This is the current QOCMP Monday seminar schedule, updated as speakers are confirmed. Suggestions for speakers are always welcome. (send a message to Aephraim Steinberg:)
| Date | Speaker/Institution | Host/Contact | Title/Topic |
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| Sept. 21 | Prof. Marcel Franz, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, John Hopkins University | L. Taillefer | Mixed-state quasiparticle transport in high-Tc cuprates: localization by magnetic field |
| Sept. 28 | Prof. Stephen W. Morris, Department of Physics, University of Toronto | S. Morris | Travelling Sand Waves: Fun with Granular Segregation Patterns |
| Oct. 5 | Prof. Peter Hirschfeld, UFL | L. Taillefer | Is the Nonlinear Meissner Effect Observable? |
| Oct. 12 | Thanksgiving | ||
| Oct. 19 | Prof. Igor Herbut, Department of Physics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia | A. Griffin | Superconductor-Insulator quantum phase transition: phase-coherence vs. localization in two dimensions |
| Oct. 23 (SPECIAL SEMINAR AT 2:00 PM) | Prof. Peter Schiffer, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana | A. Steinberg | Geometrical Frustration in Magnets: Common Behaviour and Unique Ground States |
| Oct. 23 (SPECIAL CMP SEMINAR AT 12:00) | Prof. Stephen Hayden, H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, U.K. | L. Taillefer | De Haas-van Alphen Studies of Quasiparticles in Superconductors |
| Oct. 26 | Dr. N. Bonadeo, University of Michigan | H. van Driel | Coherent Optical Excitation of a Single Quantum Dot |
| Nov. 2 | Prof. Nicholas P. Bigelow, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, The University of Rochester, Rochester, New York | A. Griffin | When 1 + 1 Doesn't Equal 2: Ultracold Bose-Condensed Atomic Mixtures |
| Nov. 9 | Prof. Louis Taillefer, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR) and Department of Physics, University of Toronto | Louis Taillefer | Electron Transport in Unconventional Superconductors |
| Nov. 16 | Mr. Robert Spekkens, Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto | John Sipe | Recent Work on Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics |
| Nov.23 | Professor T.L. (Jason) Ho, Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio | A. Griffin | What does BEC do for Condensed Matter Physics? |
| Nov. 30 | Professor Robert I. Thompson, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary, Alberta | A. Steinberg | Ion Traps: Can we see a Single Atom? |
| Dec. 07 | Professor Graeme Luke, Department of Physics & Astronomy | L. Taillefer | Unconventional Superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 |
| Dec. 11 (SPECIAL SEMINAR AT 12:30 PM) | Dr. P. Fournier, Department of Physics, Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland | L. Taillefer | Current Research Issues for the Electron-Doped Cuprates |
| Dec. 15 (SPECIAL CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR AT 11 A.M.) | Dr. Almut Schroder, Physikalische Institut, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany | J. R. Drummond | Quantum Critical Fluctuations in Heavy Fermion Alloys |
| Dec. 18 (SPECIAL CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR AT 12 NOON) | Dr. John Y.T. Wei, Condensed Matter Physics, Caltech | J.R. Drummond | Tunneling Spectroscopy Studies of the High-Tc Cuprates, Half-Metallic Manganites and Cuprate/Manganite Spin-Injection Heterostructures |
| Dec. 28 | University Holiday | ||
| Jan. 04 | No Seminar | ||
| Jan. 12 | No Seminar | ||
| Jan. 18 | Cancelled | ||
| Jan. 22 (SPECIAL SEMINAR ON FRIDAY AT 2:00 P.M.) | Dr. Anton V. Puchkov, Stanford University | Bryan Statt | Mott-Hubbard Transition in two Dimensions: Layered Ruthenium Oxides |
| Jan. 25 (SPECIAL CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR AT 11:00 A.M.) | Dr. Yannick De Wilde, CEA Saclay and BNM-LCIE, France | M. Walker | STM investigati on of the superconducting state of BSCCO 2212 and borocarbide materials |
| Jan. 27 (SPECIAL SEMINAR ON WEDNESDAY AT 11:00 A.M.) | Dr. Stephen Hayden, H.H. Wills Physical Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK | Fraser Code | Spin Fluctuations in Metals and Superconductors |
| Feb 1 | Dr. Kurt Busch Department of Physics, University of Toronto | S. John | Large Tunable Photonic Crystals |
| Feb. 8 | Professor J. Gonzalo Muga, Universidad de La Laguna and Universidad de Bilbao | A. Steinberg | "A quantum effect: Transient collisional increase of high momentum components" |
| Feb. 15 | No Seminar | ||
| Feb. 22 | Prof. Ian Walmsley, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY | A. Steinberg | Engineering Entanglement and Indistinguishabiity of two photons |
| Mar. 1 | Dr. Marc M. Dignam, Department of Physics, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario | J. Sipe | Bloch Oscillations in a Terahertz Field or "Dancing Up and Down the Wannier-Stark Ladder" |
| Mar 8 | Prof. James Gleeson Dept. of Physics Kent State University Kent, Ohio | S. Morris | "Snowflakes and Liquid Crystal Convection?" |
| Mar. 15 | Prof. Ivan Deutsch, Department of Physics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM | A. Steinberg | Quantum Information Processing in Optical Lattices |
| Mar.16 (SPECIAL SEMINAR ON TUESDAY, AT 3:00 P.M.) | Prof. Charles Main, School of Science and Engineering, University of Abertay Dundee, U.K. | S. Grabtchak | Conductivity Fluctuations (Noise) in Amorphous Semiconductors |
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| Mar. 29 | Vatche Deyirmenjian Dept. of Physics University of Toronto | A. Steinberg | The Physics of Image States |
| Apr. 05 | Dr. Walter Pötz, Department of Physics, University of Illinois (Chicago) | H. van Driel | Optical and Structural Control of Quantum Interference in Semiconductor Heterostructures |
| Apr.12 | Study Week | ||
| Apr. 19 | Christian Langer, University of Leipzig | S. Morris | Electro-optical switching and electrohydrodynamical instabilities in suspended smectic films |
| Apr. 26 | Professor H.v. Loehneysen, Physikalisches Institut, Universitatat Karsruhe, D-76128, Karlsruhe, Germany | R.W. Hill | Electrons in metallic nanostructures: from thin wires to atomic-size contacts |
| July 19 | Jordan Kyriakidis
University of Basel Switzerland |
Nipun Vats | Quantum Dynamics of Topological Solitons in Double-Layer Quantum Hall Systems |
| August 16 | Terry Rudolph,
Department of Physics University of Toronto |
Aephraim Steinberg | Post-Welsh-Lecture Lecture: The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and what it really means! |
| October 18 | Mona Berciu,
Department of Physics University of Toronto |
Sajeev John | |