For the latest CMTC talks, see this page.
Fall 2019
| September 11 | 11:00 AM |
CMTC Fall Symposium
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| September 17 | 11:00 AM | Informal CMTC Seminar by Jason Kestner (UMBC) Charge Noise Induced Decoherence in Spin Qubits |
| September 24 | 11:00 AM | Connie Mousatov (Stanford) Two theories of strange and bad metals |
| September 26 | 3:30 PM | Informal CMTC Seminar by Yi-Ting Hsu (CMTC, Maryland) Topological phases in the real world |
| October 15 | 11:00 AM | Johnpierre Paglione (Maryland) Exotic superconductivity in nearly ferromagnetic UTe2 |
| November 1 | 11:00 AM | Informal CMTC Seminar by Noah Fanqi Yuan (MIT) Moire laboratory of rescaled solids: graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide systems |
| November 5 | 11:00 AM | Cenke Xu (UCSB) Generic "Unnecessary" Quantum Critical Points |
| December 3 | 11:00 AM | Nandini Trivedi (Ohio State) TBA |
| December 10 | 11:00 AM | Max Metlitski (MIT) TBA |
Spring 2019
Fall 2018
| October 1 | 11:00 AM | Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton) PRANGE PRIZE TECHNICAL TALK/JQI Seminar LOCATION: Atlantic 2400 Wormholes and entangled states |
| October 2 | 4:00 PM | Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton) PRANGE PRIZE PUBLIC LECTURE LOCATION: 1412 John S. Toll Physics Building Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime |
| October 9 | 11:00 AM | Claudio Chamon (Boston University) Braiding Light (and Majoranas too) |
| October 15 | 1:30 PM | Andrey Antipov (Microsoft) Engineering Majorana zero modes |
| October 23 | 11:00 AM | Debanjan Choudhury (MIT) Building a universal description of certain non-Fermi liquid metals |
| October 30 | 11:00 AM | Thomas Vojta (Missouri University of Science and Technology) Quantum phase transitions and disorder: Griffiths singularities, infinite randomness, and smearing |
| November 6 | 11:00 AM | Dmitry Abanin (University of Geneva) Quantum many-body scars: a new form of ergodicity breaking in a Rydberg-atom quantum simulator |
| November 14 | 11:00 AM | Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford) Transport in Strongly Correlated Bad Metals |
| December 11 (Rescheduled) | 11:00 AM | Cory Dean (Columbia) Pressure-induced superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene |
Spring 2018
| February 7 | 11:00 AM | Mark Rudner (Niels Bohr Institute) Quantized transport, topology and thermalization in anomalous Floquet insulators |
| February 16 | 11:15 AM | John Nichol (Rochester) Why do spin qubits dephase? |
| March 16 | 10:00AM-3:30PM |
CMTC Symposium |
| March 22 | 2:00 PM | Sankar Das Sarma (University of Maryland) Special CMTC Seminar/CNAM Colloquium Linear-in-T resistivity, violation of Mott-Ioffe-Regel criterion, and disobedience of Wiedemann-Franz law: Is this enough to accuse a metal of being ‘strange’ or ‘bad’? Location: Room 1201 Toll Physics Building |
| March 28 | 11:00 AM | Liang Fu (MIT) Topology of finite-lifetime quasipartices and non-Hermitian quantum mechanics |
| April 2 | 1:30 PM | Itamar Kimchi (MIT) Data collapse and scaling theory of frustration and disorder in quantum magnets |
| April 3 | 11:00 AM | Qimiao Si (Rice) Magnetism and topology in strongly correlated metals |
| April 19 | 4:00 PM | Andrew Lucas (Stanford) Special Joint CMTC/MCFP Colloquium Fast scrambling on sparse graphs Location: Physical Sciences Complex Room 3150 |
| April 27 | 11:00 AM | Michael Pretko (University of Colorado, Boulder) Tensor Gauge Theories of Fractons |
| May 1 | 11:00 AM | Jeffrey Teo (University of Virginia) Coupled wire models of new quantum Hall states and fractional topological insulators |
| June 8 | 11:00 AM | Tero Heikkilä (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) Asymptotic flat band superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene and other systems |
| June 20 | 11 AM | Christopher Mudry (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland) A model of chiral spin liquids with tunable chiral edge states |
Fall 2017
Spring 2017
Fall 2016
| September 13 | 11 AM | Meng Cheng (Yale) Ising anyons in frustration-free Majorana-dimer models |
| September 19 | 11 AM |
Prange Prize Technical Talk by Frank Wilczek (MIT) CMTC/JQI Joint Seminar held in 2400 CSS Bldg. Anyons |
| September 20 | 4 PM |
Prange Prize Public Lecture by Frank Wilczek (MIT) CMTC/Physics Colloquium held in 1412 John S. Toll Physics Bldg. Some Intersections of Art and Science |
| September 27 | 2 PM | Steve Simon (Oxford) Surprises from Small Quantum Hall Droplets |
| September 29 | 11 AM | Matteo Rizzi (University of Mainz, Germany) Strongly-correlated SU(N)-fermionic mixtures in one-dimensional harmonic traps |
| October 4 | 11 AM | Samuel Lederer (MIT) High Tc superconductivity and non-Fermi liquid behavior near a nematic quantum critical point: a Monte Carlo study |
| October 5 | 2 PM | Parsa Bonderson (Microsoft Station Q Santa Barbara) Fermionic Topological Phases and Modular Transformations (Part 1) |
| October 6 | 11 AM | Parsa Bonderson (Microsoft Station Q Santa Barbara) Fermionic Topological Phases and Modular Transformations (Part 2) |
