| 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 |