Biophysics/Condensed Matter

August 1st, 2015 to July 31st, 2016. Previous/next year.
Aug07
SCI 352
12:00pm
Prof. Francesco Mallamace
Physics Dept, Univ. of Messina
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
NEW EXPERIMENTS ON BULK & CONFINED WATER Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Aug14
SCI 352
12:00pm
Kookheon Char, Seoul National University
Sponsored jointly with the Physics Department’s Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminars and Materials Science and Engineering
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Polymer Thin Film Platforms with Nanostructure and Functions Host: Ophelia Tsui
Sep09
SCI 328
11:30am
Jeongwan Haah
MIT
Localization from superselection rules in translation invariant systems
Sep16
SCI 328
11:30am
Ippei Danshita
Bound states of Higgs modes in a superfluid
Sep18
SCI 352
12:15pm
Jan Gieseler
Harvard
Pizza served at 12:00pm
Dynamics of levitated nanoparticles in high vacuum
Sep23
SCI 328
12:00pm
S. Vajna 
BU
Topological classification of dynamical phase transitions Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Sep24
SCI 352
1:00pm
Prof. LeiLei Shi
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Pizza served at 12:45 AM
PHYSICS APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING THE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN STOCK PRICE AND STOCK VOLUME
Sep25
SCI 352
12:00pm
Yuval Baum
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Current at a distance and resonant transparency in Weyl semi-metals
Sep30
SCI 328
12:00pm
W. Witczak-Krempa
Harvard
Universal entanglement and dynamics near quantum critical points Host: Thomas Iadecola
Oct02
SCI 352
12:00pm
Seth Fraden
Brandeis University
Microfluidic Networks of the Oscillatory Chemical Reactions
Oct07
SCI 328
12:00pm
Colin Kennedy
MIT
Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in the Harper-Hofstadter Hamiltonian
Oct09
SCI 352
12:00pm
Christopher Mudry
PSI, Switzerland
Breakdown of the topological classification for gapped phases of noninteracting fermions by quartic interactions
Oct14
SCI 328
12:00pm
A. Feiguin
Northeastern University
Building and understanding magnetic nano-structures, one atom at a time
Oct23
SCI 352
12:00pm
Chandra Varma
University of California - Riverside
Quantum Critical Fluctuations Leading to Strange Metals in 2D Metallic Anti-ferromagnets, Ferromagnets and in the Cuprates
Oct28
SCI 328
12:00pm
Ian Affleck
University of British Columbia
Phase diagram of the interacting Majorana chain
Oct30
SCI 352
12:00pm
Philip Phillips
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Optical Conductivity in the Cuprates from Holography and Unparticles
Nov04
SCI 328
12:00pm
Gene Mele
University of Pennsylvania
Bending Rules in Graphene Kirigami
Nov06
SCI 352
12:00pm
Scott Milner
Tubes, Topology, and Entangled Rings
Nov11
SCI 328
12:00pm
Ariel Amir
Harvard
Getting in shape: how do microorganisms control their geometry?
Nov13
SCI 352
12:00pm
Prof. Richard C. Brower
Boston University
Lattice Quantum Finite Elements (QFE) for Conformal Field theory
Nov18
SCI 328
11:00am
Fabio Franchini
SISSA
Ergodicity breaking in invariant matrix models
Nov18
SCI 352
4:00pm
Prof. Predrag Cvitanovic
Georgia Institute of Technology
Noise is your friend, or: How well can we resolve state space?
