Spring
2014

January & February
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• January 22, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Wednesday 12:00pm
  Yuki Sato - Harvard Uiversity
  “Emergent physics of artificial materials and quantum engineering” [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
• January 27,2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Monday 3:00pm
  Katja Nowack - Stanford University
  "Imaging current in quantum spin Hall insulators" [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
• February 6, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Thursday 10:00am
  Karen Alim - Harvard University
  "Physical Forces Shaping Morphology" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• February 12, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Wednesday 12:00pm
  Martin Mourigal - John Hopkins University
  “Interacting quasiparticles in quantum and frustrated magnets” [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
• February 13, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Thursday 10:00am
  Hernan Garcia - Princeton University
  "How, When and Where in Pattern Formation: Spying On Embryonic Development One Molecule At A Time" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• February 17, 2014
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the Presidents Day Holiday
  
  
• February 18, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Tuesday 10:00am
  Matthieu Wyart - New York University
  "The Memory of Sand" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• February 18, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Tuesday 12:00pm
  Weibo Gao - ETH - Zurich, Switzerland
  “Quantum control of interactions between spin and photons in semiconductor quantum dot”
  [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
• February 20, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Thursday 10:00am
  Askin Kocabas - Harvard University
  "Controlling Neural Dynamics To Evoke Complex Behaviors in C. elegans" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• February 20, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Thursday 2:30pm
  Milan Allan - ETH - Zurich, Switzerland
  "Visualizing Electronic Nematicity and Cooper Pairing in Iron-based Superconductors" [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
• February 27, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Thursday 10:00am
  Nikita Fakhri - Georg-August University - Germany
  "Hitching A Ride at the Nanometer Scale: Transport in Passive and Active Complex Media" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• February 28, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Friday 12:00pm
  Ashvin Vishwanath - University of California, Berkeley
  "Emergent Supersymmetry at the Boundary of a Topological Phase" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  

March
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• March 3, 2014
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the APS March Meeting
  
  
  
• March 10, 2014
  David A. Huse - Princeton University
  "Many-body Anderson localization" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
  
• March 17, 2014
  Kenan Gundogdu - North Carolina State University
  "Many-Body Effects in Valleytronics: Direct Measurement of Valley Lifetimes in Single-Layer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides." [Abstract]
  Host: Nuh Gedik
  
  
• March 24, 2014
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the MIT Spring Break
  
  
  
• March 31, 2014
  Thomas Peter Devereaux - Stanford University
  “Theoretical understanding of ultrafast electron dynamics in model systems” [Abstract]
  Host: Nuh Gedik
  
  
  

April
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• April 7, 2014
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to Special Seminars later in the week
  
  
• April 9, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Wednesday 12:00pm
  Andrea Cavelleri - Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg; Department of Physics, University of Oxford
  “Light induced dynamics in low dimensional solids” [Abstract]
  Host: Nuh Gedik
  
  
• April 10, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Thursday 1:00pm
  Peter Fulde - Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany.
  "Superconductivity caused by intra-atomic excitations" [Abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
  
  
  
• April 14, 2014
  Dmitri Kharzeev - Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National Laboratory
  "The chiral magnetic effect in Dirac and Weyl semimetals" [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  
  
  
• April 15, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Tuesday 1:00pm
  J.C. Séamus Davis - Cornell University
  “Visualizing the d-form factor modulations of intra-unitcell broken-symmetry that comprise the cuprate density waves" [Abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
  
  
• April 21, 2014
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the Patriots Day Holiday
  
  
• April 30, 2014 - Special Chez Pierre Seminar - Wednesday 12:00pm
  Kate Ross - Johns Hopkins University
  "From "Order By Disorder" to Emergent Electrodynamics in Geometrically Frustrated Pyrochlore Magnets" [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  

May
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• May 5, 2014
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to Faculty Meeting
  
  
• May 12, 2014
  Patrick Lee - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  “Amperean pairing and the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors.” [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero