R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the 2015 Spring Semester
January 2015
- Thursday, January 8th
- Dr. Justin Perron
- A Quantitative Study of Bias Triangles in Chemical Potential Space
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall , hosted by Eriksson
- Monday, January 12th
- John Watson, Purdue
- Studies of Correlations in Low-Disorder 2D Electron Gases in MBE-Grown GaAs
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Eriksson
- Wednesday, January 14th
- Kyle Sundqvist , Texas A&M
- The pumpistor: understanding the parametrically flux-pumped SQUID by its electrical impedance
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Sue Coppersmith
- Monday, January 26th
- Graeme Smith, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- From Quantum Communications to Small Quantum Computers
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Coppersmith
- Wednesday, January 28th
- Christian Schneider, UCLA
- Quantum control of atoms, ions, and nuclei
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Coppersmith
- Thursday, January 29th
- Lara Faoro, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies
- Noise in superconducting circuits: microscopic theory and open questions
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Coppersmith
February 2015
- Monday, February 9th
- Victor Brar , California Institute of Technology
- Surface Plasmons and Impurity States in Graphene
- 4:00 pm; 4272 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Coppersmith
- Wednesday, February 11th
- Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Harvard University
- Dynamical signatures and applications of many-body localization
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Coppersmith
- Thursday, February 12th
- Luqiao Liu, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Spin orbit interaction induced magnetic dynamics
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 474 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Coppersmith
- Monday, February 16th
- Adina Luican-Mayer, Argonne National Lab, Center for Nanoscale Materials
- Custom low-dimensional material systems explored from atom to bulk
- 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Coppersmith
- Wednesday, February 18th
- Alex Levchenko
- Spin-charge scattering in Luttinger Liquids
- 4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Coppersmith
- Thursday, February 26th
- Rahul Nandkishore, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science
- Many body localization: a new frontier for quantum statistical physics
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Coppersmith
March 2015
April 2015
- Thursday, April 23rd
- Bill Coish, McGill University
- Quantum Spins in Nanostructures: Coherence, Measurement, and Collective Dynamics
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Coppersmith
- Thursday, April 30th
- Mike Manfra, Purdue University
- Pushing GaAs to the extreme: from the 5/2 FQHE to spin qubits
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Eriksson
May 2015
- Tuesday, May 12th
- Joydip Ghosh, University of Calgary
- A leakage-resilient approach to topological quantum error correction with superconducting elements
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Friesen
- Thursday, May 21st
- Vadim Oganesyan, CUNY
- Surprises in topological insulators -- singular paramagnetism and superconductivity
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Vavilov
June 2015
- Thursday, June 4th
- Tommaso Calarco, University of Ulm
- Steering many-body quantum dynamics
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Saffman
July 2015
- Thursday, July 9th
- Kostya Kechedzhi
- Multi-qubit quantum co-tunneling as a computational resource
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Vavilov