Yale Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Unless noted otherwise, seminars are held at 1 PM on Thursdays in Room 56, Sloane Physics Lab.

Please contact the host for more information, or if you would like to meet a speaker.

Travel Directions to the Sloane Physics Lab.

Fall 2005

September 8

Shivaji L. Sondhi , Princeton University

Antiferromagnetism on the Pyrochlore Lattice

Host: Steven Girvin

September 15

Matt Hastings , Los Alamos National Laboratory

Lieb-Schultz-Mattis in Higher Dimensions

Host: Douglas Stone

September 22

Greg Fiete , Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Spin incoherent effects in momentum resolved tunneling and transport in Luttinger liquids

Host: Vadim Oganesyan

September 29

Michael E. Gershenson , Rutgers University

Charge Transport in Single-Crystal Organic Transistors

Host: Daniel Prober

October 6

Nicholas Read , Yale University

Minimum spanning trees and random resistor networks in d dimensions

Host: Vadim Oganesyan

October 13

October 20

Kun Yang , NHFML, Florida State University

Find Your Partner or Expel Your Competitor: Exotic Pairing States in Fermionic Superfluids with Unbalanced Pairing Species

Host: Steven Girvin

October 26 Mechancial Engineering Seminar (Mason 107 at 2:30 pm)

Dr. Charles Reichhardt , Los Alamos National Lab

Collids in External Field

Host: Corey O'Hern

October 27

Dr. Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Harvard University

Shaking ferromagnets with electric fields: instabilities, dissipation, and noise

Host: Steven Girvin

November 3

November 10

David Nelson , Harvard University

Non-Hermitian Luttinger Liquids and Vortex Physics

Host: Steven Girvin

November 17

David Goldhaber-Gordon , Stanford University

Designer Hamiltonians: Single-Electron Transistors as a Laboratory for Strongly-Correlated Electron Physics

Host: Steven Girvin

December 1

December 8

Alex Kamenev , University of Minnesota

Statistical Mechanics of Ion Channels: There is no Life without Entropy

Host: Michael Reznikov

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