CME Seminar Archive

Autumn 2014
*Monday, September 22 - PLEASE NOTE: CME Seminar - Different day of week.

"Generation of Pure Spin Currents usung Magnetic Insulators"
Mingzhong Wu
Colorado State University

Thursday, October 9

"Spin Current: The Torque Wrench of Spintronics"
Mark D. Stiles
National Institute of Standards and Technology

**Wednesday, October 22 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - 9:30am**

Ron Jansen
 

Spring 2015
Thursday, January 15

"Unusual properties of the fermion-phase model"
Maciej Maska
University of Silesia (Poland)

Thursday, January 22

"Modulated Superconductivity"
Vesna Mitrovic
Brown University

Thursday, Febuary 5

"Implications of Interfacial Magnetization for Oxide Spintronics"
Yaohua Liu
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Thursday, Febuary 26

"Emergence of nanoscale inhomogeneity and the pseudogap state in a homogeneously disordered s-wave superconductor"
Pratap Raychaudhuri
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Thursday, March 26 - CANCELLED

"Optically-Induced Persistent Magnetization in Strontium Titanate"
Scott A. Crooker
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Thursday, April 9

"Exploring Individual Charged Impurities in 2D Graphene/BN Heterostructures"
Dillon Wong
University of California - Berkeley

Thursday, April 16

Ivar Martin
Argonne National Laboratory

Autumn 2015  

Thursday, October 22 

"Quantum Oscillations in Kondo Insulator SmB6"
Lu Li
University of Michigan

Thursday, December 10 

"Promises and Challenges of Organic Spintronics"
Christoph Boehme
University of Utah

Friday, December 11 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - 2:00pm, Smith Seminar Room, 1080 PRB 

"Disorder-Induced Quantum Phase Transitions in NbSi Thin Films"
Vincent Humbert
Universite de Paris - Sud, Orsay, France

Spring 2016

Thursday, January 28
"Semiconductor Nanowire Heterostructures with Strong Quantum or Spin-Orbit Effects"
Leigh Smith
University of Cincinnati

Thursday, March 10
 "Stimulated Emission and Lasing Properties from CE Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals"
Handong Sun
Nanyang Technological University

Thursday, April 14
"Magnetism in Complex Iridates"
Shixiong Zhanghttp
Indiana University

Thursday, April 21
"Non-adiabatic transport in Single-Electron transistors in the Kondo regime"
Andrei Kogan
University of Cincinnati

Autumn 2016

Thursday, August 25        
"Understanding Charge transport mechanisms in Organic Materials"
Zhingang Shuai
Tsinghua University, China
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Thursday, September 22        
"Center for Emergent Materials Alumni Career Series: A Career in Science Policy"
Greg Mack, Government Relations Specialist
American Physical Society
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Thursday, October 6        
"Center for Emergent Materials Alumni Career Series: A Career in National Labs"
Andrew Berger, National Research Council Research Associate
National Institute for Standards and Technology
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Thursday, Orctober 13 (11:45am-12:45pm)
"Tuning Gauge Disorder at the Superconductor to Insulator Transition"
James Valles
Brown University
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Thursday, October 20
"Tunneling Spectroscopy of a Dilute Oxide Superconductor"
Adrian Swartz
Hwang Lab/Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Stanford University
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Thursday, October 27
"Exciton Spin Dynamics in Hybrid Organic-inorganic Perovskites"
Sarah (Yan) Li
University of Utah
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Thursday, November 10
"Opto-electronic and CVD growth studies of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides"
Eric Stinaff
Ohio University
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Thursday, November 17        
"Center for Emergent Materials Alumni Career Series: A Career in Industry"
Sergei Manuilov, Senior Research Engineer
3M Corporate Research Laboratory
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Thursday, December 8
"Ultrafast dynamics in the presence of antiferromagnetic correlations in electron-doped cuprates"
Inna Vishik
UC Davis
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Spring 2017

 

