Yale Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Unless noted otherwise, seminars are held at 1 PM on Thursdays in Room 52, Sloane Physics Lab.
Please contact the host more info, or if you would like to meet a speaker.

Travel Directions to the Sloane Physics Lab.

Spring 2009

(Past semesters: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2001,Fall 2000, Spring 2000, Fall 1999)
January 15
Mathias Duckheim, University of Basel
Electrically controlled spin dynamics in disordered semiconductors
Host: Leonid Glazman

January 22
Prof. Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
Towards the Lifshitz transition in elemental bismuth: Light electrons gone heavy at the metal-insulator transition? [Abstract]
Host: Leonid Glazman

Monday, January 26 --- Special CM Seminar at 1:00 pm in SPL 52
Dr. Chang-Yu Hou , Boston Univesity
Charge fractionalization in two-dimensional Dirac fermions [Abstract]
Host: Leonid Glazman

Tuesday, January 27 --- Special CM Seminar at 2:00 pm in SPL 52
Dr. Jung-Jung Su , University of Texas at Austin
Excitonic Superflow in Graphene and in other Bilayer Systems
Host: Leonid Glazman

January 29
Jens Bardarson, Cornell
Features of single valley physics in graphene
Host: Leonid Glazman

February 5
Eva Andrei, Rutgers University
Graphene seen through transport and STM measurements [Abstract]
Host: Karyn Le Hur

February 12
Karyn Le Hur, Yale University
Physics behind high-Tc Superconductors [Abstract]
Host: R. Shankar

Monday, February 16 - Special CM Seminar in SPL 52 at 10:30 am
Dr. Waheb Bishara, Caltech
Detecting quantum Hall states via edge experiments [Abstract]
Host: Leonid Glazman

February 19
No Seminar scheduled for this date

Friday, February 20 - Special CM Seminar in SPL 52 at 4:00 pm
Dr. Paul Goldbart, UIUC
Strands of superconductivity at the nanoscale
Host: Leonid Glazman

February 26
No Seminar scheduled for this date

March 5
Natan Andrei, Rutgers University
Quantum Impurities out-of-Equilibrium [Abstract]
Host: Eric Akkermans

Friday, March 13 - Special AMO Seminar in SPL 52 at 12:30 pm
Gary A. Williams, UCLA
Vortex Loops and the Superfluid Phase Transition [Abstract]
Host: Wei Guo

March 26
Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton
Visualizing Pair Formation on the Nanometer Scale and the Riddle of High-Temperature Superconductivity [Abstract]
Host: Karyn Le Hur

April 2
Prof. Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
Universal Control and Quantum State Tomography of a Two-Electron Spin Qubit in GaAs [Abstract]
Host: Leonid Glazman

Tuesday, April 7 - Special CM Seminar at 2:00 pm in SPL 52
Andrew Fefferman, Cornell University
The Acoustic Properties of Amorphous Silica Between 2 and 400 mK [Abstract]
Host: Jack Harris

April 9
No Seminar scheduled for this date

April 16
No Seminar scheduled for this date

April 23
Israel Klich, University of Virginia
Quantum Noise and the Entanglement Entropy of Fermions [Abstract]
Host: Eric Akkermans

April 30
Yoseph Imry, Weizmann Institute of Science
Slow Relaxation and Aging in the Electron Glass, a Mean-Field Model [Abstract]
Host: R. Shankar

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