Spring
2015

February
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• February 2, 2015
  Special Biophysics Chez Pierre Seminar at 12:00pm
  Andrej Kosmrlj - Harvard University
  "Elasticity, Geometry and Buckling" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
  
• February 9, 2015 - ****RESCHEDULED - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015 10:00am****
  Special Biophysics Chez Pierre Seminar at 10:00am
  Arvind Murugan - Harvard University
  "Design principles for heterogeneous materials synthesis : Lessons from biology" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
  
• February 11, 2015 - Wednesday
  Special Biophysics Chez Pierre Seminar at 12:00pm
  Xuefeng Wang - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  "Cellular Forces Studied by DNA-based Molecular Force Sensor & Modulator" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
  
• February 12, 2015 - Thursday
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 12:00pm
  Victor Brar - California Institute of Technology
  "Surface Plasmons and Impurity States in Graphene" [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
  
• February 16, 2015
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the President's Day Holiday
  
  
  
• February 17, 2015 - Tuesday
  Special Biophysics Chez Pierre Seminar at 12:00pm
  Bryan Chen - Leiden University - The Netherlands
  "Topological soft matter: from linkages to kinks" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• February 19, 2015 - Thursday
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 12:00pm
  Luqiao Liu - IBM Watson Research Center
  “Spin orbit interaction induced magnetic dynamics” [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
• February 23, 2015
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 12:00pm
  Ilija Zeljkovic - Boston College
  "Interplay of Dirac Fermions and Structural Deformations in Topological Crystalline Insulators" [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
  
• February 25, 2015 - Wednesday
  Special Biophysics Chez Pierre Seminar at 12:00pm
  Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith - University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  “Using fluorescence microscopy and fluid mechanics to reveal how biological materials move through fluid” [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• February 26, 2015 - Thursday
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 12:00pm
  Riccardo Comin - University of Toronto
  “Resonant x-ray scattering studies of ordering phenomena in solids” [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  

March
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• March 2, 2015
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the March APS Meeting
  
  
  
• March 9, 2015
  Pankaj Mehta - Boston University
  "Deep Learning and the Variational Renormalization Group" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• March 16, 2015
  Luz Martinez-Miranda - University of Maryland
  "Liquid Crystal Nanocomposites: The Interaction among the Different Interfaces and their Role in Electron Transfer" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
  
• March 23, 2015
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the MIT Spring Break
  
  
  
• March 30, 2015
  Vesna Mitrovic - Brown University
  "Modulated Superconductivity" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  

April
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• April 6, 2015
  Jak Chakhalian - University of Arkansas
  “Emergent phenomena hidden in plain view: Strong electronic correlations at oxide interfaces” [Abstract]
  Host: Nuh Gedik
  
  
  
• April 13, 2015
  Ling Lu - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Topological photonic crystals" [Abstract]
  Host: Marin Soljacic
  
  
• April 20, 2015
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the Patriots Day Holiday
  
  
• April 27, 2015
  David Hsieh - California Institute of Technology
  "Subtle structural distortions and a hidden magnetic phase in Sr₂IrO₄ revealed using nonlinear optical measurements" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  

May
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• May 4, 2015
  Jeremy England - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Boltzmann's Dog and Darwin's Finch:
  Understanding self-replication and evolutionary adaptation through the lens of thermodynamics in driven, many-body systems." [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• May 11, 2015
  Peter Abbamonte - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  "Low-energy properties of the bosonic spectral function of Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+x
  measured with momentum-resolved electron energy-loss spectroscopy" [Abstract]
  Host: Nuh Gedik
  
  
• May 15, 2015 - Friday Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 10:30AM
  Michel Devoret - Yale University
  "Coherent supression of quasiparticle dissipation in a Josephson junction" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
  
• June 23, 2015 - Tuesday Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 12:00pm
  Charles Marcus - Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
  “Majorana Islands” [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu