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 Spring 2012
Jan 17 Victor Yakovenko (University of Maryland)
"Novel method for photovoltaic energy conversion using surface acoustic waves in piezoelectric semiconductors"
Jan 24 Carolyn Brock (University of Kentucky)
"Quasicrystals: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry"
Jan 31 Juan Carlos Idrobo (ORNL)
"Atom-Plasmonics in Graphene"
Feb 7 Jun Sung Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
"Highly anisotropic Dirac fermions in a Bi square net of SrMnBi2"
Feb 16 [Thursday] Bob Cohn (University of Louisville)
"Some Self-Assembly Required: Polymeric Magneto-Nano-Mechanical Systems"
Feb 21 Vincent Meunier (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
"Modeling Nanostructure Properties: Interpretation and Predictions from First-Principles"
Feb 28 No Seminar: "APS March Meeting"
Mar 6 Alex Zettl (University of California, Berkeley)
"Exploring the properties of graphene and nanostructured boron nitride"
Mar 13 No Seminar: Spring Break
Mar 20 Cristian Staii (Tufts University)
"Application of Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopies in Biophysics and Condensed Matter Physics: from Neuronal Networks to Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosensors"
Mar 27 Babak Seradjeh (University of Indiana)
"Topological Exciton Condensate"
Apr 10 Lukasz Fidkowski (Microsoft Station Q/UCSB)
"Topological Phases in One Dimension"
Apr 17 Olexei Motrunich (Caltech)
"From Bose-metals of frustrated spins and bosons to non-Fermi-liquids of electrons"
Apr 25 Dawn Bonnell (University of Pennsylvania)
[Wednesday, 11 am, Auditorium 323 of the Manufacturing Bldg]
Apr 28-29 2012 KENTUCKY CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS SYMPOSIUM: THE IRIDATES
Apr 30 Ashvin Vishwanath (University of California, Berkeley)
[Monday, 10 am] "Many Body Quantum Entanglement and Topological Phases of Matter"
"Novel method for photovoltaic energy conversion using surface acoustic waves in piezoelectric semiconductors"
Jan 24 Carolyn Brock (University of Kentucky)
"Quasicrystals: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry"
Jan 31 Juan Carlos Idrobo (ORNL)
"Atom-Plasmonics in Graphene"
Feb 7 Jun Sung Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
"Highly anisotropic Dirac fermions in a Bi square net of SrMnBi2"
Feb 16 [Thursday] Bob Cohn (University of Louisville)
"Some Self-Assembly Required: Polymeric Magneto-Nano-Mechanical Systems"
Feb 21 Vincent Meunier (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
"Modeling Nanostructure Properties: Interpretation and Predictions from First-Principles"
Feb 28 No Seminar: "APS March Meeting"
Mar 6 Alex Zettl (University of California, Berkeley)
"Exploring the properties of graphene and nanostructured boron nitride"
Mar 13 No Seminar: Spring Break
Mar 20 Cristian Staii (Tufts University)
"Application of Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopies in Biophysics and Condensed Matter Physics: from Neuronal Networks to Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosensors"
Mar 27 Babak Seradjeh (University of Indiana)
"Topological Exciton Condensate"
Apr 10 Lukasz Fidkowski (Microsoft Station Q/UCSB)
"Topological Phases in One Dimension"
Apr 17 Olexei Motrunich (Caltech)
"From Bose-metals of frustrated spins and bosons to non-Fermi-liquids of electrons"
Apr 25 Dawn Bonnell (University of Pennsylvania)
[Wednesday, 11 am, Auditorium 323 of the Manufacturing Bldg]
Apr 28-29 2012 KENTUCKY CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS SYMPOSIUM: THE IRIDATES
Apr 30 Ashvin Vishwanath (University of California, Berkeley)
[Monday, 10 am] "Many Body Quantum Entanglement and Topological Phases of Matter"