Physics

Student Condensed Matter Journal Club

We meet on a biwekly schedule to discuss some important papers in Condensed Matter physics (broadly defined).

The discussion is led by a different student each time. The environment is very informal and we provide tea and cookies. 

If you want to be added to the Journal Club mailing list send an email to: dalessio at bu dot edu

Everybody is welcome. 

 

Journal Club Schedule

SPRING 2012 ( every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month at 4pm in SCI 328)

Jan 26th: Alex Lang, "Kinetic proofreading: a new mechanism for reducing errors in biosynthetic processes requiring high specificity", Hopfield, PNAS,  (1974)

Feb 9th: Luca D'Alessio, Survey on models of quantum dissipation. I will start from here and see how far we get.

Feb 23rd: SPECIAL MARCH MEETING JOURNAL CLUB. Sign up here.

Mar 8th: CANCELED

Mar 22nd: Dario Corradini, "Supercooled and Glassy Water", Pablo G. Debenedetti and H. Eugene Stanley. Physics Today, 46 June 2003. You can read the article here.

April 12th: CANCELED

April 26th: Colin Howard: "Colloquium: Topological Insulators", Zahid Hasan and Charles Kane, Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 3045–3067 (2010) . You can read the article here.

May 10th: Javad Noorbakhsh, "The chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" by A. M. Turing, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 237, No. 641. (Aug. 14, 1952), pp. 37-72. You can read the article here.  Javad will also use chapter 14 of "Mathematical Biology" by J.D.Murray and Chapter 3 of "Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Nonequilibrium Systems" by M.Cross.

May 24th: Cheng-Wei Liu

FALL 2011 (usual time 4pm every other Thursday in SCI 328)

Oct 20th: Adolfo Gonzalez Grushin, "Measured long-range repulsive Casimir–Lifshitz forces", Nature 457 170 (2008)

Nov 3rd: Suspended due to time conflict with the ICE CREAM SOCIAL

Nov 17th: Luca D'Alessio, "Anomalous diffusion in the presence of external forces: Exact time-dependent solutions and their thermostatistical basis", Phys. Rev. E 54, R2197–R2200 (1996). This is the controversial paper in which the Tsallis entropy was introduced.

Dec 8th: Paul Krapivski, Tutorial on Networks

SPRING 2011 (usual time 4:30 Thursday in SCI 328)

Jan 20th: Armin Rahmanisisian,“Topological Insulator”, http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3895
Feb 10th: Alex Lang, “Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities”, PNAS 79 2554 (1982)
Feb 25th at 4:00pm (NOTE SPECIAL DAY and TIME): Ying Tang, “Quantum Criticality”, http://qpt.physics.harvard.edu/c59.pdf
March 11th (NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY): Ranjit Chacko , “Beyond Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics: Maximum entropy hyperensembles out of equilibrium”, PRE 75, 041119 (2007)

April 22nd at 4pm (NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME): Anatoli Polkovnikov, "Phase space representation of quantum dynamics.", Annals of Phys. 325, 1790 (2010)

April 29nd at 4pm (NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME): Claudia DeGrandi, "Persistent currents in normal metal rings"

FALL 2010 (usual time 4:30 Thursday in SCI 328)

Oct 14th: Arnab Sen, “The Coulomb phase in frustrated systems”, http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.4531
Oct 28th: Pankaj Mehta, “From Kuramoto to Crawford: exploring the onset of
synchronization in populations of coupled oscillators”, Physica D 143 (2000) 1–20
Nov 11th: Luca D’Alessio, “Absence of diffusion in Certain Random Lattices”, Phys Rev 109, 1492 (1958)
Dec 2nd: Daniel Volovik “Life at Low Reynolds Number”, American Journal of Physics vol 45, pages 3-11, 1977.