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Condensed Matter Seminars 2014/2015


All regular CM seminars take place in Serin 385 at 1:30pm on Tuesdays.
Seminars not on Tuesday are highlighted in yelow.


Day  Title Speaker Speakers Host.
Tuesday, Sept 23
1:30 pm
Exploring spin-transfer and spin-Hall effects in mesoscopic metallic structures Yi Ji , University of Delaware Weida
Tuesday, Sept 30
1:30 pm
Kondo effects in quantum point contacts Yigal Meir,
Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Natan
Tuesday, Oct 14
1:30 pm
The Curious Electronic Properties of Hybrid Halide Perovskite Solar Cells Mark van Schilfgaarde,
King's College London
Kristjan
Tuesday, Oct 28
1:30 pm
Optical properties of iron-based multiband conductors and superconductors Christopher C. Homes,
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kristjan
Tuesday, Nov 4
1:30 pm
Electronic Correlations and Thermoelectric Performance of FeSb2 Cedomir Petrovic,
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kristjan
Tuesday, Nov 11
1:30 pm
Unveiling the origins of the Anomalous Hall effect Jin, XiaoFeng,
Fudan Univ
Eric
Tuesday, Nov 18
1:30 pm
Quantum Monte Carlo for Materials at High Pressures Ronald Cohen, Geophysical Laboratory Carnegie Institution Kristjan
Thursday, Nov 20
1:30 pm
Special Seminar: Taking Control of Coherent Superconducting Quantum Electronics Irfan Siddiqi, , Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory, UC Berkeley Lev
Tuesday, Nov 25
1:30 pm
Wandering amongst Feynman Diagrams for strongly correlated fermions Nikolai Prokof'ev,
UMass Amherst
Kristjan
Tuesday, Dec 2
1:30 pm
Phonon localization in relaxor ferroelectrics Michael E. Manley, Oak Ridge NL Kristjan
Monday, Dec 8
1:30 pm
Special Seminar: 1/f Flux Noise from Surface Magnetic Defects Robert McDermott, Madison, Wisconsin Lev
Tuesday, Dec 9
1:30 pm
Atom chips: quantum gases on the (sub)micron scale Peter Kruger,
U. Nottingham, UK
Piers
Thursday, Dec 11
10:30 am
Emergent properties hidden in plain view: Strong electronic correlations at oxide interfaces Jacques Chakhalian,
University of Arkansas
David
Friday, Dec 12
11:00 am
Phase lapses and dephasing in quantum Hall interferometers Yhuda Dinaii Natan
Monday, Dec 15
1:30 pm
Spin and pseudospins in 2D semiconductors Xiaodong Xu, Department of Physics and MSE University of Washington Misha
Tuesday, Dec 16
1:30 pm
Evolution of heavy fermion under temperature and pressure changes in heavy fermion compounds and topological Kondo insulators Ji-Hoon Shim,
Pohang University of Science and Technology
Kristjan
Spring Semester
Tuesday, Jan 20th 1.30pm
* Serin 287E
The Euler Current and Relativistic Hall Currents.
Siavesh Golkar, University of Chicago
Piers
Friday, Jan 23rd, 1.30pm
Special Seminar: Strain-induced partially flat band, helical snake states & interface superconductivity in topological crystalline insulators
Evelyn Tang, MIT
Piers
Tuesday, Jan 27
1:30 pm

POSTPONED DUE TO SNOW.
Charge-neutral spin excitations exhibit a large thermal Hall effect in quantum magnets?
Nai Phuan Ong,
Princeton University
Piers
Friday, Jan 30
1.30pm
Serin 287E
Surface and vortex states in topological nodal superconductors
Po-Yao Chang,
UIUC.

Tuesday, Feb 3
1:30 pm
Charge order in the cuprates
Andrey Chubukov,
University of Minnesota
Kristjan
Wednesday, Feb 4
4:45 pm (Colloquium)
Colloquium: Topological Phases in Transition Metal Oxides Gregory Fiete
UT Austin
Piers
SPECIAL SEMINAR
Thursday,
Feb 5
11.30 am


Shu-Peng Lee
Caltech

SPECIAL SEMINAR
Monday, Feb
9th
1.30 pm


Vesna Mitrovic
Brown University


Feldman
Tuesday, Feb 10
1:30 pm
Low-Dimensional Properties of Atomically-Thin Materials and Systems Douglas R. Strachan,
U. Kentucky
Vitaly
Tuesday, Feb 17
1:30 pm
Imaging the atomic-scale conflict between d-symmetry Cooper pairs and d-form factor density waves in underdoped cuprates Mohammad Hamidian
Cornell University
Piers
SPECIAL SEMINAR
Thurs Feb 19 1.30pm. Serin 385.

Seeing with the Nano-Eye:
How Microscopic Heterogeneity defines Macroscopic properties of Functional Materials


Markus B. Raschke
U. Colorado, Boulder

Sang Wook Cheong.
Monday, Feb 23
11am
SPECIAL SEMINAR

Orbital Kondo effect in fractional quantum Hall systems


Yashar Komijani
U. British Columbia

Piers
Tuesday, Feb 24
1:30 pm
Between Localization and Ergodiity in Many Body Systems
Boris Altshuler,
Columbia University,
New York

Piers

Tuesday, Mar 3
1:30 pm
No Seminar: March Meeting

Tuesday, Mar 10
1:30 pm
Lattices near mechanical collapse
Tom Lubensky
U. Penn.
Piers
Tuesday, March 17

          No Seminar: Spring Break



Tuesday, March 24
1:30 pm
Evolution of Holographic Fermi Arcs from a Mott Insulator Philip Phillips,
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Gabi,Piers
Tuesday, March 31
1:30 pm
Optical Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials: Graphene and Beyond Tony Heinz,
Stanford.
Vitaly
Tuesday, April 7
1:30 pm
No seminar this week

Tuesday, April 14
1:30 pm
Universal scaling at macroscopic short times and thermalization at long times after a quantum quench Aditi Mitra,
New York University
Natan
Tuesday, April 21
1:30 pm
Charge-neutral spin excitations exhibit a large thermal Hall effect in quantum magnets? Nai Phuan Ong,
Princeton

Piers
COLLOQUIUM
Weds, April 22
4.45pm
How the geometry of electron wavefunctions underlies topological effects in metals.

Joel Moore
Berkeley

Vanderbilt
Thursday, April
23, 1:30pm
Collective edge modes near the onset of a graphene quantum spin Hall state
Efrat Shimshoni
Bar Ilan U, Israel
Natan
Tuesday, April 28
1:30 pm

Determining the Fluctuations Responsible for the Singular Fermi-Liquid and the Superconductivity in Cuprates

Chandra Varma
UC Riverside

Piers,Gabi