Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Archive

Autumn 2013

 

Monday, September 2

Labor Day Holiday - No Seminar

Monday, September 23

"Topological Kondo insulators and topological crystalline Kondo insulators"
Kai Sun
University of Michigan

Monday, September 30

"Topological response in gapless systems: from Weyl semimetals to metallic ferromagnets"
Anton Burkov
University of Waterloo  

Monday, October 14

"Antiferromagnetic order in complex lattices"
Anu Jagannathan
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Universite Paris-Sud, France

Monday, October 28

"A New Method for Strongly Correlated Matter"
Harsh Mathur
Case Western Reserve

Monday, November 11

No Seminar - Veteran's Day Holiday

Monday, November 18

"Fractionalization from Crystallography"
Siddhartha Parameswaran
UC Berkeley

Monday, December 2

"Ferromagnetic Response of a "High Temperature" Quantum Antiferromagnet"
Rajdeep Sensarma
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

 Monday, December 9

"The End of Local Realism"
Paul Kwiat
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

 

Spring 2014   

 

Tuesday, January 7 - Room 2015 PRB

"The Part is Greater than the Sum of the Wholes: How to Spin Light Into Anyons"
Eliot Kapit
University of Oxford        

Monday, March 3

No Seminar - APS March Meeting - March 3-7

Monday, April 21 - Combined Condensed Matter and CEM Seminar

"Studies of electronic properties of novel materials using Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy"
Adam Kaminski
Iowa State University, Ames Laboratory

 

Autumn 2014

**Wednesday, July 30, 11:30 am, 2015 PRB

"Thermal and electrical quantum Hall effects in ferromagnet--topological insulator--ferromagnet junction"
Victor Kagalovsky
Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Monday, September 1

Labor Day Holiday - No Seminar

SPECIAL SEMINAR - Friday, October 3 - 2:00pm, Smith Seminar Room (1080 PRB)

"Kinetics in Optical Lattices"
Erich Mueller
Cornell University

Monday, October 6

"Topological Phases in Correlated Materials"
Yong Baek Kim
University of Toronto

NOTE DIFFERENT DAY - THURSDAY, October 16

"Exact Results for Itinerant Ferromagnetism in Multi-orbital Systems on Square and Cubic Lattices"
Yi Li
Princeton University

Monday, October 20

"TBA"
TBA
Institution

Monday, October 27

"TBA"
TBA
Institution

Monday, November 3

"Negative magnetoresisnce in hopping regime"
Boris Spivak
University of Washington

Monday, November 10

"Valleytronics in two-dimensional Dirac materials"
Di Xiao
Carnegie Mellon University

Monday, November 17

"Effective Theory of Fractional Quantum Hall Effect"
Alexander Abanov
Stony Brook

Monday, November 24

"Many-body localization"
David Pekker
University of Pittsburgh

Monday, December 1

"TBA"
TBA
Institution

Monday, December 8

"TBA"
TBA
Institution

Monday, December 15

"TBA">
TBA
Institution

 

Spring 2015 

 

Monday, January 26

"Skyrmion Dynamics in Chiral Magnets"
Christian Batista
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Monday, February 16

"Dynamics near quantum criticality"
Snir Gazit
University of California - Berkeley

Monday, February 23 - **CANCELLED**

"Many-body quantum magnetism and motion in ultracold molecules"
Kaden Hazzard
Rice University

Monday, March 2 

"TBA"
TBA
Institution

Monday, March 9

"TBA"
TBA
Institution

Monday, March 16

"TBA"
TBA
Institution

Monday, March 23

"TBA"
TBA
Institution

Monday, March 30

"A new path towards universal decoherence-free quantum computation"
Jason Alicea
California Institute of Technology (CalTech)

Monday, April 6

"Driven mesoscopic oscillators: a glimpse into quantum fluctuations far from equilibrium"
Mark Dykman
Michigan State University

Monday, April 13

"Quantum criticality of 1D topological Anderson insulators"
Alex Kamenev
University of Minnesota

**Monday, April 20 - ROOM 4138 PRB

"Fermionic symmetry protected topological phases with reflection symmetry and global anomalies"
Shinsei Ryu
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

*SPECIAL SEMINAR - FRIDAY, April 24 - 12:00pm - ROOM 2015 PRB

"Many-body quantum magnetism and motion in ultracold molecules"
Kaden Hazzard
Rice University

**Monday, April 27 - ROOM 4138 PRB

"Many-body localization and high temperature mobility edges"
Chris Laumann
University of Washington