Harvard Condensed Matter Theory Kid's Seminars

See also, the Condensed Matter Theory Seminar web page.

Unless noted otherwise, seminars are held at 12:00 on Tuesdays in Lyman 425.

Travel Directions to the Harvard Physics Department.

SPRING 2007

January 30

Rudro Rana Biswas , Harvard University

Taylor Diffusion in the presence of Absorbing Boundaries -- Revisited in the 21st Century

February 13

Ivan Gonzalez, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Density-matrix renormalization group: an overview

February 20

Jacob Krich, Harvard University

Cubic Dresselhaus Spin Orbit Coupling in Chaotic Quantum Dots

February 27

Michael Hermele, MIT

Spin liquids near the Mott transition

March 13

Michael Levin, Harvard University

Real space renormalization group and the emergence of topological order

March 20

Marcos Rigol, USC / UMass Boston

Statistical mechanics of an integrable system after relaxation

March 27 - No seminar this week (Spring Recess)

April 03

Alex Wissner-Gross, Harvard University

Superhydrophilic stabilization of ice multilayers above room temperature

April 10

Adrian Del Maestro, Harvard University

Thermoelectric transport in the vicinity of a superconductor-metal quantum phase transition in nanowires

April 17

Chandra Varma, UC Riverside

Deriving Marginal Fermi-liquid: Solution of a dissipative quantum xy model

April 24

Ying Ran, MIT

Spin liquid on the Kagome lattice

May 01

Markus Mueller, Harvard University

Quantum electron glasses and electron assisted hopping

May 08

Bob Cherng, Harvard University

Superfluidity and magnetism in multicomponent ultracold fermions