Spring 2010 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
1/14/10
No seminar - first week of class
1/21/10
Nearly Isostatic Periodic Lattices

Tom Lubensky
University of Pennsylvania

1/28/10
Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for Fermionic Systems
Boris Svistunov
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2/4/10
Transport experiments with Dirac Electrons in Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 and Graphene

Joseph Checkelsky
Princeton University

2/11/10
 

 

2/18/10
Does global structure recapitulate local structure in cuprate superconductors?
Kyle McElroy
CU Boulder
2/25/10
Quantum phase transitions of Fermi surfaces in two dimensions
Subir Sachdev
Harvard University
3/4/10
Ultrafast and Ultrabright Lasers
Juliet Gopinath
CU Boulder (ECEN and Physics)

3/11/10

Transitions between Luttinger liquid phases in the bilinear-biquadratic S=1 Heisenberg chain in a magnetic field

Salvatore Manmana
EPF Lausanne

3/18/10
No seminar - APS March Meeting  
3/25/10
No seminar - Spring break  
4/1/10
Learning Rates and States from Biophysical Time Series

Chris Wiggins
Columbia University

4/8/10
Fractal Time in the Photoreorientation of Self Assembled Monolayers

Noel Clark
CU Boulder

4/15/10
Emergent Supersymmetry and String in Condensed Matter Systems
Sung-Sik Lee
McMaster University
4/22/10
Jamming and the low-temperature properties of glasses
Andrea Liu
University of Pennsylvania
4/29/10
Realization of a magnetic blue phase in MnSi
Dmitry Reznik
CU Boulder
5/6/10
Live Soap in the Sky: Smectics, Flocks, and the Rayleigh-Benard Instability

John Toner
University of Oregon

5/20/10
Photoemission on thin films: New perspective on tailored HTCS systems
Luc Patthey
Paul Scherrer Institut
6/17/10
 

Michael Bauer
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Fall 2009 Seminar

Condensed matter seminars before Fall 2009.