Yale Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Unless noted otherwise, seminars are held at 1 PM on Thursdays in Room 52, Sloane Physics Lab.

Travel Directions to the Sloane Physics Lab.

Fall 2002

• September 12

Ganpathy Murthy, University of Kentucky
Dots hit the fan: exact solution of disordered interacting quantum dots
Host: R. Shankar
 
• September 19

Corey O'Hern, Yale University
Jamming and Glass Transitions
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• September 26

 
• October 3

John Chalker, University of Oxford
Spin textures, screening and excitations in dirty quantum Hall ferromagnets
Host: Nick Read
 
• October 10

 
• October 17

Ashvin Vishwanath, MIT
Effects of Screening and Dissipation at the Superconductor-Insulator Transition
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• October 24

Michel Gingras , University of Waterloo
Spin Crystal, Spin Glass, Spin Ice and Spin Liquid States in Frustrated Magnetic Pyrochlore Materials
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• October 31

John Wettlaufer, Yale University
Shocking Snowflakes: Geometry and Crystal Growth
Host: Steve Girvin
 
• November 7

Walter Hofstetter, Harvard University
Cold atoms in optical lattices: Superfluidity and effects of dissipation
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• November 14

Fei Zhou, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht
Quantum condensates and Mott insulating states of spin one bosons
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• November 21

 
• December 5

Lev Ioffe, Rutgers University
A novel class of Josephson Junction arrays with topologically protected ground states and its application for quantum computing
Host: Subir Sachdev
 
• Tuesday December 10, 3 PM, 63 SPL; Note special date, time, and place

Alessandro Silva, The Weizmann Institute of Science
Controlled Dephasing of a Quantum Dot in the Kondo regime
Host: Yoram Alhassid
 
• December 12

Robert Willett, Lucent Technologies
Experiments at High Landau Levels in Correlated 2D Electron Systems
Host: Nick Read
 
• December 19