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 2015

Jan 20 Myung-Joon Han (KAIST). Host: Seo
First-principles study of large spin-orbit coupling transition-metal compounds: electronic structure and new possibilities

Feb 17 Dong-Wook Kim (Ewha Womans University). Host: Seo

Mar 10 Ali Er (Western Kentucky). Host: Seo
"Various Uses of Lasers in Thin Film Deposition, Nanoscale Heat Transport in Solids, Photodeactivation of Pathogenic Bacteria and Viruses in Human Blood, and Quantum Control Experiments"

Mar 17 Yuan-Ming Lu (Ohio State). Host: Kaul
"Weyl semimetal: topology meets 3d graphene"

Mar 24 Clare C. Byeon (Kyungpook National University). Host: Seo
"Time-resolved techniques in optical characterizations"

Mar 26, 2pm!! Shinsei Ryu (UIUC). Host: Kaul
"Fermionic symmetry protected topological phases with reflection symmetry and global anomalies"

Mar 31 Hitesh Changlani (UIUC). Host: Kaul
"Role of reduced density matrices in simulating and understanding strongly correlated systems"

Apr 14 Chad Risko (Kentucky). Host: Brill
"Unravelling the molecular-structure-materials-property paradigm in organic electronic materials: A theoretical perspective"

Apr 28 Paola Barbara (Georgetown). Host: Strachan
"Quantum confinement for terahertz technology"

May 5 Herb Fertig (IU). Host: Murthy
"Topological Edges and Defects of the nu=0 Quantized Hall State in Graphene"

May 7 Efrat Shimshoni (Bar Ilan University). Host: Murthy
"Superfluid-insulator transition of quantum Hall domain walls in bilayer graphene"

May 12 Doug Strachan (Kentucky). Host: Seo
"Low-Dimensional Properties of Atomically-Thin Materials and Systems"

Seminar schedules from past semesters are archived here