Fall 2009 Condensed Matter Seminar

All seminars are Thursday at 12pm in the Gamow Tower 11th floor commons room, unless otherwise noted

To receive email announcements for these seminars, or for other questions, please contact Mike Hermele

Date Title Speaker
8/24/09
No seminar - first week of classes
9/3/09
Jamming and the Emergence of Rigidity

Sidney Nagel
University of Chicago

9/10/09
Life in the trenches: glassy dynamics in liquids and biology
Joel Eaves
CU Boulder (Chemistry)
9/17/09
Graphene Nanoelectromechanical Systems
Scott Bunch
CU Boulder (Mechanical Engineering)
9/24/09
Beyond valence bonds with ultracold atoms:
Chiral spin liquid and other surprises

Michael Hermele
CU Boulder

10/1/09

The gravity duals of N=2 field theories

(Joint High Energy / Condensed Matter Seminar)
Juan Maldacena
Institute for Advanced Study
10/8/09
Spontaneous synchronization of Kuramoto oscillator systems with noisy frequency adaptation
Juan Restrepo
CU Boulder (Applied Math)
10/15/09
The nonlinear optical Franz-Keldysh effect in GaAs
Friday 10/23/09
Quantum phases of a supersymmetric model of lattice fermions

Liza Huijse
University of Amsterdam

10/29/09
No seminar this week  
11/5/09
No seminar this week  
11/12/09
Bogoliubov angle in superconductors

Alexander Balatsky
Los Alamos National Laboratory

11/19/09
Emergence of the persistent spin helix in semiconductor quantum wells

Jake Koralek
Lawrence Berkeley National Labs

11/26/09
No seminar - Thanksgiving  
12/3/09
Gallium Nitride Nanowires
Aric Sanders
NIST Boulder
12/10/09
Digital Signaling, Signal Filters and Central Tolerance in Thymocytes
Ashok Prasad
Colorado State University

Condensed matter seminars before Fall 2009.