Monday, January 22 - Special Condensed Matter Seminar (4 PM in Rm. 1201 Physics)

Johnpierre Paglione (University of California at San Diego)
CeCoIn5: a "quasi-breakdown" of the quasi-particle paradigm at a quantum critical point
Host: Yakovenko

January 25

Xuan Gao (Harvard)
The Sensitivity Limits of Nanowire Bio-Sensors
Host: Williams,Wuttig

Monday, January 29 - Special Condensed Matter Seminar (4 PM in Rm. 1201 Physics)

Huiqiu Yuan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Novel Superconducting Pairing States in Heavy Fermion Systems and Non-centrosymmetric Materials
Host: Yakovenko

February 1

Feng Wang (University of California at Berkeley)
Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconducting and Metallic Nanostructures
Host: Fuhrer

Monday, February 5 - Special Condensed Matter Seminar (4 PM in Rm. 1201 Physics)

Seongshik Oh (NIST Boulder)
Precision Material Engineering at Nanoscale: Elimination of Decoherence Sources in Superconducting Quantum Bits
Host: Anlage

February 8

Emil Yuzbashyan (Rutgers)
Dynamical vanishing and persistent oscillations of the order parameter in fermionic condensates
Host: Galitski

Monday, February 12 - Special Condensed Matter Seminar (4 PM in Rm. 1201 Physics)

Nuh Gedik (CalTech)
Ultrafast structural dynamics observed with atomic scale resolution
Host: Greene

February 15

Doug Strachan (University of Pennsylvania)
Controlled Fabrication and Imaging of Nano-Scale Devices
Host: Anlage

Monday, February 19 - Special Condensed Matter Seminar (4 PM in Rm. 1201 Physics)

Minhyea Lee (Princeton)
Probing the Berry Phase via Electrical Transport: Intrinsic Anomalous Hall Effect in MnSi
Host: Lobb

February 22

Cyrus Hirjibehedin (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Magnetic Nanostructures Probed on the Atomic Scale
Host: Williams

Monday, February 26 - Special Condensed Matter Seminar (4 PM in Rm. 1201 Physics)

Robert Kaindl (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Ultrafast THz Spectroscopy: From Excitons to Cooper Pairs
Host: Lobb

March 1

Etienne De Poortere (Columbia University)
Novel Nanofabrication Techniques for Molecular Electronics
Host: Fuhrer

March 8 - No Seminar (APS March Meeting)

March 15

Barbaros Özyilmaz (Columbia University)
Coherent charge and spin transport phenomena in graphene
Host: Fuhrer

March 22 - No Seminar (Spring Break)

March 29 - No seminar

April 5

April 12

        Andrei Sushkov (University of Maryland)
        Electromagnons in Multiferroics
        Host: Drew

April 19

        Jeff Lynn (NIST Center for Neutron Research)
        Magnetic Order and Spin Fluctuations in the Cuprate Superconductors
        Host: Greene

April 26

Tudor Stanescu (University of Maryland)
Pseudogaps and Fermi arcs:A cluster dynamical mean field theory description of Mottness
Host: Galitski

May 3 - Joint JQI/Condensed Matter Seminar

Kevin Osborn (Laboratory for Physical Sciences)
Two-Level Systems in Superconducting Circuit Resonators
Host: Lobb

May 10

Eva Andrei {Rutgers University)
Graphite, Graphene and Relativistic Electrons
Host: Yakovenko

please see the Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Schedule Archive for schedules of past semesters