Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy

Condensed Matter Seminar Schedule
Seminar Organizers: P. Coleman(S), L. Ioffe(F)
and H. Kojima
Regular (in yellow)CM seminars are held in Serin 385 at 1:30 P.M. on Tuesdays.
Friday (informal theory) seminars held at 4:45pm in Serin 287 or 385
Special/Informal Seminars(in blue) held at other times as listed.

2009-2010
Date Speaker  Title (Click for Abstract) Host 
Tue Sep 1  no seminar scheduled
Tue Sep 8 Jeevak Parpia
(Cornell)
Dissipative mysteries -- experiments on glasses at low temperatures HK
Tue Sep 15 Alexander Korotkov (UCR) Non-Projective measurement of solid-state qubits:collapse and uncollapse LI
Thu Sep 17
1:30pm
Francesco Giazotto
(NEST CNR-INFM)
Superconducting Quantum Interference Proximity Transistor LI
Tue Sep 22 John McGreevy
(MIT)
Strange metal from holography GK
Tue Sep 29 N. Peter Armitage
(Johns Hopkins)
Dynamical measurements of superconducting fluctuations in underdoped cuprates and amorphous superconductors:   Classical to quantum  HK
Wed Sep 30
1:30pm
J. Checkelsky
(Princeton)
Magnetoresistance of topological insulator Bi2Se3(informal) LI
Thu Oct 1
1:30pm
A. Dhar
(Raman Institute)
Phononic heat conduction  in disordered crystals NA
Tue Oct 6 Frederick Wellstood
(Maryland)
Noise and decoherence in SQUIDs and Phase qubits LI
Thu Oct 8 Fred Zawadowski Comparision of analytical methods and NRG at the strong coupling limit of quantum impurity problems: in and out of equilibrium NA
Tue Oct 13 Mattias Sitte
(Cologne)
(special theoretical seminar)Energent Lorentz Symmetry with Vanishing Velocity in a Critical Two-Subband Quantum Wire LI
Wed Oct 14
4:45(PLH)
Misha Gershenson
(Rutgers)

Macroscopic Quantum Effects in Superconducting Circuits
colloquium
Tue Oct 20 Jak Tchakhalian
(Arkansas)
Strongly correlated complex-oxide interfaces: From growth to orbital physics GK
Mon Oct 26
1:30pm
Moshe Goldstein
(Bar-Ilan)
Population switching and charge sensing in quantum dots: A case for quantum phase transitions NA
Tue Oct 27 Dennis Drew
(Maryland)
Are electromagnons the Goldstone bosons of multiferroics? SWC
Tue Nov 3 William Halperin 
(Northwestern)
Looking at Vortices with NMR HK
Tue Nov 10 Anatoly Kuklov
(CSI, CUNY)
Interconnection between superfluid and mechanical properties of dislocations in solid He4 HK
Tue Nov 17 Misha Feigelman
Quantum spin liquid state on a decorated honeycomb lattice LI
Tue Nov 24 Thanksgiving Holiday Week   
Thu Dec 3
(1:30pm 385E)
Fri Dec 4
(1:30pm 385E)
Michel Devoret(Harvard) Quntum circuits and qubits(tentative) NA
Tue Dec 8

Other Condensed Matter  related seminars on campus
Department Colloquia, held at 4:45pm on Weds in the Physics Lecture Hall

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