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INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Condensed Matter Seminars

Coordinator: M.P.A. Fisher

Speakers: Please give your transparencies to the ITP staff members in the front office (Rm 1102) for scanning. They will be returned promptly to your mailbox.

Time Speaker Title
9/30, 3:30 p.m. Dr. Agnes Buka
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Electroconvection in Homeotropically Aligned Nematics
11/23, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Ramin Golestanian
ITP, UCSB
Dynamics of Counterion Condensation[Slides]
12/3, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Moshe Havilio
Technion, Israel
Superconductivity and Quantum Spin Disorder in Cuprates[Slides][Aud]
5/4, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Woowon Kang
Univ Chicago
Tunneling between the Edges of Two Quantum Hall Systems[Slides]
1/09, 10:30 a.m. Dr. Oskar Vafek
Johns Hopkins Univ
QED-3 Theory of the Underdoped Cuprates[Aud][Cam]
5/21, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Sandro Sorella
SISSA
The Frustrated Heisenberg Model and the RVB Projected BCS Wave Function[Aud][Cam]
2/04, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Yoram Burak
Tel Aviv University
Electrostatic Correlations and Attractive Forces Between Macromolecules in Solution[Aud][Cam]
3/05, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Sergey Kravchenko
Northeastern University
Sharp Increase of the Effective Mass and Possible Ferromagnetic Instability Near the Metal-Insulator Transition in 2D[Aud][Cam]
7/27, 12:00 p.m. Dr. Jan Martinek
Karlsruhe University
Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots Coupled to Ferromagnetic Leads[Aud][Cam]
12/08, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Cristiane de Morais Smith
University of Utrecht
Pattern Formation in Quantum Hall Systems
5/04, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Matt Hastings
LANL
Mean-Field and Anomalous Behavior on a Small-World Network[Aud][Cam]
9/23, 10:30 a.m. Dr. Fabian Heidrich-Meisner
U Tennessee & ORNL
Thermal Transport in Low-dimensional Spin Systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/30, 10:30 a.m. Dr. Khaled Al-Hassanieh
U Tennessee & ORNL
Electron Transport in Nanostructures: Interference and Electron-Phonon Coupling Effects[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/13, 3:00 p.m. Dr. Matt Grayson
Walter Schottkty Institut Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Bending the Quantum Hall Effect: Metal-Insulator Transition in One Dimension[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/01, 2:30 p.m. Dr. Nihat Berker
MIT
New Phases, Superfluid Weights, and Free Carrier Densities: Renormalization-Group Theory of Electronic Models[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/10, 2:00 p.m. Dr. Frank Verstraete
Caltech
Variational Numerical Renormalization Group Methods in One and Higher Dimensions[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12/14, 4:00 p.m. Dr. Alexei Kitaev
Microsoft & Caltech
Anyons and Quantum Computation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1/17, 11:00 a.m. Dr. Michael Levin
MIT
Probing Order Beyond the Landau Paradigm[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/23, 12:15 p.m. Dr. Simon Kos
Cambridge University
Spins Under Strain
1/23, 2:00 p.m. Hui Deng
Caltech
Matter-Light Quantum Interfaces for Scalable Quantum Networks[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/13, 2:00 p.m. Ken Kamrin
MIT
A New Continuum Model for Dense Granular Deformation[Podcast][Aud][Cam]

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