MIT Condensed Matter Physics "Chez Pierre" Seminars

Seminars are held in 4-331 on Mondays at 12 noon unless otherwise stated.

Fall 2007

 

• Friday, August 3
  Joseph O. Indekeu, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  "Wetting phase transitions in Bose-Einstein condensate mixtures." [abstract]
  Host: Nihat Berker
   
  
• September 3
  Labor Day Holiday
   
  
• September 17
  Masud Haque, MPI Komplexer Physik, Dresden
  "Quantum information concepts used to probe condensed-matter systems, particularly topologically ordered states." [abstract]
  Host: Xiao-Gang Wen
   
  
• September 24
  Valery Pokrovsky, Texas A & M University
  "Molecular production at a broad Feshbach resonance in a Fermi gas of cold atoms" [abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
   
  
• October 1
  Claudio Chamon, Boston University
  "Irrational vs. rational charge and statistics in two-dimensional quantum systems" [abstract]
  Host: Xiao-Gang Wen
   
  
• October 8
  Columbus Day Holiday
   
  
• October 15
  Douglas Stone, Yale University
  “Ab Initio” multimode laser theory: application to random lasers” [abstract]
  Host: Marin Soljacic
   
  
• October 22
  Leonid Glazman, Yale University
  "Dynamics of Excitations in 1D Base Liquid" [abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
   
  
• October 29
  David Huse, Princeton University
  "Quasi-one-dimensional polarized Fermi superfluids" [abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
   
  
• Thursday, November 1* at 10:30am
  *There will be no refreshments for this talk.
  Hari Manoharan, Stanford University
  "Imaging Quantum Phase with Isospectral Electronic Nanostructures" [abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
   
  
• November 5
  Boris Altshuler, Columbia University
  "Charge transport in graphene: from a resistor to a lens" [abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
   
  
• November 12
  Veterans Day Holiday
   
  
• Tuesday, November 20
  Seamus Davis, Cornell University
  "Quasiparticle Extinction with approaching Mottness in High-Tc Superconductors" [abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
   
  
• Friday, November 30
  Naoto Nagaosa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  "Spiral Magnetism and Multiferroic Behavior" [abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
   
  
• December 3
  10:00am - Luiz Gustavo Cancado, University of Rochester
  "Raman scattering of nanographites and near-field Raman of spatial coherent phonons in Carbon nanotubes" [abstract]
  Host: Mildred Dresselhaus
  
  12:00pm - Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University
  "Ferroelectricity in an Ising Chain Magnet" [abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
   
  
• December 10
  Vesna Mitrovic, Brown University
  "Inhomogeneous Superconductivity" [abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
   
  
• Friday, December 14
  Prof. A. Malakis, University of Athens
  "Wang-Landau Studies of Pure and Quenched Random Systems" [abstract]
  Host: Nihat Berker
   
  
• December 17
  Walter Hofstetter, J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, Germany
  "Quantum Tunnelling induced Kondo-Physics in Single Molecule Magnets" [abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
  

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