Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

CONDENSED MATTER JOURNAL CLUB

SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Place: PAB 4330  

Date and Time:    4:00 p.m. on Wednesdays 

Organizer:  Professor Sudip Chakravarty   (310) 825-4974

Secretary:  Vidya Sundaram   (310)206-9975

Date

Speaker

Institute

Title

Fall Quarter 2011

21 September

     

28 September

     
5 October

 

 

12 October

26 October

Roman Lutchyn

Microsoft Station Q, UC Santa Barbara

The search for Majorana Fermions in semiconductor nanowires

2 November

Arun Paramekanti

University of Toronto

A staggered current Mott insulator of kinetically frustrated bosons

9 November

Qimiao Si

Rice University

Electronic Correlations and Superconductivity in Iron Pnictides and Selenides

15 November at 4:15 PM Benjamin Davidovitch

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Wrinkling, crumpling, folding, and all that:
Pattern formation on thin sheets

16 November James Analytis
Stanford University
Nematic susceptibility and quantum criticality in iron-based superconductors

30 November

Israel Klich

University of Virginia

Quantum Noise and Entanglement Entropy

15 December (Thurs)

Alex High

UC San Diego

Indirect Excitons: Circuits, Traps, and Spontaneous Low Temperature Physics

Winter Quarter 2012

4 January

11 January      

18 January

Cristian Batista 

 Los Alamos National Lab

Spontaneous Quantum Hall Effect in Frustrated Magnets

25 January

 

 

1 February

Dr. Ni Ni

Princeton University

Manipulating Tc in Fe-based Superconductors through Doping and Interlayer Coupling

8 February

 

15 February

 

 

 

22 February

 

 

 

29 February

 

 

7 March

 

 

14 March

Jake Koralek

UC Berkeley

 
21 March      

28 March

     

Spring Quarter 2012

4 April

 

 

 

11 April

18 April

   

25 April

 

 

2 May

9 May

 

 

 

16 May

 

 

23 May

 

 

30 May  i

 

 

6 June