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.
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