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Spring 2002

January 31	Oleg Tchernyshyov (Princeton University) The world's most frustrated magnet
February 26	Kedar Damle (Harvard University) The curious world of quantum spin chains: Quantum fluctuations, Interactions, and Disorder in `Lineland'
February 26	Shuheng Pan (University of Houston) Microscopic Inhomogeneity of the d-Wave Superconducting State in BiSrCaCuO: A Low Temperature STM Study.
March 12	Michael Fogler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) From micro-stripes to nano-tubes.
April 16	Gergely Zarand (Harvard University) Frustration effects in magnetic semiconductors
April 30	Greg Boebinger (Los Alamos National Laboratory) The abnormal state of the high Tc superconductors...or undressing electrons with a million gauss
May 2	John Quinn (University of Tennessee) Composite Fermion Picture of Fractional Quantum Hall Systems: When it Works and Why
May 7	Hendrik Schon (Lucent Technologies) Field-Effect Doping of Organic and Inorganic Materials
May 21	Bob Joynt (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Quantum Computing Using SiGe Hardware

Fall 2002

September 5	Eugene Demler (Harvard University) Competing Orders in the Cuprate Superconditions
September 12	Chandra Varma (Lucent Technologies) Detection and Implications of a Time-reversal-breaking State in the Cuprates
September 13	Kwon Park (University of Maryland) Bond-Operator Theory of Cuprate Superconductors
September 13	Donald Priour (University of Maryland) Core Strings and Flux Spreading: Surprises in Vortex Pinning
September 20	Vito Scarola (University of Maryland) Pairing of Composite Fermoins
September 20	Chandan Dasgupta (University of Maryland) Equilibruim Properties of Vortex Matter in the Presence of Pinning
September 27	Victor Galitski (University of Maryland) Competition Between Disorder and Quantum Fluctuations in Superconducting Films
September 27	Ying Zhang (University of Maryland) Spin and Charge Density Waves of Cuprate Superconduction in a Magnetic Field
October 8	Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck) Quantum Computing and Communications with Quantum Optics
October 11	Sankar Das Sarma (University of Maryland) Theories of Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
October 17	James Williams (NIST - Gaithersburg) Spin Waves in a Dillute Spin - 1/2 Bose Gas
October 18	Alexei Kaminski (University of Maryland) Percolation Theory of Magnetism and Magneto-Transport in Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
October 25	Euyheon Hwang (University of Maryland) Static and Dynamic Mean Field Theories of Magnetism, Transport, and Optical Properties in GaMnAs
November 14	Charles Marcus (Harvard University) Taking Quantum Dots for a Spin
November 22	Magdalena Constantin (University of Maryland) Persistence in Surface Fluctuations