University of Minnesota
School of Physics & Astronomy

Condensed Matter Seminar

Fall Semester

Thursday, September 8th 2011
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
Speaker: Professor Laura Gagliardi , Chemistry Department, University of Minnesota
Subject: Modeling catalysis for water splitting with quantum chemical methods
Thursday, September 15th 2011
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
Speaker: Anand Bhattacharya , Argonne National Laboratory
Subject: Modulation doping of double-exchange ferromagnetism in an antiferromagnetic manganite
Thursday, September 22nd 2011
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
Speaker: Aaron Massari , Chemistry Department, University of Minnesota
Subject: Nonlinear spectroscopy in organic electronic materials
Thursday, September 29th 2011
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
Speaker: Alexei Koulakov, Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, NY
Subject: Lognormal distribution in the brain: The tail of two tails.
Thursday, October 6th 2011
09:30 am:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 435 Physics
Speaker: Prof. Philip Kim, Columbia University
Subject: Electron interactions in graphene
NOTE CHANGE OF TIME AND ROOM
Thursday, October 13th 2011
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
Speaker: Joe Kapusta , Physics Department, University of Minnesota
Subject: Phase Fluctuations near the Chiral Critical Point of QCD
Thursday, October 20th 2011
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
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
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
Speaker: Frank Hekking, Universite Joseph Fourier and CNRS, Grenoble, France
Subject: Phase-charge duality in Josephson junction chains
Thursday, November 3rd 2011
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
Speaker: Professor Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell University
Subject: Electronic Liquid Crystal Correlations in the Pseudogap States of High Tc Superconductors
Thursday, November 10th 2011
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
Speaker: N. Perkins, University Wisconsin, Madison
Subject: Quantum phase transitions in a strongly entangled spin-orbital chains.
Thursday, November 17th 2011
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
Speaker: Professor Bharat Jalan, CEMS , University of Minnesota
Subject: Novel MBE Approaches to the Growth of Complex Oxide Thin Films
Thursday, November 24th 2011
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
There will be no seminar this week. University closed for Thanksgiving.
Thursday, December 1st 2011
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
There will be no seminar this week.
Thursday, December 8th 2011
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
Speaker: Tigran Sedrakyan, University of Minnesota
Subject: Anderson localization and correlation-induced delocalization in an N-leg optical lattice
Thursday, December 15th 2011
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
Speaker: Andrey Chubukov (Madison WI)
Subject: Nematic order in Fe- Pnictides

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