Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

at Johns Hopkins University

Fall 2009


Unless noted otherwise, seminars are held at 1:30 pm on Wednesdays in Bloomberg 361.
Directions to the department.

Date
Speaker
Title
Host
September 2 (Wednesday) First day of classes

September 9



September 16
Michael Bevan (JHU)
Colloidal interactions, dynamics & assembly on energy landscapes
Robbins
September 23

No seminar: JHU-BNL meeting

September 30



October 7
Abhay Pasupathy (Columbia U)
Visualizing the onset of superconductivity at the atomic scale
Armitage
October 14
Nanlin Wang (Institute of Physics, Beijing)
Optical spectroscopy study on Fe- and Ni-based pnictides
Armitage
October 21
Harini Barath (U Illinois Urbana)
Exploring quantum phase transitions in strongly correlated materials with optical spectroscopy
Armitage/Broholm
October 28
Silvina Gatica (Howard U)
Phases and dimensionality of atoms adsorbed in nano-structured materials
M. Falk
November 4
Johnpierre Paglione (UM College Park) Superconductivity, magnetism and lattice structure in the iron arsenides Armitage
November 11
Stephen Powell (UM College Park) Classical-quantum mappings for geometrically frustrated systems
Tchernyshyov
November 18 canceled
Claudio Chamon (Boston U)
Fractionalization of Dirac fermions in two dimensionsRescheduled: the new date is January 27.
Tchernyshyov
November 25 Thanksgiving break

December 2
Alexander Seidel (Washington U in St. Louis)
TBA
Tchernyshyov
December 7 (Monday) Last day of classes






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Questions or comments?  Contact Oleg Tchernyshyov at 410-516-8586 or email olegt at jhu.edu.