Rice University
Department of Physics & Astronomy

Condensed Matter Seminars
2007 – 2008

Where: HZ 116
When: Mondays at 4:00 p.m.

Date	Speaker	Topic	Abstract
September 17, 2007	Dr. Mike Manfra Bell Laboratories	Exploring unusual charge ordering in high mobility two-dimensional hole system	abstract
special seminar September 20, 2007 11.00 am, A227	Professor Hiro Munekata Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo	Light induced dynamics of magnetization in ferromagnetic III-V semiconductors	abstract
special seminar September 21, 2007 4.00 pm, HZ116	Professor Satoru Nakatsuji University of Tokyo Tokyo	Metallic Spin Liquid, Anomalous Hall Transport, and Spin Chirality on a Pyrochlore Lattice	abstract
Oktober 01, 2007	Professor Haibing Peng University of Houston	Suspended Carbon-Nanotube Based Structures: Mechanical Resonator, Field Effect Transistor and Tunneling Gap	abstract
October 29, 2007	Dr. Philipp Werner Columbia University	Diagrammatic Monte Carlo method for quantum impurity models	abstract
November 12, 2007	Professor Woowong Kang University of Chicago	Fibonacci Anyons, Topological Quantum Computation, and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect	abstract
SPECIAL EVENT: distinguished lectures in quantum magnetism and physics colloquium: November 19, 2007 location: HZ 210	Professor Frank Steglich Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids Dresden	Superconductivity at heavy-fermion quantum critical points	abstract
November 26, 2007	Professor Yong-Baek Kim University of Toronto	Classical and Quantum Frustrated Magnets	abstract
December 03, 2007	Professor Piet Brouwer Cornell University	The classical limit of quantum transport	abstract
January 14, 2008	Dr. Pouyan Ghaemi MIT	Higher Angular Momentum Kondo Liquids	abstract
special seminar January 25, 2008 11.00 am, HZ116	Dr. Pallab Goswami University of California (UCLA)	First Order Quantum Phase Transition into a Quantum Critical Point	abstract
January 28, 2008	Professor Emanuel Tutuc University of Texas at Austin	Exciton Superfluid in 2D Hole Bilayers	abstract
special seminar February 01, 2008 11.00 am, HZ116	Dr. So Takei University of Toronoto	Nonequilibrium quantum criticality in an open itinerant electron magnet	abstract
February 04, 2008	Dr. Sophie Rittner Cornell University	The Role of Disorder in Supersolidity	abstract
February 18, 2008	Professor Ruslan Prozorov Ames National Laboratory	The Suprafroth and Topological Hysteresis	abstract
special seminar February 28, 2008 337 Space Science Building	Professor Eric Akkermans Technicon, Israel	Photon localization and Dicke superradiance : a crossover to small world networks	abstract
March 03, 2008	Dr. Aníbal Iucci University of Geneva	Modulation spectroscopy with ultracold atoms in an optical lattice	abstract
March 24, 2008	Professor Lance Cooper University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Raman spectroscopic studies of Cu_xTiSe_2	abstract
April 14, 2008	Professor Collin Broholm John Hopkins University	Spin Resonance in the d-wave Superconductor CeCoIn₅	abstract
April 21, 2008	Professor H.T.C. Stoof Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica Universiteit Utrecht	Is there a quantum phase transition in trapped polarized Fermi gases?	abstract
April 28, 2008	Professor Jairo Sinova Texas A&M University	Challenges and chemical trends in achieving a room temperature Challenges and chemical trends in achieving a room temperature dilute magnetic semiconductor: a spintronics tango between theory and experiment	abstract

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Condensed Matter Seminars 2007 – 2008

Condensed Matter Seminars
2007 – 2008