Special Condensed Matter Seminar
10:30 a.m. Tuesday, August 9,  Rm. 1201 Physics

John Saunders (University of London)
Quantum Phase Transitions in Two Dimensional ³He
Host: Yakovenko

September 1

        Meeting of Condensed Matter Faculty to discuss seminar speakers for 2005-2006

September 8

        Namas Chandra (Florida State University)
        Role of nanoscale interfaces on the physical and mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes
        Host: Vanderlinde/Williams/Fuhrer

September 15 - No Seminar This Week

September 22

        Kevin Eng (Laboratory for Physical Sciences and Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland)
        Building the Perfect 2D Electron System in Silicon
        Host: Kane

September 29

        Gregory A. Fiete (KITP, UC Santa Barbara)
        Spin incoherent effects in momentum resolved tunneling and transport in Luttinger liquids
        Host: Yakovenko

October 6 - No Seminar This Week

October 13

        John Cumings (University of Maryland)
        Seeing Nanosystems
        Host: Fuhrer

October 20

        Wayne Witzel (University of Maryland)
        Quantum theory of decoherence in solid state spin quantum computers
        Host: Das Sarma

October 27

November 3

        Andrew Millis (Columbia University)
        Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors
        Host: Greene

November 10

        Igor Mazin (Naval Research Laboratory)
        Comparative analysis of the pairing symmetries in Sr₂RuO₄ and Na_xCoO₂
        Host: Yakovenko

Special Condensed Matter Seminar: November 14
3 p.m., MRSEC Conference Room, 2202 Physics Building

        Luis E. Hueso (University of Cambridge, UK)
        Half-Metallic Manganites, Magnetic Domain Walls, and Carbon Nanotubes
        Host: Das Sarma, Calderon

November 17

        Ulrike Diebold (Tulane University - at Rutgers University this semester)
        Surface Investigations of Pure and Doped Transition Metal Oxides
        Host: Einstein

November 24 - No Seminar (Thanksgiving)

December 1

        Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (Harvard University)
        Shaking ferromagnets with electric fields: instabilities, dissipation, and noise
        Host: Yakovenko

December 8

        Victor Galitski (University of Virginia)
        Vortex Dynamics and Fluctuations in Superconducting Films
        Host: Yakovenko

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