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 are organized by Ambrose Seo and Ribhu Kaul.

Sep 4 Feng Ye (University of Kentucky/Oak Ridge National Lab)
"Long range interactions and magnetic frustration in multiferroic MnWO4"

Sep 7 [Friday colloquium] Marcos Rigol (Penn State)
"Relaxation dynamics and thermalization in isolated quantum systems"

Sep 11 Chris Lobb (University of Maryland)
"Engineering Quantum Coherence"

Sep 18 Hae-Young Kee (University of Toronto)
"Interplay between spin-orbit coupling and electronic correlation in layered iridates"

Sep 25 Vidya Madhavan (Boston College)
"Topological phases in matter probed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy"

Sep 28 [Friday colloquium] Philip Kim (Columbia University)
"Spin and Pseudo-Spin in Graphene "

Oct 2 Torsten Clay (Mississippi State University)
"Frustration and electron-electron interactions in layered cobaltates"

Oct 16 Jay Sau (Harvard University)
"The search for topologically degenerate Majorana modes in semiconductor/superconductor interfaces"

Oct 23 Mike Hermele (University of Colorado, Boulder)
"Mott insulators of ultracold alkaline earth fermions: A new class of quantum magnets"

Oct 30 Sid Parameswaran (University of California, Berkeley)
"Valley Physics in High Magnetic Fields: Correlations, Broken Symmetry Phases and Transport Signatures"

Nov 6 No seminar -- Election Day

Nov 13 Joe Brill (University of Kentucky)
"Voltage-Induced Torsional Strain in Tantalum Trisulfide"

Nov 20 Vinayak Bhat (University of Kentucky)
"title TBA"

Seminar schedules from past semesters are archived here