| October 12 | 11 AM | Shivaji Sondhi (Princeton) The Statistical Mechanics of Driven Quantum Systems |
| November 2 | 11 AM | Jeffrey Teo (University of Virginia) Between topological strings and topological phases |
| December 7 | 11 AM-5:30 PM | 2016 Fall CMTC Symposium Day 1 Schedule |
| December 9 | 11 AM-3:00 PM | 2016 Fall CMTC Symposium Day 2 Schedule |
| December 13 | 11 AM | Subir Sachdev (Harvard) SYK models, strange metals, and black holes |
Spring 2016
Fall 2015
Spring 2015
| February 25 | 2 PM | Predrag Nikolic (George Mason) Kondo topological insulators |
| March 10 | 2 PM | Vladimir Juricic (U. Utrecht) Topological Crystalline Quantum Matter |
| March 11 | 11 AM | Raquel Queiroz (Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart) Strongly disordered topological superconductors without inversion center |
| March 17 | 11 AM | David Abergel (Nordita) Tunneling conductance in strongly correlated materials |
| April 14 | 11 AM | John Quinn (U. of Tennessee, Knoxville) Correlation Diagrams: an Intuitive Approach to Correlations in Quantum Hall Systems |
| April 15 | 11 AM | Carlo Beenakker (Leiden University) Quench dynamics of fermion-parity switches in a Josephson junction |
| April 21 | 11 AM | Johannes Bauer (Harvard) Phases and dynamics of correlated systems: Charge order in the cuprate superconductors and dynamic phase transitions |
| April 24 | 11 AM | Leo Kouwenhoven (TU Delft) Experimental progress on Majoranas in semiconductors |
| May 12 | 11 AM | Abolhassan Vaezi (Cornell) Universal Quantum Computation from Bilayer Quantum Hall States |
| May 15 | 3 PM | Andrew Dzurak (Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology, and School of Electrical Engineering, UNSW) Spin-based Quantum Computing in Silicon |
| May 26 | 11 AM | Itamar Kimchi (Berkeley/MIT) Quantum spin liquids and magnetic models for the new three-dimensional honeycomb-like iridates |
| June 24 | 11 AM | Noriko Akutsu (Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Osaka, Japan) Phase Diagram of Step Faceting on a Crystal Surface: Numerical Calculations on a Restricted Solid-on-Solid Model with Point-Contact Type Step-Step Attraction |
| July 21 | 11 AM | Márton Kormos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Correlations after quantum quenches in the XXZ spin chain: Failure of the Generalized Gibbs Ensemble |
Fall 2014
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Spring 2013
Fall 2012
| October 10-12 | CMTC Fall Symposium | |
| October 15-16 | Andre Geim (University of Manchester) "Beyond Graphene: Electronic Properties of van Der Waals Heterostructures" and "Random Walk to Graphene" (two talks) | |
| November 16 | Attilio Stella (University of Padua, Italy) Scaling Approach to Financial Modeling |
Spring 2012
| January 4 | Fei Lin (Virginia Tech) Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Bose-Hubbard Model in the New Era: Opportunities and Challenges |
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| January 19 | Ribhu Kaul (University of Kentucky) Quantum phase transitions of square lattice SU(N) anti-ferromagnets |
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| February 6 | Sriram Ganeshan (Stony Brook University) Quasiparticle scattering from vortices in d-wave superconductors: Superflow and Berry phase contributions |
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| March 7 | Maissam Barkeshli (Stanford University) Topological Nematic States and Non-Abelian Lattice Dislocations |
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| March 21 | Roman Lutchyn (Microsoft Q) The search for elusive Majorana particles in semiconductor-superconductor structures |
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| April 13 | John Quinn (University of Tennessee) Excitons and PL in QH Systems |
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| July 10 | Jainendra K. Jain (Penn State University) Composite Fermions |
Fall 2011
| September 6 | Kostyantyn Kechedzhi (Rutgers) Origin of 1/f magnetic noise in superconducting circuits |
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| September 22 | Vito Scarola (Virginia Tech) Wavefunctions for Flat-Band Lattices |
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| October 3-4 | CMTC Fall Symposium | |
| October 24 | Chenjie Wang (Brown) How to find non-Abelian anyons? |
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| October 25-26 | Daniel Tsui (Princeton University) "More is Indeed Different: An Example from Electron Physics in Semiconductors" and "Closure on two long-standing 2D electron physics problems?" (two talks) |
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| December 13 | Zi Yang Meng (Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany and Louisiana State University) Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Correlated Electrons on Honeycomb Lattice and Interacting Topological Insulator |
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
| September 20 | Chuanwei Zhang (Washington State University) Topological insulator and superconductor in spin-orbit coupled semiconductors |
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| September 27 | Bertrand I. Halperin (Harvard) Interferometry in a Quantized Hall State |
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| October 19-20 | Walter Kohn (UCSB) A World Powered Predominantly by Solar and Wind Energy and Nearsightedness and Linear Scaling of Electronic Matter - a Closer Look (two talks) |
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| October 26 | Ludwig Mathey (NIST) Supercritical superfluid and vortex unbinding following a quantum quench |
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| November 2-4 | CMTC Fall Symposium | |
| November 9 | Ian Spielman (JQI) A Bose-Einstein condensate subject to synthetic gauge fields |
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| November 16 | Adrian Del Maestro (Johns Hopkins) Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Luttinger Liquids |
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| December 14 | Rajibul Islam (University of Maryland) Phase transition in long range quantum Ising model simulated with trapped ions |
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| December 14 | Greg Boyd (University of Florida) Theory of Iron-Based Superconductors |
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| December 15 | CMTC Fall mini-Symposium |
Spring 2010
| January 19 | Xiaoliang Qi (Microsoft Q and Stanford) Topological superconductors |
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| January 22 | Andrew James (University of Virginia) Non-Fermi liquid fixed point for an imbalanced gas of fermions in 1+ε dimensions |
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| January 26 | Jason Alicea (Caltech) Promising new directions in the quest for Majorana fermions in condensed matter systems |
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| January 29 | Edwin Barnes (University of Virginia) Introduction to AdS/CFT and its applications |
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| February 23 | Parsa Bonderson (Microsoft Q) Topological Quantum Computation & Measurement |
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| February 26 | Predrag Nikolic (George Mason University) Strongly correlated Cooper pair insulators and superfluids |
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| March 8 | David Marcos (CSIC, Madrid) Noise Correlations and Coherent Coupling in Solid State Qubits |
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| April 9 | Jun Zhu (Penn State) Scattering sources in graphene: the role of the substrate |
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| June 15 | Jens Bardarson (Berkeley) Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in disordered topological insulator nanowires |
Fall 2009
| September 28 - October 2 | CMTC Symposium | |
| October 19-20 | Phil Anderson (Princeton University) Hidden Theories and Presenting Unpopular Theories (two talks) |
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| October 30 | Mohammad Hafezi (University of Maryland) Photonic non-equilibrium quantum transport in a nonlinear optical fiber |
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| November 6 | Daw-Wei Wang (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan) Cold polar molecule: from one-, two-, to many-particle physics |
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| November 20 | Stephen Powell (University of Maryland) Kasteleyn transition of spin ice in an applied magnetic field |
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| December 18 | Kihwan Kim (University of Maryland) Quantum Frustration of Ising Spins with Trapped Ions |
Spring 2009
| April 3 | Jay Sau (University of Maryland) | |
| April 24 | Mike Peterson (University of Maryland) | |
| May 8 | Tudor Stanescu (University of Maryland) | |
| May 29 | Dimi Culcer (University of Maryland) Quantum computing with Si quantum dots -- Part I |
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| June 5 | Roman Lutchyn (University of Maryland) | |
| June 12 | Dimi Culcer (University of Maryland) Quantum computing with Si quantum dots -- Part II |
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| June 19 | Enrico Rossi (University of Maryland) | |
| July 31 | Marcos Rigol (Georgetown University) Breakdown of thermalization in finite one-dimensional systems |
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| August 3 | Liang Fu (Harvard University) Theory of Topological Insulators |
Fall 2008
| October 15 | CMTC Symposium | |
| November 3 | Jay Deep Sau (U.C. Berkeley) Theoretical Approaches to the Transport Properties of Nanostructures |
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| November 4 | Kai Sun (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking and Spontaneous Anomalous Hall Effect in Fermi Fluids |
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| November 6 | Michael Lilly (Sandia National Laboratories) Si Spin Quantum Computation in MOSFETs |
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| November 10 | Alex Levchenko (University of Minnesota) Coulomb Drag in Quantum Circuits |
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| November 24 | Chih-Chun Chien (University of Chicago) Ultra-cold Fermions with Attractive Interactions in Optical Lattices and Implications for Correlated Systems |
Fall 2007
| September 27-28 | CMTC Symposium |
Fall 2006
| November 8 | CMTC Symposium |
Spring 2006
| February 20 | Zaira Nazario (Stanford University) Possible New Physics at Quantum Critical Points: Nontrivial Topology in 2D Antiferromagnets |
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| February 23 |
Chuanwei Zhang (University of Maryland) |
Fall 2005
| August 9 | John Saunders (University of London) Quantum Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional 3He |
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| September 23 | Sankar Das Sarma (University of Maryland) Quantum in the Real World and the Quantum Reality |
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| September 29 | Gregory A. Feite (KITP, UCSB) Spin incoherent effects in momentum resolved tunneling and transport in Luttinger liquids |
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| October 20 |
Wayne Witzel (University of Maryland) |
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| November 10 |
Igor Mazin (Naval Research Laboratory) |
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| November 14 | Luis E. Hueso (University of Cambridge, UK) Half-Metallic Manganites, Magnetic Domain Walls, and Carbon Nanotubes |
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| December 1 | Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (Harvard University) Shaking ferromagnets with electric fields: instabilities, dissipation, and noise |
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| December 8 |
Victor Galitski (University of Virginia) |
Spring 2005
| February 17 | Wei Pan (Sandia National Laboratories) What's new in quantum Hall effect? |
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| February 24 |
Bob Joynt (University of Wisconsin) | |
| March 10 | Daniel S. Fisher (Harvard University)
Dynamics of Jamming: Glasses, Granular Media, and Simple Models |
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| April 21 |
G. George Batrouni (University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis) |
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| May 5 | Francisco Guinea (Institute of Materials Science-
CSIC- Madrid, Spain) Suppression of quantum effects by metallic environments |
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| May 12 | Krishnendu Sengupta (University of Toronto) Superfluid-Insulator transition of two species ultracold bosons in an optical lattice |
Fall 2004
| October 26 | Subi Sachdev (Yale University) Quantum Vortices and Competing Order |
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| November 18 | Cristina Bena (UCLA) Spin transport in one dimensional systems |
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| November 29 | C. Morais Smith (University of Ultrecht,
the Netherlands) Pattern formation in quantum Hall systems |
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| December 2 | Belita Koiller (Instituto de Fisica - Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) Silicon based spin and charge quantum computation |
Spring 2004
| February 5 | Ying Zhang (UMCP) Interaction-driven effective mass divergence in electron liquids |
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| February 9 | Jelena Stajic (University of Chicago) From Ultracold superfluids to high temperature semiconductors |
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| February 10 | Xingxiang Zhou (University of Rochester) Quantum computation by dispersive dynamics |
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| March 3 | Gonzalo Alvarez (Florida State University) Relevance of Clustered States in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors and Other Materials |
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| March 4 | Speaker: Amir Yacoby (Weizmann Institute,
on sabbatical at Harvard University) Spin–Charge Separation and Localization in One Dimension Measured Using Momentum Resolved Tunneling |
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| March 11 | Alexander Balatsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Noise Spectroscopy of a single spin |
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| March 15 | Ashot Melikyan (Johns Hopkins University) Nodal quasiparticles in vortex lattice |
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| March 18 | Luis Brey (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales
de Madrid (CSIC)) Theory of Ferromagnetism in Double Perosvkites |
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| April 5 | Simon Kos (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Spin transport in semiconductors |
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| July 19 | Alexander Khaetskii (LMV, Munich, Germany) Spin Relaxation in Semiconductor Nanostructures |
