R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the 2012 Spring Semester
January 2012
- Thursday, January 19th
- Rafael Fernandes, Columbia University
- Nematic order and magnetism in the high-temperature iron-based superconductors
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Chubukov
February 2012
- Thursday, February 23rd
- Bryan Chen, University of Pennsylvania
- Seeing and Sculpting Nematic Liquid Crystal Textures with the Thom construction
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Coppersmith
March 2012
- Thursday, March 1st
- Ken Brown, Schools of Chemistry & Biochemistry; Computational Science & Engineering; and Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Challenges in Quantum Computer Architecture
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Saffman
- Tuesday, March 6th
- Leni Bascones, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC)
- Magnetic interactions and anisotropies in iron superconductors
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Perkins
- Thursday, March 8th
- Michael Galperin, University of California, San Diego
- Raman scattering in molecular junctions
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Irena Knezevic & Robert Joynt
- Thursday, March 15th
- Kirill Bolotin, Vanderbilt University
- Graphene: it’s all about the surface
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Vavilov
- Thursday, March 22nd
- Victor Galitski, University of Maryland -- CANCELLED
- Quantum and classical fluctuation phenomena in low-dimensional superconductors
- CANCELLED, hosted by Vavilov
- Thursday, March 29th
- Seongshik Oh, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers University
- Atomic-Layer Engineering and Topological insulators
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Rzchowski
April 2012
- Thursday, April 5th
- Spring Break
- Thursday, April 12th
- Sébastien Burdin, University of Bordeaux, France
- The modulated spin liquid and hidden order in URu2Si2
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Perkins
- Thursday, April 19th
- Craig Zaspel, University of Montana Western
- CANCELLED
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Huber
- Thursday, April 26th
- Ravin Bhatt, Princeton University
- "Rare" Fluctuations and the Anderson Model of Localization
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Susan Coppersmith
- Monday, April 30th
- Yoshitomo Kamiya, Los Alamos National Lab
- Formation of Magnetic Microphases in Ca$_3$Co$_2$O$_6$
- 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Perkins
May 2012
- Thursday, May 3rd
- Aashish Clerk, McGill University
- Non-classical noise in quantum optomechanical systems
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Vavilov
- Thursday, May 10th
- Kyle Shen, Cornell University
- Shedding Light on Artificial Quantum Materials and Interfaces by Photoemission Spectroscopy
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Rzchowski
- Monday, May 21st
- Paul Welander, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Advancements in epitaxial trilayer growth utilizing Nb/Re bilayers on sapphire
- 12:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Rzchowski
June 2012
- Thursday, June 7th
- Dmitrii Maslov, University of Florida
- Chiral Fermi liquids
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Chubukov
- Friday, June 29th
- Yann Chemla, University of Illinois
- Direct Observation of Base-Pair Stepping and Conformational Dynamics in Molecular Nanomachines
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by McDermott
July 2012