Physics (Internal)
Biophysics/Condensed Matter
August 1st, 2010 to July 31st, 2011. Previous/next year.
Aug26 SCI 352
12:15pm |
Michael C. Muennix
University of Duisberg, Germany
Pizza served at 12 Noon
| Statistical physics approach to complex economic correlations | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Sep10 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Leonid Levitov
MIT
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Adatom Ordering, Bragg Scattering and Tunable Band Gap in Functionalized Graphene | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Sep17 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Peter Lu
Harvard University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Universal Gelation of Particles with Short-ranged Attraction | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Sep24 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Claudio Chamon
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Quantum mechanical and information theoretic view on classical glass transitions | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Sep29
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Alioscia Hamma
Perimeter Institute, Canada
| Revivals of a closed quantum system and Lieb-Robinson speed | |
Oct01 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Steve Simon
Oxford University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Topological Phases of Matter and Why You Should Be Interested | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Oct04 SCI 352
1:00pm |
Prof. Nobuyasu Ito
University of Tokyo
Pizza served at 12:30, talk at 12:45 PM
| Diversifying dynamics and their universality: Eco-evolution and Econo-evolution | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Oct08 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Jane Lipson
Dartmouth College
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Thin film polymeric glasses: From top to bottom | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Oct13
|
Titus Neupert
Paul Scherrer Institut
| Zero-energy states in two-dimensional superconductors: Creating a chain of Majorana fermions | |
Oct15 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Kari Dalnoki-Veress
McMaster University
| CANCELLED: Polymer Droplets on the Nanoscale | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Oct25 SCI 352
12:30pm |
Anders Nilsson
Stockhom University
Pizza served at 12:15PM
| X-ray shines light on some of the water puzzles | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Oct27
|
Manas Kulkarni
Stony Brook University
| First observation of shock waves in a Unitary Fermi Gas | |
Oct28 SCI 352
12:30pm |
Dr. Revati Kumar
Boston University, Chemistry Dept.
Pizza served at 12:15PM
| Atomistic Models of Water | Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli |
Oct29 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Masud Haque
Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany
Pizza served at 11:15 AM/seminar at 11:30 AM
| Interaction induced hierarchy of edge-locking effects | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Nov03
|
Itay Hen
UC Santa Cruz
| Phase diagram of the hardcore Bose-Hubbard model with a superlattice | |
Nov05 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Francesco Zamponi
ENS, Paris
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Bose-Einstein condensation in Quantum Glasses | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Nov12 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Peter Young
UC Santa Cruz
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| The efficiency of the quantum adiabatic algorithm | Host: Anders Sandvik |
Nov17
|
Takuya Kitagawa
Harvard University
| Topological characterization of periodically driven systems | |
Nov19 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Sean Xinsheng Ling
Brown University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Study Hard Condensed Matter Physics in Soft Colloidal Crystals | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Nov30 SCI 352
12:15pm |
Dr. Tobias Preis
University of Mainz (Germany)
Pizza served at 12 Noon, Special Seminar
| Can Physical Science offer insights into switching phenomena in financial markets? | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Dec03 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Dr. Shmuel Rubinstein
Harvard University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Droplet impact and the far-from-equilibrium dynamics of wetting | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Dec10 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Gerardo Ortiz
Indiana University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Algebraic approach to dualities and its applications | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Jan26
|
Claudio Rebbi
Boston University, Physics Chair
12:30 PM
| Hybrid Monte Carlo simulation of graphene | |
Jan28 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Meredith Betterton
University of Colorado
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Theory of motor proteins that change the length of filaments | Host: Sidney Redner |
Feb02
|
Arijeet Pal
Princeton University
11 AM
| The Many-body localization transition- Breakdown of themalization in highly excited states | |
Feb04 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Sid Redner
Boston University, Physics Dept.
