Condensed Matter Physics Seminar at UMD

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Condensed Matter Colloquium

Spring 2011 Schedule

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

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

Date	Speaker / Affiliation	Title / Abstract	Host
Jan. 27	Markus Müller, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics	Quantum glasses: frustration and collective behavior at zero temperature	Victor Galitski
Feb. 3	Ni Ni, Princeton University	Physical properties of the Ba(Fe1-xTMx)2As2 series and related layered antiferromagnetic oxyselenides R2O3T2Se2	Johnpierre Paglione
Feb. 10	Taner Yildirim, NIST Center for Neutron Scattering	First-principles investigation of recent novel superconductors: Fe-pnictides and K-doped Picene	Johnpierre Paglione
Feb. 17	Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Electron Spin Qubits in Si/SiGe Quantum Dots	Michael Fuhrer
Feb. 24	Jun Zhu, Penn State University	Electron-defect and Electron-electron Interaction in Single and Bi-layer Graphene	Michael Fuhrer
Mar. 3	Egor Babaev, KTH Stockholm	"Type-1.5" Superconductivity	Victor Galitski
Mar. 10	Christoph Boehme, University of Utah	Electric Readout and Storage Concepts for Electron and Nuclear Spin States in Silicon	Ian Appelbaum
Mar. 17	Alan Goldman, Ames National Laboratory	Magnetism, Structure and Superconductivity in the iron pnictides: the peculiar case of CaFe₂As₂ under pressure	Johnpierre Paglione
Mar. 24	-- NO SEMINAR --	-- NO SEMINAR --
Mar. 31	-- NO SEMINAR --	-- NO SEMINAR --
Apr. 7	Nuh Gedik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Probing the Topological Insulators with Ultrashort Laser Pulses	Ian Appelbaum
Apr. 14	Benjamin Sacépé, CNRS Grenoble	Localization of Cooper-pairs in disordered superconductors	Victor Galitski
Apr. 21	Mumtaz Qazilbash, College of William and Mary	Nanoscale imaging of the electronic and structural transitions in vanadium dioxide	Rick Greene
Apr. 28	Andriy Nevidomskyy, Rice University	Fragile quantum criticality and T/B-scaling in b-YbAlB₄: a theorist's perspective	Johnpierre Paglione
May. 5	Paul Canfield, Ames National Laboratory	_{The 17-Position Knob: Tuning Interactions with Rare Earths}	Johnpierre Paglione

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 Friday, 08 July 2011