Biophysics/Condensed Matter

August 1st, 2016 to July 31st, 2017. Previous/next year.
Sep09
SCI 328
10:30am
Mike Kolodrubetz
UC Berkeley
Unexpected effects in periodic driving of gapless topological systems
Sep12
SCI 328
3:00pm
Zheng Shi
Fermionic approach to junctions of multiple quantum wires
Sep16
SCI 352
12:00pm
Phillip Weinberg and Marin Bukov
Boston University
A new open-source Python 2.7 package for quantum dynamics of many-body spin chains Host: Claudio Chamon
Sep19
SCI 328
3:00pm
Siddhardh Chandra Morampudi
Statistics of fractionalized excitations through threshold spectroscopy Host: Christopher Laumann
Sep23
SCI 352
12:00pm
Soonwon Choi
Harvard
Critical thermalization of a disordered dipolar spin system in diamond Host: Alexander Sushkov
Sep23
SCI 328
3:00pm
Dries Sels
BU
Developing and Understanding Methods for Quasi-Adiabatic Dynamics
Sep30
SCI 352
12:00pm
Alexei Tsvelik
Brookhaven
TBD Host: Claudio Chamon
Oct03
SCI 328
3:00pm
Philip Crowley
Many body localisation with weak disorder in the quantum east model
Oct11
SCI 328
3:00pm
Olav Syljuasen
University of Oslo
Magnetic Bloch Oscillations (Monday Schedule) Host: Anders Sandvik
Oct13
SCI 352
12:00pm
Thomas H. Seligman
Instituto de Ciencias Fisicas
Eigenvalue distributions of the correlation matrix: A sensitive indicator for phase transitions?
Oct14
SCI 352
12:00pm
Colin Parker
Georgia Institute of Technology
Magnetism, rotons, and beyond: engineering atomic systems with lattice shaking
Oct21
SCI 352
12:00pm
Mohammed Hafezi
UMD
Measuring many-body characters in AMO systems Host: Alexander Sushkov
Oct28
SCI 352
12:00pm
Nuh Gedik
MIT
Optical manipulation of electronic bands using Floquet-Bloch States
Oct31
SCI 328
3:00pm
S. Flach
Center for Theore+cal Physics of Complex Systems, Ins+tute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea New Zealand Ins+tute for Advanced Study, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
Designing and perturbing flatband networks
Nov04
PRB 365
12:00pm
Leo Radzihovsky
CU Boulder
Disorder-driven quantum transition in Dirac semimetals and semiconductors Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov11
SCI 352
12:00pm
Michelle Sanders
BU
Ultrafast infrared fiber lasers and applications in mid-infrared vibrational photothermal imaging Host: Alexander Sushkov
Nov14
SCI 328
3:15pm
Peter Lunts
Exact critical exponents for the antiferromagnetic quantum critical point in and dimensions
Nov18
SCI 352
12:00pm
David Huse
Princeton
TBD Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov21
SCI 328
3:00pm
Andrea Trombettoni 
CNR-IOM and SISSA, Trieste
Tunneling-based quantum devices with ultracold strongly interacting atoms
Nov28
SCI 328
3:00pm
Alioscia Hamma
University of Massachusetts Boston
Equilibration in the many-body localized phase
Dec02
SCI 352
12:00pm
Zvonimir Dogic
Brandeis
Spontaneous flows in soft active matter Host: Pankaj Mehta
Dec09
SCI 352
12:00pm
Martin Zwierlein
MIT
Strongly correlated Fermi gases under the microscope Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Dec16
SCI 352
12:00pm
Mukund Vengalattore
Cornell
Quantum Measurement Backaction : From single atoms to mesoscopic optomechanical systems Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Jan23
SCI 328
1:00pm
Aidan Brown
Simon Fraser University
Dissipation, time asymmetry, and flux for model biomolecular systems
Jan23
SCI 328
3:30pm
Ariel Sommer
MIT
Building materials from light: Photonic Landau levels and Rydberg-mediated interactions
Jan26
SCI 352
10:00am
John Harter
California Institute of Technology
New quantum phases of matter in strongly correlated and spin-orbit-coupled metals
Jan30
SCI 328
3:30pm
Eli Levenson-Falk
Stanford
