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 2007

(Past semesters: Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2001,Fall 2000, Spring 2000, Fall 1999)
January 11
Tzu-Chieh Wei, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Magnetic-Field Enhancement of Superconductivity [Abstract]
Host: Karyn Le Hur
Tuesday, January 16 Special Condensed Matter Seminar at 4:00 pm in SPL 3rd Floor Lounge
Doron Bergman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Quenching ground state degeneracy in pyrochlore antiferromagnets [Abstract]
Host: Karyn Le Hur
January 18
Ludwig Mathey, Harvard University
Phase-locking transition of coupled low-dimensional superfluids [Abstract]
Host: Karyn Le Hur
Tuesday, January 23 Special Condensed Matter Seminar at 4:00 pm in SPL 3rd Floor Lounge
William Coish, Basel
Fine-tuning the dynamics of electron spins in quantum dots [Abstract]
Host: Karyn Le Hur
January 25
Talk postponed until April 10
February 1
Roman Barankov, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Synchronization versus dephasing in the pairing dynamics of cold fermions [Abstract]
Host: Karyn Le Hur
February 8
Kathryn Moler, Stanford University
Fluctuations in Mesoscopic Superconducting Rings [Abstract]
Host: Karyn Le Hur
February 15
Antonio Castro-Neto, Boston University
Drawing conclusions from Graphene [Abstract]
Host: R. Shankar
Friday, February 16 Special Condensed Matter Seminar at 2:00 pm in SPL 52
Talk cancelled
February 22
Gleb Finkelstein, Duke University
Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots: from the Coulomb Blockade to the SU(4) Kondo and the Mixed Valence regimes [Abstract]
Host: Karyn Le Hur
March 1
Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania
Graphene and the Quantum Spin Hall Effect [Abstract]
Host: Karyn Le Hur
March 29
Mikhail Kiselev, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Kondo Shuttling in Nanoelectromechanical Devices [Abstract]
Host: Yoram Alhassid
April 5
Soon Yong Chang, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington
'Artificial' Superfluidity [Abstract]
Host: Yoram Alhassid
Tuesday, April 10 Special Condensed Matter Seminar at 1:00 pm in SPL 52
Daniel Stein, New York University
Short-Range Spin Glasses [Abstract]
Host: Nick Read
Wednesday, April 11 Special Condensed Matter Seminar at 1:00 pm in 107 Mason Lab
Smitha Vishveshwara, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Fractional Statistics in Quantum Hall Systems [Abstract]
Host: Karyn Le Hur
April 12
Alexei Kitaev, Caltech
Quantum devices based on superconducting inductors [Abstract]
Host: Karyn Le Hur
April 19
No seminar this week
April 26
No seminar this week
May 3
Paul Fendley, University of Virginia
Disentanglement by a point contact [Abstract]
Host: Nicholas Read
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