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 2010

Tuesday, January 12 - Special CM Seminar

Rudro Biswas, Harvard University

Electronic Response to Isolated Impurities in Dirac Materials [Abstract]

Host: R. Shankar/Karyn Le Hur

January 14

Chris Laumann, Princeton University

Random quantum satisfiability: statistical mechanics of quantum optimization [Abstract]

Host: Nicholas Read

Tuesday, January 19 - Special CM Seminar

Gang Chen, University of California, Santa Barbara

A Spin-Orbital Singlet and Quantum Critical Point on the Diamond Lattice: the case of FeSc₂S₄ [Abstract]

Host: Nicholas Read

January 21

Jun-Liang Song, University of British Columbia

Dynamical generation of half-quantum vortices and vortex lattices in rotating spinor BECs [Abstract]

Host: Nicholas Read

Tuesday, January 26 - Special CM Seminar

S. Jamal Rahi, MIT

Scattering theory approach to electrodynamic Casimir interactions [Abstract]

Host: Douglas Stone

January 28

Prof. Steven Cronin, University of Southern California

Unique One- and Two-Dimensional Phenomena Observed in Individual Suspended Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene [Abstract]

Host: Daniel Prober

Tuesday, February 2 - Special CM Seminar

Jerome Dubail, CEA-Saclay

Boundary conformal field theory and loop models [Abstract]

Host: Nicholas Read

February 4

Spyridon Michalakis, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Rigorous proof of quantization for the Hall Conductance of interacting charged particles [Abstract]

Host: Nicholas Read

February 11

Sebastian Schmidt, ETH Zurich

Strongly correlated polaritons [Abstract]

Host: Yoram Alhassid

February 18

Prof. Paola Barbara, Georgetown University

Carbon Nanotubes as 1D Probes for Superconductivity [Abstract]

Host: Daniel Prober

February 25

Prof. Felix von Oppen, Berlin University

Synthetic electric fields in carbon nanotubes and graphene

Host: Jack Harris/Leonid Glazman

March 4

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March 25

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April 1

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April 8

Ian Spielman, NIST and U. Maryland

Synthetic electromagnetism for ultracold atoms [Abstract]

Host: Karyn Le Hur

April 15

Taekjip Ha, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Single-molecule nanometry

Host: Simon Mochrie

April 22

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