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

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February
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  • February 6, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Wednesday - 10:00am
    Kirill S. Korolev -
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    “Ecology and evolution of cancerous tumors and expanding populations” [Abstract]
    Host: Mehran Kardar and the Physics Department

  • February 12, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Tuesday - 2:00pm
    Nicholas Butch - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    “Emergent electronic behavior in novel materials” [Abstract]
    Host: Ray Ashoori and the Physics Department

  • February 13, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Wednesday - 10:00am
    Anand Bala Subramaniam - Harvard University - Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
    "Lipid bilayers, sweetened: In vitro experiments reveal extracellular glycans pattern the phase behavior of lipid membranes " [Abstract]

    Host: Mehran Kardar and the Physics Department

  • February 15, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Friday - 10:00am
    Yuki Sato - Harvard University - Rowland Institute
    “Device engineering with quantum and/or artificial materials” [Abstract]
    Host: Ray Ashoori and the Physics Department

  • February 18, 2013
    There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar today due to Presidents Day


  • February 19, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Tuesday - 12:00pm
    Vladimir Manucharyan - Harvard University - Physics
    "Proximity-induced superconductivity in a few-electron system" [Abstract]
    Host: Ray Ashoori and the Physics Department

  • February 20, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Wednesday - 10:00am
    David A. Sivak - University of California - San Francisco
    “Nonequilibrium thermodynamics: free energy, optimal control, and optimal response”
    [Abstract]
    Host: Mehran Kardar and the Physics Department

  • February 21, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Thursday - 10:00am
    Kin Fai Mak - Cornell University
    “Electrons in two dimensions: graphene and beyond” [Abstract]
    Host: Ray Ashoori and the Physics Department

  • February 25, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Monday - 10:00am
    Alexandra Zidovska - Harvard Medical School - Department of Systems Biology
    “Positional Fluctuations of Interphase Chromatin” [Abstract]
    Host: Mehran Kardar and the Physics Department

  • February 27, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Wednesday - 10:00am
    Ibrahim I. Cisse - Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Superieure
    "Phenomenological Rules of Cooperativity in Weak and Transient Biological Interactions" [Abstract]
    Host: Mehran Kardar and the Physics Department

March
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  • March 1, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Friday - 10:00am
    Pegor Anyajian -
    Princeton University
    “Visualizing Heavy Fermions Emerging in a Quantum Critical Kondo Lattice” [Abstract]
    Host: Ray Ashoori and the Physics Department

  • March 4, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Monday - 10:00am
    Jan Brugues - Harvard University - FAS Center for Systems Biology
    “Physical principles of self-organization in metaphase spindles” [Abstract]
    Host: Mehran Kardar and the Physics Department

  • March 4, 2013 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - Monday - 12:00pm
    Joseph Checkelsky - University of Tokyo
    “Measurements of Topological Insulators with Broken Symmetry” [Abstract]
    Host: Ray Ashoori and the Physics Department

  • March 11, 2013
    Nathaniel Gabor -
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    "Photoresponse in Graphene Quantum Devices: Hot Dirac Fermions and the Emergence of Nonlocality" [Abstract]
    Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero


  • March 18, 2013
    There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar today due to the APS Meeting

  • March 25, 2013
    There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar today due to Spring Break

April
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  • April 1, 2013
    Kyle Shen - Cornell University
    "Watching Correlated Electrons Move in Artificial Quantum Materials and Interfaces" [Abstract]
    Host: Ray Ashoori

  • April 8, 2013
    Katja Nowack - Stanford University
    "Imaging currents in HgTe quantum wells in the quantum spin Hall regime"
    [Abstract]
    Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

  • April 15, 2013
    There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar today due to Patriots Day

  • April 22, 2013
    Rui Du - Rice University
    "Creating Majorana Fermions on the Edge of InAs/GaSb Quantum Wells" [Abstract]
    Host: Patrick Lee

  • April 29, 2013
    Markus Kindermann -
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    "Twisted honeycomb multi-layers – spectrum, transport, and topology" [Abstract]
    Host:
    Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

May
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  • May 3, 2013 - SPECIAL CHEZ PIERRE SEMINAR - Friday - 12:00 pm
    Xiaoliang Qi -
    Stanford University
    "Genons: a new twist on topologically ordered states" [Abstract]
    Host: Liang Fu

  • May 6, 2013
    Herb Fertig -
    Indiana University
    "Irradiated Graphene as a Floquet Topological Insulator" [Abstract]
    Host:
    Andrea Young


  • May 13, 2013
    Anton Akhmerov - Harvard University
    "Adaptive tuning of Majorana fermions in a quantum dot chain" [Abstract]
    Host: Liang Fu


 

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