Condensed Matter Theory

Held in SCI 328.

August 1st, 2011 to July 31st, 2012. Previous/next year.
Sep28
Arnab Sen
Boston University
 Phase transitions in the frustrated Ising model on the square lattice
Oct19
Takuya Kitagawa
Harvard University
 Novel topological phenomena in non-equilibrium systems
Oct26
Jasmine Meroz
Tel Aviv University
 Who's Who of Subdiffusive Models
Nov16
F. M. Izrailev
Instituto de Fisica, BUAP, Mexico, and Michigan State University
Note: 11:00AM; SCI 328
 From classical to quantum chaos:Where are we now? Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov18
Roger Melko
University of Waterloo, Canada
Note: 1:30 PM, SCI328
 Spin liquid and Deconfined Criticality in a Kagome Lattice Bose-Hubbard Model Host: Anders Sandvik
Nov30
Sidhartha Goyal
KITP at UCSB
 Dynamic mutation selection balance as an evolutionary attractor Host: Pankaj Mehta
Dec07
Subir Sachdev
Harvard University
 Non-Fermi liquids: Field theory vs. holography
Feb08
Jay Deep Sau
Harvard University
 The search Majorana fermions and non-Abelian statistics in semiconductor-superconductor systems.
Feb16
Michael Kolodrubetz
Princeton University
 Non-equilibrium dynamic critical scaling of the transverse-field Ising chain Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Feb23
Michael Rosenblum
Potsdam University
 Reconstructing Phase Dynamics of Oscillator Networks Host: Plamen Ivanov
Apr04
Dirk Morr
University of Illinois, Chicago
 Non-Equilibrium Transport and Current Imaging in Nanoscopic Quantum Networks
Apr11
Cristian Batista
Los Alamos National Laboratory
 Condensation of Anyons in Quantum Magnets Host: Anders Sandvik
May02
Dmitri Feldman
Brown University
 Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for chiral systems in non-equilibrium steady states Host: Claudio Chamon
May09
Jonathan Simon
Harvard University
 Building Synthetic Materials from Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Magnetism in an Optical Lattice Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov