*Seminars are held at 12:00pm unless otherwise stated.

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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-xBaxCuO4" [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

 

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