Condensed Matter Physics, Berkeley

condensed matter physics seminars

cmp seminars (290K) are held on Mondays at 2:30pm in 2 Le Conte Hall, Physics Department.
information for speakers | directions to the campus | Spring 2006 Seminars

Fall 2006 - Organizer: A. Vishwanath

date speaker/affiliation title of talk host

08/28
Dan Stamper Kurn (UCB) Atom optics and magnetic superfluids Local

09/04 University Holiday

09/11 Venkat Gopalan (PSU) Dramatic changes in ferroelectricity through organized defects and strain tuning Ramesh

09/18 Cyrus Hirjibehedin (IBM) Spin-Coupling and Anisotropy Effects in Engineered Atomic Structures Crommie

09/25 Y. B. Kim (Toronto and Miller Inst.) Nonequilibrium quantum criticality in itinerant electron systems Local

10/02 John Quinn When and why the composite fermion picture is valid Cohen

10/09 A. Kapitulnik (Stanford) Search for for Broken Time-reversal Symmetry in Sr2RuO4 and Other Novel Superconductors Clarke

10/16 D. Goldhaber-Gordon (Stanford) Designer Hamiltonians in the Laboratory: Observation of Many Body Physics in a Semiconductor Nanostructure Moore

10/23 Paul Goldbart (UIUC) Phase-slip avalanches in the superflow of helium-four through arrays of nanopores Packard

10/30 Max Stengel (UCSB) Origin of the dielectric dead layer in nanoscale capacitors Souza

11/06 Nandini Trivedi (OSU) Quantum Simulations of strongly interacting bosons and fermions: connections with condensed matter and cold atoms Vishwanath

11/13 Alexandra Navrotsky (UCD) Energetics of Bulk and Nanophase Ceramic Oxides Derived From the Fluorite Structure Hellman

11/20 N. P. Ong (Princeton) Evidence for dissipative vortex liquid below 1 K in lightly doped cuprates Vishwanath

11/27 Feliciano Giustino (Berkeley) Local

12/04 Andrew Cleland (UCSB) A possible route to quantum control of a nanomechanical resonator Siddiqi

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date	speaker/affiliation	title of talk	host
08/28	Dan Stamper Kurn (UCB)	Atom optics and magnetic superfluids	Local
09/04	University Holiday
09/11	Venkat Gopalan (PSU)	Dramatic changes in ferroelectricity through organized defects and strain tuning	Ramesh
09/18	Cyrus Hirjibehedin (IBM)	Spin-Coupling and Anisotropy Effects in Engineered Atomic Structures	Crommie
09/25	Y. B. Kim (Toronto and Miller Inst.)	Nonequilibrium quantum criticality in itinerant electron systems	Local
10/02	John Quinn	When and why the composite fermion picture is valid	Cohen
10/09	A. Kapitulnik (Stanford)	Search for for Broken Time-reversal Symmetry in Sr2RuO4 and Other Novel Superconductors	Clarke
10/16	D. Goldhaber-Gordon (Stanford)	Designer Hamiltonians in the Laboratory: Observation of Many Body Physics in a Semiconductor Nanostructure	Moore
10/23	Paul Goldbart (UIUC)	Phase-slip avalanches in the superflow of helium-four through arrays of nanopores	Packard
10/30	Max Stengel (UCSB)	Origin of the dielectric dead layer in nanoscale capacitors	Souza
11/06	Nandini Trivedi (OSU)	Quantum Simulations of strongly interacting bosons and fermions: connections with condensed matter and cold atoms	Vishwanath
11/13	Alexandra Navrotsky (UCD)	Energetics of Bulk and Nanophase Ceramic Oxides Derived From the Fluorite Structure	Hellman
11/20	N. P. Ong (Princeton)	Evidence for dissipative vortex liquid below 1 K in lightly doped cuprates	Vishwanath
11/27	Feliciano Giustino (Berkeley)		Local
12/04	Andrew Cleland (UCSB)	A possible route to quantum control of a nanomechanical resonator	Siddiqi