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.

Schedule for Fall 2014

Sep 2 Seo-Hyoung Chang (Argonne National Lab). Host: Seo
"In situ X-ray Studies of Functional Oxides for Energy Systems"

Sep 9 Gang Cao (University of Kentucky). Host: Kaul
"Spin-Orbit Tuned Ground States in Single-Crystal Iridates"

Sep 16 Satya Majumdar (LPTMS/Orsay). Host: Kaul
"Universal Statistics of Records in Random Sequences"

Sep 23 Thomas Lang (Boston University). Host: Kaul
"Mott Transitions of Correlated Fermions from SU(2) to SU(N)"

Oct 14 Boldizsar Janko (Notre Dame). Host: DeLong
"Quantum rotor in nanostructured superconductors"

Oct 21 Ambrose Seo (Kentucky). Host: Kaul
"Why are we interested in low-dimensional complex-oxide heterostructures?"

Oct 28 Ken Graham (University of Kentucky). Host: Brill
"Generating a molecular level understanding of organic photovoltaics"

Oct 31 Bertrand Halperin (Harvard University). Host: Kaul
[Friday Physics Colloquium]
"Defects with Character: Majorana Local Modes in Condensed-Matter Systems"

Nov 4 Mike Zaletel (Stanford University). Host: Kaul
"Constraints on topological order in Mott insulators"

Nov 11 Vitaly Podzorov (Rutgers University). Host: Brill
"Organic single-crystal devices: addressing intrinsic properties of molecular semiconductors"

Nov 18 Sumiran Pujari (University of Kentucky). Host: Kaul
"Inversion Techniques for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) Data Analyses"

Nov 25 Rob Leigh (UIUC). Host: Shapere
This seminar will be held at 1pm
"Gravitational Response in Topological Insulators"

Dec 9 Jinwoo Hwang (OSU). Host: Seo
"Advancing Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy for Materials Characterization"

Seminar schedules from past semesters are archived here