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        - September 8, 2014
 
          Hrvoje Buljan - University of Zagreb - Croatia 
          "Graphene plasmonics: opportunities and open questions"
          [Abstract] 
          Host: Marin Soljacic
           
           
           
         
        - September 15, 2014
 
          Efrat Shimshoni - Bar-Ilan University - Israel 
          "Superfluid-Insulator transition of quantum Hall domain walls in bilayer graphene"          [Abstract] 
          Host: Leonid Levitov 
           
           
           
        - September 22, 2014
 
          Claudio Chamon - Boston University
           
          "Non-equilibrium steady state design of electronic properties"           [Abstract] 
          Host: Leonid Levitov 
           
           
        - September 29, 2014 
 
          Leon Balents - University of California - Santa Barbara  
        "Between classical magnetism and quantum spin liquids: intermediate quantum effects" [Abstract] 
          Host: Senthil Todadri  
          ***This seminar will be held in the Pappalardo Room, 4-349***
           
           
           
       
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        - October 6, 2014
 
          Antonello Scardicchio - International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy 
          "Local integrals of motion in the many-body localized phase" [Abstract] 
Host: Bob Jaffe 
           
           
           
        - October 13, 2014 - 4
 
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          not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the Columbus Day Holiday 
           
           
           
        - October 20, 2014
 
          Norman Birge - Michigan State University  
          "Spin-triplet supercurrent in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions" [Abstract] 
          Host: Leonid Levitov 
           
           
         
        - October 27, 2014
 
          Sander Otte - Delft University of Technology - The Netherlands 
          "Spin wave imaging in atomically designed nanomagnets" [Abstract] 
          Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero 
         
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        - November 3, 2014
 
          Joe Orenstein - University of California - Berkeley  
          "Polarization rotation in cuprates: half truths and factors of one-half" [Abstract] 
          Host: Patrick Lee 
          ***This seminar will be held in the Pappalardo Room, 4-349*** 
           
 
           
        - November 10, 2014
 
          There will 
          not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the Veterans Day Holiday  
           
           
           
        - November 17, 2014
 
          Eduardo Fradkin - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
          "Pair Density Waves and High Tc Superconductivity" [Abstract] 
          Host: Senthil Todadri ; Liang Fu 
          ***This seminar will be held in the Pappalardo Room, 4-349*** 
           
           
           
        - November 24, 2014
 
          Lu Li - University of Michigan  
          “Quantum Oscillations in Kondo Insulator SmB6” [Abstract] 
          Host: Liang Fu
           
           
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        -  December 1, 2014
 
          Shahal Ilani - Weizmann Institute of Science - Israel  
        "Quantum Design in Carbon Nanotubes " [Abstract] 
          Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero 
           
           
         
        - December 8, 2014
 
        Canceled 
           
           
 
           
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