Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

at Johns Hopkins University

Spring 2006 Fall 2006 Spring 2007


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

Date
Speaker
Title
Host
January 22 (Monday)
First day of classes


January 24
Igor Mazin (Naval Research Lab)
Does nesting cause charge-density waves?
Armitage
January 31
Oleg Tretiakov (JHU)
Dynamics of domain walls in magnetic nanostrips
Tchernyshyov
February 7
Carlos Sa de Melo (Georgia Tech)
Evolution from BCS to BEC superfluidity: phase transitions in Fermi-Fermi mixtures
Tesanovic
February 14
Sara Majetich (Carnegie Mellon)
Magnetic nanoparticles: self-assembly and nanoscale behavior
Reich
February 21
Martin Muser (Western Ontario) From contact mechanics to tribochemistry
Robbins
February 28
Phuan Ong (Princeton)
Vorticity and high-temperature superconductors
Tchernyshyov
March 7
No seminar: APS March Meeting


March 14



March 21
Derek Stein (Brown) Nanostructures for single molecule biophysics
Broholm
March 28
Smitha Vishveshwara (Urbana)
Inhomogeneous phases of bosons in optical lattices
Tchernyshyov
April 4
Angela Kopp (Rutgers)
Entanglement entropy of a dissipative two-level system
Armitage
April 11
Peter Abbamonte (Urbana)
Quantum melting of the hole crystal in the spin ladder Sr14-xCaxCu24O41
Armitage
April 18
Dennis Drew (College Park) Electromagnons in multiferroics
Broholm
April 25
Piers Coleman (Rutgers)
Heavy-electron quantum criticality
Tchernyshyov
April 27 (Friday)
Last day of classes

May 2
Geoff Beach (Texas)
Dynamics of domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires
Tchernyshyov









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