Spring
2012

February
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• February 13, 2012 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - MONDAY - 12:00
  Alexander Ako Khajetoorians - Hamburg University - Germany
  "Exploring magnetism at the single atom level" [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee & Department of Physics
  
  
• February 16, 2012 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - THURSDAY - 1:30
  Xiang Cheng - Cornell University
  "Imaging the microscopic structure of shear thinning and thickening colloidal suspensions" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar & Department of Physics
  
  
• February 20, 2012 - Presidents' Day - There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar this Monday
  
  
• February 21, 2012 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - TUESDAY - 12:00
  Maiken H. Mikkelsen - University of California - Berkeley
  "Spintronics & Nanophotonics for Quantum Information Science" [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee & Department of Physics
  
  
• February 22, 2012 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - WEDNESDAY - 11:00
  Eva-Maria Schoetz - Princeton University
  "Body sculpting: Collective phenomena in development, regeneration, and asexual reproduction" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar & Department of Physics
  
  
• February 22, 2012 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - WEDNESDAY - 4:00
  James R. Williams - Stanford University
  "Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconductor-Topological Insulator Devices" [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee & Department of Physics
  
  
• February 27, 2012 - APS Meeting - There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar this Monday
  
  

March
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• March 2, 2012 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - FRIDAY - 11:00
  David Zhang - Harvard Medical School - Wyss Institute
  "Towards Stimulus-Induced Behavior with Synthetic DNA Devices and Circuits." [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar & Department of Physics
  
  
• March 5, 2012
  Sankalpa Ghosh - Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
  "Electron transport in monolayer and bilayer graphene through magnetic barrier" [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  
  
• March 5, 2012 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - MONDAY - 4:00
  James Analytis - Stanford University
  "Coupled order parameters and quantum criticality in iron-based superconductors" [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee & Department of Physics
  
  
• March 6, 2012 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - TUESDAY - 1:30
  Kevin Wood - Harvard University
  "Decoding the Multi-Drug Growth Response in Bacteria and Cancer Cells" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar & Department of Physics
  
  
• March 7, 2012 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - WEDNESDAY - 12:00
  Keji Lai - Stanford University
  "Probing Nanoscale Electronic Phases in Quantum Materials" [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee & Department of Physics
  
  
• March 8, 2012 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - THURSDAY - 10:30
  Oliver Dial - Harvard University
  "Realizing Two-Qubit Gates in Singlet-Triplet Qubits" [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee & Department of Physics
  
  
• March 12, 2012
  John Tranquada - Brookhaven National Labs
  "Superconductivity and Stripes in La _2-xBa_xCuO₄" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
  
• March 19, 2012
  Dr. Frank Koppens - ICFO-Barcelona, Spain
  “Graphene: a novel platform for capturing and manipulating light at the nanoscale” [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• March 26, 2012 - Spring Break - There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar this Monday
  

April
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• April 2, 2012 - CANCELED - Will be rescheduled in the fall
  Nitin Samarth - Penn State University
  "Inducing superconductivity & ferromagnetism in a candidate topological insulator." [Abstract not available at this time.]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
• April 9, 2012
  Ashvin Vishwanath - University of Californai - Berkeley
  “Topological Phases is Correlated Solids: From Iridates to Strained Graphene” [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• April 13, 2012 - SPECIAL CHEZ PIERRE SEMINAR - FRIDAY 12:00
  Nayda Mason - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  "Proximity Effects and Metallic States in Mesoscopic Superconductor-Normal Metal-Superconductor Arrays" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• April 16, 2012 - Patriot's Day - There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar this Monday
  
  
  
• April 23, 2012
  Gene Mele - University of Pennsylvania
  “An unexpected turn for twisted graphenes” [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  
  
  
• April 30, 2012 - There is not a seminar scheduled for this Monday
  

May
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• May 1, 2012 - SPECIAL CHEZ PIERRE SEMINAR - TUESDAY 4:00
  Leo P. Kadanoff - University of Chicago & The Perimeter Institute, Canada
  “Realizations of Renormalization**” [Abstract]
  Host: Xiao-Gang Wen
  
  
• May 7, 2012
  Oskar Vafek - University of Florida
  “Electronic multicriticality in bilayer graphene” [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  
  
• May 14, 2012
  Nader Engheta - University of Pennsylvania
  “Of Light, Electrons, and Metastructures” [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Marin Soljacic
  
  
• May 15, 2012 - SPECIAL CHEZ PIERRE SEMINAR - TUESDAY 10:30
  Joshua (Chun Hung) Lui - Columbia University
  “Probing interactions in graphene by optical spectroscopy” [Abstract]
  Host: Nuh Gedik