Condensed Matter Theory

Held in SCI 328.

August 1st, 2015 to July 31st, 2016. Previous/next year.
Sep09
Jeongwan Haah
MIT
 Localization from superselection rules in translation invariant systems
Sep16
Ippei Danshita
 Bound states of Higgs modes in a superfluid
Sep23
S. Vajna 
BU
 Topological classification of dynamical phase transitions Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Sep30
W. Witczak-Krempa
Harvard
 Universal entanglement and dynamics near quantum critical points Host: Thomas Iadecola
Oct07
Colin Kennedy
MIT
 Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in the Harper-Hofstadter Hamiltonian
Oct14
A. Feiguin
Northeastern University
 Building and understanding magnetic nano-structures, one atom at a time
Oct28
Ian Affleck
University of British Columbia
 Phase diagram of the interacting Majorana chain
Nov04
Gene Mele
University of Pennsylvania
 Bending Rules in Graphene Kirigami
Nov11
Ariel Amir
Harvard
 Getting in shape: how do microorganisms control their geometry?
Nov18
Fabio Franchini
SISSA
 Ergodicity breaking in invariant matrix models
Dec02
Jorn Venderbos
MIT
 Odd-parity superconductors with two-component order parameters: nematic and chiral; gapped, Dirac and Weyl
Dec09
Edbert J. Sie 
MIT
 Valley-selective optical Stark effect in monolayer WS2
Jan26
Chris Laumann
U of Washington
 Topology and Localization with Long-range Interactions
Jan28
Anushya Chandran
Perimeter Institute
 Shaking up statistical physics in interacting quantum systems
Feb02
Maksym Serbyn
UC Berkeley
 Thermalization and many-body localization in disordered quantum systems
Feb11
Ari Turner
Johns Hopkins
 Entanglement in Fluctuating Phases
Mar09
Haruki Watanabe
University of Tokyo
 Filling constraints for spin-orbit coupled insulators in symmorphic and nonsymmorphic crystals
Mar10
Garry Goldstein
Cambridge
 Slave boson mean field theories for quantum dimers
Mar23
Jinwu Ye
Mississippi State University
 Rotated Heisenberg model and its applications to cold atom systems and Kitaev materials with SOC
Mar30
Silvia Viola Kusminskiy
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
 An Interacting quantum motor
May04
Inti Sodemann
MIT
 Particle-hole symmetric phases in multicomponent Landau levels
May10
Sergei Moroz
University of Colorado
 Theory of p+ip Superfluids and the Super Efimov Effect
May18
Lucile Savary
MIT
 Disorder-induced entanglement in spin ice pyrochlores
Jun03
Adam Kaufman
 Quantum thermalization through entanglement
Jun15
Pedram Roushan
Google Inc., Santa Barbara
 Chiral groundstate currents of interacting photons in a synthetic magnetic field
Jul07
Gautam Reddy
UCSD
Navigating turbulent environments: the soaring flight of birds
Jul15
Jozsef Konczer
 Simulating the Universe (an alternative approach) Host: Szabolcs Vajna