Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

at Johns Hopkins University

Spring 2006


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

Date
Speaker
Title
Host
January 18
Shina Tan (Chicago)
Application of two new methods to a strongly interacting atomic Fermi gas Tesanovic
January 30 (Monday)
First day of classes


February 3 (Friday)
Yaroslaw Bazaliy (IBM Almaden)
Spin transfer effect for domain wall motion
Tchernyshyov
February 8
W. Casey Uhlig (NIST)
Direct observation of current-driven domain wall distortions, transitions, and propagation in ferromagnetic nanowires
Tchernyshyov
February 10 (Friday), 3 pm
Srinivas Raghu (Princeton)
Direct analogs of quantum Hall effect edge states in photonic systems Tesanovic
February 15
Vladimir Cvetkovic (Leiden)
Superconductivity from the 'ordered' limit Tesanovic
February 22



March 1
Oleg Tchernyshyov (JHU)
Fractional vortices and composite domain walls in nanomagnets

March 8
Kwon Park (KIAS)
Quantum antiferromagnetism and high-Tc superconductivity Tesanovic
March 15
No seminar: APS March Meeting


March 22
Roderich Moessner (Ecole Normale)
Why spin ice obeys the ice rules
Tchernyshyov
March 29
Seunghun Lee (Virginia)
Frustration in magnetic spinels
Broholm
April 5
Mohit Randeria (Ohio State)
Theory of superconductivity in high-Tc cuprates
Tesanovic
April 12
Johannes Majer (Yale)
Qubits as spectrometers of quantum noise
Markovic
April 19
Pengcheng Dai (Tennessee/Oak Ridge)
The evolution of magnetic excitations in electron-doped superconducting
Pr0.88LaCe0.12CuO4

Broholm
April 26
N. Phuan Ong (Princeton) Cancelled
Tchernyshyov
May 3
James Franson (JHU APL)
Quantum computing using single photons
Broholm
May 5 (Friday) in Room 475
Ashot Melikyan (Florida)
Inhomogeneities in cuprate superconductors: impurities and vortices Tesanovic
May 5 (Friday) Last day of classes






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