Special Joint Condensed Matter/Materials Chemistry
Seminar
11 a.m. Tuesday, January 18 Rm. 1201 Physics
Harold Baranger (Duke University)
Transport Through Single Molecules: Resonant Transmission, Rectification, Spin Filtering, and Tunneling Magnetoresistance
Hosts: Fuhrer, Sita
January 27
Tobias Baumgart (Cornell)
Of polka dots and dumbbells: phase behavior and bending of biomembranes
Host: Williams
February 3
Arpita Upadhyaya (MIT)
Actin pushy and pulling springs: Two forms of biological motion
Host: Williams
February 10
Gianluigi Catelani (Columbia University)
Interaction corrections to transport in disordered metals: quantum kinetic equation and the Wiedemann-Franz law
Host: Chubukov
February 17
Wei Pan (Sandia National Laboratories)
What’s new in quantum Hall effect?
Host: Das Sarma
February 24
Speaker Bob Joynt (University of Wisconsin)
Quantum Pattern Recognition
Host: Chubukov
March 3 - No Seminar
March 10
Daniel S. Fisher (Harvard University)
Dynamics of Jamming: Glasses, Granular Media, and Simple Models
Host: Michael Fisher
March 17
Stellan Östlund (Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden)
Non-fermi liquid behavior of the spin 3/2 Hubbard model near half filling
Host: Einstein
March 24 - No Seminar (Spring Break)
March 31 - No Seminar
April 7 - No Seminar
April 14 - No Seminar
April 21 - Joint Condensed Matter/Institute for Systems Research Seminar
G. George Batrouni (University of
Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
Dynamic
response of trapped ultracold bosons on optical lattices
Host: Eyad H. Abed (ISR) and S.
Das Sarma (Physics/CMTC)
April 28
Masa Ishigami (University of
Maryland)
Electronic
properties of sp2-bonded nanoscale materials
Host: Fuhrer/Williams
May 5
Francisco Guinea (Institute of
Materials Science (CSIC) Madrid, Spain)
Suppression
of quantum effects by metallic environments
Host: Das Sarma
May 12
Krishnendu Sengupta (University of
Toronto)
Superfluid-Insulator
transition of two species ultracold bosons in an optical lattice
Host: Yakovenko
Friday, May 13 - Special Condensed Matter Seminar
10:30 a.m., Rm. 1201 Physics
Harald Ibach (Research Center,
Juelich, Germany)
Spin dependent electron energy loss spectroscopy and its
application to spin waves and Stoner excitations in ultra-thin films
Host: Einstein