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Condensed Matter Colloquium

 

Spring 2012 Schedule

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

Refreshments are served at 1:30pm in the (new) Toll Room

 


Date
Speaker / Affiliation
Title / Abstract
Host
Jan. 26

Sergio Valenzuela, ICREA

Spin currents and spin dynamics in metallic nanostructures

Appelbaum

Feb.  2

Gabi Kotliar, Rutgers University

Sleuthing Hidden Order in Correlated Materials: A Case Study on URu2Si2

Paglione

Feb.  9

Doron Bergman, California Institute of Technology

The topological insulator in a Fermi sea - sink or swim?

Galitski

Feb.  16

Xiaoshan Xu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Novel functional oxides and interfaces to the organics

Ouyang

Feb.  23

Matthew Doty, University of Delaware

Quantum Dot Molecules: Designing, building and understanding nanostructured semiconductors for optoelectronic applications

Ouyang

Mar. 1  -- NO SEMINAR --  -- NO SEMINAR --

 

Mar. 8  -- NO SEMINAR --  -- NO SEMINAR --

 

Mar. 15

Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado, Boulder

From the topological invariants to the edge states of topological insulators

Galitski

Mar. 22  -- NO SEMINAR --  -- NO SEMINAR --  
Mar. 29

Ruslan Prozorov, Ames National Laboratory

Fe-based Superconductors: Nodes or No Nodes?

Paglione

Apr. 5

Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin Madison

Superconductivity from Repulsive Interactions

Greene

Apr. 12

Igor Zutic, SUNY Buffalo

Magnetic Polarons and Bipolarons in Quantum Dots

Appelbaum

Apr. 19

Yuval Oreg, Weizmann Institute of Science

Majoranas in Wire Networks

Galitski
Apr. 26

Jennifer Hoffman, Harvard University

Imaging the Impact of Single Dopants on High-Tc Superconductors

Paglione

May 3

Brian LeRoy, University of Arizona

Imaging Local Electronic Properties of Graphene

Fuhrer

May 10

Venky Venkatesan, National University of Singapore

Unusual Transport and Magnetism in Oxides and Oxide Interfaces

Greene

       

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


For more information on Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, please contact Victor Galitski or Johnpierre Paglione , the seminar schedule coordinator.
Last updated Tuesday, 07 August 2012