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Condensed Matter Seminars  (2012-2013)
All seminars take place in Serin 385
Seminars not on Tuesdays are highlighted in pink


(For Fall 2012 schedule, click here)


  Spring 2013
Tuesday, Jan. 22
1:30 pm
Eva Zurek
SUNY Buffalo
Building a Chemical Intuition Under Pressure:
Prediction of Alkali Metal Polyhydrides and Subhydrides
Tuesday, Jan. 29
1:30 pm
Andrew Houck
Princeton
Simulating condensed matter systems with interacting photons
Tuesday, Feb. 05
1:30 pm
Leonid Rokhinson
Purdue
Observation of fractional ac Josephson effect:
The signature of Majorana particles

Thrusday, Feb. 07
4:45pm, Rm. 385
Sergey Syzranov
Karlsruhe Inst. Tech.
Interference effects in strongly disordered bosonic and fermionic insulators
Friday, Feb. 08
3:20pm, Rm. 112
Marco Schiro
Princeton
Quantum Many Body Physics with Strongly Interacting Light-Matter Systems
Tuesday, Feb. 12
1:30 pm
Craig Fennie
Cornell
Why are there so few perovskite ferroelectrics?
A path to new multifunctional materials
Friday, Feb. 14
2:00pm, Rm. 385
Mao Zheng
U. Illinois
Oxygen Doped FeTe:Ox Films:
Synthesis by MBE and Characterizations

Tuesday, Feb. 19
1:30 pm
Igor Mazin
NRL

Quasimolecular electronic structure of Na2IrO3
Tuesday, Feb. 26
1:30 pm
Dmitri Basov
UCSD

Many body effects in graphene revealed by infrared nano-imagning
Tuesday, Mar. 5
1:30 pm
Anton Akhmerov
Harvard
Statistical topological insulators
Wednesday, Mar. 6
3:30pm, Rm. 385
Pouya Moetakef
UCSB
Emergent phenomena at GdTiO3/SrTiO3 interfaces
Tuesday, Mar. 12
1:30 pm
Garnet Chan
Princeton
Alternatives to Dynamica Mean Field Theory
Thursday, Mar. 14
1:30pm, Rm. 385
Eliot Kapit
Oxford University
Quantum Simulation Architecture for Lattice Bosons in Arbitrary, Tunable External Gauge Fields
Tuesday, Mar. 19
1:30 pm
March meeting
No seminar

Monday, Mar. 25
11:00am, Rm. 112
Jixia Dai
U. Colorado
Roles of lattice and orbital degrees of freedom in 2D charge density wave transitions
Tuesday, Mar. 26
1:30 pm
Peter Armitage
Johns Hopkins
How to kill a topological insulator
Tuesday, Apr. 02
1:30 pm
Jong Han
SUNY Buffalo

Pinning near unit conductance in extreme nonequilibrium limit in quantum wire
Tuesday, Apr. 09
1:30 pm
Patrick Woodward
Ohio State
Double perovskites: New materials and epitaxial films from the bottom of the periodic table
Tuesday, Apr. 16
1:30 pm
Jeffrey McMahon
U. Illinois
On the Molecular Dissociation of Dense Hydrogen, and the Solid/Liquid Transition in the Atomic Phase via Free-energy Calculations
Tuesday, Apr. 23
1:30 pm
Vladimir Manucharyan
Harvard

Proximity-induced superconductivity in systems with only few electrons
Tuesday, Apr. 30
1:30 pm
Leonid Glazman
Yale

Interference of quantum phase slips in a chain of Josephson junctions
Tuesday, May 7
1:30 pm
Xu Du
Stony Brook

Building graphene-based bolometers
  End of semester