Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy

Condensed Matter Seminar Schedule
Seminar Organizers (fall): H. Kojima, G. Kotliar, L. Ioffe
Regular (in yellow)CM seminars are held in Serin 385 at 1:30 P.M. on Tuesdays.
Friday (informal theory) seminars held at 4:45pm in Serin 287 or 385
Special/Informal Seminars(in blue) held at other times as listed.

2008-2009
Date Speaker  Title (Click for Abstract) Host 
Tue Sep 2  Lev Ioffe (Rutgers) Noise, Dissipation and Entanglement in Closed Quantum Systems CMF
Tue Sep 9 John Reppy (Cornell) Probing the Upper Limit of Non-classical Rotational Inertia in Solid Helium 4 Haruo Kojima
Tue Sep 16 David Huse (Princeton) Pairing, magnetism and transport in strongly-interacting ultracold fermionic atoms
Gabriel Kotliar
Tue Sep 23 Leo Radzihovsky (Boulder) Resonant Atomic Gases Lev Ioffe
Tue Sep 30 Jorge Sofo (Penn State) Two steps into the paradigm of all graphene electronics: The effect of substrates and a method to "draw" graphene channels Haruo Kojima
Tue Oct 7 Vladimir Goldman (Stony Brook) Interferometry of Electrons and Laughlin Quasiparticles Lev Ioffe
Tue Oct 14 Richard Haglund (Vanderbilt) EXPLORING THE METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITION IN VO2 NANOPARTICLES Len Feldman
Tue Oct 21 David Mandrus (ONRL) Breaking the Tyranny of Copper: The Emergence of a New Generation of High-Tc Superconductors Based on Iron Sang Cheong
Tue Oct 28 Mark Croft (Rutgers) In situ Real time imaging of crack propagation with X rays CMF
Tue Nov 4 Dmitry Novikov (Yale) Coulomb impurity in graphene Eva Andrei
Tue Nov 11 Jean Luc Bredas (Arizona) Organic materials polymers Vitaly Podzorov
Tue Nov 18 Mohit Randeria (Ohio State) BCS-BEC Crossover in Ultracold Atoms: Vortices and Quantum Fluctuations Gabriel Kotliar
Tue Nov 25 Thanksgiving Holiday Week   
Tue Dec 2 Pengcheng Dai (ONRL) Neutron Scattering in Iron Pnicities. Weida Wu
Tue Dec 9 Katsnelson Mikhail  (Neimingen) Gauge fields in corrugated graphene   Lev Ioffe
Spring 2009
Tue Jan 20 Dganit Meidan (Weizmann Institute) Quantum Phase Transitions in Low Dimensional Superconductors
PC
Wed Jan 21 Paata Kakashvili
(Rice)
Exotic states in trapped ultracold atomic Fermi gases in one dimension: Luttinger liquids and FFLO-like states NA
Tue Jan 27 Jeremy Levy
(Pittsburgh)
Oxide Nanoelectronics on Demand RB
Tue Feb 03 Gergely Zimanyi
(UC Davis)
I. Glasses with Long Range Forces and
II. Nano-Structured Solar Cells
GK
Tue Feb 10 Mike Norman
(ANL)
What is the Pseudogap? LI
Tue Feb 17 Mansour Shayegan
(Princeton)
Electrons in Flatlands:  Surprises Never Stop MG
Tue Feb 24 Victor Galitski
(Maryland)
Paired Electron Pockets in the Hole-Doped Cuprates LI
Tue Mar 03 Amir Yakobi
(Harvard)
Nanoscale Magnetic Sensing with an Individual Electronic Spin in Diamond LI
Tue Mar 10 Gary Williams
(UCLA)
Vortex Loops and the Superfluid Phase Transition HK
Fri Mar 13 Peter Wolfle
(Karlsruhe)
Electron Spin Resonance in Kondo Systems
Tue Mar 17 [March meeting] No seminar
Tue Mar 24 Adilet Imambekov
(Yale)
Phenomenology of 1D Quantum Liquids Beyond Low Energy Limit LI
Thu Mar 26 Achim Rosch
(Cologne)
Fermioni Atoms in Optical Lattice: Mott Transition and Metastable Superconductivity
Tue Mar 31 D. Prober
(Yale)
Ultrasensitive Nanobolometers - Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors and Individual SW Carbon Nanotubes EA
Tue Apr 07 Ziqiang Wang
(Boston College)
Novel electronic states in sodium coblatates NaxCoO2 - Role of strong correlation, geometrical frustration and Na dopant order GK
Wed Apr 08
2:00 pm
David Shuster
(Yale)
Hybrid Qunttum Information Systems with Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics LI/MG
Thu Apr 16
1:30 pm
Vladimir Manucharyan
(Yale)
Quantum Coherence in a Josephson Junction Array Circuit: the Fluxonium LI/MG
Fri Apr 17
1:30 pm
Alexei Kitaev
(Cal Tech)
Periodic table for topological insulators and superconductors LI/MG
Tue Apr 21 Andrew Millis
(Columbia)
Nonequilibrium quantum criticality LI
Tue Apr 28 Ivan Bozovic
(Brookhaven NL)
Insights in High-Tc Superconductivity form the Study of Cuprate Heterostructures GK
Tue May 5 S.  Bhattacharya
(Tata Insititute)
Mesoscale imaging in disordered systems: soft matter physics in hard matter systems

Other Condensed Matter  related seminars on campus
Department Colloquia, held at 4:45pm on Weds in the Physics Lecture Hall

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