R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the 2012 Fall Semester
August 2012
September 2012
- Wednesday, September 12th
- Ted Thorbeck, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- How strain unintentionally causes quantum dots in silicon nano-devices
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by McDermott
- Thursday, September 13th
- Jing Xia, University of California - Irvine
- Competing Phases of 2D Electrons at ν = 5/2 and 7/3 in fractional quantum Hall systems
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Perkins
- Thursday, September 20th
- Jaideep Singh, Argonne National Lab
- Surprises! and Puzzles? from Probing Neutral Atoms Trapped in Noble Gas Ice
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by McDermott & Yavuz
October 2012
- Thursday, October 4th
- No Herb Seminar -- Atomic Seminar held at this time
- Thursday, October 11th
- Hakan Tureci, Princeton University
- The Kondo exciton: a quantum quench towards strong spin-reservoir correlations
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Vavilov
- Thursday, October 18th
- Jonathan Dowling, Louisiana State University
- Quantum Technology: The Second Quantum Revolution
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Coppersmith & Saffman
- Thursday, October 25th
- Rudro Rana Biswas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Majorana fermions in vortex lattices
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Perkins
November 2012
- Thursday, November 1st
- Pradeep Kumar, Michigan Technological University
- Nonlinear and nonreciprocal effects in magnetic garnet films
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by McDermott
- Thursday, November 8th
- Leonid Rokhinson, Purdue University
- Observation of fractional ac Josephson effect: the signature of Majorana particles
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Vavilov
- Thursday, November 15th
- Charles Tahan, Laboratory for Physical Science
- On-chip cavity quantum phonodynamics
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Friesen
- Thursday, November 22nd
- Thanksgiving Recess
December 2012
- Thursday, December 13th
- Sasha Chernyshev, University of California, Irvine
- Field-induced thermal transport in BEC antiferromagnets
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Perkins
- Thursday, December 20th
- Dohun Kim, University of Maryland
- Electronic Transport in Bi2Se3 Thin Films in the Topological Insulator Regime
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Eriksson