CONDENSED MATTER JOURNAL CLUB

SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Place: PAB 4330  

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

Organizer:             Professor Stuart Brown   (310) 825-4234

Secretary:             Vidya Sundaram   (310)206-9975

Date

Speaker

Institute

Title

Fall Quarter 2009

23 September

     

30 September

     
7 October

 

 

14 October

 

 

21 October

 

 

28 October

Dr. David Parker

Naval Research Laboratory

Tests of order parameter symmetry in the superconducting iron arsenides

4 November

Dr. Roman Movshovich

LANL

Magnetic Field Response of Superconducting CeCoIn5

11 November

 

 

18 November

 

 

25 November

 

 

2 December

Prof. Michael Crommie

UC Berkeley

Imaging Dirac Fermions in a Two- dimensional Sheet of Carbon

9 December Prof. Hartmut Häffner

UC Berkeley

Wiring up trapped ions for quantum information

16 December

Professor Omar A. Saleh

UCSB

Single-molecule meets scaling: The low- force elasticity of single-stranded DNA

Winter Quarter 2010

6 January

 

 

13 January      

20 January

Prof. Jorge E. Hirsch

University of California, San Diego

Explanation of the Meissner Effect and Prediction of a Spin Meissner Effect in Superconductors

27 January

Prof. Raffi Budakian

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Observation of half-fluxoid states in mesoscopic Sr2RuO4 rings

3 February

Prof. Daniel Arovas

University of California, San Diego

Quantum Entanglement Spectra of Gapless Spin Chains

12 February

Prof. Chetan Nayak

University of California, Santa Barbara

 

17 February

Prof. Roland Kawakami

University of California, Riverside

 

Tunable spin transport at room temperature in single layer graphene

24 February

 

 

3 March

Prof. David Lubensky

University of Michigan

How to make a neurocrystal: biological pattern formation and neural fate specification

10 March

Prof. Antonio H. Castro Neto

Boston University

 

17 March

     

24 March

     

Spring Quarter 2010

31 March

 

 

7 April

 

 

14 April

   

21 April

 

 

28 April

 

 

5 May

 

 

12 May

 

 

19 May

 

 

26 May

 

 

2 June

   

9 June