Spring
2018

January
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• January 22, 2018 Special Chez Pierre Seminar
  Chunhui Du - Harvard University
  "Control and Local Measurement of the Spin Chemical Potential in a Magnetic Insulator" [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
• January 24, 2018 Wednesday Special Chez Pierre Seminar
  Mohammad H. Hamidian - Harvard University
  “Atomic-scale Visualization of Topologically Emergent States
  in Correlated Quantum Matter” [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
• January 30, 2018 Tuesday Special Chez Pierre Seminar
  Luis Jauregui - Harvard University
  “A story of light and matter in flatland" [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

February
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• February 1, 2018 Thursday Special Chez Pierre Seminar
  Long Ju - Cornell University
  “Tunable Berry Phase and Berry Curvature Effects in 2D and 3D Materials” [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
• February 5, 2018 Special Chez Pierre Seminar
  Hadar Steinberg - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  "Spectroscopy of bulk and ultrathin NbSe₂ with van-der-Waals tunnel junctions" [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• February 12, 2018
  Su-Yang Xu - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  “Probing quantum geometry and topology by low energy, nonlinear optoelectronic measurements” [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
  
• February 19, 2018
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the President's Day Holiday
  
  
• February 22, 2018 Thursday Special Chez Pierre Seminar at 10:30AM
  Marco Polini - Italian Institute of Technology
  “Topological and quantum plasmonics” [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  
  
• February 26, 2018
  Hong Liu - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "A Quantum hydrodynamic description for scrambling and many-body chaos" [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  
  
  

March
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• March 5, 2018
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the March APS meeting
  
  
• March 12, 2018
  Kai Chang, Max Planck Institute
  "Spontaneous polarization and spin-valley coupling effect in van der Waals group-IV monochalcogenide films" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
  
• March 19, 2018
  Andrew Millis, Columbia University
  "The two dimensional Hubbard model and beyond: what we know, what we think we can know, and what is open" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
• March 26, 2018
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the MIT Spring Break
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

April
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• April 2, 2018
  Johnpierre Paglione - University of Maryland
  "Exotic pairing and ordered states in topological half-Heuslers and nickel pnictides" [Abstract]
  Host: Riccardo Comin
  
  
• April 9, 2018
  Peter Armitage - Johns Hopkins University
  "Critical excitation spectra of a 1D ferromagnetic Ising chain in transverse magnetic field" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• April 16, 2018
  There will not be a Chez Pierre Seminar due to the Patriot's Day holiday
  
  April 23, 2018
  Charles Ahn - Yale University
  "The materials physics of complex oxides" [Abstract]
  Host: Riccardo Comin
  
  
• April 30, 2018
  Oskar Vafek - Florida State University
  "Superconductivity on the Brink of Spin-Charge Order in a Doped Honeycomb Bilayer" [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  
  
  
  
  
  

• May 1, 2018 Tuesday Special Chez Pierre Seminar
  Sergey Frolov - University of Pittsburgh
  "Status of the Search for Majorana Fermions in Semiconductor Nanowires" [Abstract]
  Host: Liang Fu
  
  
  
• May 7, 2018
  Ian R. Fisher - Stanford University
  "How to tune electronic nematic order towards a quantum critical point" [Abstract]
  Host: Joe Checkelsky
  
  
• May 9, 2018 Wednesday Special Chez Pierre Seminar
  Allan MacDonald - University of Texas, Austin
  "More Moirés" [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• May 14, 2018
  Kyle Shen - Cornell University
  "Shedding Light on Artificial Quantum Materials" [Abstract]
  Host: Joe Checkelsky