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CMTC Talks

Fall 2007

September 27-28   CMTC Symposium

Fall 2006

November 8   CMTC Symposium

Spring 2006

February 20   Zaira Nazario (Stanford University)
Possible New Physics at Quantum Critical Points: Nontrivial Topology in 2D Antiferromagnets
February 23  

Chuanwei Zhang (University of Maryland)
Quantum Chaos in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Fall 2005

August 9   John Saunders (University of London)
Quantum Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional 3He
September 23   Sankar Das Sarma (University of Maryland)
Quantum in the Real World and the Quantum Reality
September 29   
Gregory A. Feite (KITP, UCSB)
Spin incoherent effects in momentum resolved tunneling and transport in Luttinger liquids
October 20  

Wayne Witzel (University of Maryland)
Quantum theory of decoherence in solid state spin quantum computers

November 10  

Igor Mazin (Naval Research Laboratory)
Comparative analysis of the pairing symmetries in Sr2RuO4 and NaxCoO2

November 14   Luis E. Hueso (University of Cambridge, UK)
Half-Metallic Manganites, Magnetic Domain Walls, and Carbon Nanotubes
December 1   Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (Harvard University)
Shaking ferromagnets with electric fields: instabilities, dissipation, and noise
December 8  

Victor Galitski (University of Virginia)
Vortex Dynamics and Fluctuations in Superconducting Films


Spring 2005

February 17    Wei Pan (Sandia National Laboratories)
What's new in quantum Hall effect?
 
February 24

Bob Joynt (University of Wisconsin)
Quantum Pattern Recognition

 
March 10 Daniel S. Fisher (Harvard University)
Dynamics of Jamming: Glasses, Granular Media, and Simple Models
   
April 21

G. George Batrouni (University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
Dynamic response of trapped ultracold bosons on optical lattices

   
May 5 Francisco Guinea (Institute of Materials Science- CSIC- Madrid, Spain)
Suppression of quantum effects by metallic environments
   
May 12 Krishnendu Sengupta (University of Toronto)
Superfluid-Insulator transition of two species ultracold bosons in an optical lattice

 

Fall 2004

October 26    Subi Sachdev (Yale University)
Quantum Vortices and Competing Order
 
November 18 Cristina Bena (UCLA)
Spin transport in one dimensional systems
 
November 29 C. Morais Smith (University of Ultrecht, the Netherlands)
Pattern formation in quantum Hall systems
   
December 2 Belita Koiller (Instituto de Fisica - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil)
Silicon based spin and charge quantum computation

 

Spring 2004

February 5    Ying Zhang (UMCP)
Interaction-driven effective mass divergence in electron liquids
 
February 9 Jelena Stajic (University of Chicago)
From Ultracold superfluids to high temperature semiconductors
 
February 10 Xingxiang Zhou (University of Rochester)
Quantum computation by dispersive dynamics
   
March 3 Gonzalo Alvarez (Florida State University)
Relevance of Clustered States in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors and Other Materials
   
March 4 Speaker: Amir Yacoby (Weizmann Institute, on sabbatical at Harvard University)
Spin–Charge Separation and Localization in One Dimension Measured Using Momentum Resolved Tunneling
   
March 11 Alexander Balatsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Noise Spectroscopy of a single spin
   
March 15 Ashot Melikyan (Johns Hopkins University)
Nodal quasiparticles in vortex lattice
   
March 18 Luis Brey (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC)
Theory of Ferromagnetism in Double Perosvkites
   
April 5 Simon Kos (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Spin transport in semiconductors
July 19 Alexander Khaetskii (LMV, Munich, Germany)
Spin Relaxation in Semiconductor Nanostructures

 

Fall 2003

October 9    Kwon Park (Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Minnesota)
Pseudospin quantum computation in semiconductor nanostructures
 
November 6 Chetan Nayak (UCLA)
d-Density Wave Order in High T_c Cuprates
 
November 13 Mike Lilly (Sandia National Laboratories)
Exploring interactions and disorder using transport in low dimensional semiconductor systems
 
November 20 Andrey Chubukov (University of Wisconsin)
Singular corrections to a Fermi liquid: 1D physics in D>1
 
December 4 Jun Zhu (Cornell University)
Recent Experimental Determination of Quasiparticle Transport Parameters in a 2D Electron System
 
December 11 Sergey Kravchenko (Northeastern University)
Metal-insulator transition in 2D: history and new developments
   
December 12 Maxim Vavilov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Theory of the Oscillatory Photoconductivity of 2D Electron Gas

Spring 2003

January 17    Alexander Dobin (University of Minnesota)
Intrinsic Non-linear Ferromagnetic Relaxation in Thin Films
 
January 20 Anatoli Polkovnikov (Yale University)
Dynamics of Interacting Bosons in an Optical Lattice
 
January 22 Gil Refael (Harvard University)
Superconductivity and Dissipation in Josephson Junctions, Grains, and Nanowires
 
January 24 Martin Veillette (UCSB)
Multicomponent Exciton Bose-Einstein Condensate in Bilayer Systems
 
April 3 Ramesh Mani (Harvard University)
Novel radiation induced zero-resistance states in the GaAs/AlGaAs 2-dimensional electron system
 
May 1 Steven M. Girvin (Yale University)
Prospects for Strong Cavity QED in Superconducting Electrical Circuits
 

 

 

 

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