R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the 2013 Spring Semester
January 2013
- Thursday, January 31st
- Dohun Kim, University of Maryland
- Electronic Transport in Bi2Se3 Thin Films in the Topological Insulator Regime
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Eriksson
February 2013
- Thursday, February 7th
- Gregory A. Fiete, University of Texas at Austin
- Topological Phases in Transition Metal Oxides
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Perkins
- Thursday, February 14th
- John Martinis, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Catch and release microwave photons with 99% fidelity
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by McDermott
- Thursday, February 21st
- Gang Cao, University of Kentucky, Lexington
- Spin-Orbit Tuned Ground States in Single-Crystal Iridates
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Perkins
- Monday, February 25th
- Rahul Nandkishore, Princeton University
- Orthogonal Metals - the simplest non-Fermi liquids
- 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Chubukov
- Tuesday, February 26th
- Sanjay Prabhakar, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Gate control of single electron spin in III-V semiconductor quantum dots: Anisotropy effects
- 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Friesen
- Wednesday, February 27th
- Smitha Vishveshwara from the University of Urbana-Champaign.
- Title to be announced
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Perkins
- Thursday, February 28th
- Jonathan Simon, University of Chicago
- Engineering Synthetic Quantum Materials from Cold Atoms: Mott Insulators to Emergent Polariton Crystals
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Vavilov & Saffman
March 2013
- Tuesday, March 5th
- Joydip Ghosh, University of Georgia
- Analysis of high-fidelity gate design and error thresholds for fault-tolerant superconducting quantum computing architectures
- 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Friesen & Coppersmith
- Thursday, March 7th
- Feifei Li, Northwestern University
- The two sides of a semiclassical spin
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Friesen & Coppersmith
- Thursday, March 14th
- Andrew Daley, University of Pittsburgh
- Non-equilibrium many-body dynamics with cold atoms in optical lattices
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Chubukov & Saffman
- Thursday, March 28th
- Belita Koiller, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Control and possible applications of valley degree of freedom: Valleytronics?
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Coppersmith
April 2013
- Thursday, April 4th
- Jan Kycia, University of Waterloo
- Specific heat and magnetization studies of Dy2Ti2O7
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by McDermott
- Monday, April 8th
- Alexander Finkelstein, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Fluctuation effects in disordered superconducting films above Tc
- 4:30 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Chubukov
- Thursday, April 11th
- David Ellerman, University of California, Riverside
- The Objective Indefiniteness Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Partition logic, logical information theory, and quantum mechanics
- 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Huber
May 2013
- Thursday, May 2nd
- Vadim Smelyanskiy, NASA, Ames Research Center
- Bulk Phononic Crystal as Quantum Information Bus between Shallow Donor Spins
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Coppersmith & Saffman
- Thursday, May 9th
- Ilya Eremin, Ruhr University Bochum
- Magnetization dynamics and semi-metal-insulator transition on the surface of a topological insulator
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Chubukov
June 2013
July 2013