Harvard Condensed Matter Theory Seminars

Unless noted otherwise, seminars below are held at 1 PM on Thursdays in Lyman 425.
Please contact Heidi Schafer or Julie Schafer (or the host) for more information, or if you would like to meet a speaker.
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SPRING 2008

(Past years: Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, 2004-2005, 2003-2004, 2002-2003)

January 24
Gergely Zarand, Budapest University
Geometric phases in semiconductor spin qubits: Manipulations and decoherence

Host: Eugene Demler


January 31
Matthieu Wyart, Harvard University
Glass transition and emergence of rigidity in super-cooled liquids

Host: David Nelson


Friday February 1, 2 PM ( Note special date and time)
Wang Kong Tse, University of Maryland
Many-body effects on the electronic properties of graphene

Host: Eugene Demler


February 7
Carl Modes, University of Pennsylvania
Hard Discs on the Hyperbolic Plane

Host: David Nelson


February 14
Stefanos Papanikolaou, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mott transition and universality at finite temperatures

Host: Subir Sachdev


Tuesday, February 19 ( Note special day )
Mark Rudner, MIT
Resonant Cooling of Nuclear Spins in Quantum Dots

Host: Bertrand Halperin


February 28
Vidya Madhavan, Boston College
STM measurements of bosonic excitations in cuprates: clues to the paring mechanism

Host: Subir Sachdev


March 6
Egor Babaev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Counterflow condensates: from projected metallic hydrogen to Bose-Einstein and excitonic condensates

Host: Subir Sachdev


March 13
APS March Meeting

March 20
Stephanie Palmer, Princeton University
Prediction in the brain: examining collective firing patterns of retinal neuron

Host: David Nelson


March 27
David Haviland, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Quantum Fluctuations in Josephson Junction Transmission Lines

Host: Subir Sachdev


April 3

April 10
Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
Disorder and transport in graphene

Host: Subir Sachdev


Friday April 11, 1:30 PM (Note special day and time)
Nandini Trivedi, Ohio State University
Bosons in optical lattices: controversies regarding momentum distribution and entropy

Host: Subir Sachdev


April 17
Simon Trebst, Microsoft Research
Collective states of interacting anyons: Things golden

Host: Subir Sachdev


April 24
Ilya Gruzberg, University of Chicago
Critical wave functions, conformal invariance, and theories for quantum Hall transitions.

Host: Eugene Demler


May 1

May 8
Victor Galitski, University of Maryland
Quantum Fluctuations in two-dimensional superconductors

Host: Subir Sachdev


May 15
Martin Greven, Stanford University
Recent magnetic neutron scattering results for the high-temperature superconductors NdCeCuO and HgBaCuO

Host: Ribhu Kaul


May 8
Wilhelm Zwerger, Technical University of Munich
Attractive Fermi gases at infinite coupling

Host: Subir Sachdev


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