Biophysics/Condensed Matter

August 1st, 2014 to July 31st, 2015. Previous/next year.
Sep03
SCI 328
9:00am
Dr. Sergey Syzranov
University of Colorado, Boulder
9 AM
Transport in Dirac materials exposed to strong electromagnetic radiation Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Sep10
SCI 328
9:00am
Prof. Vladimir Gritsev
University of Amsterdam
TBA Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Sep12
SCI 352
12:00pm
Daniel Stein
New York University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Spin Glasses: What's the Big Idea? (Is There One?) Host: Raj Mohanty
Sep15
SCI 328
11:00am
Andreas Läuchli
University of Innsbruck
Note special day, time: Monday at 11 AM
Entanglement spectroscopy of quantum matter Host: Anders Sandvik
Sep17
SCI 328
11:00am
Marin Bukov
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Oct01
SCI 328
11:00am
Cheng-Wei Liu
Boston University
11 AM
CMT group meeting
Oct08
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Michael Tomka
Boston University
11 AM
CMT Group Meeting
Oct10
SCI 352
12:00pm
Dr. Katherine R. Thomas
Ass't Editor of Physical Review Letters
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Inside Physical Review Letters: An introduction to scientific publishing Host: Ophelia Tsui
Oct24
SCI 352
12:00pm
Dr. Ilija Zelikovic
Boston College
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Strain engineering Dirac surface states in topological crystalline insulator heteroepitaxial thin films Host: Claudio Chamon, Michael El-Batanouny
Oct29
SCI 328
11:00am
Joshuah Heath
University of Vermont
CANCELLED: CMT group meeting
Oct29
SCI 328
11:00am
Valentin Kasper
University of Heidelberg
Real-Time Dynamics of Fermions in Gauge Theories Host: Shainen Davidson
Oct31
SCI 352
3:00pm
Prof. Jason Amsden
Duke University
Note: Special Time - 3:00 PM
Enabling mass spectrometer miniaturization using microfabrication and aperture coding Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Nov05
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Luca D'Alessio
Penn State University & Boston University
11 AM
Dynamical preparation of Floquet Chern insulators: A no-go theorem and the experiments Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov07
SCI 352
12:00pm
Sahar Sharifzadeh
ECE, Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Towards Computational Design of the Optoelectronic Properties of Organic Materials Host: Ophelia Tsui
Nov12
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Michael Knap
Harvard University
11 AM
Relaxation dynamics, thermalization, and dynamic phase transitions in Heisenberg quantum magnets Host: Marin Bukov
Nov14
SCI 352
12:00pm
Arshad Kudrolli
Clark University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Aggregation, packing, and response of soft matter Host: William Klein
Nov20
SCI 328
11:00am
Maria-Theresa Rieder
Freie Universität Berlin
Note: Special day,Thursday
Disorder-induced phase transitions in multichannel Majorana wires Host: Thomas Iadecola
Nov21
SCI 328
10:00am
Prof. Walter Hofstetter
Goethe University, Frankfurt
Note special day, time: Friday at 10 AM
Quantum Simulations with Ultracold Atoms and Ions: Beyond Standard Optical Lattices Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov21
SCI 352
12:00pm
Joseph Checkelsky
MIT
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Probing Topological Phases by Materials Design Host: Michael Kolodrubetz
Nov24
SCI 352
12:00pm
Hai-Tao Zhang
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Pizza served at 11:45 AM .......Note: Special Day
Phase Transitions in Animal Motions Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Dec02
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Adolfo Grushin
MPIPKS, Dresden
Note: Event moved from 11/26 to 12/2/14
Stability of Chern and Fractional Chern insulators Host: Claudio Chamon
Dec03
SCI 328
11:00am
Bernardo Zubillaga
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Dec05
SCI 352
12:00pm
Rick Averitt
University of California, San Diego
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Complex Materials Host: Ophelia Tsui
Dec08
SCI 352
12:00pm
Manuel I. Marques
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid,Spain.
