Wednesday July 2 - Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker: Olivier Pierre-Louis (Lab. Spec. Phys./CNRS, University
J. Fourier--Grenoble)
Interrupted Coarsening of Anisotropic Step Meander
Host: Einstein
September 4 - No Seminar
September 11
Speaker: Andrei Souchkov (University of Maryland)
Exchange effects in the optics of the multiferroic
manganites
Host: Drew
September 18 - Postponed to November 6, 2003
Speaker: Kwon Park (Condensed Matter Theory Center,
University of Maryland)
Pseudospin quantum computation in semiconductor
nanostructures
Host: Das Sarma
September 23 - Special Seminar (2 P.M. in 1302 Nuclear Engineering)
Speaker: Carl E. Patton (Department of Physics,
Colorado State University)
Parametric Pumping, Nonlinear Spin Waves, and Spin Wave
Instability in Permalloy Films
Host: Ramesh
September 25
Speaker: Matthew Grayson (Walter Schottky
Institute, Munich)
Corner quantum wells: Quantum Hall physics in a
two-dimensional electron system bent by 90 degrees
Host: Drew
September 25 - Special Seminar (3:30 PM, Laboratory for Physical Sciences)
Speaker: Douglas Natelson (Department of Physics
and Astronomy, Rice University)
Molecular scale conduction:
few-atom junctions and single- molecule transistors
Host: Barker
October 2
Speaker:
Victor M. Yakovenko
(University of Maryland)
The Hot Spots and Transition from
d-Wave to Another Pairing Symmetry in the Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors
Host: Drew
October 9
Speaker: Kwon Park (Condensed Matter Theory Center,
University of Maryland)
Pseudospin quantum computation in semiconductor
nanostructures
Host: Das Sarma
October 16
Speaker: Karin M. Rabe (Rutgers University)
Polarization and strain effects in oxide superlattices
from first principles
Host: Einstein
October 23 - CSCAMM Nonequilibrium Interface Dynamics Workshop (Note Special Time and Place)
Speaker: Chaouqi Misbah (University J. Fourier
Grenoble 1)
Surface
Pattern Selection of a Biaxially Stressed Solid
2:00 - 2:40 PM,
CSIC Building (#406),
Seminar Room 4122
Speaker: Vivek Shenoy (Brown University)
A
Variational Approach to the Dynamics of Stepped Nanostructure Surfaces
2:45 - 3:25 PM,
CSIC Building (#406),
Seminar Room 4122
October 30 - CSCAMM Nonequilibrium Interface Dynamics Workshop (Note Special Time and Place)
Speaker: Zhenyu Zhang (Oak Ridge National Lab)
Quantum
Engineering of Metallic Nanostructures: From Magic Layers to Quantum Dots
2:00 - 2:40 PM,
CSIC Building (#406),
Seminar Room 4122
Speaker: Peter Voorhees (Northwestern University)
The
Evolution and Self Assembly of Quantum Dots on Surfaces
2:45 - 3:25 PM,
CSIC Building (#406),
Seminar Room 4122
November 6
Speaker: Chetan Nayak (UCLA)
d-Density Wave Order in High Tc Cuprates
Host: Das Sarma
November 13
Speaker: Mike Lilly (Sandia National Laboratories)
Exploring interactions and disorder using transport in low
dimensional semiconductor systems
Host: Das Sarma
November 20
Speaker: Andrey Chubukov (University of Wisconsin)
Singular corrections to a Fermi
liquid: 1D physics in D>1
Host: Yakovenko
November 27 - No Seminar (Thanksgiving Holiday)
December 4
Speaker: Jun Zhu (Cornell University)
TBA
Host: Das Sarma
December 11
Speaker: Sergey Kravchenko (Northeastern
University)
Metal-insulator transition in
2D: history and new developments
Host: Yakovenko
December 12 - Special Seminar - 10:30 AM, Rm. 2202 Physics
Speaker: Maxim Vavilov (MIT)
Theory of the Oscillatory
Photoconductivity of 2D Electron Gas
Host: Das Sarma
please see the Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Schedule Archive for schedules of past semesters