Nov20
SCI 352
12:00pm
Yiwen Chu
Yale University Department of Applied Physics
Improving the performance of solid-state qubits near surfaces
Dec02
SCI 328
12:00pm
Jorn Venderbos
MIT
Odd-parity superconductors with two-component order parameters: nematic and chiral; gapped, Dirac and Weyl
Dec04
SCI 352
12:00pm
Prof. Mikael Rechtsman
Penn State
Aspects of photonic topological insulators
Dec09
SCI 328
11:00am
Edbert J. Sie 
MIT
Valley-selective optical Stark effect in monolayer WS2
Jan26
SCI 352
2:00pm
Chris Laumann
U of Washington
Topology and Localization with Long-range Interactions
Jan28
SCI 352
2:00pm
Anushya Chandran
Perimeter Institute
Shaking up statistical physics in interacting quantum systems
Feb02
SCI 352
2:00pm
Maksym Serbyn
UC Berkeley
Thermalization and many-body localization in disordered quantum systems
Feb04
SCI 352
2:00pm
Romain Vasseur
UC Berkeley
Universality far from equilibrium: from integrability to many-body localization
Feb09
SCI 352
2:00pm
Itamar Kimchi
MIT
Many-body quantum entanglement: frustration and spin-orbit coupling in magnetic solids
Feb11
SCI 352
2:00pm
Ari Turner
Johns Hopkins
Entanglement in Fluctuating Phases
Feb19
SCI 352
12:00pm
Arkady Pikovsky
Institute of Physics and Astronomy Potsdam University, Germany
Collective dynamics of oscillator populations: Multifrequency ensebles and chimera states Host: Plamen Ivanov
Feb23
SCI 352
2:00pm
Yi Li
Princeton
Non-perturbative Results for Itinerant Ferromagnetism in Multi-orbital Systems
Mar09
SCI 328
11:00am
Haruki Watanabe
University of Tokyo
Filling constraints for spin-orbit coupled insulators in symmorphic and nonsymmorphic crystals
Mar10
SCI 328
2:00pm
Garry Goldstein
Cambridge
Slave boson mean field theories for quantum dimers
Mar11
SCI 352
12:00pm
Anna Ermakova
Ulm University
Nanodiamonds with NV centers in biological applications
Mar14
SCI 328
2:00pm
Madhu Advani
Stanford University
New Perspectives on High Dimensional Inference
Mar21
SCI 328
3:00pm
Itai Pinkoviezki
Statistical Physics of Collective Load Transport by Ants
Mar23
SCI 328
11:00am
Jinwu Ye
Mississippi State University
Rotated Heisenberg model and its applications to cold atom systems and Kitaev materials with SOC
Mar25
SCI 352
12:00pm
Jeremy Levy
The University of Pittsburgh
Etch-a-Sketch Nanoelectronics
Mar30
SCI 328
11:00am
Silvia Viola Kusminskiy
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
An Interacting quantum motor
Apr08
SCI 352
12:00pm
Todd Gingrich
MIT
Dissipation Bounds All Steady-State Current Fluctuations
Apr15
SCI 352
12:00pm
Rahul Kulkarni
Stochastic modeling of gene expression: exact results and large deviations Host: Pankaj Mehta
Apr15
SCI 352
2:00pm
Professor Eduardo Lopez (Ph.D. BU Physics Dept 2005)
University of Oxford
THE NETWORK PICTURE OF LABOR FLOW Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Apr22
SCI 352
12:00pm
Babek Momeni
Modeling microbial communities as a network of chemically mediated interactions Host: Kirill Korolev
Apr29
SCI 352
12:00pm
Ariel Amir
Tight-binding models in biology: from photonic structures to neural networks Host: Pankaj Mehta
May04
SCI 328
11:00am
Inti Sodemann
MIT
Particle-hole symmetric phases in multicomponent Landau levels
May10
SCI 328
2:00pm
Sergei Moroz
University of Colorado
Theory of p+ip Superfluids and the Super Efimov Effect
May12
SCI 352
12:00pm
Brian Lester
JILA, University of Colorado Boulder
Spin-motional coupling in assembled quantum gases
May18
SCI 328
11:00am
Lucile Savary
MIT
Disorder-induced entanglement in spin ice pyrochlores
Jun03
SCI 328
11:00am
Adam Kaufman
Quantum thermalization through entanglement
Jun15
SCI 328
11:00am
Pedram Roushan
Google Inc., Santa Barbara
Chiral groundstate currents of interacting photons in a synthetic magnetic field
Jul07
SCI 328
11:00am
Gautam Reddy
UCSD
Navigating turbulent environments: the soaring flight of birds
Jul11
SCI 352
1:15pm
Yoram Louzoun, Lev Muchnik, Yonatan Rosen
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat- Gan Israel
Reading networks – content extraction from complex networks
Jul15
SCI 328
11:00am
Jozsef Konczer
Simulating the Universe (an alternative approach) Host: Szabolcs Vajna