Thursday, January 12
"Electrolyte Gating of Perovskite Oxide Ferromagnets and Semiconductors"
Chris Leighton
University of Minnesota
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Thursday, January 26    
"Center for Emergent Materials Alumni Career Series: A Career in in Government Research"
Howard Yu, Research Analyst
CNA Corporation
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Monday, January 30 (CM Seminar)
"Experimental probing of quantum criticality at the Superconductor-Insulator Quantum Phase Transition" 
Aviad Frydman
Bar-Ilan Univeristy (Israel)
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Thursday, February 9        
"Center for Emergent Materials Alumni Career Series: A Career in National Labs"
Tricia Meyer, Engineer
Intel (Previously Oak Ridge National Lab)
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Thursday, February 23
"Flatlands that fold and oscillate: Controlling wrinkles and drumheads in graphene"
Nancy Sandler
Ohio University
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Thursday, March 2
"Materials under Strain: an Atomic-Scale Perspective"
Abhay Pasupathy 
Columbia University
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Thursday, March 9
"Spin and Charge Conversion in 2D Quantum Materials"
Wei Han
ICQM, Peking University, China
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Thursday, March 23
"Controlled Under Pressure: Understanding Spin Orbit Coupling and Exchange Anisotropy in Organic Magnets"
Stephen Hill
Florida State Univeristy, NHMFL EMR Program
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Thursday, April 13
"TUNNELING IN SINGLE-MOLECULE JUNCTIONS: TEMPERATURE AND GATING EFFECTS"
Enrique del Barco
University of Central Florida
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Thursday, April 20
"Topological Hall effect and multiple magnetic states in the A-phase of Fe doped MnSi"
 Minhyea Lee
University of Colorado Boulder
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Autumn 2017

Condensed Matter Theory and Experiment Seminar
*Monday, September 18 at 3:00pm in PRB 1080
Arun Paramekanti 
Professor, University of Toronto
Title: "Pseudo-Landau levels in strained nodal superconductors"

IRG-1 Seminar
*Wednesday, September 20 at 2:00pm in PRB 4138
Arun Paramekanti 
Professor, University of Toronto
Title: "Magnetism and nematicity in (111) oxide 2D electron gases"

Center for Emergent Materials Alumni Career Series: A Career in Finance
Thursday, September 28
Morgan Welsh Bernier, Marketing Data Scientist
JP Morgan Chase

Thursday, October 5
Kate Ross
Assistant Professor, Colorado State University
Title: "New manifestations of classical ground state degeneracy in frustrated magnetic materials"
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Center for Emergent Materials
Monday, November 13
Gleb Kakazei
IFIMUP-IN/Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Title: “Vortices and skyrmions in nanopatterned magnetic structures”
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Spring 2018

Condensed Matter Seminar
Thursday, January 18 @ 11:30a in PRB 1080
Igor Altfeder
Professor, WPAFB/LANL
Title: "Scanning tunnelling microscopy of elecgtrons, phonons and spins in quantum materials"

Center for Emergent Materials Alumni Career Series
Thursday, January 25 @ 11:30am in the Smith Seminar room
Michael Page, Research Physicist
Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
Title: "A Career in a Department of Defense Laboratory"

Condensed Matter Seminar
Wednesday, January 31 @ 1:30pm in the Smith Seminar room
Salvador Barraza-Lopez
Professor, University of Arkansas
Title: "Two dimensional structural phase transitions on 2D materials with structural degeneracies"

Condensed Matter Seminar
Thursday, February 1 @ 11:30am in the Smith Seminar Room
Greg Fuchs
Professor, Cornell University
Title: "Quantum Control Over Diamond Qubits Using a Mechanical Resonator"

Center for Emergent Materials Alumni Career Series: A Career in Academia
Thursday, February 22
Richelle Teeling-Smith, Assistant Professor
Mount Union University
Title: TBA

Condensed Matter Seminar
Thursday, April 19 @ 11:30am in Smith Seminar Room
Gleb Fiinkelstein
Professor, Duke University
Title: "Supercurrent in the Quantum Hall Regime"