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

Fall
2011

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September
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  • September 7, 2011 - SPECIAL CHEZ PIERRE SEMINAR - 11:00am
    Leon Balents - KITP - University of California - Santa Barbara
    "Weyl semimetals - the next graphene?" [Abstract]
    Host:
    Senthil Todadri


  • September 12, 2011
    B.J. Kim - Argonne National Lab
    "Novel Mott phenomena induced by relativistic spin-orbit coupling in iridates'' [Abstract]
    Host: Senthil Todadri

  • September 19, 2011
    Dimitri Basov-
    University of California - San Diego
    "Infrared Nanoscopy of Dirac plasmons at the graphene-SiO2 interface" [Abstract]
    http://infrared.ucsd.edu
    Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

  • September 26, 2011
    Qimiao Si -
    Rice University
    “Quantum Criticality and Strongly Correlated Electrons” [Abstract]
    Host:
    Senthil Todadri


October
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  • October 3, 2011
    Andre-Marie Tremblay - Universite de Sherbrooke - Quebec
    "Mott Physics in strongly correlated superconductivity" [Abstract]
    Host: Patrick Lee

  • October 10, 2011 - Columbus Day

  • October 17, 2011
    Martin Greven - University of Minnesota
    “Novel Magnetism in the Cuprates” [Abstract]
    Host: Young Lee

  • October 24, 2011
    Vidya Madhavan - Boston College
    "Stripes in Topological Insulators" [Abstract]
    Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

  • October 31, 2011
    Vladimir Manucharyan -
    Harvard University

    “Atomic physics approach to coherent quantum phase-slips in superconducting wires” [Abstract]
    Host: Leonid Levitov

November
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  • November 7, 2011
    Jason W. Fleischer - Princeton University
    “Superfluid dynamics of light” [Abstract]
    Host: Marin Soljacic

  • November 14, 2011
    Allan MacDonald -
    University of Texas - Austin
    "Spontaneous Hall Effects in Bilayer Graphene" [Abstract]
    Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

  • November 21, 2011
    Roger Melko - University of Waterloo, Canada
    "Spin liquid and Deconfined Criticality in a Kagome Lattice Bose-Hubbard Model" [Abstract]
    Host: Senthil Todadri

  • November 28, 2011 - There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar this Monday

  • November 29, 2011 - TUESDAY SPECIAL CHEZ PEIRRE SEMINAR
    Naoto Nagaosa - University of Tokyo
    “New results on Rashba systems - Topological insulator and superconductors -”
    [Abstract]
    Host: Patrick Lee

December
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  • December 1, 2011 - THURSDAY SPECIAL CHEZ PEIRRE SEMINAR - 2:00PM
    Yoichi Ando -
    Osaka University
    "Probing the Exotic Surface States in Topological Insulators and Superconductors" [Abstract]
    Host: Liang Fu

  • December 2, 2011 - FRIDAY SPECIAL CHEZ PEIRRE SEMINAR
    Zhi-Xun Shen -
    Stanford University
    "Landscape of Organized Electron Flow in Novel Quantum Matter
    " [Abstract]
    Host: Patrick Lee

  • December 5, 2011 - There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar this Monday

  • December 12, 2011
    Karyn Le Hur - Yale University
    "Charge Relaxation Resistance as a Probe of Many-Body Correlations" [Abstract]
    Host:
    Leonid Levitov
 

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