This is the current QOCMP Monday seminar schedule, updated as speakers are confirmed. Suggestions and/or volunteers for speakers are always welcome.  (send a message to Allan Griffin or Louis Taillefer)

MONDAY, MAY 7, 2001
PROFESSOR PHILIP PHILLIPS
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PAIRING AND FLUX PHASES IN THE 2D HUBBARD MODEL

September 11, 2000

Speaker:    Prof. Pierre-Antoine Bares
                    Institute of Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne

Title:      Classical Stochastic Many-body Problems as Strongly Correlated Systems?

Host:       Michael Walker

Speaker:    Prof. Alexander N. Cartwright
                   Department of Electrical Engineering, SUNY Buffalo

Title:         Spectroscopy of Polarization Effects in III-N Heterostructures

Host:       Henry van Driel

Speaker:    Prof. Matthieu Ernst
                   Institute of Theoretical Physics
                   University of Utrecht
                   The Netherlands

Title:      Towards a Ginzburg-Landau theory for granular fluids

Host:      Prof. Allan Griffin  &  Prof. Ray Kapral

Speaker:     Prof. Allan Jacobs
                    Department of Physics
                    University of Toronto

Title:           Domain Patterns in Ferroelastics

Host:       Allan Griffin

Speaker:    Dr. Eli Ben-Naim
                   Theory Division, Los Alamos National Lab

Title:      Shock Dynamics of Granular Gases

Host:       Rashmi Desai

Speaker:     Prof. Roger A. Cowley
                    Department of Physics
                    Oxford University, UK

Title:      Spinons, Dimers and Quantum Fluctuations in One Dimensional Antiferromagnets

Host:       Allan Griffin

Speaker:     Prof. Anton Naumovets
                    Institute of Physics
                    National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine
                    Kiev, Ukraine

Title:           Electropositive Overlayers on Metals:  Surface Diffusion and Photoemission versus Surface Phase Transitions

Host:       Martin Lee

Speaker:         Prof. Daniel Lidar
                        Theoretical Chemical Physics
                        Department of Chemistry
                        University of Toronto

Title:          Decoherence-Free Quantum Computation

Host:          Aephraim Steinberg

Speaker:         Dr. David Feder
                        Electron and Optical Physics Division
                        National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
                        Gaithersburg, Maryland

Title:              "Vortices in trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates"

Host:       Allan Griffin

Speaker:     Prof. Zlatko Tesanovic
                    Department of Physics & Astronomy
                    Johns Hopkins University
                    Baltimore, MD

Title:      Quasiparticle and Vortices in Unconventional Superconductors

Host:       Louis Taillefer

Speaker:     Dr. Rob Hill
                    University of Toronto
                    Department of Physics

Title:      Are High T_c Superconductors Host to a New State of Matter?

Host:       Louis Taillefer

Speaker:     Dr. Kirill Samokhin
                    University of Toronto
                    Department of Physics

Title:        Spin-Orbit Coupline in Quasi-one-Dimensional Electron Systems

Host:        Michael Walker

NOTE:  There will be no QOCMP seminar

Speaker:    Allan Griffin
                    University of Toronto
                    Department of Physics

Title:          Two-fluid dynamics in a trapped superfluid Bose gas

NO SEMINAR

Speaker:     Dr. Andrew MacFarlane
                    University of Toronto
                    Department of Physics

Title:        "Ultrasound and the Symmetry of the Superconducting Order Parameter in Sr₂RuO₄"

Host:       Louis Taillefer

Speaker:    Dr. Meirong Li
                   University of Guelph
                   Department of Physics

Title:      Magnetic penetration depth in the Meissner state of a d-wave
               superconductor:  nonlinear, nonlocal and thermal effects

Host:        Michael Walker

Speaker:      Dr. Tetsuro Nikuni
                     Department of Physics, University of Toronto

Title:           Bose Condensation of magnons in a quantum spin system

Host:       Allan Griffin

Speaker:     Dr. James Anglin
                    Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms
                    Cambridge, MA

Title:           Bose Condensates Beyond the Mean

Host:       Allan Griffin

Speaker:     Professor Akira Onuki
                    Department of Physics
                    University of Kyoto
                    Kyoto, Japan

Title:            "Phase Transition Dynamics in Solids"

Host:       Rashmi Desai

Speaker:    Dr. Ilya Gruzberg
                   Institute for Theoretical Physics
                   Santa Barbara

Title:        "Fifty Years of Localization:  From Nuclei to Superconductors"

Host:       Louis Taillefer

Speaker:     Dr. Ivar Martin
                    Condensed Matter Physics
                    Los Alamos Laboratory

Title:  "Nano-Scale Structure of High-Temperature Superconductors:  From Extrinsic Disorder to Intrinsic Spin
            and Charge Inhomogeneities"

Host:    Michael Walker
                                               PLEASE NOTE:  TALK WILL BE HELD IN ROOM MP137

Speaker:    Dr. Hae-Young Kee
                    UCLA

Title:      "A New Phase of Matter of High Tc Superconductors

Host:        Louis Taillefer

March 9, 2001 - SPECIAL SEMINAR PLEASE NOTE NON-STANDARD DAY

Speaker:    Professor Stephen Hayden
                    Dept. of Physics
                    University of Bristol

Title:      "Singlet and triplet superconductity in Sr₂Ru0₄ and its friends"

Host:        Louis Taillefer

Speaker:     Dr. Robert Konik
                    Department of Physics
                    University of Virginia
                    Charlottesville

Title:        "Strongly Coupled Physics in Nanoscale Systems"

Host:        Allan Griffin

Speaker:     Dr. Robert Konik
                    Department of Physics
                    University of Virginia
                    Charlottesville

Title:        "Transport in Haldane-Gap Spin Chains at Finite Temperature and Finite Magnetic Fields"

Host:        Allan Griffin

March 26, 2001 - NO SEMINAR

April 2, 2001

Speaker:     Dr. Alex Hutchinson
                    Cavendish Laboratory
                    Cambridge University, UK

Title:    Acoustoelectric Interactions in GaAs Resonant Tunnelling Structures

Host:    John Sipe

Speaker:     Professor Poul Jessen
                    Optical Sciences Center
                    University of Arizona

Title:            Quantum control and quantum chaos in magneto-optical lattices

Host:        Aephraim Steinberg

SPECIAL SEMINAR - April 17, 2001

Speaker:     Dr. Yong Baek Kim
                     Department of Physics
                    The Ohio State University

Title:    Bilayer Quantum Hall States: More than the sum of their parts

Host:    Louis Taillefer

Speaker:     Dr. Yong Baek Kim
                    Department of Physics
                     The Ohio State University

Title:            Electron Fractionalization: Spin-charge separation and beyond

Host:       Louis Taillefer

Speaker:     Professor Philip Phillips
                    Department of Physics
                    University of Illlinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title:            Pairing and Flux Phases in the 2D Hubbard Model

Host:       Michael Walker

Link to previous QOCMP Seminars

• Schedule for 1999-00 Schedule for 1998-99

• Schedule for 1997-98 Schedule for 1996-97

• Schedule for 1995-96 Schedule for 1994-95