Pizza served at 11:45 AM .......Note: Special Day
Light as a Mechanism to Tailor Diffusion Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Dec09
SCI 352
11:00am
Dr. Kimberly Reynolds
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Note: Special day, time - Tuesday, 11:00 AM
Evolutionary Design Principles for Cellular Systems Host: Plamen Ivanov
Dec12
SCI 352
12:00pm
Dr. Charles Neill
UC Santa Barbara
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Chaotic dynamics in quantum circuits Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Jan16
SCI 352
12:00pm
Victor Brar
California Institute of Technology
Surface Plasmons and Impurity States in Graphene
Jan21
SCI 328
12:00am
Nima Dehmamy
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Jan23
SCI 352
12:00pm
Trevor David Rhone
NTT Japan and Tohoku University
NMR profiling of quantum electron solids in high magnetic fields
Jan30
SCI 352
12:00pm
Alex Sushkov
Harvard University
Magnetic Resonance with Single Nuclear-Spin Sensitivity
Jan30
SCI 328
3:00pm
Nima Dehmamy
Boston University
Special event
"From Classical Fields to Complex Networks of Arbitrary degree distribution and high clustering"
Feb03
SCI 109
3:30pm
Ileana Rau
IBM Research, San Jose, CA
Seminar in SCI 109
Toward Single Atom Magnets
Feb04
SCI 328
11:00am
Ted Pudlik
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Feb06
SCI 352
12:00pm
Luqiao Liu
IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY
Spin orbit interaction induced magnetic dynamics
Feb11
SCI 328
11:00am
Prof. Aldofo del Campo
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Shortcuts to adiabaticity across a phase transition Host: Michael Kolodrubetz
Feb13
SCI 352
12:00pm
Ilija Zeljkovic
Boston College
Dirac fermions and broken symmetries in topological crystalline insulators
Feb18
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Julian Struck
MIT
Artificial Gauge Fields in Driven Optical Lattices Host: Marin Bukov
Mar06
SCI 352
12:00pm
Prof. Andrea Gabrielli
University of Rome
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
A Physicist Looks at the Brain Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Mar11
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Marco Schiro'
Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT), Saclay France.
Transient Orthogonality Catastrophe in a Time Dependent Nonequilibrium Environment
Mar12
SCI 352
3:00pm
Professor Sarah Keller
University of Washington
Note special time - 3:00 PM, day - Thursday .....Refreshments served
Membrane biophysics Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Mar13
SCI 352
12:00pm
Prof. Antonio Scala
Institute of Complex Systems, CNR, Italy IMT Alti Studi Lucca, Italy....... LIMS the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, UK
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Statistical physics of power grids Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Mar18
SCI 328
11:00am
Prof. Masaki Oshikawa
University of Tokyo
Symmetry protection of critical phases and global anomaly in 1+1 dimensions Host: Claudio Chamon
Mar20
SCI 352
12:00pm
Owen Myers
University of Vermont
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Long-Range Interacting Particles in a Parametrically Driven Periodic Potential Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Mar23
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Rajeev Singh
MPIPKS, Dresden
Many-body localization and its signatures in quantum quenches
Apr01
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Luiz Santos
Perimeter Institute
Stroboscopic Symmetry Protected Topological Phases Host: Claudio Chamon
Apr01
SCI 328
4:00pm
Nikolay V. Dokholyan
University of North Carolina
Special day, special time: Wednesday, 4 PM, SCI328
Controlling allosteric networks in proteins Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Apr15
SCI 328
11:00am
Prof. Kirill Korolev
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Apr22
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Sarang Gopalakrishnan
Harvard University
Slow dynamics in and around many-body localized states
Apr24
SCI 352
12:00pm
Fernando Bresme
Imperial College, London
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
"Novel Physics of Water and Nanoparticles at Interfaces" Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Apr29
SCI 352
12:00pm
Professor Hajime Tanaka
University of Tokyo
Pizza served at 11:45 AM; Note Special Day - Wednesday
Role of precursors in crystal nucleation: From hard spheres to water Host: H. Eugene Stanley
May06
SCI 328
11:00am
Pankaj Mehta
Boston University
11:00 AM
CMT Group Meeting
May13
SCI 328
11:00am
Ramis Movassagh
MIT and Northeastern University
11:00 AM
A counterexample to the area law for quantum matter Host: Claudio Chamon
May15
SCI 328
12:00pm
Nikolay Brilliantov
University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Pizza served at 11:45 AM; Note Special Location
Aggregation and fragmentation kinetics. Application to Planetary Rings. Host: Paul Krapivsky
Jun03
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Monika Aidelsburger 
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
Artificial magnetic fields with ultracold atoms in optical lattices and Chern-number measurement Host: Marin Bukov
Jul01
SCI 328
11:00am
 Dr. Johannes Nübler 
Technische Universität München, Munich
Adsorption-desorption kinetics of soft particles and application to chromatin assembly Host: Kirill Korolev