Condensed Matter Seminars, year 2014/2015
All regular CM seminars take place in Serin 385 at 1:30pm on Tuesdays.
Seminars not on Tuesday are highlighted in yelow.
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 27 1:30 pm |
TBA |
Nai Phuan Ong, Princeton University |
Kristjan |
Tuesday, Feb 3 1:30 pm |
TBA |
Andrey
Chubukov, University of Visconsin Madison |
Kristjan |
Wednesday, Feb 4 4:45 pm (Colloquium) |
TBA |
Gregory Fiete UT Austin |
Piers |
Tuesday, Feb 10 1:30 pm |
TBA |
Douglas R. Strachan, U. Kentucky | Vitaly |
Tuesday, Feb 17 1:30 pm |
TBA |
Mohammed Hammidian Cornell University | Piers |
Tuesday, Feb 24 1:30 pm |
TBA |
Boris Altshuler, Columbia University |
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Tuesday, March 3 1:30 pm |
No Seminar: March Meeting | ||
Tuesday, March 10 1:30 pm |
Isostatic Lattice: From Jamming to Topological Surface Phonons |
Tom Lubensky U. Penn. | Piers |
Tuesday, March 24 1:30 pm |
TBA |
Philip Phillips, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign |
Gabi,Piers |
Tuesday, March 31 1:30 pm |
TBA |
Tony Heinz, Columbia |
Vitaly |
Tuesday, April 7 1:30 pm |
TBA |
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Tuesday, April 14 1:30 pm |
TBA |
Name, Institution |
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Tuesday, April 21 1:30 pm |
TBA |
Name, Institution |
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Tuesday, April 28 1:30 pm |
TBA |
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