Fall
2015

September
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• September 9, 2015 -Wednesday Special Chez Pierre Seminar
  Suchitra Sebastian - University of Cambridge -UK
  "Quantum oscillations in a Kondo insulator" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri

• September 14, 2015
  Joonho Jang - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Tunneling spectroscopic evidence of Wigner crystallization near integer quantum Hall states" [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
• September 21, 2015
  Gregory S. Boebinger - Director, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Professor of Physics, Florida State University and University of Florida
  "The Phase Diagram of the Cuprate Superconductors: A Survey of Magnetotransport and Specific Heat Measurements" [Abstract]
  Host: Patrick A Lee
  

• September 28, 2015
  Chandra Varma- University of California-Riverside
  "Quantum Critical Fluctuations Leading to Strange Metals in 2D Metallic Anti-ferromagnets, Ferromagnets and in the Cuprates" [Abstract]
  Host: Patrick A Lee
  
  
  

October
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• October 5, 2015
  Piers Coleman - Rutgers University
  "Kondo Insulators: Magnetism meets topology" [Abstract]
  Host:Liang Fu
  
  
  
• October 12, 2015
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the Columbus Day Holiday
  
  
  
• October 19, 2015
  Tyrel McQueen- Johns Hopkins University
  "Putting Electrons and Holes in Spin Liquids." [Abstract]
  Host: Joe Checkelsky
  
  
  
• October 26, 2015
  Arun Paramekanti- University of Toronto
  "Band topology meets correlations - from oxides to cold atoms." [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  

November
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• November 2, 2015
  J. Nathan Kutz - University of Washington
  "Self-tuning complex systems:  Integrating equation-free methods with dynamical systems, machine learning and sparsity." [Abstract]
  Host: Marin Soljacic

• November 4, 2015 -Wednesday Special Chez Pierre Seminar @ 11:00am
  Ramón Aguado- Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM)
  "Majorana bound states from exceptional points in non-topological superconductors" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  

• November 9, 2015
  Senthil Todadri - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Half-filled Landau level and topological insulator surfaces" [Abstract]
  Host: Patrick A Lee
  
  
• November 16, 2015
  Andrey Chubukov - University of Minnesota
  "Superconductivity near a quantum critical point" [Abstract]
  Host:Liang Fu
  
  
• November 23, 2015
  Kin Fai Mak - Pennsylvania State University
  "Valley and spin dependent physics in two-dimensional van der Waals’ materials" [Abstract]
  Host:Liang Fu
  
  
  
• November 30, 2015
  Nigel Cooper -University of Cambridge-UK
  "Topological Kondo Effect with Majorana Fermions" [Abstract]
  Host:Liang Fu
  
  

December
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• December 1, 2015 -Tuesday Special Chez Pierre Seminar
  Klaus Ensslin- ETH Zürich
  "Non-local transport in the topological insulator candidate InAs-GaSb" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero