R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the 2014 Spring Semester
January 2014
- Monday, January 27th
- Maxim Dzero, Kent State University
- Topological insulators driven by an electron spin
- 4:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Vavilov
February 2014
- Thursday, February 6th
- Vanita Srinivasa, UMD
- Electrically controlled spin qubits in coupled quantum dot systems
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Coppersmith
- Thursday, February 20th
- Zohar Nussinov, Washington University
- Two- and three-dimensional spin liquid and interacting Majorana systems
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Natalia Perkins
- Thursday, February 27th
- Smitha Vishveshwara , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Topological phases, Majorana fermions and disorder in superconductors
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Perkins
March 2014
- Friday, March 7th
- Daniel Sherman, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
- Experimental review on the disordered-driven superconductor to insulator transition
- 10:00 am; Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Thursday, March 13th
- Rahul Nandkishore, Princeton University
- Many body localization: a new frontier for quantum statistical physics
- 10:00 am; 5310, hosted by Chubukov
- Thursday, March 27th
- Professor Britton Plourde, Syracuse University
- Superconducting qubits and cavities: sidebands and vortices
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by McDermott
April 2014
- Thursday, April 3rd
- Michael Kolodrubetz, Boston University
- Measuring topological transitions in superconducting qubits
- 10:00 am; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Vavilov
May 2014
- Thursday, May 8th
- Peter Wolfle
- On the way to understanding quantum matter: The death and rebirth of quasiparticles
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Perkins
- Monday, May 12th
- Wenshuo Liu, Rutgers University
- Quench dynamics of the anisotropic Heisenberg model through an exact approach
- 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Vavilov
- Thursday, May 15th
- Alex Rimberg, Dartmouth
- Realization of a Single-Cooper-Pair Josephson Laser
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Eriksson
June 2014
- Thursday, June 12th
- Luke C.G. Govia, Univ des Saarlandes
- Efficient Qubit Readout Using Josephson Photomultipliers
- 3:00 pm; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Vavilov
- Monday, June 30th
- Ivan Pechenezhskiy, University of California, Berkeley
- Infrared Spectroscopy via Scanning Tunneling Microscope: Recent Advances and Future Outlook
- 2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by McDermott
July 2014