CNAM Condensed Matter Colloquium


Department of Physics, University of Maryland 
College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, USA

Spring 2010 Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, talks are:
Thursdays,  from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. 
Room 1201, Physics Building

(Refreshment is serviced at 1:30pm in the Toll Room)

Underlined titles of the talks link to abstracts
Underlined names of the speakers link to their personal Web pages

Date
Speaker / Affiliation
Title / Abstract
Host
Jan. 28

Michael Levin, Harvard University
Topological Insulators and Fractionalization
  Sankar Das Sarma 
Feb.  4

Kirill Shtengel, University of California, Riverside
Non-Abelian Anyons, Quasiparticle Interferometry and Topological Quantum Computation
 
Feb.  8 (*)

Srinivas Raghu, Stanford University
Nematic order in Sr3Ru2O7
 Victor Yakovenko
Feb. 11

TBA

TBA
 
Feb. 18

James Hone, Columbia University

Nanomechanics of nano-carbon
  
Feb. 25

W. Vincent Liu, University of Pittsburgh
TBA
 
Mar.  4

Roman Lutchyn, University of Maryland
TBA
 
Mar. 11      
Mar. 18

 -- NO SEMINAR --

    
Mar. 25

Nicholas Butch, University of Maryland

Where are the surface states? An experimental perspective on 3D topological insulators

Johnpierre Paglione 
Apr.  1

 

    
Apr.  8      
Apr. 15      
Apr. 22      
Apr. 29

Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
TBA
 Victor Galitski
May.  6      
May  13

Dan Prober, Yale Uinversity
TBA
 Chris Lobb 
       
       
       

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

For more information on Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, please contact Victor Galitski or Johnpierre Paglione , the seminar schedule coordinator.
Last updated Satruday, 23 January 2010