Harvard Condensed Matter Theory Seminars
Unless noted otherwise, seminars below are held at noon on Thursdays in Lyman 425.
Please contact the host for more information, or if you would like to meet a speaker.
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FALL 2007
(Past years: Fall 2007, Spring 2007,
Fall 2006,
Spring 2006,
Fall 2005, 2004-2005,
2003-2004, 2002-2003)
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September 20
- Gregory Grason, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- A New "Twist" in Biopolymer Condensation: The Role of Chirality in Wigner Crystallization
Host: David Nelson
September 27, 2 PM, Jefferson 453 (NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE)
- Ganpathy Murthy, University of Kentucky and Harvard
- Disorder, Interactions, and Crossovers in Quantum Dots
Host: Subir Sachdev
October 4
- Juerg Froehlich, ETH, Zurich
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Random Zeeman interactions and Anderson Localization
Host:
Arthur Jaffe
October 11
- Mahito Kohmoto
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Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
- Gauge fields, quantized fluxes, and monopole confinement of the honeycomb lattice
Host: Bertrand Halperin
October 15 , 1:30 PM, Jefferson 453 (NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE)
- Shoucheng Zhang , Stanford University
- Quantum spin Hall effect
Host: Eugene Demler
October 18
- Leonid Levitov
- Chiral electron transport in graphene p-n junctions
Host: Subir Sachdev
October 25, Pierce 209 (NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION)
- Immanuel Bloch
- Exploring quantum matter in artificial crystals of light
Host: Eugene Demler
November 1
- Ari Turner, Harvard
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How to Catch a Vortex
Host: David Nelson
November 8
- T. Senthil
- Scaling hypotheses for non-Fermi liquid quantum criticality
Host: Subir Sachdev
November 15
- Yusuke Nishida, University of Washington
- Fermions at unitarity as a nonrelativistic conformal field theory
Host: Subir Sachdev
November 22
- THANKSGIVING -- NO SEMINAR
November 29
- Enge Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- What controls the evolution of surface-based nanostructures? Insights from computer simulation
Host: Efthimios Kaxiras
December 6
- Wilhelm Zwerger, Technical University of Munich
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Ultracold fermionic atoms in one dimension
Host: Subir Sachdev
December 13
- Alexey Bezryadin
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Understanding dichotomy in thin superconducting nanowires
Host: Eugene Demler
Tuesday December 18, 1 PM, Pierce 209 (NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND DATE)
- Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California, Berkeley
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Spin solids from lattice interactions; spin-liquids
from orbital fluctuations
Host: Subir Sachdev
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