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Toronto Quantum Matter Seminars

Place: Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606

Time: Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m.

The Toronto Quantum Matter seminar provides an opportunity for faculty and students to learn about current research in the field, both at University of Toronto and at other universities and research institutes. It is held regularly during the academic year, on Wednesdays at 11 a.m. in Room 606 in the Physics DepartmentUniversity of Toronto or Online via Zoom.

Past Events

25
Mar 2024
2 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 408
Long Ju
Electron correlation and topology in crystalline rhombohedral Graphene
22
Mar 2024
9:30 a.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Subir Sachdev
Quantum spin liquids and the cuprate superconductors
14
Feb 2024
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Sara Haravifard
Unveiling Exotic Matter: Adventures in Frustrated Magnets
25
Jan 2024
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, Room MP408
Andrea Damascelli
Probing condensates' coherence by time-resolved ARPES: From superconductors to excitonic insulators
06
Dec 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Abhay Pasupathy
Coexistence of Superconductivity and Magnetism
15
Nov 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
David Hawthorn
Nematic and Charge Density Wave Orders in Cuprate Superconductors
08
Nov 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Israel Klich
Quantum Wakes, Stirring by staring and other non-equilibrium problems
01
Nov 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Debanjan Chowdhury
The good, the bad and the strange: unconventional metallic behavior in the vicinity of Mott insulators
25
Oct 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Yuanming Lu
New ways to detect the pairing symmetry in superconductors
20
Sep 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Adam Wei Tsen
Tunneling Probe of 2D and Moiré Magnetism
28
Aug 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Aviram Uri
Nanoscale imaging of quantum Hall edge currents and local topology in 2D systems
01
Aug 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Kyuho Lee
Superconductivity in Infinite-Layer Nickelates
11
Jul 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
A.M. Potts
Engineering an on-chip THz time domain spectrometer for van der Waals materials
05
Jun 2023
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ganesh Ramachandran
Junctions and potentials -- scattering and bound states
23
May 2023
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Hidenori Takagi
Quantum critical Bose gas in the two-dimensional limit in the honeycomb antiferromagnet YbCl3
08
May 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Daigorou Hirai
Everything Everywhere All by Rhenium ~from multipole to pleochroism
27
Mar 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Subhayan Sahu
Measurement-induced entanglement transition in large-N solvable quantum circuits
27
Feb 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Via Zoom - link will be shared
Ashley Cook
Finite-size topology and multiplicative topological phases
22
Feb 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Dominic Else
Universal properties of metals: Fermi surfaces, quasi-quasiparticles and dynamics
17
Feb 2023
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jennifer Cano
Engineering topological phases with a superlattice potential
06
Feb 2023
11 a.m. - noon
Physics, 60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 606
Han Ma
Renormalization group for metals
28
Nov 2022
11 a.m. - noon
Physics, 60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 606
Kartiek Agarwal
A new approach to quantum many-body scars
31
Oct 2022
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Gil Young Cho
Metrology of Band Topology via Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering
03
Oct 2022
noon - 1 p.m.
Department of Physics, 60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 1115
Dan Mao
Diamagnetic response and phase stiffness for interacting isolated narrow bands
21
Sep 2022
11 a.m. - noon
Physics, 60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 606
Stéphane Mangin
Femto-second to pico-second laser pulse to switch magnetization
14
Sep 2022
11 a.m. - noon
Physics, 60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 606
Minxuan Fu
Magnetic Field-Tuning Quantum Criticality and Fermi Surface Reconstruction in the Multipolar Kondo System PrV2Al20
17
Jun 2022
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Dept. of Physics, MP 1115
Bhaskaran Muralidharan
TALK CANCELLED TODAY
10
May 2022
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Physics, 60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
F. Malte Grosche
Correlated states near pressure-induced instabilities
27
Jan 2022
10:10 a.m. - noon
Zoom link will be shared
Dr. Ruben Verresen & Prof. Misha Lukin
Topological Spin Liquids on a Programmable Quantum Simulator
(NOTE SPECIAL DATE & TIME and two-hour duration!)
01
Dec 2021
11 a.m. - noon
Zoom link will be shared
Pengcheng Dai
Resonance from antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations for superconductivity in UTe2
10
Nov 2021
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Bella Lake
Investigation of a new frustrated 3-dimensional quantum magnet
18
Oct 2021
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Maciej Koch-Janusz
Relevant operators and symmetries through the lens of real-space mutual information
06
Oct 2021
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Bruce D. Gaulin
The Case for a U(1)-pi Quantum Spin Liquid Ground State in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore Ce2Zr2O7
17
Sep 2021
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Christos Panagopoulos
Topological Solitons in Quantum Architectures
15
Sep 2021
11 a.m. - noon
Zoom link will be shared
Heqiu Li
Spontaneous fractional Chern insulators in transition metal dichalcogenides Moiré superlattices
08
Sep 2021
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Ying-Jer Kao
Yu-Hsueh Chen
Symmetric Tensor Network Studies of Kitaev Models
27
Jul 2021
5 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Dimitrie Culcer
Quantum computing with semiconductor spins: overview and prospects for the near future
20
Jan 2021
11 a.m. - noon
Zoom link will be shared
Zheng-Xin Liu
Multi-node Quantum Spin Liquids on Honeycomb Lattice
16
Dec 2020
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Jonathan Ruhman
Robust Gapless Superconductivity in 4Hb-TaS2
09
Dec 2020
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Ziliang Ye
Controlling the valley exciton in 2D semiconductors
02
Dec 2020
11 a.m. - noon
Zoom link will be shared
Zhenfei Liu
On the border between molecules and solids: Level alignment and level broadening
25
Nov 2020
11 a.m. - noon
Zoom link will be shared
N. Phuan Ong
Low temperature experiments on the thermal conductivity in the Kitaev spin liquid material a-RuCl3
18
Nov 2020
noon - 1 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
James Analytis
Antiferromagnetic Switching Driven by the Collective Dynamics of a Coexisting Spin Glass
11
Nov 2020
11 a.m. - noon
Zoom link will be shared
Chao-Ming Jian
Entanglement Criticality in random quantum circuits
21
Oct 2020
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
TQM Event on 21 Oct.
14
Oct 2020
11 a.m. - noon
Zoom link will be shared
Johnpiere Paglione
Exotic superconductivity in nearly ferromagnetic UTe2
13
Jul 2020
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Duncan O'Dell
Catastrophes in quantum many-particle systems
29
Jun 2020
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Shabir Barzanjeh
Entangled microwave radiation and its application in quantum illumination
15
Jun 2020
11 a.m. - noon
Zoom link will be shared
Oren Tal
Atomic and molecular junctions as a testbed for quantum transport and nanomaterial properties
08
Jun 2020
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Junjie Liu
Generalized input-output method: a new route to quantum transport junctions
01
Jun 2020
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Kazi Rajibul Islam
Programmable quantum simulation of fully-connected spin models using trapped ions
25
May 2020
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Thi Ha Kyaw
Exploring a new class of non-Markovian dynamical landscape through the lens of floquet stroboscopic divisibility
19
May 2020
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Aaron Kelly
Trajectory-based Simulations of Charge and Energy Transport in Molecular and Condensed Phase Systems
27
Apr 2020
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Zoom link will be shared
Kartiek Agarwal
Symmetry protected Luttinger liquids on the surface of Quantum Hall Nematics
24
Feb 2020
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Tami Pereg-Barnea
Manipulating controlling topological states using time-periodic (Floquet) drives
19
Feb 2020
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Byungmin Kang
Many-Body Invariants for Topological Insulators: Multipole, Chern, and Hinge States
10
Feb 2020
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Joe Checkelsky
Synthesizing “Toy Model” Quantum Materials
03
Feb 2020
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Martin Claassen
Guiding Principles for Engineering Quantum Matter far from Equilibrium
27
Jan 2020
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jedediah Pixley
Dynamics of the entanglement spectra and the measurement transition in random quantum circuits
13
Jan 2020
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Mark Dean
X-ray vision of spins, charges and orbitals for understanding emergent electronic states in complex oxides
04
Dec 2019
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Qiang Luo
Seeking quantum spin liquid in the spin-orbit coupled models
25
Nov 2019
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Greg Fiete
Effective Descriptions of Time Periodic Systems
18
Nov 2019
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Hae-Young Kee
Exploring and engineering topology in van der Waals materials
13
Nov 2019
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Han Ma
Shadow of complex fixed point: Approxmiate conformality of Q>4 Potts model
11
Nov 2019
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Hsing-Ta Chen
Inching Past the Dynamical Sign Problem: Real-Time Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for Dissipative Quantum Dynamics
06
Nov 2019
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Finn Lasse Buessen
Competing magnetic orders and spin liquids in three-dimensional quantum magnets
30
Oct 2019
noon - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Cheng-Ju Lin
Slow Thermalization of Exact Quantum Many-Body Scar States Under Perturbations
28
Oct 2019
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Blair Lebert and Adarsh Patri
Talk 1: Epsilon iron as a spin-smectic state. Talk 2: Unveiling hidden multipolar orders with magnetostriction
23
Oct 2019
noon - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Liujun Zou
Field-induced QCD3-Chern-Simons quantum criticalities in Kitaev materials
21
Oct 2019
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Dvira Segal and Sopheak Sorn
Talk 1: Full counting statistics of charge and energy transport. Talk 2: Skyrmions from strain
16
Oct 2019
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Arijit Haldar
Interesting Generalizations of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev non-Fermi liquid
27
Sep 2019
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Santiago A Grigera
Investigating the nature of a geometrically frustrated material: spin-ice
23
Sep 2019
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Inti Sodemann
The Non-linear Hall Acceleration and the Quantum Rectification Sum Rule
16
Aug 2019
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Ganesh Ramachandran
Order by singularity
15
Aug 2019
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Dr. Kyoung-Min Kim
Protection of effective hydrodynamics against Anderson localization in two dimensional nematic quantum criticality
31
Jul 2019
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Gil Young Cho
Stable Flat Bands, Topology, and Superconductivity of Magic Honeycomb Network
20
Jun 2019
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Tarun Grover
Universal Quantum Correlations at Finite Temperature
29
Apr 2019
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Simon Trebst
Field-driven spin liquids in Kitaev materials
27
Mar 2019
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Solomon Owerre
Theory of Topological Magnon and Floquet Topological Magnon Insulators
22
Mar 2019
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Roland Winkler
Asymmetric g Tensor in Low-Symmetry Two-Dimensional Hole Systems
11
Mar 2019
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Matthias Gohlke
Topological and Dynamical Signatures of the Kitaev-Model in a [111] Magnetic Field
08
Mar 2019
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 408
David Hucul
133Ba+: the golidilocks qubit with the lowest error rate
27
Feb 2019
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Oskar Vafek
Strong coupling phases of partially filled twisted bilayer graphene narrow bands
15
Feb 2019
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Senaida Hernandez
Decay of correlations in long-range interacting systems at non-zero temperature
23
Jan 2019
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Gil Young Cho
Many-Body Invariants for Multipoles and Higher-Order Topology
17
Jan 2019
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Paolo Molignini
Criticality and universality of Floquet topological phase transitions
29
Nov 2018
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Ludwig Mathey
Dynamical control of superconductors and ultracold atoms
14
Nov 2018
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Chris Herdman
Entanglement area law in superfluid helium-4
02
Nov 2018
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Premala Chandra
Quantum Annealed Criticality
19
Oct 2018
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Achim Rosch
Thermal quantum Hall effect in the spin liquid RuCl_3: the role of phonons
10
Oct 2018
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Subhro Bhattacharjee
Butterfly effect in classical spin systems
02
Oct 2018
noon - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Hui Zhai
Topological Trio
26
Sep 2018
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jian-Hua Jiang
Topological cavity states in two-dimensional photonic/phononic chips
19
Sep 2018
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Hlynur Gretarsson
Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering from 4D Metals: First Results from the IRIXS Project
11
Jul 2018
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
M. M. Fogler
Theory of entangled-plasmon-pair generation in graphene
28
May 2018
noon - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ryuichi Shindou
Transport scaling theories of disordered Weyl semimetals and topological spin-nematic excitonic insulators in graphite under high magnetic field
01
May 2018
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Michael Zaletel
Fractionalizing the Hofstadter Butterfly: fractional Chern insulators in graphene superlattices
13
Apr 2018
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Erez Berg
Critical Metals: Lessons from quantum Monte Carlo studies
05
Apr 2018
1:10 p.m. - 2 p.m.
MP 134
Hao Zhang
Novel Phases in Hetero-Epitaxial and Super-Oxygenated Thin Films of Complex Oxides
04
Apr 2018
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Alain Pignolet
The Quest for Novel Materials that are Multiferroic at Room Temperature
28
Mar 2018
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jesse Maassen
Thermoelectric energy conversion: a first-principles modeling approach
21
Mar 2018
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Chenggang Tao
Atomic point defects and interfaces in 2D materials
19
Mar 2018
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jhinhwan Lee
Controlling iron-based superconductivity with spin currents
14
Mar 2018
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Stephen Wu
Spin Caloritronics with Unconventional and Quantum Magnetic Materials
28
Feb 2018
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Roger Mong
Fibonacci anyons and charge density order in the 12/5 and 13/5 quantum Hall plateaus
26
Feb 2018
10 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ryan Mishmash
Uncovering and exploiting emergent phenomena in quantum matter
21
Feb 2018
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Thomas Scaffidi
Electron hydrodynamics in solid-state physics
14
Feb 2018
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Giovanni Fanchini
Near-field optical microscopy and applications in photovoltaics design and nanoscale thermal conductivity imaging
23
Jan 2018
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Juan Felipe Carrasquilla
A machine learning perspective on the many-body problem in classical and quantum physics
08
Dec 2017
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Na Young Kim
Engineered Bloch Exciton-Polaritons
22
Nov 2017
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Zhiqiang Wang
Intrinsic ac anomalous Hall effect of non-symmorphic chiral superconductors with an application to UPt3
27
Oct 2017
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Wenbin Yan
A brief introduction to AdS/CFT correspondence
18
Oct 2017
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Louk Rademaker
Quenching the Kitaev model
06
Oct 2017
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Tim Hsieh
Topological Bootstrap: From Free Fermions to Fractionalization and Fractons
27
Sep 2017
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Yin-Chen He
Kagome spin liquid
27
Sep 2017
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Hanan Dery
Probing many-body interactions through excitons in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides
20
Sep 2017
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Kevin Slagle
Quantum Field Theory of Fracton Topological Order and Topological Degeneracy from Geometry
29
May 2017
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Oktay Goktas
Coherent electronic devices fabricated on GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures
24
May 2017
noon - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Jian-Hua Jiang
Dirac physics and topology in Photonics
20
Mar 2017
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Andrey V Chubukov
Superconductivity near a quantum critical point
03
Mar 2017
11:10 a.m. - noon
3rd Floor Stewart Library, Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto
David Gosset
Complexity of quantum impurity models
22
Feb 2017
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Bill Atkinson
Influence of Ferroelectric Quantum Criticality on SrTiO3 Interfaces
17
Feb 2017
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
R. Ganesh
Generating RVB states in cavity-QED experiments
14
Feb 2017
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Eun-Ah Kim
Nematicity in FeSe, why and so what?
26
Jan 2017
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Philip Kim
Correlated electrons in graphene
25
Jan 2017
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Peter Lunts
Emergence of a control parameter for the antiferromagnetic quantum critical metal
07
Dec 2016
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Raffi Budakian
Nanoscale magnetic resonance spectroscopy
25
Nov 2016
1:10 p.m. - 2 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Adrien Gourgout
Fermi surface instabilities in ferromagnetic superconductors
16
Nov 2016
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Cristian Batista
Chiral Liquid Phase Near a Quantum Critical Point
09
Nov 2016
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Chong Wang
A duality web in 2+1 dimensions
02
Nov 2016
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ivan Bosovic
CANCELLED
26
Oct 2016
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Richard Oakley
Magnetic Ordering and Conductivity in Heavy Atom and Multi-Orbital Radicals
14
Oct 2016
1:10 p.m. - 2 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Mohit Randeria
Fermions coupled to Ising gauge fields: Symmetry breaking, confinement and emergent Dirac excitations
05
Oct 2016
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Adam Tsen
Superconductivity and Charge Density Waves in the Clean 2D Limit
28
Sep 2016
12:10 p.m. - 1:05 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Vivek Aji
2D Transition metal dichalcogenides: A platform for new phases and phenomena
30
Aug 2016
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Hyoung Joon Choi
Dirac semimetal properties in black phosphorus
08
Aug 2016
noon - 2 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ipsita Mandal
Fun with Phases
27
Jun 2016
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Theodore Monchesky
A New Twist in an Old Material: Novel Magnetic States in MnSi/Si(111)
13
May 2016
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street MP 606
Ben Olsen
Ultracold atomic superfluids in 3D, 1D, and in between
12
May 2016
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
MP 505
Dr. Jong-Hyurk Park
Applications of 2D materials in thermoelectrics: silicon & graphene
HEATER Program / Condensed Matter Seminar
27
Apr 2016
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Satoru Nakatsuji
Experimental search for novel topological phases in correlated electron systems.
20
Apr 2016
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Alexandros Gezerlis
What can cold atoms teach us about neutron stars?
13
Apr 2016
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Sae Hwan Chun
A novel route to quantum spin liquids: bond-directional magnetic anisotropies in a strongly spin-orbit coupled iridate, Na2IrO3
08
Mar 2016
1:10 p.m. - 2 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Ryo Ozawa
Vortex Crystals with Chiral Stripes in Itinerant Magnets
27
Jan 2016
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ankit Disa
Manipulating electronic structure and transport in correlated oxide heterostructures
20
Jan 2016
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Lukasz Cincio
Semion wave function and energetics in a chiral spin liquid on the Kagome lattice
02
Dec 2015
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Shomeek Mukhopadhyay
Physics of Packing : From Hard Spheres to Hydrogels
25
Nov 2015
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Benedikt Scharf
Probing topological states and transitions in systems of reduced dimensionality
25
Nov 2015
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jim Garrison
Universal Aspects of Quantum Thermalization
23
Nov 2015
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Fiona Burnell
Probing 3D Kitaev spin liquid states with Raman scattering
13
Nov 2015
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Shina Tan
Three-body resonances for ultracold atoms and other systems
11
Nov 2015
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Peter Armitage
Low energy electrodynamics of topological insulators
10
Nov 2015
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Kamran Behnia
Scattering and pairing in n-doped SrTiO3 a shallow Fermi sea
06
Nov 2015
2:10 p.m. - 3 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Senthil Todadri
Half-filled Landau level and topological insulator surfaces
04
Nov 2015
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Yuan Wan
Spinon walk in quantum spin ice
28
Oct 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Joseph Salfi
Quantum superpositions, correlations, and spins, probed at the level of single dopant atoms in silicon
28
Oct 2015
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Titus Neupert
From Möbius aromaticity to gapped spin liquids
21
Oct 2015
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Hyun-Woo Lee
Current-induced magnetization dynamics in magnetic nanostructure: Role of spin-orbit coupling
07
Oct 2015
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Stefan Tautz
Quantum effects at molecule metal interfaces
05
Oct 2015
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta
Electronic Structure of Double Perovskites: Compounds with Promises
16
Sep 2015
4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jagadeesh S. Moodera
Ferromagnetic topological insulator and quantum transport
14
Sep 2015
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jean-Philippe Reid
Modulated magnetism in the ferromagnet PrPtAl : first clear experimental +evidence of the ‘order by disorder’ theory
17
Jul 2015
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jeroen Custers
Quantum Critical Behavior and Superconductivity in new multi-site Cerium Heavy Fermion Compound Ce3PtIn11
07
Jul 2015
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Zhenhua Yu
Superradiance of Degenerate Fermi Gases in a Cavity
15
Jun 2015
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Marie Piraud
Interacting bosons on a two-leg ladder in the presence of gauge fields
15
May 2015
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Catherine Pepin
Charge order, Pseudo gap and SU(2) symmetry in high temperature superconductors
21
Apr 2015
2:10 p.m. - 3 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Prof. Dr. Dieter W. Heermann
The Physics of Chromosomes: Loops and Entropy, that's what it's all about
25
Mar 2015
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jun Zhu
Spin, spin-orbit coupling and topology in graphene
17
Mar 2015
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Byung-Gu Jeon
Exotic high-field phenomena in the S=1/2 frustrated spin ladder BiCu2PO6
25
Feb 2015
noon - 1 p.m.
Room 210, Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto
Guoxing Miao
Spin Manipulation through Tunable Magnetic Semiconductors
13
Feb 2015
11:10 a.m. - noon
Room 210, Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto
Vlad Pribiag
Superconducting Edge-Mode Transport in InAs/GaSb Double Quantum Wells
11
Feb 2015
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Pierre Richard
Fe-based superconductivity: what does ARPES tell us?
11
Feb 2015
3:10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Jeroen van den Brink
Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering on high Tc cuprates and magnetic iridates
06
Feb 2015
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
David Reis
The dawn of x-ray nonlinear optics
05
Feb 2015
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Stefan Natu
Bosons with spin: An exciting new playground for exploring quantum many body physics
22
Jan 2015
1:10 p.m. - 2 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Eun-Gook Moon
Non-perturbative effects of unconventional theory of competing orders
21
Jan 2015
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Yang Qi
Detecting crystal symmetry fractionalization from ground state
18
Dec 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Lucy Clark
New Realisations of Frustrated Quantum Spin Systems from Vanadium Based Oxyfluorides
08
Dec 2014
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60St. George St. MP 408
Natalia Perkins
Importance of anisotropic exchange interactions in honeycomb iridates. New phenomena due to Kitaev interactions
19
Nov 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Sid Parameswaran
Valley Physics in High Magnetic Fields: Correlations, Broken Symmetry Phases and Transport Signatures
13
Nov 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Peng Ye
Achieving Bosonic Topological Insulators by Condensing Vortex-lines of Superfluids
12
Nov 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Taylor Hughes
Interplay between Symmetry and Geometry in Topological Phases
29
Oct 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Zhihao Hao
Unconventional quantum phase transition on the kagome lattice
27
Oct 2014
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ying Liu
New results from single-crystal quantum structures of Sr2RuO4†
22
Oct 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
John Cerne
Infrared polarization-sensitive studies of graphene, semiconductors, and high temperature superconductors
22
Oct 2014
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
60 St, George Street, MP 606
Matthias Troyer
Simulation of fermionic quantum gases
08
Oct 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Maissam Barkeshli
Extrinsic Defects and Possible New Experimental Probes of Topological Order
03
Oct 2014
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Qimiao Si
Electron Correlations and Superconductivity in the Iron Pnictides and Chalcogenides
01
Oct 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jeff Rau
Generic spin model for the honeycomb iridates with trigonal distortion
24
Sep 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jia-Wei Mei
U(1) x U(1) SPT in Gutzwiller-projected parton wave functions and its possible realization in a local spin model
17
Sep 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ilya Vekhter
Orbital order and Hund's rule frustration in Kondo lattices
10
Sep 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Heungsik Kim
Spin-orbit-induced j_eff=1/2 states and related physics in 5d-transition metal compounds
08
Sep 2014
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Roger Mong
Non-Abelian states in quantum Hall systems
27
Aug 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Anne de Visser
Superconductivity in topological half-Heusler compounds
13
Aug 2014
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Christopher Homes
Optical properties of iron-based multiband conductors and superconductors
02
Jul 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Mark Fischer
Chiral d-wave superconductivity in SrPtAs
06
May 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George St. MP 606
Luiz Santos
CANCELLED
06
May 2014
noon - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Thomas C. Lang
Mott Transitions of Correlated Fermions from SU(2) to SU(N)
23
Apr 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
John Hill
Electron Dynamics in high Tc Cuprates; The power of x-rays
22
Apr 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jung Hoon Han
Emergence of Orbital Chirality in Multi-orbital Surface Bands
02
Apr 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Tarun Grover
CANCELLED
26
Mar 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Moses Chan
Observation of individual macroscopic quantum tunneling events in superconducting nanowires
21
Mar 2014
1:10 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Bahen Center for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street, BA 1210
Anthony Leggett
The mean-field method in the theory of superconductivity:a wolf in sheep's clothing?
19
Mar 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Zlatko Papic
Entanglement in topological phases and interacting quantum disordered systems
12
Mar 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Venkat Chandrasekhar
Charge-Vortex Duality at the LAO/STO Interface
28
Feb 2014
11:10 a.m. - noon
Room 230, Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto
Guifre Vidal
Tensor Networks for Quantum Many-body Systems
27
Feb 2014
11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Sanjeev Kumar
Non-coplanar magnetism in the Kondo-lattice model and the Hubbard model on frustrated geometries
26
Feb 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Shinsei Ryu
Effective field theories for topological insulators via functional bosonization
14
Feb 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Amy Poole
Evidence for SrHo2O4 and SrDy2O4 as model J1-J2 zig-zag chain materials
29
Jan 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Zheng-Cheng Gu
Majorana ghosts: From topological superconductor to the origin of neutrino masses, three generations and their mass mixing
20
Jan 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Xiaopeng Li
High orbital quantum phases in optical lattices: from p-wave BEC to topological superconductivity
17
Jan 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jason Petta
Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Quantum Dots
09
Jan 2014
11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Yejin Huh
Vector boson excitations in quantum spin systems
08
Jan 2014
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Allen Goldman
Electrostatic Tuning of the Properties of High Temperature Superconductors Using Ionic Liquids
06
Dec 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Peter Hirschfeld
Novel Disorder Effects in Multiband Superconductors
04
Dec 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Daniel Dessau
What Sets the Tc in Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors?
27
Nov 2013
noon - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
David Hawthorn
Charge density wave order in underdoped cuprate superconductors
21
Nov 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Yuan-Ming Lu
Interplay of symmetry and topology in correlated bosons
20
Nov 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Gang Chen
Symmetry Enriched Quantum Spin Ice With No Sign Problem
13
Nov 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Kai Sun
Topological Kondo insulators and topological crystalline Kondo insulators
06
Nov 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Hsiang-Hsuan Hung
The Z2 topological invariant, spin Chern number and zero-frequency Green's functions in correlated topological insulators
31
Oct 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Anushya Chandran
Non-equilibrium topological matter
30
Oct 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Eva Zurek
Building a Chemical Intuition Under Pressure: Theoretical Predictions of Hydrides with Unusual Stoichiometries
16
Oct 2013
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Pat Clancy
Exploring Magnetism in Doped Iridates with Resonant X-rays
09
Oct 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Eun-Gook Moon
Exotic ground states and quantum phase transitions in strong spin-orbit coupled systems : application to pyrochlore iridates
04
Oct 2013
1:10 p.m. - 2 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Andy Mackenzie
Uniaxial strain study of Sr2RuO4
03
Oct 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jong Bae Hong
Kondo Phenomenon at Steady-State Nonequilibrium
27
Sep 2013
1:10 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Chandra Varma
Superconductivity by Exchange of Electronic Fluctuations
24
Sep 2013
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Dibyendu Das
Collective force generated by multiple biofilaments can exceed the sum of forces due to individual ones.
23
Sep 2013
noon - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Felix Eilers
Multiband superconductivity in AFe2As2, A = K, Rb, Cs
18
Sep 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ziyang Meng
Dynamical cluster quantum Monte Carlo studies on the square and triangular lattice Hubbard model
09
Sep 2013
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Rm. 606
Han Pu
Spin-Orbit Coupling in Quantum Gases
06
Aug 2013
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Barrett Wells
Electronic Phase Separation – Control Via Dopant Mobility
31
Jul 2013
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Riccardo Comin
CORRELATED PHYSICS AND CHARGE-ORDERED GROUND STATES IN 3D- AND 5D-OXIDES
15
Jul 2013
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George St. MP 606
Maitri Warusawithana
Two-dimensional electron liquid and a key missing piece of the “polar catastrophe” puzzle
18
Jun 2013
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ryan Mishmash
Strange metals and a continuous Mott transition: Accessing novel strongly correlated electron physics in quasi-1D
14
May 2013
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Zohar Nussinov
A mapping between finite temperature classical and zero temperature quantum systems in general dimensions and its consequences for various quantum liquids and glasses
13
May 2013
noon - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Tarun Grover
CANCELLED
08
Apr 2013
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Max Metlitski
Topological insulator of bosons in 3d via dyon condensation and the statistical Witten effect
28
Mar 2013
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Carlos Sa de Melo
Who is the Lord of the Rings in the Zeeman-spin-orbit Saga: Majorana, Dirac or Lifshitz?
27
Mar 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Rahul Nandkishore
Quantum many body physics in single and bilayer graphene
15
Mar 2013
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Yogesh Singh
Novel Phases in Mott-insulating iridates
13
Mar 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jak Tchakhalian
Whither is the correlated oxide Interface?
01
Mar 2013
11:10 a.m. - noon
Room 210, Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto
Nadya Mason
Symmetry Protected Josephson Supercurrents in Three-Dimensional Topological Insulators
27
Feb 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Stephen E. Nagler
Topological Oscillators: Good Vibrations
20
Feb 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Satoshi Okamoto
Interface engineering of novel quantum phenomena in digital transition metal oxide heterostructures
13
Feb 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Emil Bozin
Cr doped CuIr2S4: a model system for studying nanoscale phase competition in the presence of disorder at the metal-insulator transition
30
Jan 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
David Huse
Thermalization and localization in closed quantum many-body systems
14
Jan 2013
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Roger Mong
Matrix product states for quantum Hall wavefunctions
10
Dec 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Hiroaki Ishizuka
Exotic electronic and magnetic states in frustrated Ising-spin Kondo lattice models
05
Dec 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Subroto Mukerjee
Thermoelectricity: Relations and correlations
28
Nov 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Dirk Morr
A Nanoscopic Approach to Heavy Fermions: from Kondo droplets to Kondo Holes
23
Nov 2012
11:10 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Dimitri Basov
Shedding infrared light on high-Tc superconductivity
14
Nov 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Stephen Wilson
Exploring the correlated electronic ground state of the bilayer iridate Sr3Ir2O7
07
Nov 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Srinivas Raghu
Theory of the Kerr effect in the cuprates
05
Nov 2012
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MP1115, 60 St.George Street
Olga Smirnova
Time-resolving tunneling dynamics
05
Nov 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Alireza Nojeh
Carbon nanotubes, photons and electrons: still full of surprises after two decades of research
02
Nov 2012
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Johnpierre Paglione
Quantum Materials: from superconductors to insulators... and back!
31
Oct 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jainendra Jain
Adiabatic continuity between Hofstadter and Chern insulators states
24
Oct 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Holger Kleinke
Thermoelectric Materials: Theory and Experiment
17
Oct 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Artur Izmaylov
Quantum non-adiabatic dynamics with conical intersections: Model Hamiltonians and beyond
02
Oct 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Zhengcheng Gu
Duality between symmetry protected topological order and intrinsic topological order
19
Sep 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
SungBin Lee
Generic quantum spin ice
18
Jun 2012
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ganesh Ramachandran
Plaquette order on the honeycomb lattice
15
Jun 2012
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Markus B. Raschke
Ultrafast nano-optics with optical antennas
11
Jun 2012
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Roderich Moessner
Extended magnetic degrees of freedom
16
May 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Alex Hayat
Interaction of light with solid-state condensates
25
Apr 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Christopher Wiebe
Dirac strings and magnetic monopoles in spin ices
12
Apr 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Kyle Shen
Shedding Light on Artificial Quantum Materials and Interfaces by Photoemission Spectroscopy
04
Apr 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Frank Gasparini
Giant proximity effects in 4He at the superfluid transition
28
Mar 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Rm 606
Christopher Wiebe
TBA
21
Mar 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Edward Taylor
Intrinsic, anomalous Hall effect in a chiral multiband superconductor
14
Mar 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
John Sipe
Single particle effects on the dynamics of quasi-particles: Old ideas, new issues, and possible experiments
07
Mar 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Rob Hill
Superconducting Gap Symmetry in Iron-pnictide Superconductors: A Thermal Conductivity Perspective
SEMINAR CANCELED
29
Feb 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
APS March Meeting Week - NO SEMINAR
14
Feb 2012
noon - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 505
Daniel Agterberg
Superconductivity without parity symmetry
10
Feb 2012
10:10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
David Tanner
Photons, magnetic fields, Cooper pairs, and quasparticles: The use of synchrotron sources to study pairbreaking in superconductors
08
Feb 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Can-Ming Hu
The Scientific Battle Field of Dynamic Spintronics
01
Feb 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Andrea Damascelli
From p-wave superconductors to Mott-like and topological insulators via spin-orbit interaction in solid
26
Jan 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Daniel Frisbie
Electrical Double-Layer Transistors – A Platform for Examining Surface Conduction at Carrier Densities Near 1014 cm-2
18
Jan 2012
12:10 p.m. - 1:35 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Mohammad Hamidian
Visualizing Heavy Fermion Formation, and Their Destruction by Kondo Holes
07
Dec 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Michael Levin
Strongly correlated topological insulators
30
Nov 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Soumya J. Ray
Nanoscale interplay of Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in thin films
SEMINAR CANCELLED
23
Nov 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Kaori Tanaka
Charge Density Waves and Superconductivity in the Extended Hubbard Model
16
Nov 2011
noon - 1:30 p.m.
3rd Floor Stewart Library, Fields Institute, 222 College Street
Hari Manoharan
Supersymmetric Quantum Nanostructures
09
Nov 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Pencheng Dai
Evolution of spin excitations in high-temperature iron-based superconductors
02
Nov 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ville Lahtinen
Majorana fermion models for interacting non-Abelian anyons
31
Oct 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:35 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Zhengcheng Gu
Tensor product state algorithm and its application to honeycomb t-J model
28
Oct 2011
11:10 a.m. - noon
3rd Floor Stewart Library, Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto
David Snoke
Superfluid Phase Transition of Long-Lifetime Polaritons
25
Oct 2011
3:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Anton Burkov
Topological Semimetals
19
Oct 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:35 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Karen Michaeli
Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Oxide Interface Structures: Possibility of Finite Momentum Pairing
05
Oct 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Roger Melko
Identifying spin liquids and exotic quantum criticality in a kagome Bose-Hubbard model using entanglement entropy
28
Sep 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Subhro Bhattacharjee
Spin-Orbital Locking, Emergent Pseudo-Spin, and Magnetic order in Na2IrO3
21
Sep 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jay Sau
Topological superconductivity and Majorana Fermions at spin-orbit coupled semiconductor/superconductor interfaces
15
Sep 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Fiona Burnell
Building fractional topological insulators
14
Sep 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Morton Eskildsen
Pauli Paramagnetic Effects on the Vortex Cores in CeCoIn5
12
Sep 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Meigan Aronson
Field-Tuned Quantum Criticality in YFe2Al10
07
Sep 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ganesh Ramachandran and Fazel Fallah Tafti
Frustrated magnetism on the honeycomb lattice and Pressure Tuned Insulator to Metal Transition in Eu_2Ir_20_7
02
Aug 2011
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Santiago Grigera
Unconventional magnetization processes and thermal runaway in spin-ice Dy_2Ti_2 O_7
20
Jun 2011
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Gennady Y. Chitov
Quantum Critical Properties and Hidden Orders in Dimerized Spin Ladders
03
Jun 2011
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Ion Garate
Kondo Temperature in Multilevel Quantum Dots
01
Jun 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Malcolm Kennett
Schwinger-Keldysh approach to out of equilibrium dynamics of the Bose Hubbard model with time varying hopping
13
Apr 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Hiroki Wadati
Charge/orbital/spin ordering in Mn-oxide thin films revealed by resonant soft x-ray scattering
16
Mar 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Claudio Chamon
Fractional quantum Hall states at zero magnetic field
09
Mar 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Natalia Perkins
Orbital ordering in MnV2O4
02
Mar 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Gabriel Kotliar
Correlation effects in the iron pnictide materials
23
Feb 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Dennis Drew
Quantized Faraday Rotation in topological insulators
16
Feb 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Vidya Madhavan
Novel interference patterns in Bi2-xFexTe3 observed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy
28
Jan 2011
4:10 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Bitan Roy
Aspects of interacting electrons in graphene's honeycomb lattice
27
Jan 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Benjamin Hsu
Quantum noise and entanglement from a local quench
26
Jan 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
John E. Greedan
Geometrically Frustrated Magnets: Attempts to Subvert the Third Law
24
Jan 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Greg Fiete
Interaction Effects in Topological Insulators and Quantum Spin Liquids
21
Jan 2011
10:10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
3rd Floor Stewart Library, Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto
Guillaume Gervais
Non-Abelian quantum statistics and the Moore-Read Pfaffian state
17
Jan 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Dmitry Abanin
Giant flavor-Hall effect in Dirac materials
12
Jan 2011
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ying Ran
Z2 spin liquid and chiral antiferromagnetic phase in Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice: duality between Schwinger-fermion and Schwinger-boson representations
13
Dec 2010
2:10 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Oleg Starykh
Magnetization plateaux in triangular lattice antiferromagnets
01
Dec 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Hosub Jin
New Candidates for Topological Insulators : Pb-based chalcogenide series
22
Nov 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Karyn Le Hur
Novel Many-Body Quantum Phases: From Photons to Electrons
17
Nov 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Erez Berg
A sign of change: pinning down the pairing symmetry of the iron-based superconductors
16
Nov 2010
3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Patrick Clancy
X-ray and Neutron Scattering Studies of the Unconventional Spin-Peierls System TiOBr
10
Nov 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Richard Averitt
Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy of Vanadates
09
Nov 2010
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Raffi Budakian
Probing the Physics of the Fractional Vortex State in Novel Superconductors
03
Nov 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Bruce Gaulin
Phase Transitions in Planar Pyrochlores
29
Oct 2010
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
60 St. George, MP 606
Rafael M. Fernandes
Coexistence between superconductivity and magnetism in the iron arsenides
29
Oct 2010
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Eun-Gook Moon
Quantum critical point shifts under superconductivity: the pnictides and the cuprates
13
Oct 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Christianne Beekman
Current-induced suppression of short range ordering phenomena in La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 microbridges
06
Oct 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Gang Cao
New Paradigms for Spintronics in Complex Oxides
29
Sep 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Si Wu
Magnetic Properties of Quasi-One-Dimensional Organic Conductors
23
Aug 2010
11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Edward Taylor
Perfect fluidity: from quark-gluon plasmas to ultra-cold Fermi gases
12
May 2010
11 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Rajdeep Sensarma
Dynamics of Double Occupancies in Fermi Hubbard Model on Optical Lattices
11
May 2010
10:10 a.m. - 11:25 a.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
G. Baskaran
Quantum Complexity in Graphene
28
Apr 2010
3:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Darren Peets
Non-centrosymmetric d-electron superconductors
28
Apr 2010
11 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau
Graphene: Quantum Transport in a 2D Membrane
14
Apr 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Liang Fu
Odd-Parity Topological Superconductors
09
Apr 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Cenke Xu
Quantum critical points of helical Fermi liquid
07
Apr 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Michel Gingras
Some opened problems in rare-earth magnetic pyrochlore oxides
31
Mar 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Oleg Tchernyshyov
Spin excitations with Fermi statistics in frustrated antiferromagnets
24
Mar 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Jörg Schmalian
Perfect fluid behavior in graphene.
