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)

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
Random Zeeman interactions and Anderson Localization

Host: Arthur Jaffe


October 11
Mahito Kohmoto , 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
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
Ultracold fermionic atoms in one dimension

Host: Subir Sachdev


December 13
Alexey Bezryadin
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
Spin solids from lattice interactions; spin-liquids from orbital fluctuations

Host: Subir Sachdev


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