Fall 2008

SEPTEMBER
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• September 1, 2008
  Labor Day - Holiday
  

• September 8, 2008
  Hong Ding, Boston College
  "The new iron-based high Tc superconductors" [abstract]
  Host: Xiao-Gang Wen
  
  
• September 22, 2008
  Yong Baek Kim, University of Toronto
  "Quantum Order by Disorder in Frustrated Magnets" [abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• Friday, September 26, 2008
  Rob Schoelkopf, Yale University
  "The Transmon: Better Superconducting Qubits by Design" [abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• September 29, 2008
  Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "On-chip in vivo screening of whole animals at sub-cellular resolution" [abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  

OCTOBER
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• October 6, 2008
  Dan Dessau, University of Colorado at Boulder
  "Phun with Photoelectrons – Electronic Structure of High Tc superconductors" [abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• Wednesday, October 8, 2008
  Hae-Young Kee, University of Toronto
  "Quantum oscillations and Fermi surface in high Tc cuprates" [abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• October 13, 2008
  Columbus Day - Holiday
  
  
• October 20, 2008
  Ravin Bhatt, Princeton University
  "Search for ferromagnetism in doped semiconductors without magnetic ions" [abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
  
  
• October 27, 2008
  Tony F Heinz, Columbia University
  "Probing Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene by Optical Spectroscopy" [abstract]
  Host: Nuh Gedik
  

NOVEMBER
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• November 3, 2008
  Collin Broholm, John Hopkins University
  "Surprises on Triangular Lattices" [abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• November 10, 2008
  Veteran's Day - Holiday
  
  
• November 17, 2008
  Zahid Hasan, Princeton University
  "Observation of a new class of topological states of quantum matter." [abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• Tuesday, November 18, 2008
  Suchitra E. Sebastian, University of Cambridge
  "TBA" [abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
  
  
• 1:00pm November 24, 2008
  Eva Andrei, Rutgers
  "Charge carriers in Graphene seen through transport and tunneling experiments " [abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  

DECEMBER
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• 1:00pm December 1, 2008
  Alberto Morpurgo, Geneva University
  "Transport through graphene: what's special?" [abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• December 8, 2008
  Joe Orenstein, University of California at Berkeley
  "Emergence of the persistent spin helix in semiconductor quantum wells" [abstract]
  Host: Nuh Gedik
  
  
• December 15, 2008
  Jun Yan, Columbia University
  "Raman Spectroscopy Study of Electron and Phonon Structures in Graphene Thin Films"[abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
  Special Condensed Matter talk
• 10:00am, Wednesday, December 17, 2008
  Francis Niestemski, Boston College
  "Bringing Cooper Pairs Together and Keeping Them Apart, A STM Study on High-Tc Superconductors"[abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori