CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS AND QUANTUM OPTICS

This is the current CMP & QO Monday seminar schedule, updated as speakers are confirmed. Suggestions and/or volunteers for speakers are always welcome. (Send a message to Yong Baek Kim or Hae-Young Kee)


CMP & QO Schedule (2002-03) 
 
Date Speaker/Institution Host/Contact Title/Abstract
September 9, 2002 Prof. Rolf Binder, University of Arizona  John Sipe Excitonic correlations in semiconductor quantum wells
SPECIAL SEMINAR: September 13, 2002, 
2:00PM at Room 408
Prof. Masaki Oshikawa, 
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yong Baek Kim Electron Spin Resonance in S=1/2 antiferromagnetic chains at low temperatures
September 16, 2002 Dr. Shuichi Wakimoto, Department of Physics, University of Toronto Hae-Young Kee Soft phonon in the relaxor ferroelectric Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3
September 23, 2002 Dr. Jeffrey Tallon, MacDiarmid Institute and Victoria University, New Zealand John Wei The puzzle and promise of high-temperature superconductors
September 30, 2002 Prof. Danny Kandel, Weizmann Institute, Israel  Prof. Rashmi Desai Configurational Continuum: A New Approach to Continuum Modeling of Discrete Systems
October 7, 2002 NO SEMINAR     
October 14, 2002 NO SEMINAR    THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
October 21, 2002 Dr. Bruce Gaulin, McMaster University Hae-Young Kee Frustration and Random Fields in Triangular Lattice Magnets
October 28, 2002 Prof. Tom Lemberger, Ohio State University Yong Baek Kim Superconductivity in electron-doped cuprates: d-wave or s-wave or both? 
November 4, 2002 Prof. Kun Yang, Florida State University Yong Baek Kim Reconstruction of Fractional Quantum Hall Edges
SPECIAL SEMINAR: November 4, 2002, at 4:00 p.m. sharp in MP 137 Prof. Walter Kohn, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara Allan Griffin New Density Functional Perspectives on Van der Waals Energies 
SPECIAL SEMINAR - November 12, 2002 at 12 noon in MP 1115 Dr. Klaus Voelker, Department of Physics, University of Toronto Hae-Young Kee Unconventional Superconductivity from a Conventional Mechanism in MgCNi3 
November 18, 2002 Dr. Ashvin Vishwanath, MIT Hae-Young Kee Dirac Quasiparticles in the Superconductor Vortex State
Special Seminar, Tuesday, November 19, 2002 at 4 p.m. in MP 408 Dr. Kristian Helmerson, NIST - Gaithersburg Aephraim Steinberg Optical manipulation of liposomes and hydrosomes
November 25, 2002 Dr. Olexei Motrunich, MIT Yong Baek Kim Exotic Phases in Josephson Junction Arrays
Special Seminar - November 26, 2002 at 4:10 p.m. in MP 408 Prof. Alexander Sergienko, Department of Electrical Engineering and the Photonics Center of Boston University  Aephraim Steinberg Quantum Information Processing and Precise Optical Measurement with Entangled Quantum States
December 2, 2002 Dr. Arun Paramekanti, ITP at UCSB Hae-Young Kee Ring-exchange models for bosons and easy-plane magnets
December 9, 2002 Dr. Walter Hofstetter, Harvard University Yong Baek Kim Cold atoms in optical lattices - superfluidity and effects of dissipation
December 16, 2002 NO SEMINAR   STUDY WEEK
December 23, 2002 NO SEMINAR   CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
December 30, 2002 NO SEMINAR   CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
January 6, 2003 NO SEMINAR    
January 13, 2003 Dr. Dmitri Ivanov, PSI, Switzerland Allan Griffin Topological order in resonating-valence-bond liquids and the Rokhsar-Kivelson dimer model on the triangular lattice
Special Seminar - January 16, 2003 at 2:00 p.m. in MP 408 Prof. Duncan O'Dell, University of Sussex  Aephraim Steinberg Rotons in Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates 
January 20, 2003 Dr. Erich Mueller, Ohio State University  Allan Griffin Rapidly Rotating Ultracold Gases 
Special Seminar, Friday, January 24, 2003 Dr. Ashvin Vishwanath, MIT Rashmi Desai Luttinger liquid Physics in dimensions higher than one
January 27, 2003 Dr. Jiang-Ping Hu, UCLA Hae-Young Kee Vortices in Strongly Correlated Systems
January 31, 2003 Prof. Zlatko Tesanovic,
Johns Hopkins University
Yong Baek Kim Gauge Theory of Quasiparticles and Vortices in Cuprate Superconductors
February 3, 2003 NO SEMINAR     
February 10, 2003 NO SEMINAR     
February 17, 2003 NO SEMINAR 

February 24, 2003  Dr. M. A Tanatar, Department of Physics, University of Toronto Hae-Young Kee Phase states and phase transformations of CeMIn_5 (M=Co, Rh, Ir)
SPECIAL SEMINAR: February 25, 2003 Dr Igor Zutic, Department of Physics, University of Maryand John Wei

Spin Injection in Electronic Materials

March 3, 2003 Dr. Sihong Gu, TRIUMF Aephraim Steinberg Off-Raman Resonance Effect on Hyperfine Coherences
March 10, 2003 Dr. Ying-Jer Kao, Department of Physics, University of Waterloo Hae-Young Kee Frustrated Ising Pyrochlore Magnets
Special Seminar: March 11, 2003 at 10.30 a.m. in MP137 Dr. David DiVincenzo, IBM Watson Research Lab Hoi-Kwong Lo Nonmarkovian effects in solid-state decoherence
March 17, 2003 Dr. Aashish Clerk, Department of Physics, Yale University Allan Griffin Mesoscopic Detectors and the Quantum Limit
Special Seminar: March 21, 2003 at 2 p.m. in Dept. of Chemistry Prof. Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico Aephraim Steinberg Quantum Information Processing with Ultracold Atomic Qubits
March 24, 2003 NO SEMINAR    
March 31, 2003 Professor H. Freedhoff, York University Hae-Young Kee Evolution in time of the entangled states of an N-atom system
April 7, 2003 NO SEMINAR    
Special Seminar: April 10, 2003 at 2.00 p.m. in MP1115 Dr. Susana Huelga, University of Hertfordshire Hoi-Kwong Lo Assisting information processing with a noisy environment
April 14, 2003 NO SEMINAR    
Special Seminar: April 22, 2003 at 12.00 noon in MP408 Dr. Brandon van Zyl, Department of Physics, McMaster University, Allan Griffin To BEC or not to BEC: Bose-Einstein condensation in a quasi-two-dimensional trap
April 28, 2003      
May - August NO SEMINARS   SUMMER BREAK
September 8, 2003      
September 15, 2003      
September 22, 2003 Dr. Adam Durst, Yale University Yong Baek Kim Radiation-Induced Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a 2D Electron Gas
September 29, 2003 Professor Xiao-Gang Wen, MIT Yong Baek Kim Spin-Charge separation and quantum order in electron doped high Tc superconductors