Condensed Matter Theory

Held in SCI 328.

August 1st, 2012 to July 31st, 2013. Previous/next year.
Oct03
Tatsuhiko Ikeda
University of Tokyo
10 AM SCI 352: Special Day/Time/Place
 Foundation of quantum statistical mechanics and eigenstate thermalization hypothesis Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Oct17
Dr. Ariel Amir
Harvard University
2:00 PM
 Universally slow: Aging in glassy systems
Oct24
Nadya Mason
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Note Special Time at 11 AM
 Proximity Effects and Metallic States in Mesoscopic Superconductor-Normal Metal-Superconductor Arrays Host: David Campbell
Oct31
Gordon Baym
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 CANCELLED: TBA Host: David Campbell
Nov07
Thierry Giamarchi
University of Geneva
 Mobile impurities in quantum systems Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov28
Dr. Camille Aron
Rutgers University
 Strongly Correlated Electrons Driven by an Electric Field Host: Claudio Chamon
Dec12
Karin Dahmen
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2:00 PM
 Avalanches, Disorder, and Universality in Condensed Matter Host: David Campbell
Jan23
Adrian Feiguin
Northeastern University
Note special time: 11 AM
 Toward a unified description of spin incoherent behavior at zero and finite temperatures Host: Michael Kolodrubetz
Jan30
Dr. Igor Mazets
Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Atominstitut, TU Wien and Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2:00 PM
 Description of phase fluctuations in atomic quasicondensates via the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic process Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Apr17
Moshe Goldstein
Yale University
2:00 PM
 Quantum Impurity Physics with Microwave Photons Host: Claudio Chamon
May01
Anushya Chandran
Princeton University
2:15 PM
 Equilibration and coarsening in the quantum O(N) model Host: Michael Kolodrubetz
May08
Onuttom Narayan
UC Santa Cruz
2:00 PM
 Energy transport in low dimensional systems Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
May13
Zi Yang Meng
Louisana State University
Note special day/time: Monday, May 13, 2013 11 AM
 Dynamical cluster quantum Monte Carlo studies on strongly correlate electron systems Host: Thomas Lang
May22
Alioscia Hamma
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
 Topological Entropy after a Quantum Quench Host: Claudio Chamon
May29
Peter Grishin
Vienna University of Technology and Boston University
Note special time 11 AM
 On the road to quantum turbulence: Relaxation and thermalization of a one-dimensional interacting quantum many-body system. Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Jun12
Dr. Marco Schiro' 
Princeton University
Note special time 11 AM
 Quantum Many Body Physics with Strongly Interacting Light-Matter Systems Host: Luca D'Alessio