Fall
2013

September
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• September 9, 2013
  Jason Alicea - California Institue of Technology
  “A new path towards universal decoherence-free quantum computation” [Abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
  
  
  
• September 16, 2013
  CANCELED
  
  
• September 23, 2013
  Leonid Glazman - Yale University
  "Helical edge resistance introduced by charge puddles" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
• September 30, 2013
  Steven G. Johnson - MIT Department of Mathematics
  "Poking Holes in the Invisibility Cloak" [Abstract]
  Host: John D. Joannopoulos & Marin Soljacic
  
  

October
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• October 7, 2013
  Collin Broholm - Johns Hopkins University
  "Quantum fluctuations in spin-ice-like Pr₂Zr₂O₇*" [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• October 14, 2013
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar today due to the Columbus Day Holiday
  
  
  
• October 21, 2013
  Willie Padilla - Boston College
  "Terahertz Compressive Imaging with a Single Pixel: Applications in Metamaterials" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
  
• October 28, 2013
  Charlie Kane - University of Pennsylvania
  “Topological Order at the Surface of a Topological Insulator” [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• October 29, 2013 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Tuesday 3:00PM
  Brian Skinner - Argonne National Laboratory
  "Negative compressibility and supercapacitors" [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  
  

November
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• November 4, 2013
  Sri Raghu - Stanford University
  “Gyrotropic order in the pseudogap regime of hole-doped cuprates” [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
  
• November 11, 2013
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar today due to Veterans Day Holiday
  
  
  
• November 14, 2013 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Thursday 3:00PM
  Yulin Chen - University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  “Discovery of “3D graphene” – the 3D topological Dirac semi-metal” [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
  
• November 18, 2013
  Louis Taillefer - Sherbrooke University - Quebec Canada
  "Why does T_c fall in underdoped cuprate superconductors?" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• November 25, 2013
  Vidya Madhavan - Boston College
  "Massive Dirac Fermions in Topological Crystalline Insulators created by Symmetry Breaking" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
  

December
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• December 2, 2013
  Frank Koppens - ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences - Barcelona, Spain
  "Plasmonics and Hot carrier multiplication in graphene " [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• December 4, 2013 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Wednesday, 1:30pm
  Silvano De Franceschi - CEA-Grenoble, Institute for Nanoscience and Cryogenics - France
  "Magnetic properties of sub-gap states in superconductor-semiconductor nanowire structures" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• December 9, 2013
  N. Peter Armitage - John Hopkins University
  “How to kill a topological insulator“ [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• December 10, 2013 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Tuesday, 12:00 noon
  Ady Stern - Weizmann Institute - Israel
  "Engineered non-abelian anyons beyond Majorana fermions" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
  
• December 11, 2013 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Wednesday, 12:00 noon
  Francisco (Paco) Guinea - Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid CSIC
  "Unique structural properties of graphene" [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov