Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

at Johns Hopkins University

Spring 2008


Attention!  New time for the CM seminar is 1:30-2:30 pm.

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

Date
Speaker
Title
Host
January 28 (Monday) First day of classes

January 30
Craig Fennie (Argonne National Lab)
In pursuit of strongly coupled multiferroics
Tchernyshyov
February 6
Bruce Normand (University of Frieburg)
Quantum magnets under pressure Broholm
February 13
Joel Miller (Utah)
Organic-based magnets: new materials, new physics, and new chemistry for the new millenium
Broholm
February 20
Sean Sun (JHU) Physics of bacterial cell division
Robbins
February 27
Alexander Balatsky (Los Alamos)
Dirac materials
Tesanovic
March 6 (Thursday)
Dook van Mechelen (Geneva)
Electron-phonon interaction and charge carrier mass enhancement in SrTiO3
Armitage
March 7 (Friday)
David Parker (Max Planck Institute, Dresden)
Enhancing Tc and TSDW in gated quasi-1D organic superconductors

Broholm
March 12
March Meeting


March 19
Spring Break


March 26
Morten Eskildsen (Notre Dame)
Superconducting vortices in CeCoIn5: Beyond the Abrikosov-Ginzburg-Landau paradigm
Broholm
April 2
Michael Hayden (UMBC)
Electro-optic polymers for THz emission and sensing
Armitage
April 4 (Friday 2 pm)
Igor Mazin (NRL)
Fe-based superconductivity
Tesanovic
April 9
Zlatko Tesanovic (JHU)
Informal discussion of new Fe-based layer superconductors
April 11 (Friday)
Aditi Mitra (NYU)
Nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions
Tchernyshyov
April 16
Wolfgang Losert (UMCP)
Decision making in D. discoideum Reich
April 23
Markus Müller (Harvard)
Electron-assisted hopping in quantum electron glasses Armitage
April 30
Vidya Madhavan (Boston College)
STM measurements of bosonic excitations in cuprates: clues to the paring mechanism
Tchernyshyov
May 2 (Friday) Last day of classes

May 15 (Thursday, 3 pm, Bloomberg 462)
T. Y. Chen, Z. Tesanovic, C. L. Chien (JHU)
Iron superconductors
Tchernyshyov

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