Condensed Matter Theory

. Held in SCI 328.

August 1st, 2011 to July 31st, 2012. Previous/next year.

Sep28	Arnab Sen Boston University	Phase transitions in the frustrated Ising model on the square lattice
Oct19	Takuya Kitagawa Harvard University	Novel topological phenomena in non-equilibrium systems
Oct26	Jasmine Meroz Tel Aviv University	Who's Who of Subdiffusive Models
Nov16	F. M. Izrailev Instituto de Fisica, BUAP, Mexico, and Michigan State University Note: 11:00AM; SCI 328	From classical to quantum chaos:Where are we now?	Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov18	Roger Melko University of Waterloo, Canada Note: 1:30 PM, SCI328	Spin liquid and Deconfined Criticality in a Kagome Lattice Bose-Hubbard Model	Host: Anders Sandvik
Nov30	Sidhartha Goyal KITP at UCSB	Dynamic mutation selection balance as an evolutionary attractor	Host: Pankaj Mehta
Dec07	Subir Sachdev Harvard University	Non-Fermi liquids: Field theory vs. holography
Feb08	Jay Deep Sau Harvard University	The search Majorana fermions and non-Abelian statistics in semiconductor-superconductor systems.
Feb16	Michael Kolodrubetz Princeton University	Non-equilibrium dynamic critical scaling of the transverse-field Ising chain	Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Feb23	Michael Rosenblum Potsdam University	Reconstructing Phase Dynamics of Oscillator Networks	Host: Plamen Ivanov
Apr04	Dirk Morr University of Illinois, Chicago	Non-Equilibrium Transport and Current Imaging in Nanoscopic Quantum Networks
Apr11	Cristian Batista Los Alamos National Laboratory	Condensation of Anyons in Quantum Magnets	Host: Anders Sandvik
May02	Dmitri Feldman Brown University	Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for chiral systems in non-equilibrium steady states	Host: Claudio Chamon
May09	Jonathan Simon Harvard University	Building Synthetic Materials from Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Magnetism in an Optical Lattice	Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov