September 10, special time and place

Serguei Brazovski (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Phase Slips and Current Conversion in the Sliding State of a Charge Density Wave: The Impact of Spatially-Resolved X-Ray Studies
Host: Victor Yakovenko

Special colloquium by Michael E. Fisher,  Distinguished University Professor
Pictures, models, approximations, and reality: Phase transitions and our understanding of the physical world
4 p.m., Physics Lecture Hall (room 1410, Physics Building)

Serguei Novikov (Department of Mathematics and IPST, UMD)
Conductivity of Normal Metals: Strong Magnetic Field Limit and Topology
Thursday, September 24, 3:30-4:30 pm, Mathematics Building, Room 3206
(a part of the UMD conference in his honor on the 60th birthday)

Doron Cohen (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University)
Quantal Brownian Motion - Dephasing and Dissipation
Host: Richard Prange

NSF Workshop on Materials Theory, October 8-9 at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA. Register early!

Marshall Onellion (Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Effects of dimensionality and phase transitions on electronic structure
Host: Chris Lobb

Fausto Borgonovi (Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Universitá Cattolica, Brescia, Italy)
The Bunimovich stadium in the diffusive regime: Classical and quantum properties
Host: Richard Prange

Noboru Miura (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan)
Magneto-optical study of low-dimensional excitons in semiconductors in high magnetic fields
Host: Bob Anderson

Paola Barbara (Center for Superconductivity Research, UMD)
Stimulated emission and amplification in Josephson junction arrays

Grigori Volovik (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow)
Superfluid  ³He vs quantum vacuum
Host: Ted Jacobson

Grigori Volovik (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow)
Fermions in the vortex core in superfluids and superconductors
Host: Victor Yakovenko

Michael Stone (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Spectral flow and vortex dynamics
Host: Victor Yakovenko

Victor Emery (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Local Electronic Structure and High-Tc Superconductivity
Host: Victor Yakovenko

No seminar: Thanksgiving Day.

Lev Gor'kov (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow)
Overview of Theory
Host: Jeff Lynn

Lev Gor'kov (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow)
Mechanism of  the de Haas-van Alphen oscillations in the superconducting mixed state
Host: Victor Yakovenko

Ekkehard Lange (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University)
Magneto-optical sum rules close to the density-driven Mott transition
Host: Dennis Drew

please see the Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Schedule Archive for schedules of past semesters