22
Mar 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
L. Degiorgi
Spectroscopy in broken symmetry ground states
11
Mar 2010
3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Alioscia Hamma
Lieb-Robinson bounds and the structure of correlations in quantum many body systems
10
Mar 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Chris Henley
The Coulomb phase in frustrated systems
24
Feb 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Chang-Yong Kim
Materials Research at Canadian Light Source and application of x-ray standing wave
17
Feb 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Dan Ralph
Putting the Electron’s Spin to Work
11
Feb 2010
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Benjamin Fregoso
Quantum liquid crystal phases with unconventional magnetism in atomic systems - CANCELLED
10
Feb 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Fa Wang
Functional renormalization group study of iron-based superconductors
03
Feb 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Maureen Reedyk
Optical investigation of an antiferromagnetic organic superconductor
27
Jan 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Hsiong Chou
The puzzle and possible mechanisms in the development of Diluted Magnetic Oxides
20
Jan 2010
12:05 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Igor Zutic
Tailoring Magnetism in Bulk Semiconductors and Quantum Dots
13
Jan 2010
12:10 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Peter Grutter
Electron Energy Level Spectroscopy in InAs Quantum Dots by AFM
06
Jan 2010
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Rohit Prasankumar
Probing nanoscale phase inhomogeneities in strongly correlated transition metal oxides with ultrafast infrared spectroscopy
03
Dec 2009
3:10 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Hong Guo
Universal Properties of Spin-Hall Effect
02
Dec 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Sung-Sik Lee
Emergent string from non-Fermi liquids in 2+1 dimensions
26
Nov 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
G. Baskaran
A Novel Mott-Hall Insulator and Spin Liquid Phase in Neutral Graphene in a Magnetic Field
25
Nov 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Dvira Segal
Iterative path integral simulations of nonequilibrium quantum transport and dissipation
18
Nov 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Sang W. Cheong
Switchable Photo-Diode effect in Ferroelectric BiFeO3
12
Nov 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Hiroki Wadati
Electronic structure of the SrTiO3/LaAlO3 interface revealed by resonant soft x-ray scattering
11
Nov 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Markus Büttiker
*CANCELED*Time scales in mesoscopic electron transport
04
Nov 2009
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
N. Phuan Ong
Topological Insulators -- a progress report
27
Oct 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Bogdan Andrei Bernevig
Entanglement Spectrum in the Conformal Limit
20
Oct 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Shunsuke Furukawa
Quantum entanglement in Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid
14
Oct 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 Saint George Street, MP 606
Zhiqiang Li
Charge dynamics in monolayer and bilayer graphene by infrared spectroscopy
07
Oct 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 Saint George Street, MP 606
Jason Alicea
Interlayer Coherent Composite Fermi Liquid in Quantum Hall Bilayers and Beyond
02
Oct 2009
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Harini Barath
Exploring quantum phase transitions in strongly correlated materials using optical spectroscopy
23
Sep 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 Saint George Street, MP 606
Andrea Bianchi
Magnetic superconductivity in CeCoIn5
23
Sep 2009
3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Zahir Islam
Inhomogeneous lattice modulations and length-scale “hierarchy” in some cuprates
16
Sep 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Piers Coleman
Composite pairing in the new "high Tc" Heavy Fermion Superconductors
10
Sep 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:35 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Boris Nadgorny
Exploring spin transport and ferromagnetism with Andreev reflection spectroscopy
28
Aug 2009
11 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Ross McKenzie
Destruction of quasiparticles near the Mott metal-insulator transition
20
Jul 2009
11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Davenport East seminar room, Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories, 80 St. George St.
Dr. Mykhaylo Evstigneev
Rolling nanoparticles in 2D
15
Jul 2009
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
David Ellis
2-Magnon Excitations at Finite Momentum: A Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering Study in La2CuO4
10
Jun 2009
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Andrew G Green with Gareth Conduit and Ben Simons
Lattice and quantum fluctuation driven reconstruction of the itinerant ferromagnetic phase diagram
09
Jun 2009
3:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Wenlong Wu
Non-Fermi-liquid states in FeCrAs and Sr3Ru2O7
05
Jun 2009
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Edward Taylor
Second sound in a trapped strongly interacting Fermi gas
07
Apr 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Mehmet Egilmez
Magneto-transport and strain driven meta-stable phases in ultra thin manganite films
07
Apr 2009
3:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Roman Barankov
Higgs mode in fermionic superfluids
06
Apr 2009
3:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 1115
Tzu-Chieh Wei
Carbon nanotubes as tunable Luttinger liquids
23
Mar 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Shunji Tsuchiya
Pseudogap phenomena in the BCS-BEC crossover regime of atomic Fermi gases
11
Mar 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Oscar D. Dubón
Effect anion substitution on ferromagnetism in GaMn(As,P)
26
Jan 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
David Mandrus
tba
13
Jan 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Peter Grutter
tba
12
Jan 2009
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Sai-Ping Lee
When Physics met Politics: Physics of Politics? Politics of Physics?
