University of Utah Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

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 meet a speaker.

Travel Directions to the Department and the University Guest House


Fall 2008 semester


August 26
Suhas Gangadharaiah, University of Utah
Novel effects due to relativistic-like spectrum in solid state problems [Abstract]
Host: Oleg Starykh

September 2
Sergey Bud'ko, Ames Lab and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
Pnictide superconductors: brief introduction and experimental update [Abstract]
Host: Oleg Starykh

September 9
Andrey Shytov, University of Utah
Relativistic dynamics in graphene: Klein paradox and atomic collapse [Abstract]
Host: Eugene Mishchenko

September 16
Mikhail Raikh, University of Utah
Anomalous sensitivity of high-mobility interacting 2D electron gas to a weak magnetic field [Abstract]
Host: Oleg Starykh

September 23
Manfred Walter, University of Utah
Energy transfer in single polymer chains [Abstract]
Host: John Lupton

September 30
Jason Alicea, California Institute of Technology
New puzzles in Bismuth subjected to strong magnetic fields [Abstract]
Host: Oleg Starykh

October 7
Andrey Rogachev, University of Utah
Superconductor-Insulator transition in one-dimensional nanowires: current status, open question and perspective [Abstract]
Host: local speaker

October 14
No seminar; Fall Break

October 21
No seminar; RPT

October 28
No seminar; RPT

November 4
Frank Harris, University of Utah
Recent progress in the use of fully correlated exponentials for the description of four-body Coulomb systems [Abstract]
Host: local speaker

November 11
Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley
Novel Orders from Geometrical Frustration and Orbital Degeneracy [Abstract]
Host: Oleg Starykh

November 18
Catalin Martin, Ames Lab and Iowa State University
Symmetry of the superconducting gap in iron-pnictides superconductors from penetration depth study [Abstract]
Host: Andrey Rogachev

November 25
Alexander Govorov, Ohio University
Nonlinear Fano effect in quantum dots [Abstract]
Host: Valy Vardeny

December 2
Olexei Motrunich, Caltech
Spinon Fermi sea state as a candidate spin liquid in weak Mott insulators: studies of triangular spin model with ring exchanges [Abstract]
Host: Oleg Starykh

December 9
Joerg Schmalian, Iowa State University
Quantum critical transport in clean graphene [Abstract]
Host: Oleg Starykh