Grooming Schrodinger's Cat: Improving Superconducting Quantum Electronics
Feb02
SCI 352
3:30pm
Adam Kaufman
Harvard University
Synthesizing, controlling, and probing quantum states through microscopy
Feb06
SCI 328
2:30pm
Ben Feldman
Princeton University
Real-space imaging of a nematic quantum liquid
Feb09
SCI 352
3:30pm
Liang Wu
University of California, Berkeley
Shining light on topological insulators and Weyl semimetals
Feb10
SCI 352
12:15pm
Prof. M. A. Anisimov
Univ. of Maryland
Peculiar Thermodynamics of Liquid Polyamorphism Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Feb10
SCI 328
3:30pm
Po-Hao Huang
Boston University
Coupled spin-1/2 ladders as microscopic models for non-Abelian chiral spin liquids
Feb13
SCI 328
3:30pm
Zhanybek Alpichshev
MIT
Non-equilibrium dynamics of a frustrated Mott insulator
Feb16
SCI 352
3:30pm
Angela Kou
Yale
Building quantum materials with superconducting circuits
Feb17
SCI 352
1:30pm
Limei Xu
Peking University
Dynamic transition and its structural correlation
Feb24
SCI 328
3:30pm
Wanzheng Hu
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Dynamical Materials Control with Light
Mar24
SCI 352
12:00pm
Jamir Marino
University of Cologne
Quantum aging, universal real-time crossovers, and the non-equilibrium phase diagram of pre-thermal critical states
Mar27
SCI 328
3:00pm
Sergej Flach
Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea
Intermittent Many-Body Dynamics at Equilibrium
Mar29
SCI 328
2:00pm
Michael Pretko
MIT
Higher Rank Quantum Spin Liquids: From Fractons to Emergent Gravity
Apr04
SCI 328
11:00am
Andrew Saxe 
Harvard
Training and generalization dynamics in deep linear neural networks
Apr05
SCI 328
2:30pm
Meng Cheng
Yale University
Time-reversal and reflection symmetry in (2+1)-dimensional topological phases
Apr07
SCI 352
12:00pm
Lode Pollet
Interacting lattice systems with a model of quantum dissipation from a thermodynamic perspective
Apr10
SCI 328
2:00pm
Sayan Choudhury
TBD
Apr14
SCI 328
11:00am
Ayoti Patra
Maryland
Shortcuts to adiabaticity using flow-fields
Apr19
SCI 328
2:30pm
Adrian Po
Harvard University
Chiral Floquet Phases
Apr21
SCI 352
12:00pm
Alexandre Day
Boston University
The phase diagram of quantum state preparation : limitations and complexity
Apr26
SCI 328
11:00am
Sylvain Capponi
Toulouse university & BU
Competition between Bose glass and superfluid phases in quantum antiferromagnets Host: Anders Sandvik
Apr28
SCI 352
12:00pm
Rahul Nandkishore
Many body localization, thermalization, and the localization transition: insights from the entanglement spectrum
May03
SCI 352
11:00am
Zohar Nussinov
WUSTL
Glassy dynamics as a consequence of the equilibrium liquid to solid transition
May08
SCI 328
2:00pm
Yi-Zhuang You
Harvard University
Topological Phase Transitions: From Duality Web to Symmetric Mass Generation
May10
3:00pm
Roger Melko
Stochastic Neural Networks for Machine Learning the Many-Body Problem
May12
SCI 352
12:00pm
Prof. Francesco Mallamace
Physics Dept, Univ. of Messina
NEW PHYSICS ON DILUTING WATER WITH IMPURITIES Host: H. Eugene Stanley
May16
SCI 328
2:00pm
Anatoly Dymarsky
UKY
Qauntum chaos, (diffusive) transport and random matrixes Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
May18
11:00am
Achini Opathalage
Dogic Lab, Brandeis University
Held in CILSE 809
Defect dynamics of the 2D confined active nematic liquid crystals
Jun07
SCI 352
11:00am
David J. Luitz
Out-of-time-order correlators in disordered quantum systems
Jul19
SCI 328
4:00pm
Alberto Pascual-GarcĂ­a 
Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park, Imperial College London
The complex interplay of habitat filtering, neutral assembly and ecological interactions in the determination of bacterial community-level function.