CNAM Condensed Matter Colloquium

http://www.physics.umd.edu/condmat/seminar/
Department of Physics, University of Maryland 
College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, USA

Spring 2008 Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, talks are:
Thursdays,  from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. 
Room 1201, Physics Building

(Refreshment is serviced at 1:30pm in the Toll Room)

Underlined titles of the talks link to abstracts
Underlined names of the speakers link to their personal Web pages


Date
Speaker / Affiliation
Title / Abstract
Host
January 31

Professor Ludwig Bartels

UC, Riverside

Direct Observation of Dynamics at the Single- Molecule Scale
Williams
February 7

Professor Ian Appelbaum

University of Delaware

Silicon Spintronics
Fuhrer
February 14

Dr. Lam Yu

CSTL, NIST

TElectron- Phonon and Electron- Electron Interactions in Molecular Junctions
Ouyang
February 21
No Seminar
   
February 28

Dr. Alexander V. Balatsky

LANL

Dirac Materials -28
Yakovenko
March 6

Professor Zlatko Tesanovic

John Hopkins University

Duality and Reality in Superconductors
Galitski
March 13
No Seminar (March Meeting)
   
March 20
No Seminar (Spring Break)
   
March 27

Dr. Nikolai Zhitenev

NIST

Molecular and Polymer Nanodevices
Ouyang
April 3

Prof. Anatoli Polkovnikov

Boston Universityr

Quantum Dynamics in Low Dimensional Isolated Systems
Galitski
April 10

Dr. Alexander Efros

NRLr

Mode Locking of Electron Spin Coherence in Singly Charged Quantum Dots
Ouyang
April 17

Professor Boris Shklovskii

University of Minnesota

Metal- Insulator Transition in Solid State Nanopores and Biological Ion Channels
Galitski
April 24

Professor Qian Niu

University of Texas, Austin

Geometric Phase Effects on Electron Properties
Galitski
May 1

Professor Vidya Madhavan

Boston College

STM Measurements of Bosonic Excitations in Cuprates: Clues to the Paring Mechanism
Williams/Ouyang
May 8

Professor Zohar Nussinov

Washington University in St. Louis

Generalized Symmetries and Topological Orders

Das Sarma
May 12,4pm (Monday, Special Colloquium)

Professor John clarke

UC, Berkeley

1/f Flux Noise in Qubits and SQUIDs: The Saga Continues

Anlage


 

Coming CNAM Condensed Matter Colloquium: Fall 2008

 

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


For more information on Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, please contact Min Ouyang or Victor Galitski the seminar schedule coordinator.
Last updated Tuesday, 04 March 2008