Fall
2019

September
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• September 9, 2019
  Jun Zhu - Pennsylvania State University
  "Topological valleytronics in bilayer graphene" [Abstract]
  Host: Joe Checkelsky
  
  
• September 16, 2019
  Boris Spivak - University of Washington
  "Giant microwave absorption in superconductors: a Debye mechanism" [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  
  
• September 23, 2019
  Joseph Indekeu - KU Leuven, Belgium
  "Iteratively solving nonlinear growth, diffusion and convection" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• September 24, 2019 Tuesday Special Chez Pierre Seminar
  Haim Beidenkopf - Weizmann Institute of Science
  "Topological protection of Weyl fermions tested on the atomic scale" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• September 30, 2019
  Dale J. Van Harlingen - University of Illinois
  “S-TI-S (Superconductor-Topological Insulator-Superconductor) Josephson junction networks:a platform for exploring and exploiting Majorana fermions for quantum information processing” [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

October
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• October 7, 2019
  Aharon Kapitulnik - Stanford University
  "Thermal Transport in Complex Materials" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• October 14, 2019
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the Columbus Day Holiday
  
  
• October 21, 2019
  Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford University
  "Electronic Phase Diagram of Cuprate Superconductors – a Balancing Act" [Abstract]
  Host: Patrick A. Lee
  
  
• October 28, 2019
  Israel Klich - University of Virginia
  "Highly entangled spin chains and exact holographic tensor networks." [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
  
  
  
  

November
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• November 4, 2019
  Bohm-Jung Yang, Seoul National University and Institute for Basic Science, Seoul, Korea
  "Stiefel-Whitney classes and topological phases in band theory" [Abstract]
  Host: Joe Checkelsky
  
  
• November 11, 2019
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the Veterans Day Holiday
  
  
• November 18, 2019
  Philip W. Phillips - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  "Strange Metals and Anomalous Dimensions for Conserved Currents from Noether's Second Theorem" [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  
  
• November 25, 2019
  Cory Dean - Columbia University
  "Correlated states in transition metal dichalcogenides" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

December
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• December 2, 2019
  Alessandra Lanzara, University of California, Berkeley
  "The many faces of spin – orbit coupling and its with superconductivity" [Abstract]
  Host: Riccardo Comin
  
  
• December 4, 2019 Wednesday Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 11:00AM
  Laurens W. Molenkamp - University of Würzburg
  "Topological Physics in HgTe based Quantum Devices" [Abstract]
  Host: Mingda Li and Riccardo Comin
  
  
• December 9, 2019
  Robert Willett - Nokia Bell Labs
  "Interference measurements of non-Abelian e/4 & Abelian e/2 quasiparticle braiding and a path to a topological qubit" [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori