Condensed Matter Theory

. Held in SCI 328.

August 1st, 2012 to July 31st, 2013. Previous/next year.
Oct03 Tatsuhiko Ikeda
University of Tokyo
10 AM SCI 352: Special Day/Time/Place
Foundation of quantum statistical mechanics and eigenstate thermalization hypothesis Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Oct17 Dr. Ariel Amir
Harvard University
2:00 PM
Universally slow: Aging in glassy systems
Oct24 Nadya Mason
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Note Special Time at 11 AM
Proximity Effects and Metallic States in Mesoscopic Superconductor-Normal Metal-Superconductor Arrays Host: David Campbell
Oct31 Gordon Baym
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
CANCELLED: TBA Host: David Campbell
Nov07 Thierry Giamarchi
University of Geneva
Mobile impurities in quantum systems Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov28 Dr. Camille Aron
Rutgers University
Strongly Correlated Electrons Driven by an Electric Field Host: Claudio Chamon
Dec12 Karin Dahmen
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2:00 PM
Avalanches, Disorder, and Universality in Condensed Matter Host: David Campbell
Jan23 Adrian Feiguin
Northeastern University
Note special time: 11 AM
Toward a unified description of spin incoherent behavior at zero and finite temperatures Host: Michael Kolodrubetz
Jan30 Dr. Igor Mazets
Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Atominstitut, TU Wien and Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2:00 PM
Description of phase fluctuations in atomic quasicondensates via the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic process Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov