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Thursday, January 19th 2012
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Matthew Foster, Rutgers University
Subject: When quantum waves crash upon strange shores: Splash statistics in disordered media, and correlated fronts far from equilibrium
Dr. Foster is a condensed matter theory faculty candidate.
Thursday, January 26th 2012
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Rafael Fernandes, Columbia University and Los Alamos National Lab
Subject: Nematic order and magnetism in the high-temperature iron-based superconductors
Dr. Fernandes is a condensed matter theory faculty candidate.
Thursday, February 2nd 2012
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Wei-Cheng Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Subject: Non-Fermi liquid behavior due to Orbital Fluctuations in Iron Pnictide Superconductors
Thursday, February 9th 2012
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: David Weitz, Harvard University
Subject: Fluctuations and dynamic arrest in cells
7:00 pm:
Public Lecture
in 150 Physics
Speaker: David Weitz, Harvard University
Subject: Physics and Cooking
Contact Julie Murphy (612-625-6928 or jjmurphy@physics.umn.edu)
Tuesday, February 14th 2012
12:20 pm:
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Professor Aviad Frydman, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Subject: The Superconducting Insulator
Thursday, February 16th 2012
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Andrey Varlamov, University of Rome
Subject: Quantum Fluctuations and Dynamic Clustering of Fluctuating Cooper Pairs
Thursday, February 23rd 2012
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
March meeting practice talks
Thursday, March 1st 2012
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
There will be no seminar this week due to March Meeting.
Thursday, March 8th 2012
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Beth Stadler, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
Subject: To be announced
Thursday, March 22nd 2012
10:00 am:
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Uwe Bergmann, SLAC
Subject: Science at the LCLS – A First Summary
Please note that there will be two Condensed Matter seminars today, this one and the one at the usual time and place.
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland,
Subject: Graphene: Scratching the Surface
Thursday, March 29th 2012
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Chase Broedersz, Princeton
Subject: Criticality and isostaticity in fiber networks
Thursday, April 5th 2012
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Ryan Elliot, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
Thursday, April 12th 2012
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Jian Peng Wang, Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota
Thursday, April 19th 2012
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Peter Littlewood, Argonne National Laboratory
Thursday, April 26th 2012
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
There will be no seminar this week due to Van Vleck lecture.
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