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.

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Spring 2005

(Past semesters: Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000, Spring 2000, Fall 1999)
January 13
Jairo Sinova, Texas A&M University
Spin Hall effect in two dimensional spin-orbit coupled systems: experiment and theory
Host: Steven Girvin

January 20
R. Shankar, Yale University
Dots for Dummies
Host: Steven Girvin

January 27
Eddy Ardonne, University of Illinois
Topological order and conformal quantum critical points
Host: Nicholas Read

February 3
Eun-Ah Kim, University of Illinois
Quantum Hall tunnel junctions: Amphitheaters for Luttinger liquid physics and quantum coherence effect
Host: Steven Girvin

February 10
Alessandro Silva, Rutgers University
Subgap states in dirty superconductors and their effect on dephasing in Josephson qubits
Host: Steven Girvin

February 15 at 3:00 p.m. - NOTE DIFFERENT DATE AND TIME (SPL 52)
Axel Andre , Harvard University
Quantum Control of Light using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
Host: Steven Girvin

February 17
Dmitry Novikov , Princeton University
Devil's staircase of incompressible electron states in a nanotube
Host: Douglas Stone

February 22 at 1:00 p.m. - NOTE DIFFERENT DATE AND TIME (SPL 52)
Roman Barankov , MIT
Nonequilibrium pairing dynamics of cold fermions
Host: Steven Girvin

February 24
Federico Capasso , Harvard University
The Control and Design of Quantum Fluctuations: Long range QED Forces and Torques between Macroscopic Bodies
Host: Robert D. Grober

February 24 at 3:00 p.m. - NOTE DIFFERENT TIME (SPL 52)
Subroto Mukerjee, Princeton University
A statistical approach to transport in strongly interacting 1D Fermi systems
Host: Steven Girvin

March 3
Lev Kaplan, Tulane University
Interaction Matrix Element Fluctuations in Quantum Dots
Host: Yoram Alhassid

March 24

No Seminar Due to APS March Meeting


March 31

April 7
Woowon Kang , University of Chicago
Tunneling between Two Laterally Coupled Quantum Hall Systems
Host: Steven Girvin

April 14

April 21

April 28
Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado
Fermi gas with Feshbach resonant interactions
Host: Nicholas Read

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