February 17th
- Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University
- Topological Insulators With Point Group Symmetry
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Andrey Chubukov & Maxim Vavilov
- Thursday, February 24th
- David Schuster, University of Chicago
- Hybrid Quantum Information Processing with Circuit QED
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert McDermott
March 2011
- Thursday, March 3rd
- Anatoli Polkovnikov, Boston University
- Universal energy fluctuations in driven thermally isolated systems
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Maxim Vavilov
- Thursday, March 10th
- Liang Fu, Harvard University
- Topological Insulators
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Andrey Chubukov & Maxim Vavilov
- Monday, March 14th
- Spring Break
- Tuesday, March 15th
- Spring Break
- Craig Pryor, University of Iowa
- Quantum wire dots and quantum posts
- 4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Robert Joynt
- Wednesday, March 16th
- Spring Break
- Thursday, March 17th
- Spring Break
- Friday, March 18th
- Spring Break
- Thursday, March 31st
- Ioannis Rousochatzakis, Max-Planck Insitute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
- Quantum Phases of the Cairo Pentagonal Lattice
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Natalia Perkins
April 2011
- Tuesday, April 12th
- Oskar Vafek, Florida State University
- Interacting fermions on the honeycomb and its bilayer
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Andrey Chubukov
- Thursday, April 14th
- Alex Demkov, University of Texas at Austin
- Interface engineering in epitaxial oxide heterostructures
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Susan Coppersmith & Irena Knezevic
- Thursday, April 21st
- Dirk van der Marel, University of Geneva
- Interactions and superconductivivity in the polaronic Fermi liquid SrTiO3
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Maxim Vavilov & Andrey Chubukov
- Thursday, April 28th
- Charles Black, Brookhaven National Lab
- Improved Charge Collection in Nanostructured Organic Semiconductor Solar Cells
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Eriksson
May 2011
- Thursday, May 5th
- Alexandra Navrotsky, University of California - Davis
- Complex Materials, Calorimetry, and Energy Landscapes
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Pupa Gilbert
- Friday, May 6th
- Last Day of Class
- Monday, May 16th
- Furlough Day
- Thursday, May 26th
- Muhittin Mungan, Dept. of Physics, Boğaçizi University, Istanbul
- Frenkel-Kontorowa Models, Pinned Particle Configurations and Burgers Shocks
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Susan Coppersmith
June 2011
July 2011