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

Spring 2010

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February
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  • February 8, 2010
    Tonio Buonassisi
    - MIT Lab for Photovoltaics Research
    “Defect Engineering” in Earth-Abundant Photovoltaic Materials [Abstract]
    Host: Young Lee

  • February 18, 2010 - SPECIAL CHEZ PIERRE SEMINAR - THURSDAY 2:00PM
    Bang-Fen Zhu
    - Tsing-Hua University Department of Physics
    "Optical Effects of Pure Spin Currents in Semiconductors" [Abstract]
    Host: Xiao-Gang Wen

  • February 22, 2010
    Christian Degen - MIT Department of Chemistry
    "Nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging" [Abstract]
    Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

March
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  • March 1, 2010
    Steve Cronin - University of Southern California
    "One- and Two-Dimensional Physics in Individual Suspended Carbon
    Nanotubes and Graphene"
    [Abstract]
    Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero


  • March 8, 2010
    Lan Luan - Stanford University
    “Local Measurement of the Penetration Depth in Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 Single Crystals by Magnetic Scanning Probes” [Abstract]
    Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

  • March 15, 2010 - No Seminar

  • March 22, 2010 - Spring Break

  • March 25, 2010 - SPECIAL CHEZ PIERRE SEMINAR - THURSDAY 1:00PM
    Nic Shannon - University of Bristol, England
    “A Quantum Liquid with Deconfined Fractional Excitations in Three Dimensions” [Abstract]
    Host: Senthil Todadri

  • March 29, 2010
    Lieven Vandersypen - Delft University of Technology
    “Electrical Control of Electron Spin Qubits and Their Nuclear Spin Environment” [Abstract]
    Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

April
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  • April 5, 2010
    Mark Rudner - Harvard University
    "Topological Transitions in Dissipative Quantum Transport" [Abstract no available at this time]
    Host: Leonid Levitov

  • April 12, 2010
    Oliver Dial - MIT Physics Department
    "Measuring Fractional Hall States with Time Domain Capacitance Spectroscopy" [Abstract]
    Host: Ray Ashoori

  • April 23, 2010 - SPECIAL CHEZ PIERRE SEMINAR - FRIDAY 12:00PM
    Leo Kouwenhoven - Delft University of Technology
    “Electronic and Mechanical properties of 1D Wires and Tubes” [Abstract]
    Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero


  • April 26, 2010
    Sriram Shastry - UC Santa Cruz
    “From Strong to Extreme Correlations: Schwinger Dyson Equations for the t-J model.” [Abstract]
    Host: Senthil Todadri

May
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  • May 3, 2010
    Lu Li - MIT Department of Physics
    " Electronic Compressibility and Magnetism in the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructure." [Abstract]
    Host: Ray Ashoori

  • May 10, 2010
    Nuh Gedik - MIT Department of Physics
    “Time-resolved Quasiparticle Dynamics in Pnictide Superconductors” [Abstract]

Past Schedules: Fall '09 Spring '09 Fall '08 Spring '08 Fall '07

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