Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah

Condensed Matter Seminar 2012-2013

 

Tuesdays 4-5 PM

334 James Fletcher Building

 

 
 
Parking: Park at the metered stalls on President's Circle, or park in the visitor pay lot that is south-east of the James Fletcher Building

Cost: Free!

Seminar Archive: 11-12, 10-11, 09-10, 09spring, 08fall

 

CMS committee:

Shanti Deemyad, Mikhail Raikh , Oleg Starykh, Michael Vershinin, John Worlock

Contact:Shanti Deemyad, deemyad @ physics.utah.edu, (801)585-5955  

Airfare and accommodation:

Sareah Gardener, sareah @ physics.utah.edu, (801)585-1754

 

 

 

Fall 2012

08.21

Norbert Nickel

Road to p-type ZnO - why nitrogen doping is difficult (Abstract)

Institute of Silicon Photovoltaics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany (Host: Christoph Boehme)

08.28

09.04

Shanti Deemyad

High pressure melting of lithium (Abstract)

UU Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

09.11

Dima Mozyrsky

Quantum phase slips in superconducting nanowires(Abstract)

Los Alamos National Lab.(Host: Andrey Rogachev)

09.18

Makariy Tanata

Characteristic energy scales of Fe-based superconductors from directional transport measurements(Abstract)

AMES Lab. (Host: Andrey Rogachev)

09.25

Andrey Rogachev

Admittance spectroscopy study of polymer diodes in small magnetic fields.(Abstract)

UU Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

10.02

Harald Ade

Importance and control of face-on versus edge-on molecular orientation at donor-acceptor interfaces in organic solar cell (Abstract)

North Carolina State University, Dept.of Physics (Host: Valy Vardeny)

10.09

No Seminar (Fall Break)

10.16

Michelle Digman

Mapping Molecular Flow using the Pair Correlation Function (pCF)(Abstract)

Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics (LFD), UCI.(Host: Saveez Saffarian)

10.23

No Seminar (Departmental event)

10.30

Christoph Boehme

Exploring electronic nuclear- and electron-spin readout mechanisms for silicon based spin quantum information concepts(Abstract)

UU Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)

11.06

Sergey Tetin

Biophysical Viewpoint on Designing a Diagnostic Test.(Abstract)

ABBOTT LABORATORIES, Chicago (Host: Saveez Saffarian)

11.13

Dima Pesin

Topological Magneto-Electric effect decay (Abstract)

UU Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

11.20

Victor Gurarie

SU(N) magnetism with cold atoms and chiral spin liquid (Abstract)

University of Colorado, Boulder, Dept. of Physics(Host: Oleg Starykh)

11.27

Ehud Altman

Many-body localization in one dimension as a dynamical renormalization group fixed point (Abstract)

Weizmann Institute, Department of Condensed Matter Physics(Host: Oleg Starykh)

12.04

Akobuije Chijioke

Thermal Noise of Whispering Gallery Resonators (Abstract)

National Institute of Standards (Host: Shanti Deemyad)

12.20

Special Seminar

Thursday

4PM

Andrey Chubukov

Superconductivity and magnetism in doped graphene (Abstract)

Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Host: Oleg Starykh)

 

  

Spring 2013

01.08

Vivian Ferry

Designing Absorption with Nanophotonics: from Photovoltaics to Plasmon Rulers (Abstract)

University of California Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (CM Search Speaker)

01.15

Mohammad Hafezi

Quantum simulation with light: from robust edge states to non-equilibrium fractional quantum Hall physics(Abstract)

University of Maryland, Joint Quantum Institute, NIST (Host: Shanti Deemyad)

01.22

Carlos Graeff

Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance – basic concepts and applications(Abstract)

Universidade Estadual Paulista, Department of Physics, Brazil (Host: Christoph Boehme)

01.29

YAN (SARAH) LI

Revealing SpinDynamics in Semiconductors by “Spin Noise” Spectroscopy(Abstract)

Los Alamos National Laboratory (CM Search Speaker)

02.05

Ross Beyer

Finding aperfect sopt on Mars! (Abstract)

NASA Ames Research Center (Host Shanti Deemyad)

02.12

Ariel Amir

Universally Slow (Abstract)

Harvard University, Dept. of Physics (Host: Alexei Efros)

02.19

Eva Zurek

Building a Chemical Intuition Under Pressure: Prediction of Alkali Metal Polyhydrides and Subhydrides(Abstract)

SUNY Buffalo, Dept. of Chemistry (Host: Shanti Deemyad)

02.26

  Alexander Weber-Bargion

Investigating the Optoelectronic properties of ID Nanostructures at the Nano Scale Using Campanile Near Field Tips (Abstract)

Lawrence berkeley national laboratory (Host: Jordan Gerton)

03.05

Yong Baek Kim

Topological Phases in Quantum Materials with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling(Abstract)

U. Toronto, Dept. of Physics (Host: Oleg Starykh)

03.12

No Seminar (Spring Break)

03.19

No Seminar (APS March Meeting)

03.26

Pegor Aynajian

Visualizing heavy fermions emerging in a quantum critical Kondo lattice(Abstract)

Princeton U. Dept. of Physics(Host: Michael Vershinin)

04.02

Rogério de Sousa

Electric-field control of magnetism in multiferroic BiFeO3(Abstract)

University of Victoria, BC, Canada (Host: Jordan Gerton )

04.09

Ron Naaman

The Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) Effect-From Spintronics to Electron Transfer in Biology (Abstract)

Chemical Physics Dept. Weizmann Inst. of Sci., Israel (Host: Valy Vardeny)

04.16

Donna Sheng

Fractional Chern insulator and its modular matrix (Abstract)

Department of Physics, California State University Northridge(Host: Yong-Shi Wu )

 

04.23

Mikhail Raikh

Slow dynamics of electron-hole pairs in random hyper ne eld and organic magnetoresitance

(UU Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)

(Abstract)