September 2 - No seminar
September 9
Speaker:
Michael Fuhrer (UMCP)
Conductance in One Dimension:
Nanotubes and Molecules
September 16 - No seminar
Meeting of Condensed Matter faculty in CSR Conference Rm., 2 P.M..
September 23
Speaker: Fred Wellstood (UMCP)
1,2,3 Superconducting Qubits
September 28 - Department Colloquium - 4PM in Rm. 1410 Physics
Speaker: Sang-Wook Cheong (Rutgers University)
Multiferroics:
Multifunctional Materials with Magnetic and Ferroelectric Order
Host: Greene
September 30 - No Seminar
October 7
Speaker: Andrey Chubukov (UMCP)
Neutron Peak in the Cuprates - The Never-Ending Story
October 14
Speaker: Philip Phillips (UIUC)
Bose Metal
Host: Lobb
October 21
Speaker:
Mike Norman (Argonne National Laboratory)
Why Can't We Solve the Problem of High
Temperature Superconductivity?
Host: Chubukov
October 26 - Tuesday, 2:45 PM - Special Condensed Matter Seminar - MRSEC Conference Room (2120 Physics)
Speaker: Subir Sachdev (Yale University)
Quantum Vortices and Competing Orders
Host: Chubukov
October 28
Speaker:
Sanjay V. Khare (Dept. of
Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Ohio)
Some examples in theory and computation
in nano-science
Host: Einstein
November 4 - No Condensed Matter Seminar. We suggest instead:
Keynote Address: Bioscience Research and Technology Review
Day
1:30-2:30 PM, Hoff Auditorium, Stamp Union
Speaker: Leon N. Cooper (Nobel Laureate, Departments of
Physics and Neuroscience, Brown University)
Theoretical
Neuroscience: Is it possible? Can it be useful?
November 11
Speaker: Tim Halpin-Healy (Columbia University)
The Dynamics of Conformity &
Dissent
Host: Einstein
November 18
Speaker: Christina Bena (UCLA)
Spin transport in one dimensional systems
Host: Das Sarma
November 25 - No Seminar: Thanksgiving Holiday
December 2
Speaker: Belita Koiller (Instituto de Fisica UFRJ,
Brazil)
Silicon-based spin and charge quantum computation
Host: Bruce Kane
December 9
Speaker:
Doug Natelson (Rice
University)
Single molecule transistors:
Transport, Kondo physics and inelastic processes
Host: Fuhrer
please see the Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Schedule Archive for schedules of past semesters