Yale Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Unless noted otherwise, seminars are held at 1 PM on Thursdays in Room 52, Sloane Physics Lab.
Please contact the host more info, or if you would like to meet a speaker.

Travel Directions to the Sloane Physics Lab.

Spring 2006

(Past semesters: Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2001,
Fall 2000, Spring 2000, Fall 1999)
January 9 at 2:30 PM in 107 Mason Lab (Special Seminar)
Dr. Gregg Lois, University of California, Santa Barbara
Granular Shear Flow
Host: Corey O'Hern

January 12
Michael Hermele, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emergent photons (and beyond) in quantum magnets and optical lattices
Host: Steven M. Girvin

January 19
Karyn Le Hur, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
A road to Quantum criticality at the Nano-scale
Host: Steven M. Girvin

January 26
Leonid Glazman, University of Minnesota
Inelastic Electron Scattering off Magnetic Impurities
Host: Steven M. Girvin

February 2
Nigel Cooper, University of Cambrige, UK
Vortex Lattices and Vortex Liquids in Atomic Bose Gases
Host: Steven M. Girvin

February 9
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

February 16 Special Seminar at 10:00 AM in Becton 4th Floor Alcove
Jens Koch, Free University of Berlin
Collective effects in transport through single-molecule devices
Host: Steven M. Girvin

February 16
Vadim Oganesyan, Yale University
High temperature metals and insulators
Host: Steven M. Girvin

February 23
Subhadeep Gupta, University of California, Berkeley
Ultracold Atoms and Bose-Einstein Condensates in Storage Rings and Optical Cavities
Host: David P. DeMille

March 2
Robert Konik, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kondo Physics and Interference Effects in Quantum Dot Structures
Host: Vadim Oganesyan

March 23
Austen Lamacraft, Oxford
The "magnetized superfluid" in the BCS-BEC crossover
Host: Vadim Oganesyan

March 30
Stefan Rotter, Applied Physics, Yale University
Shot noise in the quantum-to-classical crossover regime
Host: A. Douglas Stone

April 6
Thomas C. Killian, Rice University
Pushing the Envelope of Plasma Physics: Ultracold Neutral Plasmas
Host: David P. DeMille

April 10 Special Seminar at 1:00 PM in SPL 52
Karyn Le Hur, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Revival of the Kondo Effect in the Nano-World
Host: R. Shankar

April 13
A. Douglas Stone, Yale University
Dielectric microcavity lasers: A system with classical and quantum chaos
Host: Vadim Oganesyan

April 19 Special Seminar at 1:00 PM in SPL 52
David A. Huse , Princeton University
Supersolids?
Host: Vadim Oganesyan

April 27
Gianluigi Catelani, Cornell University
Interaction corrections to transport in disordered metals: quantum kinetic equation and the Wiedemann-Franz law
Host: Maxim Vavilov

May 4
Jack Harris, Yale University
Quantum radiation pressure effects in micromechanical optical cavities
Host: Robert Grober

May 9 Special Seminar at 1:00 PM in SPL 52
Hans Weidenmüller, Max-Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
Disorder and Interactions in Quantum Dots
Host: Yoram Alhassid

May 12 Special Seminar at 11:00 AM in SPL 52
Jan von Delft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Decoherence in Disordered Conductors by Interactions and Magnetic Impurities
Host: Maxim Vavilov

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