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| The Role of Reinforcement on Social Dynamics | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Feb07 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Roberto Andrade
University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
Special Event, Monday Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Complex Networks and Biological Physics | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Feb11 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Dr. Joe Woicik
NIST
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Local Structure Determination in Strain-Engineered Electronic Thin Films | Host: Karl Ludwig |
Feb14 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Professor Dieter Vollhardt
Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, University of Augsburg
Special Event, Monday Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Electronic Correlations in Solids: From Models to Materials | Host: Andrei Ruckenstein |
Feb16
|
Daoxin Yao
Sun Yat-sen University, China
11:30 AM
| Magnetism and multiorbital models in the iron-based superconductors | |
Feb18 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Jennifer Schwarz
Syracuse University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Correlated percolation | Host: Sidney Redner |
Feb25 PRB 595
12:00pm |
Kipton Barros
Los Alamos National Lab
Joint CCS/Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Dielectric effects in self-assembly of binary colloid mixtures | Host: William Klein |
Mar02
|
Torsten Clay
Mississippi State University
| The Paired Electron Crystal: order from frustration in the quarter-filled band | |
Mar09
|
Rudro Rana Biswas
Harvard University
11:00AM
| SU(2)-invariant spin liquids on the triangular lattice with spinful Majorana excitations | |
Mar10 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Paola Gallo
University of Rome III
Special Event, Thursday, Pizza served at 11:45AM
| Novel Physics of Glassy Water | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Mar17 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Eugenio E. Vogel
Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
Special Event, Thursday, Pizza served at 11:45AM
| Underlying physics relating magnetism with economics--and air pollution | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Mar24 PRB 595
12:30pm |
Glynn Holt
Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
Special Event, Thursday,Special Location, PRB595, Pizza served at 12:15PM
| Fire and Ice: Torturing Water with Lasers and Bubbles | Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli |
Mar25 3:30pm |
Mark Bradley
Colorado State University
Joint Condensed Matter Seminar with MSE Colloquium at 15. St. Mary's Street, Room 105; refreshments at 3:15
| Spontaneous Nanoscale Pattern Formation Induced by Ion Bombardment of Solid Surfaces | Host: Karl Ludwig |
Apr01 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Oana Malis
Purdue University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Band structure engineering for novel infrared semiconductor lasers | Host: Karl Ludwig |
Apr08 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Aditi Mitra
New York University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Quenched Dynamics in Interacting one-dimensional systems | Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
Apr15 SCI 352
12:00pm |
George Zimmerman
Boston University, Physics
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| "100 Years of Superconductivity" | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Apr20
|
Ying Ran
Boston College
2 PM
| Z2 spin liquid and chiral antiferromagnetic phase in Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice: duality between Schwinger-fermion and Schwinger-boson representations | |
Apr22 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Pedram Roushan
Princeton University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Visualizing Surface States of Topological Insulators with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy | Host: Armin Rahmanisisian |
Apr28 SCI 352
12:30pm |
Dr. Eric Pinnick
Boston University, Physics
Water Group Special Event, Thursday,12:30 PM; Pizza served at 12:15PM
| Getting water to melt at 273 K | |
Apr29 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Theo Nieuwenhuizen
Institute for Theoretical Physics, UvA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Elucidating the quantum measurement problem | Host: Paul Krapivsky |
May04
|
Andreas Nunnenkamp
Yale University
11 AM
| Nonlinear Optomechanics: quadratic coupling and the single-photon regime | |
May05 SCI 352
12:30pm |
Paul Matsudaira
National University Singapore
Water Group Special Event, Thursday,12:30 PM; Pizza served at 12:15PM
| SPECIAL CONDENSED MATTER BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR | |
May26 PRB 595
11:45am |
Alain Arneodo
Laboratoire Joliot Curie et Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Note: Thursday at 11:45 AM;PRB 595; Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| Nucleosome positioning by excluding genomic energy barriers | Host: Plamen Ivanov |
May27 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Pablo Jensen
University of Lyon
Special Event, Friday, May 27, Noon
| New Ideas in social science from the physical sciences | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Jun20 SCI 504
12:00pm |
Paola Gallo
University of Rome III
Water Group Special Event; Pizza served at 11:45 AM; note location in Chemistry
| Water's adventures in the supercooled wonderland: insights from aqueous solutions | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |