Fall
2011

September
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• September 7, 2011 - SPECIAL CHEZ PIERRE SEMINAR - 11:00am
  Leon Balents - KITP - University of California - Santa Barbara
  "Weyl semimetals - the next graphene?" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• September 12, 2011
  B.J. Kim - Argonne National Lab
  "Novel Mott phenomena induced by relativistic spin-orbit coupling in iridates'' [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• September 19, 2011
  Dimitri Basov- University of California - San Diego
  "Infrared Nanoscopy of Dirac plasmons at the graphene-SiO2 interface" [Abstract]
  http://infrared.ucsd.edu
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• September 26, 2011
  Qimiao Si - Rice University
  “Quantum Criticality and Strongly Correlated Electrons” [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
  

October
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• October 3, 2011
  Andre-Marie Tremblay - Universite de Sherbrooke - Quebec
  "Mott Physics in strongly correlated superconductivity" [Abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
  
  
• October 10, 2011 - Columbus Day
  
  
• October 17, 2011
  Martin Greven - University of Minnesota
  “Novel Magnetism in the Cuprates” [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• October 24, 2011
  Vidya Madhavan - Boston College
  "Stripes in Topological Insulators" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• October 31, 2011
  Vladimir Manucharyan - Harvard University
  “Atomic physics approach to coherent quantum phase-slips in superconducting wires” [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  

November
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• November 7, 2011
  Jason W. Fleischer - Princeton University
  “Superfluid dynamics of light” [Abstract]
  Host: Marin Soljacic
  
  
• November 14, 2011
  Allan MacDonald - University of Texas - Austin
  "Spontaneous Hall Effects in Bilayer Graphene" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• November 21, 2011
  Roger Melko - University of Waterloo, Canada
  "Spin liquid and Deconfined Criticality in a Kagome Lattice Bose-Hubbard Model" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• November 28, 2011 - There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar this Monday
  
  
• November 29, 2011 - TUESDAY SPECIAL CHEZ PEIRRE SEMINAR
  Naoto Nagaosa - University of Tokyo
  “New results on Rashba systems- Topological insulator and superconductors -” [Abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
  
  

December
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• December 1, 2011 - THURSDAY SPECIAL CHEZ PEIRRE SEMINAR - 2:00PM
  Yoichi Ando - Osaka University
  "Probing the Exotic Surface States in Topological Insulators and Superconductors" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
• December 2, 2011 - FRIDAY SPECIAL CHEZ PEIRRE SEMINAR
  Zhi-Xun Shen - Stanford University
  "Landscape of Organized Electron Flow in Novel Quantum Matter" [Abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
  
  
• December 5, 2011 - There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar this Monday
  
  
• December 12, 2011
  Karyn Le Hur - Yale University
  "Charge Relaxation Resistance as a Probe of Many-Body Correlations" [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov