Condensed Matter Seminar
Fall Semester
Thursday, September 8th 2011
Speaker: Professor Laura Gagliardi , Chemistry Department, University of Minnesota
Subject: Modeling catalysis for water splitting with quantum chemical methods
Thursday, September 15th 2011
Speaker: Anand Bhattacharya , Argonne National Laboratory
Subject: Modulation doping of double-exchange ferromagnetism in an antiferromagnetic manganite
Thursday, September 22nd 2011
Speaker: Aaron Massari , Chemistry Department, University of Minnesota
Subject: Nonlinear spectroscopy in organic electronic materials
Thursday, September 29th 2011
Speaker: Alexei Koulakov, Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, NY
Subject: Lognormal distribution in the brain: The tail of two tails.
Thursday, October 6th 2011
Speaker: Prof. Philip Kim, Columbia University
Subject: Electron interactions in graphene
NOTE CHANGE OF TIME AND ROOM
Thursday, October 13th 2011
Speaker: Joe Kapusta , Physics Department, University of Minnesota
Subject: Phase Fluctuations near the Chiral Critical Point of QCD
Thursday, October 20th 2011
Speaker: Professor Mo Li, Electrical Engineering Dept,, University of Minnesota
Subject: Make light do the work: harnessing optical forces in nanophotonics
Thursday, October 27th 2011
Speaker: Frank Hekking, Universite Joseph Fourier and CNRS, Grenoble, France
Subject: Phase-charge duality in Josephson junction chains
Thursday, November 3rd 2011
Speaker: Professor Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell University
Subject: Electronic Liquid Crystal Correlations in the Pseudogap States of High Tc Superconductors
Thursday, November 10th 2011
Speaker: N. Perkins, University Wisconsin, Madison
Subject: Quantum phase transitions in a strongly entangled spin-orbital chains.
Thursday, November 17th 2011
Speaker: Professor Bharat Jalan, CEMS , University of Minnesota
Subject: Novel MBE Approaches to the Growth of Complex Oxide Thin Films
Thursday, November 24th 2011
There will be no seminar this week. University closed for Thanksgiving.
Thursday, December 1st 2011
There will be no seminar this week.
Thursday, December 8th 2011
Speaker: Tigran Sedrakyan, University of Minnesota
Subject: Anderson localization and correlation-induced delocalization in an N-leg optical lattice
Thursday, December 15th 2011
Speaker: Andrey Chubukov (Madison WI)
Subject: Nematic order in Fe- Pnictides
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