Condensed Matter Physics Seminar at UMD

Date	Speaker / Affiliation	Title / Abstract	Host
Sept. 5	Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland	Spiral twisting of the anapole moments of loop currents as a possible origin of gyrotropy in cuprates	[local]
Sept. 12	Ian Appelbaum, University of Maryland	Anisotropy-driven spin relaxation in germanium	[local]
Sept. 19	Ian Spielman, NIST and University of Maryland	Engineering gauge fields: concept to reality	Paglione
Sept. 26	Jing Xia, UC Irvine	Surface Transport in Topological Kondo insulator SmB₆	Galitski
Oct. 3	Ian Appelbaum, University of Maryland	Harmonic Detection of the "Majorana Fermion"	[local]
Oct. 10	Roald Sagdeev	Anomalous effects at transition layer to negative refraction index in metamaterials	[local]
Oct. 17	<cancelled>	<cancelled>	---
Oct. 24	Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers University	Iron Pnictides and Chalcogenides: doped Mott insulators, itinerant magnets or Hunds metals?	Greene
Oct. 31	Lu Li, University of Michigan	Quantum oscillations in Kondo insulator SmB₆	Galitski
Nov. 7	David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University	Introduction to the theory of topological insulators	Kechedzhi
Nov. 14	Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland	Toward true topological insulator materials	[local]
Nov. 21	Louis Taillefer, Université de Sherbrooke	The two mysteries of superconductivity	Paglione
Nov. 28	-- NO SEMINAR --	-- NO SEMINAR --
Dec. 5
Dec. 12	<cancelled>	<cancelled>	Barnes

Fall 2013 Schedule