Spring
2013

February
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• February 6, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Wednesday - 10:00am
  Kirill S. Korolev - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  “Ecology and evolution of cancerous tumors and expanding populations” [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar and the Physics Department
  
  
• February 12, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Tuesday - 2:00pm
  Nicholas Butch - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  “Emergent electronic behavior in novel materials” [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori and the Physics Department
  
  
• February 13, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Wednesday - 10:00am
  Anand Bala Subramaniam - Harvard University - Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
  "Lipid bilayers, sweetened: In vitro experiments reveal extracellular glycans pattern the phase behavior of lipid membranes " [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar and the Physics Department
  
  
• February 15, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Friday - 10:00am
  Yuki Sato - Harvard University - Rowland Institute
  “Device engineering with quantum and/or artificial materials” [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori and the Physics Department
  
  
• February 18, 2013
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar today due to Presidents Day
  
  
• February 19, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Tuesday - 12:00pm
  Vladimir Manucharyan - Harvard University - Physics
  "Proximity-induced superconductivity in a few-electron system" [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori and the Physics Department
  
  
• February 20, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Wednesday - 10:00am
  David A. Sivak - University of California - San Francisco
  “Nonequilibrium thermodynamics: free energy, optimal control, and optimal response” [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar and the Physics Department
  
  
• February 21, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Thursday - 10:00am
  Kin Fai Mak - Cornell University
  “Electrons in two dimensions: graphene and beyond” [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori and the Physics Department
  
  
• February 25, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Monday - 10:00am
  Alexandra Zidovska - Harvard Medical School - Department of Systems Biology
  “Positional Fluctuations of Interphase Chromatin” [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar and the Physics Department
  
  
• February 27, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Wednesday - 10:00am
  Ibrahim I. Cisse - Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Superieure
  "Phenomenological Rules of Cooperativity in Weak and Transient Biological Interactions" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar and the Physics Department

March
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• March 1, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Friday - 10:00am
  Pegor Anyajian - Princeton University
  “Visualizing Heavy Fermions Emerging in a Quantum Critical Kondo Lattice” [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori and the Physics Department
  
  
• March 4, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Monday - 10:00am
  Jan Brugues - Harvard University - FAS Center for Systems Biology
  “Physical principles of self-organization in metaphase spindles” [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar and the Physics Department
  
  
• March 4, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Monday - 12:00pm
  Joseph Checkelsky - University of Tokyo
  “Measurements of Topological Insulators with Broken Symmetry” [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori and the Physics Department
  
  
• March 11, 2013
  Nathaniel Gabor - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Photoresponse in Graphene Quantum Devices: Hot Dirac Fermions and the Emergence of Nonlocality" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
  
• March 18, 2013
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar today due to the APS Meeting
  
  
• March 25, 2013
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar today due to Spring Break
  
  

April
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• April 1, 2013
  Kyle Shen - Cornell University
  "Watching Correlated Electrons Move in Artificial Quantum Materials and Interfaces" [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
• April 8, 2013
  Katja Nowack - Stanford University
  "Imaging currents in HgTe quantum wells in the quantum spin Hall regime" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• April 15, 2013
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar today due to Patriots Day
  
  
• April 22, 2013
  Rui Du - Rice University
  "Creating Majorana Fermions on the Edge of InAs/GaSb Quantum Wells" [Abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
  
  
• April 29, 2013
  Markus Kindermann - Georgia Institute of Technology
  "Twisted honeycomb multi-layers – spectrum, transport, and topology" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  

May
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• May 3, 2013 - SPECIAL CHEZ PIERRE SEMINAR - Friday - 12:00 pm
  Xiaoliang Qi - Stanford University
  "Genons: a new twist on topologically ordered states" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
• May 6, 2013
  Herb Fertig - Indiana University
  "Irradiated Graphene as a Floquet Topological Insulator" [Abstract]
  Host: Andrea Young
  
  
• May 13, 2013
  Anton Akhmerov - Harvard University
  "Adaptive tuning of Majorana fermions in a quantum dot chain" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu