*Seminars are held at 12:00pm unless otherwise stated.

Fall 2010

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September
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  • September 13, 2010
    Oleg Sushkov    - The University of New South Wales
    "Spin Spirals in Underdoped Cuprates: Theory and Experiment"
     [Abstract]
    Host: Patrick Lee

  • September 20, 2010
    Dung-Hai Lee - University of California - Berkeley
    "Antiferromagnetic correlation and the pairing mechanism of the iron based superconductors'' [Abstract]
    Host: Senthil Todadri
  • September 27, 2010
    Anton Akhmerov - The University of Leiden, Netherlands
    "Fermion parity-protected quantum computation with Majorana fermions" [Abstract]
    Host: Patrick Lee

October
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  • October 4, 2010
    Anders Sandvik - Boston University
    "Deconfined spinons at the Neel-VBS transition in two dimensions" [Abstract]
    Host: Senthil Todadri

  • October 11, 2010 - Columbus Day - No Seminar

  • October 15, 2010 - FRIDAY 2:00 PM - SPECIAL CHEZ PIERRE SEMINAR
    Yves Couder - École normale supérieure (ENS), Paris
    "A wave-particle duality at a macroscopic-scale" [Abstract]
    Host: Leonid Levitov

  • October 18, 2010
    Raffi Budakian - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    "Evidence for Half-Integer Fluxoid States in Mesoscopic Rings of Sr2RuO4" [Abstract]
    Host: Patrick Lee

  • October 25, 2010 - No Seminar


  • October 29, 2010 - FRIDAY 12:00 NOON- SPECIAL CHEZ PIERRE SEMINAR
    Chetan Nayak - University of California - Santa Barbara
    "Projective Ribbon Permutation Statistics: a Remnant of non-Abelian Braiding in Higher Dimensions'' Abstract not available at this time
    Host: Senthil Todadri

November
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  • November 1, 2010
    Peter Young - University of California - Santa Cruz
    "Complexity of the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm" [Abstract]
    Host: Patrick Lee
  • November 15, 2010
    Gang Cao -     University of Kentucky
    "New Paradigms for Spintronics in Complex Oxides" [Abstract]
    Host: Young Lee

  • November 22, 2010
    Karsten Flensberg - Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
    "Spin-orbit coupling in carbon nanotubes" [Abstract]
    Host: Leonid Levitov

  • November 23, 2010 - SPECIAL CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR - TUESDAY 10:30
    Dr. Keshav Dani - Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies - Los Alamos National Lab
    “Femtosecond Relativistic Dynamics of Photogenerated Electron-Hole Plasma in Graphene”
    [Abstract]
    Host: Nuh Gedik

December
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  • December 6, 2010
    Sandra M. Troian - California Institute of Technology
    "Modulated Interface Lithography: The Nanoworld Beyond Bénard Instability" [Abstract]
    Host: Patrick Lee



 

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