Condensed Matter and CAM Seminars

Our condensed matter seminars are held on Tuesdays at 3:30pm in CP-179, unless otherwise noted below. Please contact the organizers if you would like to meet with a visitor. The CM and CAM seminar series is organized by Ambrose Seo and Ribhu Kaul.

Schedule for Fall 2011

Aug 30 Amlan Biswas (University of Florida)
"Magnetoelectric Coupling in Perovskite Oxides"

Sep 13 Jung Young Cho (General Motors R & D)
"Single crystals to bulk materials: Magnetism to thermoelectrics"

Sep 20 Jungpil Seo (Princeton University)
"Visualizing Novel Surface States in Topological Insulators"

Sep 27 Ying Ran (Boston College)
"Quantum Hall effects in a Weyl Semi-Metal: possible application in pyrochlore Iridates"

Oct 11 Dong Jik Kim (University of Nebraska)
"Recent applications of AFM : Ferroelectric properties & Local current measurements"

Oct 18 Xianggang Wan (Nanjing University)
"Weyl semimetal and Axion Insulator"

Oct 25 Kevin Walsh (University of Louisville)


Nov 8 Ganpathy Murthy (University of Kentucky)
"Chern Bands, Topological Insulators, and Composite Fermions - Part I "

Nov 15 Harold Baranger (Duke University)
"Waveguide QED: Photon Blockade Induced by Many-Body Bound States"

Nov 22 Ganpathy Murthy (University of Kentucky)
"Chern Bands, Topological Insulators, and Composite Fermions - Part II "

Nov 29 Sumit Das (University of Kentucky)

Dec 1 [Thursday] Kirill Shtengel (University of California- Irvine)
Special Blackboard Seminar

Dec 6 Fernando de Juan (University of Indiana)
" Aharonov-Bohm interferences from local deformations in graphene "

Dec 8 [Thursday] Ganpathy Murthy (University of Kentucky)
"Chern Bands, Topological Insulators, and Composite Fermions - Part III "