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"