Condensed Matter Seminar List 2011-2012
| NAME | SPEAKER | AFFILIATION | TITLE | HOST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/18/2011 1:30 |
F. Duncan Haldane | Princeton University | "Geometrical Description of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect" Abstract |
Nai Phuan Ong
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| 07/28/2011 2:00 |
Hugo Dil | Paul Sherrer Inst. | "Spin texture manipulation in systems with large spin-obit interaction" Abstract |
Madhab Neupane & M. Zahid Hasan |
| 07/29/2011 | G. Baskaran | "Theory of Topological Superconductivity in doped Spin-8 Mott Aniferromagnet K2Fe4Se5" | ||
| FRIDAY 09/30/2011 1:30 |
Fiona Burnell |
"Building fractional topological insulators" |
Shivaji Sondhi | |
| 10/31/2011 1:15 |
T.K. Lee | Academy Sinica, Taipeh |
"Recent progress on the variational approach to understand high temperature superconductors" |
Nai Phuan Ong |
| 11/21/2011 | Lu Li | U of Michigan, Ann Arbor | "Magnetism of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructure Interface" Abstract |
Nai Phuan Ong |
| 11/28/2011 | Ville Lahtinen | "Topological liquid nucleation induced by vortex-vortex interactions in Kitaev’s honeycomb model" Abstract |
Andrei' Bernevig | |
| 12/12/2011 | Emanuele Dalla Torre | Harvard Univ. | "Non-equilibrium quantum critical states: a real-time RG approach" Abstract |
David Huse |
| 1/12/2012 | Tianheng Han | MIT | "Search for Quantum Spin Liquids" Abstract |
M. Zahid Hasan |
| 02/06/2012 | Leo Kadanoff | Hamilton Lecturer |
"Are Renormalization Methods "Really Ugly"?" |
David Huse |
| 02/13/2012 | Leo Kadanoff | Hamilton Lecturer | "Numerical Renormalization Methods" |
David |
| 03/13/2012 2:45 PM RM 111 |
Chen Fang | Princeton University |
“Topological Insulators and Semimetals with Point Group Symmetries” |
Andrei Bernevig |
| 03/26/2012 | Umesh Vazirani | Berkeley |
"Testing Quantum Systems" |
Shivaji Sondhi |
| 03/272012 2:45 PM |
Benoit Estienne | Princeton University |
"D-Algebra Structure of Topological Insulators" |
Andrei Bernevig |
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| 03/28/2012 3:15 PM |
Jerome Dubail | Yale University |
"Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: from bulk model wave functions to the edge theory" |
Andrei Bernevig |
| 04/02/2012 | Stephan Mandt | U. of Koln | "Transport and non-equilibrium dynamics in optical lattices: from expanding atomic clouds to negative absolute temperatures" Abstract |
David Huse |
| 04/23/2012 | Garnet Chan | Princeton University | "Numerical approaches to correlated electrons" Abstract |
David Huse |
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TUESDAY |
Karyn Le Hur | Ecole Polytecnique |
"Many-Body Quantum Physics with Photons" |
Hakan Tureci |
| FRIDAY 4/27/2012 |
Leo Kouwenhoven | Kavli Institute of NanoScience, Delft, The Netherlands |
"Majorana Fermions in Seminconductor Nanowires" |
Ali Yazdani |
| 05/07/2012 | Gregory A. Fiete |
U of Texas, Austin |
"Interacting topological insulators in oxides" |
Phuan Ong |
|
CANCELED |
Z. X. Shen | Stanford |
TBA |
Phuan Ong |
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05/21/2012 |
Sungkun Hong | Harvard | "Nanoscale Magnetic Imaging Using Single Electronic Spins in Diamond" Abstract |
Ali Yazdani |