CONDENSED MATTER JOURNAL CLUB

SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Place: PAB 2-434

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

Organizer: Prof. Sudip Chakravarty (310) 825-4974

Secretary: Vidya Sundaram (310)206-9975

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
Fall Quarter 2008
24 September
1 October
8 October	Professor Robijn Bruinsma	UCLA	Chiral Biopolymers and Josephson- Junction Arrays
15 October	Professor Giovanni Zocchi	UCLA	Controlling proteins through molecular springs
22 October	Professor Congjun Wu	UCSD	Novel quantum phases in orbital systems with cold atom optical lattices
29 October	Prof. Leonid Pryadko	UC Riverside	Soft-pulse refocusing and decoherence in solid-state quantum computation
5 November	Professor Dmitri Basov	UCSD	Infrared spectroscopy of correlated electron matter at the nano-scale
12 November	Professor Eric Hudson	MIT	Gaps in Our Understanding of High Temperature Superconductors
19 November	Dr. Ribhu Kaul	Microsoft Station-Q at UCSB	Destruction of Neel order in quantum anti- ferromagnets
26 November	Professor Dolores Bozovic	UCLA	Mechanical sensitivity in hair cells of the inner ear
3 December	Dr. Alexey Kovalev	UCLA	Hybrid skew scattering regime of the anomalous Hall effect in Rashbasystems: unifying Keldysh Boltzmann and Kubo formalisms
10 December
17 December	Professor Steven Cronin	University of Southern California	One-Dimensional Phenomena in Suspended Carbon Nanotubes
Winter Quarter 2009
7 January	Prof. Marc Bockrath	CALTECH	Carbon nanoelectronics and sensors
14 January
21 January	Dr. Srinivas Raghu	Stanford	Theory of metamagnetism and nematic order in Sr₃Ru₂O₇
28 January	Professor Jenny Hoffman	Harvard University	Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and Vortex Imaging in the Iron-Pnictide High-T_c Superconductors
4 February
11 February	Professor Giovanni Vignale	Department of Physics, University of Missouri- Columbia	Ten Years of Spin Hall Effect
18 February	Prof. Gil Refael	CALTECH	The thin film Giaever transformer - vortex drag in a superconductor thin-film bilayer
25 February	Dr. Ania Bleszynski	Yale	Measurements of persistent currents in normal metal rings using a micromechanical magnetometer
4 March
11 March
18 March
25 March
Spring Quarter 2009
1 April	Professor Elisha Moses	Weizmann Institute of Science	Simple Computation Devices from Living Neural Networks
8 April	Professor Oleg Shpyrko	UC San Diego	Domain Wall Dynamics in Antiferromagnetic Chromium
15 April	Professor Xuedong Hu	University at Buffalo	Realizing singlet-triplet qubits in multivalley Si quantum dots
22 April	Prof. Kirill Shtengel	UC Riverside	Probing non-Abelian anyons in fractional quantum Hall systems
29 April	Dr. Adrian Del Maestro	University of British Columbia	Infinite randomness at the superconductor-metal transition
6 May	Professor Adam Kaminski	Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory	Competition between the pseudogap and superconductivity in cuprates
13 May	Professor David Nelson	Harvard University	Gene Surfing in Microorganisms
20 May	Prof. Kun Yang	Florida State University	Novel Quantum Criticality and Emergent Particles in Trapped Cold Atom Systems
27 May	Professor Daniel Arovas	UC San Diego	Quantum Magnetism and Tinker Toys
3 June	Professor Arun Paramekanti	University of Toronto	Strongly interacting cold Fermi gases - superfluidity and ferromagnetism
10 June	Dr. Erik Henriksen	CALTECH	Cyclotron Resonance in Graphene