Yale Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Unless noted otherwise, seminars are held at 1 PM on Thursdays in Room 52, Sloane Physics Lab.

Travel Directions to the Sloane Physics Lab.

Fall 2001

• September 6

Eugene Demler, Harvard University
Stripe phases in quantum Hall systems at integer filling factors
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• September 13

Zhenan Bao, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Self-assembled Organic and Polymeric Materials for Plastic Electronics
Host: Doug Stone
 
• September 20

Alexei Tsvelik, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Mott-insulator--Metal transition in quasi-1D
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• September 27

Kun Yang, Florida State University
A Toy Model for the Pseudogap Phase in Cuprate Superconductors
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• October 4

Oleg Tchernyshyov, Princeton University
The World's Most Frustrated Magnet
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• October 11

Leo Radzihovsky, University of Colorado
Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Pinned Elastic Lattices: Moving Smectic and Transversely Driven Charge-Density Waves
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• October 18

Thomas Rosenbaum, University of Chicago
Attacking Optimization Problems with Quantum Mechanics
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• October 25

Aditi Mitra , Yale University
Transport and Domain Walls in Quantum Hall Ferromagnets
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• November 1

T. Senthil, M.I.T.
Electron fractionalization, topological order, and cuprate superconductivity
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• November 8

Horacio Castillo, Boston University
Theory of aging in short range spin glasses
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• November 15

Jairo Sinova, University of Texas
Superconductivity in moth balls: surprises in organic FETs
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• November 29

Collin Broholm, Johns Hopkins University
Quantum Phase Transition in a Quasi-two-dimensional Frustrated Magnet
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• December 6



• December 13

Jay Kikkawa, University of Pennsylvania
All-optical NMR in semiconductors
Host: Sean Barrett