Condensed Matter Physics Seminars: Spring 2009 semester
Unless noted otherwise, seminars are held at 4 PM on Tuesdays in Room JFB 334,
Department of Physics.
Please contact the host for more info, or if you would like to arrange a meeting with speaker.
Spring 2009 semester
(Previous semesters: fall 2008)
January 13
- Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota
- Temperature dependence of microwave-induced resistance oscillations in high-mobility 2D electron systems [Abstract]
- Host: Misha Raikh
January 20
- Norman Tolk, Vanderbilt University
- Carrier/Spin and Coherent Phonon Dynamics Using Intense, Tunable, Ultra-fast Lasers
[Abstract]
- Host: Clayton Williams
January 27
- Vagharsh Mkhitaryan, University of Utah
- Site Percolation on Triangular Lattice:
Novel Network Model for the Integer Quantum Hall Transition
[Abstract]
- Host: local speaker
February 3
- Markus Wohlgenannt, University of Iowa
- Magnetoresistance and spin-transport in organic semiconductor
thin-film devices
[Abstract]
- Host: Valy Vardeny
February 10
- Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University
- Spin excitations with Fermi statistics in the S=1/2 Heisenberg model on kagome
[Abstract]
- Host: Oleg Starykh
February 17
- Jim Valles, Brown University
- Cooper Pairs in an Insulator!?
[Abstract]
- Host: Andrey Rogachev
February 24
- Ifor Samuel, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews
- ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS: LIGHTING UP THE FUTURE
[Abstract]
- Host: John Lupton
March 3
- Xiao-Liang Qi, Stanford University
- Topological Effects in Time Reversal
Invariant Insulators
[Abstract]
- Host: Yong-Shi Wu
March 10
- Norman Birge, Michigan State University
- Josephson Junctions with Ferromagnets
[Abstract]
- Host: Misha Raikh
March 17
- No seminar; APS March Meeting/Spring Break
March 24
Eric Olaf Potma, Department of Chemistry, UC Irvine
Nonlinear coherent microscopy of tissues, nanostructures and single molecules
[Abstract]
Host: Jordan Gerton
March 31
- Michael Gershenson, Rutgers University
- Superconducting Nanocircuits for Topologically Protected Qubits
[Abstract]
- Host: Andrey Rogachev
April 7
- Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Back to the iron age: the pairing symmetry in Fe-pnictides
[Abstract]
- Host: Oleg Starykh
April 14
- Leon Balents, KITP
- Spin-orbit effects in frustrated quantum magnets
with orbital degeneracy
[Abstract]
- Host: Oleg Starykh
April 21
- Ilya Gruzberg, University of Chicago
- Critical wave functions, conformal invariance, and theories for
quantum Hall transitions
[Abstract]
- Host: Oleg Starykh
April 28
- Massood Tabib-Azar, University of Utah, E&E and Bioengineering Departments
- Nanoscale Deposition and Etching of Silicon Quantum Dots Using
Field-Assisted AFM-Based CVD
[Abstract]
- Host: Clayton Williams