Fall 2003
| October 9 | Kwon Park (Condensed Matter Theory Center, University
of Minnesota) Pseudospin quantum computation in semiconductor nanostructures |
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| November 6 | Chetan Nayak (UCLA) d-Density Wave Order in High T_c Cuprates |
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| November 13 | Mike Lilly (Sandia National Laboratories) Exploring interactions and disorder using transport in low dimensional semiconductor systems |
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| November 20 | Andrey Chubukov (University of Wisconsin) Singular corrections to a Fermi liquid: 1D physics in D>1 |
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| December 4 | Jun Zhu (Cornell University) Recent Experimental Determination of Quasiparticle Transport Parameters in a 2D Electron System |
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| December 11 | Sergey Kravchenko (Northeastern University) Metal-insulator transition in 2D: history and new developments |
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| December 12 | Maxim Vavilov (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology) Theory of the Oscillatory Photoconductivity of 2D Electron Gas |
Spring 2003
| January 17 | Alexander Dobin (University of Minnesota) Intrinsic Non-linear Ferromagnetic Relaxation in Thin Films |
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| January 20 | Anatoli Polkovnikov (Yale University) Dynamics of Interacting Bosons in an Optical Lattice |
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| January 22 | Gil Refael (Harvard University) Superconductivity and Dissipation in Josephson Junctions, Grains, and Nanowires |
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| January 24 | Martin Veillette (UCSB) Multicomponent Exciton Bose-Einstein Condensate in Bilayer Systems |
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| April 3 | Ramesh Mani (Harvard University) Novel radiation induced zero-resistance states in the GaAs/AlGaAs 2-dimensional electron system |
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| May 1 | Steven M. Girvin (Yale University) Prospects for Strong Cavity QED in Superconducting Electrical Circuits |
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Fall 2002
| September 5 |
Eugene Demler (Harvard University)
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| September 12 |
Chandra Varma (Lucent Technologies) |
| September 13 |
Kwon Park (University of Maryland)
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| September 13 |
Donald Priour (University of Maryland)
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| September 20 |
Vito Scarola (University of Maryland)
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| September 20 |
Chandan Dasgupta (University of Maryland)
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| September 27 |
Victor Galitski (University of Maryland)
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| September 27 |
Ying Zhang (University of Maryland)
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| October 8 |
Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck)
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| October 11 |
Sankar Das Sarma (University of Maryland)
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| October 17 |
James Williams (NIST - Gaithersburg)
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| October 18 |
Alexei Kaminski (University of Maryland)
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| October 25 |
Euyheon Hwang (University of Maryland)
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| November 14 |
Charles Marcus (Harvard University)
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| November 22 |
Magdalena Constantin (University of Maryland)
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Spring 2002
| January 31 | Oleg Tchernyshyov (Princeton University) The world's most frustrated magnet |
| February 26 | Kedar Damle (Harvard University) The curious world of quantum spin chains: Quantum fluctuations, Interactions, and Disorder in `Lineland' |
| February 26 | Shuheng Pan (University of Houston) Microscopic Inhomogeneity of the d-Wave Superconducting State in BiSrCaCuO: A Low Temperature STM Study. |
| March 12 | Michael Fogler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) From micro-stripes to nano-tubes. |
| April 16 | Gergely Zarand (Harvard University) Frustration effects in magnetic semiconductors |
| April 30 | Greg Boebinger (Los Alamos National Laboratory) The abnormal state of the high Tc superconductors...or undressing electrons with a million gauss |
| May 2 | John Quinn (University of Tennessee) Composite Fermion Picture of Fractional Quantum Hall Systems: When it Works and Why |
| May 7 | Hendrik Schon (Lucent Technologies) Field-Effect Doping of Organic and Inorganic Materials |
| May 21 | Bob Joynt (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Quantum Computing Using SiGe Hardware |