Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

at Johns Hopkins University

Fall 2006


Unless noted otherwise, seminars are held at 2 pm on Wednesdays in Bloomberg 361.
Directions to the department.

Date
Speaker
Title
Host
September 6
Tom Mason (UCLA)
Nanoemulsions: From Elastic Debye Glasses to Slippery Diffusion-Limited Aggregates
Leheny
September 13



September 20
Craig Maloney (JHU)
Using atoms to model faults
Robbins
September 27
Chris Stock (JHU)
Spin dynamics in the heavily underdoped cuprate YBa2Cu3O6+x
Broholm
October 4
Predrag Nikolic (Harvard)
Mutual influence of vortices and quasiparticles in d-wave superconductors Tesanovic
October 11
Doron Bergman (UCSB)
Magnetic ordering at a magnetization plateau in the pyrochlore antiferromagnet
Tchernyshyov
October 18
Sumanta Tewari (UMD) Chiral p-wave superconductivity: non-abelian statistics and topological quantum computation
Tchernyshyov
October 25



November 3 (Friday) in Room 462
Michael Coey (Trinity) Spin electronics
Chien
November 8
Nikolay Prokof'ev (UMass)
Superfluid disorder in quantum solids
Tchernyshyov
November 13 (Monday)
Sambandamurthy Ganapathy (Buffalo)
Quantum solids of 2D electrons in magnetic fields
Armitage
November 23 (Thursday)
Thanksgiving holiday


November 29
Zahid Hasan (Princeton)
Correlated electrons on a triangular lattice in NaxCO2
Armitage
December 4 (Monday)
Tonica Valla (Brookhaven)
Pseudogap in the cuprate superconductors: what is the ground state?
Tesanovic
December 6
Arun Paramekanti (Toronto)
Superconductors near quantum phase transitions: BCS-BEC crossovers and normal state Fermi arcs Tesanovic
December 11 (Monday) Last day of classes

December 13
Andrei Bernevig (Princeton)
Quantum spin-Hall effect in HgTe
Tesanovic

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