Condensed Matter Seminar Schedule
Fall 2016
The seminar is held in Serin, rm.
385E
(the main Physics building (East wing), 3rd floor)
at 1:30 P.M. on Tuesday
(we might also occasionally have an additional seminar on Thursdays, 1:30 pm, at the same location)
All welcome!
Please contact our administrative assistant Stefanie Miller (stefanie.miller@rutgers.edu) with questions regarding travel arrangements and reimbursements. Questions about the seminar schedule should be addressed to Prof. Vitaly Podzorov (podzorov@physics.rutgers.edu).| Day | Title | Speaker | Speaker's Host. |
| Sept. 13 | Disorder-driven metal-insulator transitions in deformable lattices. | Simone Fratini, Institut Neel, CNRS, Grenoble, France |
Vitaly Podzorov |
| Sept. 20 | Theoretical & experimental discovery of Weyl fermion, topo. nodal-line fermion & anisotropic chiral anomaly materials. | Zahid Hasan, Princeton University |
Piers Coleman |
| Sept. 27 | Exact critical exponents for the antiferromagnetic quantum critical metal in two dimensions. | Sung-Sik Lee, Perimeter Institute |
Gabriel Kotliar |
| Oct. 4 |
A multi-probe STM quest for topological surface conductance.request title and abstract. | An-Ping Li, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Leonard Feldman |
| Oct. 11 | Quantum anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulator films. | Cui-zu Chang, MIT |
Weida Wu |
| Monday Oct. 17 10:30-11:30 am |
10:30-11:30 am Special seminar: Nonadiabatic Density Functional Theory of Electrons and Nuclei Based on the Exact Factorization Scheme |
Ryan
Requist, Max Plank Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany |
David Vanderbilt |
| Oct. 18 |
Spin and orbital interactions in complex oxide heterostructures and transient states probed by x-rays. | Mark Dean, BNL |
Valery Kiryukhin |
| Oct. 25 |
Friedel oscillations as a probe of fermionic quasiparticles. | Eugene Demler, Harvard University |
Piers Coleman |
| Nov. 1 |
Hidden fermionic excitations triggering the unconventional pairing in high-temperature cuprate superconductors. | Marcello Civelli, Universite Paris SUD |
Kristjan Haule |
| Nov. 8 | Tuning quantum properties in correlated ruthenates. | Xianglin
Ke, Michigan State University |
Sang Cheong |
| Nov. 15 |
CANCELLED |
Efrain E. Rodriguez, University of Maryland |
Martha Greenblatt |
| Nov. 22, 10:30am |
Topological quantum chemistry. |
Barry
Bradlyn, Princeton U. |
David
Vanderbilt |
| Nov. 29 | From 3D to 2D and back again. | Cory Dean, Columbia University |
Eva Andrei |
| Dec.
1, Thursday, 1:30 pm |
Non-symmorphic
symmetry-protected topological phases. |
Jennifer Cano,
PCTS,
Princeton U. |
Piers Coleman |
| Dec.
2, Friday, 12 pm (noon) |
Pumping approximately integrable systems. | Achim
Rosch, University of Cologne |
Natan Andrei |
| Dec. 6 |
Thermalization, dynamics and
many-body localization. |
Yevgeny Bar Lev,
Columbia University
|
Natan Andrei |
| Dec. 13 |
Many-body Anderson localization and quantum thermalization. | David A. Huse, Princeton University |
Joel Lebowitz |
| Dec.
19, Monday, 10:30 am |
Modeling the flatland from atoms and up. |
Yuanyue Liu,
Caltech
|
David Vanderbilt |
| Dec. 20 |
No
Colloquium: Exams/Winter Break. |
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| Dec. 21 (Wednesday), 1:30pm | Observing a scale anomaly in graphene: a universal quantum phase transition. | Omrie
Ovdat, Technion, Israel |
Natan Andrei |
| S P R I N G 2017 | |||
| Day | Title | Speaker | Speaker's Host. |
| Jan. 17 | Piers Coleman | ||
| Jan. 24 | Piers Coleman | ||
| Jan. 31 | |||
| Feb. 2, Thursday, 10:30 am | Piers Coleman | ||
| Feb. 7 | David Vanderbilt | ||
| Feb. 9, Thursday, 1:30 pm | V. A. Rolando | Sang Cheong | |
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| Feb. 21 | Pankaj Mehta | Natan Andrei | |
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