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 2013
Jan 15 Premala Chandra (Rutgers)
"Hastatic Order in URu2Si2
Feb 5 Shixiong Zhang (Indiana University)
"Magneto-transport Studies of Topological Insulators and Spintronic Nano-devices"
Feb 12 Joseph Straley (University of Kentucky)
"Using group theory to understand problems in condensed matter physics"
Feb 19 (no seminar)
Feb 26 Jinwoo Hwang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Nano-scale characterization of materials using quantitative electron diffraction in scanning transmission electron microscopy"
Mar 5 Junling Wang (Nanyang Technological University)
"Multiferroic BiFeO3 and its Applications"
Mar 12 (Spring break)
Mar 19 (APS March meeting)
Mar 26
Doo Young Kim (University of Kentucky)
"Physicochemical and Electrochemical Properties of Carbon Nano-onions"
April 2 N. Mannella (University of Tennessee)
"The physics of non-compensated co-doping as a route to band gap narrowing in oxide materials: electronic structure and ultra-fast charge transfer dynamic in N/Cr non-compensated co-doped TiO2 unveiled with soft-x-ray spectroscopies"
April 9 (no seminar)
April 16 Eun-Gook Moon (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Non-Fermi liquid and topological states with strong spin-orbit coupling"
April 23 Joerg Appenzeller (Purdue University)
"Contacts and Transport in 2D systems"
April 30 Natasha Perkins (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"title TBA"