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 for more information, or if you would like to meet a speaker.

Travel Directions to the Sloane Physics Lab.

Fall 2006

September 28

Joel E. Moore, University of California, Berkeley and LBNL

Spin tranport and the topological insulator [Abstract]

Host: Vadim Oganesyan

October 5

Harold Baranger, Duke University

Correlations in Quantum Dots: Kondo and Wigner Crystal [Abstract]

Host: Douglas Stone

October 9 Monday (Special Seminar)

Chirstoph Stampfer, Micro and Nanosystems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Electromechanical Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes [Abstract]

Host: Jack Harris

October 12

Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Yale University

Stepwise drainage of thin liquid films stabilized by colloidal particles [Abstract]

Host: Vadim Oganesyan

October 26

Prof. A.P. Mackenzie, University of St. Andrews, Scotland

Formation of a nematic fluid at high fields in Sr₃Ru₂O₇ [Abstract]

Host: Vadim Oganesyan

November 9

Jay Tang, Brown University

Some physics of filamentous protein assembly [Abstract]

Host: Steve Girvin

Tuesday, November 28 at 4:00 pm in SPL 38 - SPECIAL CONDENSED MATTER THEORY SEMINAR

Cenke Xu, University of California, Berkeley

Quantum phase transition, self-duality, boson liquid, and dimensional reduction in systems with one dimensional gauge symmetries [Abstract]

Host: Karyn Le Hur

November 30 - CANCELLED

Wednesday, December 6 at 2:30 pm in SPL 38 SPECIAL CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR

Jian Huang, Princeton University

Novel transport behaviors in strongly correlated two-dimensional holes [Abstract]

Host: Jack Harris

December 7

F. Klironomos, University of California, Riverside

Fermion-Boson mixtures in two dimensions [Abstract]

Host: Karyn Le Hur

December 14

Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania

Geometry and Topology of Smectic Phases [Abstract]

Host: Corey O'Hern

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