Spring
2016

February
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• February 1, 2016
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 12:00pm
  Hongming Weng - Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  "Topological Semimetals: Dirac, Weyl and Node-line Semimetals" [Abstract]
  Host: Ling Lu
  
  
• February 4, 2016 - Thursday
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 10:00AM
  Michael Zalatel - University of California-Santa Barbara
  "Symmetry constraints in quantum materials: making the most of seeing nothing"[Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• February 8, 2016
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 12:00pm
  Andrew Potter - University of California-Berkeley
  "Non-equilibrium quantum phases and critical phenomena in isolated systems" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• February 11, 2016 - Thursday
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 10:00AM
  Romain Vasseur - University of California-Berkeley
  "Universality far from equilibrium: from integrability to many-body localization"[Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• February 15, 2016
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the President's Day Holiday
  
  
• February 16, 2016 - Tuesday
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 12:00pm
  Max Metlitski - Perimeter Institute
  "Composite fermion liquid: from 2DEG to topological insulator surface" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  February 18, 2016 - Thursday
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 10:00AM
  Alejandro Rodriguez - Princeton University
  "Non-equilibrium electromagnetic fluctuations in nano-structured media" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  

• February 22, 2016
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 12:00pm
  Anushya Chandran - Perimeter Institute
  "Shaking up statistical physics in interacting quantum systems" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• February 24, 2016 -Wednesday
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 11:00AM
  Christian Schönenberger - University of Basel 
  "Electron Optics in Suspended Graphene"[Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• February 29, 2016
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar scheduled for this date
  
  
  
  
  

March
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• March 2, 2016 - Wednesday
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 11:00AM
  Chen Fang - Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  "Topological gapped and gapless phases protected by nonsymmorphic lattice symmetries" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
• March 7, 2016
  Girsh Blumberg - Rutgers University
  "Chirality density wave of the “hidden order” phase in URu₂Si₂" [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  
  
• March 14, 2016
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the March APS Meeting
  
  
• March 21, 2016
  Barbaros Ozyilmaz - National University of Singapore
  "Controlling many-body states and spin transport in a two-dimensional materials by the electric field effect" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  March 25, 2016 - Friday
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 10:00AM
  Jeroen van den Brink - Leibniz Institute IFW Dresden, Germany
  "Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering on high Tc cuprates and magnetic iridates" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
  
• March 28, 2016
  Dmitry Abanin - Université de Genève
  "Many-body localization and periodically driven systems" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
  

April
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• April 4, 2016
  Mohit Randeria - Ohio State University
  "Skyrmions in chiral magnets" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
  
• April 11, 2016
  Abhay Pasupathy - Columbia University
  "Two Graphene Stories" [Abstract]
  Host: Joe Checkelsky
  
  
  April 18, 2016
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the Patriots Day Holiday
  
  
• April 25, 2016
  Yong Baek Kim - University of Toronto
  "Topology and Correlation in Quantum Materials with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
  

May
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• May 2 2016
  Andrew Mackenzie- Director, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
  "Water, honey and electrons - evidence for electronic hydrodynamics in naturally occurring materials." [Abstract]
  Host: Nuh Gedik
  
  
• May 3, 2016 - Tuesday
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 2:00PM
  M. Zahid Hasan - Princeton University
  "Discovery of Lorentz-invariant and Lorentz-violating emergent Weyl fermions in topological materials" [Abstract]
  Host: Nuh Gedik
  
  
• May 9, 2016
  Shaffique Adam - Yale-NUS College
  "The role of electron-electron interactions in graphene" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• May 20, 2016 - Friday
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 10:00AM
  Hong Ding- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science
  "Observation of Weyl fermions in condensed matter" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu