Condensed Matter Physics Seminar at UMD

Condensed Matter Colloquium

Fall 2011 Schedule

Refreshments are served at 1:30pm in the (new) Toll Room

Date	Speaker / Affiliation	Title / Abstract	Host
Sept. 8	David Huse, Princeton University	Many-body localization, quantum thermalization and decoherence	Fisher
Sept. 15	Branislav Nikolic, University of Delaware	Spin pumping and spin-transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions and topological insulator-based devices	Appelbaum
Sept. 22	Jeffrey Lynn, NIST Center for Neutron Research	Frustrated magnets, spin ice, and the emergence of magnetic monopoles	Paglione
Sept. 29	Jean-Philippe Reid, Université de Sherbrooke	Probing exotic ground states with thermal conductivity	Paglione/Greene
Oct. 6	Alex Gurevich, Old Dominion University	Fe-based superconductors at high magnetic fields	Anlage
Oct. 13	-- NO SEMINAR --	-- NO SEMINAR --
Oct. 20	Liang Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	From Odd-Parity Pairing to Topological Superconductivity	Paglione
Oct. 27	Kyle Shen, Cornell University	Shedding Light on Correlated Electronic Materials	Paglione
Nov. 3	Lesik Motrunich, Caltech	Metal-like phases ("Bose-metals") of frustrated spins and bosons	Yakovenko
Nov. 10	Ian Fisher, Stanford University	In-plane electronic anisotropy of underdoped iron-based superconductors	Paglione
Nov. 17	M. Zahid Hasan, Princeton University	Topological Insulators and Superconductors	Paglione
Nov. 24	-- NO SEMINAR --	-- NO SEMINAR --
Dec. 1	-- NO SEMINAR --	-- NO SEMINAR --
Dec. 8	-- NO SEMINAR --	-- NO SEMINAR --