Harvard Condensed Matter Theory Seminars

See also, the Kid's Seminar web page.

Unless noted otherwise, seminars 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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SPRING 2006

(Past years: Fall 2005, 2004-2005, 2003-2004, 2002-2003)

Tuesday January 31, 11:30 AM (Note special day and time)
Sung-Sik Lee , MIT
Fractionalization in a strongly correlated exciton system
Abstract

Host: Subir Sachdev


Tuesday February 7, 11:30 AM (Note special day and time)
Henry Fu , University of California, Berkeley
Incompressible quantum liquids and new conservation laws

Host: Subir Sachdev


Wednesday February 15, 3:00 PM (Note special day and time)
Ribhu Kaul , Duke University
From the Mesoscopic Kondo Impurity Problem to the Kondo Lattice
Abstract

Host: Bertrand Halperin


February 16
Dam Thanh Son , University of Washington
Vanishing bulk viscosities and conformal invariance of the unitary Fermi gas
Abstract

Host: Subir Sachdev


February 23
Srinivas Raghu , Princeton University
Direct analogs of quantum Hall effect edge states in photonic systems

Host: Subir Sachdev


Wednesday March 1, 3:00 PM (Note special day and time)
Nayana Shah , University of Cologne
Non-Equilibrium and Non-Fermi-liquid Kondo Physics in Quantum Dots
Abstract

Host: Subir Sachdev


March 2
Nikolay Prokofiev , University of Massachusetts
Superfluid disorder in quantum solids
Abstract

Host: Subir Sachdev


March 9
Vladimir Gritsev , Harvard University
One-dimensional interacting spin systems: exact solutions and field-theoretical methods

Host: Eugene Demler


March 16
MARCH MEETING

March 23
Otger Campas , Institut Curie, Paris
Cooperative extraction of membrane tubes by molecular motors
Abstract

Host: David Nelson


March 30
SPRING BREAK

April 6
Matthew Wyart , Harvard University
Soft Motions and Rigidity of Amorphous Solids
Abstract

Host: David Nelson


April 13
Andrew Rappe , University of Pennsylvania
Molecular Structure, Vibrational Frequencies, and Anharmonicities in Electronic Quantum Monte Carlo

Host: Tim Kaxiras


April 20
Antonio Castro Neto , Boston University
The Amazing Properties of Two-Dimensional Carbon
Abstract

Host: Tim Kaxiras


April 27
Andrei Lebed , University of Arizona
Type-IV Superconductivity and Dimensional Crossovers in a Magnetic Field
Abstract

Host: Eugene Demler


May 4
Arun Paramekanti , University of Toronto
Rotons and vortices near a superfluid-supersolid transition
Abstract

Host: Subir Sachdev


May 11
Jan von Delft, University of Munich
Decoherence in Disordered Conductors by Interactions and Magnetic Impurities.
Abstract

Host: Eugene Demler


May 18

May 25

June 1

 

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