Condensed Matter Forum of Rutgers University

History & current status

Note added by masud [masud@physics], Fall 2002

The cmforum activities described below concerns talks arranged and given in summer and fall, 2001. The website work at that time was done by Mathew Francis, mfrancis@physics. Other than me and Mathew, other people involved in organizing the talks were Nayana Shah, Carlos Bolech, S Kancharla (Venky), and Rossen Roussev.

The forum didn't run in spring 2002 because we got busy with other things, and also ran out of people willing to talk.

I hope to organize another season of the CondMat Forum during spring 2003, hopefully my last semester at Rutgers. Many of the people who participated in the 2001 cmforum have left Rutgers, and there are some new condmat students and postdocs; so this might be an appropriate time to continue the tradition.

An earlier incarnation of the condmatforum ran in fall 1998, organized by Venky and Carlos. I wasn't involved with the effort at that time.

Who We Are

The Condensed Matter Forum is an informal seminar for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are interested in (or merely curious about) condensed matter physics. Our meetings are intended to be an environment where graduate students and postdocs can give presentations (on their research, or on other topics of interest), and ask the kinds of questions that cannot be asked during regular seminars or colloquia. These discussions are held in the Condensed Matter Reading Room (Room E287 of Serin Physics Laboratory).

Calendar of Speakers

Date and Time	Speaker	Topic	Abstract/References
13 April, 2:30	Rossen Roussev	Vague Quantum Criticality	Abstract/References
20 April, 2:30	Chris Hooley	When Electrons Don't Move: the surprisingly difficult physics of spin lattices	Abstract/References
27 April, 2:30	Chris Hooley	When Electrons Don't Move, revisited	References
4 May, 2:30	Matthew R. Francis	Yes, We Have No Imaginary Numbers: A Gentle Introduction to Clifford Algebra	Abstract/References
11 May, 2:30	Michael Sindel	A Model for Cuprates in the Normal State: A Phenomenological Approach	Abstract
25 May, 2:30	Ken Ahn	The Physics of Manganates (unofficial title)	Abstract
8 June, 2:30	Maria Calderon	Low temperature properties of double-exchange systems	Abstract/References
22 June, 2:30	Chris Hooley	Even Zero Dimensions Ain't Easy - The Wonderful World of Quantum Dots	Abstract/References
29 June, 2:30	Giulio Biroli	Out of equilibrium dynamics: an overview	Abstract/References
6 July, 2:30	Giulio Biroli	Out of equilibrium dynamics, revisited	Abstract
13 July, 2:30	Olivier Parcollet	Quantum Spin Glasses	Abstract
20 July, 2:30	Olivier Parcollet	Quantum Spin Glasses, revisited	Abstract
14 September, 2:30	Carlos Bolech	A DMRG Primer, Part I: Statics	Abstract
21 September, 2:30	Sarma (Venky) Kancharla	A DMRG Primer, Part II: Dynamics	Abstract
5 October, 2:30	Andrea Perali	Pair fluctuations as a possible source of pseudogap opening in cuprate superconductors	Abstract
12 October, 2:30	Andrea Perali	Pair fluctuations, revisited	Abstract
19 October, 2:30	John Hopkinson	LiV2O4: evidence for two-stage spin screening	Abstract
2 November, 2:30	Alex Rozhkov	The Josephson tunneling through an interacting quantum dot	Abstract
9 November, 2:30	Matthew R. Francis	The Grassmann is Always Greener . . .: Fermions and Spins in Clifford Algebra	Abstract/References
16 November, 2:30	Sergey Pankov	Extended Dynamical Mean Field theory	Abstract
30 November, 2:30	Sergey Pankov	Extended Dynamical Mean Field theory, revisited	Abstract