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.
Travel Directions to the Harvard Physics Department.
SPRING 2008
(Past years: Fall 2007, Spring 2007,
Fall 2006,
Spring 2006,
Fall 2005, 2004-2005,
2003-2004, 2002-2003)
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January 24
- Gergely Zarand, Budapest University
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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
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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
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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
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STM measurements of bosonic excitations in cuprates: clues to the paring mechanism
Host: Subir Sachdev
March 6
- Egor Babaev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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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
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Quantum Fluctuations in Josephson Junction Transmission Lines
Host: Subir Sachdev
April 3
April 10
- Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
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Disorder and transport in graphene
Host: Subir Sachdev
Friday April 11, 1:30 PM (Note special day and time)
- Nandini Trivedi, Ohio State University
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Bosons in optical lattices: controversies regarding momentum distribution
and entropy
Host: Subir Sachdev
April 17
- Simon Trebst, Microsoft Research
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Collective states of interacting anyons: Things golden
Host: Subir Sachdev
April 24
- Ilya Gruzberg, University of Chicago
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Critical wave functions, conformal invariance, and theories for
quantum Hall transitions.
Host: Eugene Demler
May 1
May 8
- Victor Galitski, University of Maryland
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Quantum Fluctuations in two-dimensional superconductors
Host: Subir Sachdev
May 15
- Martin Greven, Stanford University
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Recent magnetic neutron scattering results for the high-temperature superconductors
NdCeCuO and HgBaCuO
Host: Ribhu Kaul
May 8
- Wilhelm Zwerger, Technical University of Munich
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Attractive Fermi gases at infinite coupling
Host: Subir Sachdev
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