Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

at Johns Hopkins University

Spring 2009


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

Date
Speaker
Title
Host
January 26 (Monday) First day of classes

January 28



February 4
Rafael Jaramillo (U. Chicago) Strong coupling and criticality in a canonical density-wave system
Broholm
February 11
Xuemei Cheng (Argonne)
Capturing spin dancing in magnetic nanostructures
Chien
February 18
Senthil Todadri (MIT)
Quantum spin liquids and the Mott transition
Broholm/Tchernyshyov
February 25
Emilia Morosan (Rice) Doping effects in layered chalcogenides
Broholm
March 4



March 11
Tyrel McQueen (Princeton)
TBA
Broholm
March 18
Spring Break, APS March Meeting
No seminar
March 25
Rolando Valdes Aguilar (JHU) Electromagnons in multiferroic manganites
Armitage
April 1
Jeffrey Morris (CUNY)
Particle pressure in flowing dispersions: a bridge from osmosis to granular dilation

Leheny/Reich
April 8
Ruslan Prozorov (Iowa State)
London penetration length and pairing symmetry in iron-pnictide superconductors
Tesanovic
April 15
Oskar Vafek (Florida State)
Interactions and disorder effects in graphene
Tesanovic
April 22
Richard Greene (UM, College Park)
Josephson effect studies of pairing symmetry in Fe-pnictide superconductors
Armitage
April 29
Cristian Batista (Los Alamos)
Electronic orbital currents and polarization in Mott insulators
Tchernyshyov
May 1 (Friday) Last day of classes

May 6
László Forró (EPF Lausanne) Searching for superconductivity in transition metal dichalcogenides
Armitage

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