Harvard Condensed Matter Theory Seminars
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.
SPRING 2006
(Past years: Fall 2005, 2004-2005, 2003-2004, 2002-2003)
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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
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May 25
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June 1
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