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.

Travel Directions to the Department and the University Guest House


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