17
Nov 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Elisabeth Nicol
Optical Conductivity of Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene
10
Nov 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
David Hawthorn
Probing Charge Order In Cuprates With Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering
20
Oct 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Barrett Wells
Electronic Phase Separation in High Temperature Superconductors
06
Oct 2008
10 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 408, 60 St. George Street
Kimberley Hall
Femtosecond Control of Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors
06
Oct 2008
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Nitin Samarth
The Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetically Doped Semiconductors: New Perspectives on An Old Problem
CANCELLED
01
Oct 2008
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Xiaoliang Qi
Fractional charge and spin charge separation in the quantum spin Hall state
30
Sep 2008
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Nayana Shah
Switching-current statistics as a probe for phase-slip events in superconducting nanowires
29
Sep 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Ashvin Vishwanath
Novel Orders from Geometrical Frustration and Orbital Degeneracy
19
Sep 2008
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Harold Hwang
Magnetotransport in Photocarrier-Doped Quantum Paraelectric Semiconductors: Localization, Dimensionality, and the Extreme Quantum Limit
08
Sep 2008
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Predrag Nikolic
Vortex Liquids in Rotating Fermion Systems Near Unitarity
12
May 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Room MP408, 60 St. George Street
Gil Refael
Entanglement entropy of random critical points in one dimension
07
May 2008
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Hidenori Takagi
Charge ordering and superconductivity in single layer high-Tc cuprates
07
Apr 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Thomas Vojta
Quantum phase transitions and disorder: Infinite randomness, Griffiths singularities, and smearing
31
Mar 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Chris Stock
Spin resonance, stripes, and superconductivity in two dimensions
27
Mar 2008
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Cedomir Petrovic
Advanced Exploratory Synthesis and Characterization of Quantum Materials
17
Mar 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Yuji Matsuda
Texture in the Superconducting Order Parameter of Heavy Fermion Compound
07
Mar 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Chang Tsuei
Fluctuating Cu-O-Cu Bond Model for Cuprate Superconductivity
28
Feb 2008
2:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
60 Saint George Street, MP 408
Mumtaz Qazilbash
Mott transition in VO2 observed by infrared spectroscopy and nano-imaging
25
Feb 2008
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
60 Saint George Street, MP 408
Alexandre Champagne
Bilayer quantum Hall excitons: evidence for a finite temperature phase transition
22
Feb 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Victor Galitski
Spin-orbit coupling effects in solid state and cold atomic systems
14
Feb 2008
10:30 a.m. - noon
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Charlotte Gils
Non-abelian topological phases and unconventional criticality in a model of interacting anyons
14
Feb 2008
2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
60 Saint George MP 606
Kenneth S. Burch
Optical Investigation and Manipulation of Spintronics Materials
12
Feb 2008
3:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Suk Bum Chung
Non-Abelian Statistics and Topological Degeneracy in p+ip Superconductor
11
Feb 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Kam Tuen Law
Probing Abelian and non-Abelian anyons in Fractional Quantum Hall states
04
Feb 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Pallab Goswami
Rounding of a first order quantum phase transition into a quantum critical point
31
Jan 2008
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
60 Saint George St. Room 1115
Maitri Warusawithana
New Electronic Functionality and Quantum Devices through Nanostructured Interfaces
30
Jan 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Ting-Pong Choy
Hidden Charge 2e Boson: Physical Implications and Experimental Consequences for Doped Mott Insulators
29
Jan 2008
4:10 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Vadim Oganesyan
Transport in strongly correlated materials
28
Jan 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Ivailo Dimov
Spin Order in Paired Quantum Hall States
25
Jan 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Wang-Kong (James) Tse
Many-body Effects on the Electronic properties of Graphene
21
Jan 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Nic Shannon
How to have fun with frustrated ferromagnets
18
Jan 2008
3:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Massimo Boninsegni
Structure, superfluidity and quantum melting of hydrogen clusters
14
Jan 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Young Lee
The physics of frustrated spins on the two dimensional kagome lattice
11
Jan 2008
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Philip Phillips
Hidden Charge 2e boson in the normal state of the Cuprates
23
Nov 2007
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Adrian Del Maestro
Universal thermoelectric transport in nanowires
19
Nov 2007
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Congjun Wu
New features of orbital physics with cold bosons and fermions in optical lattices
16
Nov 2007
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Mohit Randeria
Superconductivity in Doped Mott Insulators
05
Nov 2007
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Ilya Vekhter
Unconventional superconductors under rotated magnetic field
29
Oct 2007
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 Saint George Street, Burton Tower MP408
Philip Kim
Electric Transport in Graphitic Carbon Materials
26
Oct 2007
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
T. Senthil
Scaling hypotheses for non-fermi liquid quantum criticality
24
Oct 2007
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 1115
Markus Muller
Theory of the Nernst effect near quantum phase transitions in condensed matter, and in dyonic black holes
22
Oct 2007
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Anand Bhattacharya
Emergent properties of digital superlattices of LaMnO3/SrMnO3
15
Oct 2007
11 a.m. - noon
60 Saint George Street, MP 606
John Thomas
Is a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas a Perfect Fluid?
09
Oct 2007
2:10 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Sung-Sik Lee
Emergent supersymmetry at a quantum critical point
24
Sep 2007
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 Saint George Street, Burton Tower, MP408
Anton Burkov
Nonequilibrium dynamics in low-dimensional cold atom condensates
17
Sep 2007
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Jonathan Bird
Quantum Point Contacts: a Tunable Single-Spin System with Electrical Readout
10
Sep 2007
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 Saint George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Erik Sorensen
Strong Correlation Effects in the Fullerenes
07
Aug 2007
3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
Eun-Ah Kim
Theory of the nodal nematic quantum phase transition in superconductors
30
Jul 2007
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 Saint George St. Burton Tower MP408
Daniel Podolsky
Novel phase transitions in spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates
04
Jun 2007
10:10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
60 St. George Street, McLennan Physical Labs, MP 134
Royce K.P. Zia
Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: a growing frontier of "pure and applied" theoretical physics
04
Jun 2007
12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Ehud Altman
Hidden order in one dimensional Bose insulators with dipolar interactions
17
Apr 2007
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
60 St. George St., Burton Tower, MP 606
Andrew J. Millis
Correlated Electron Physics: New Materials and New Methods
02
Apr 2007
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
A. Chubukov
Flat dispersion in a triangular antiferromagnet
27
Mar 2007
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Sambandamurthy Ganapathy
Superconductor-Insulator Transition in 2D and Search for the Cooper Pair Insulator
21
Mar 2007
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Streeet, MP 408
George Mias
Bose-Einstein F = 1 Spinor Condensates: Quantum Dynamics, Fluctuations and Domain Formation
19
Mar 2007
noon - 1 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
R. Kalyanaraman
Self-organized patterns in nanoscopic metal films
14
Mar 2007
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Chungwei Lin
Dynamical Mean Field Study of Model Double-Exchange Superlattices
12
Mar 2007
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
60 Saint George Street, MP 606
Oleg Tretiakov
Dynamics of domain walls in magnetic nanostrips
12
Mar 2007
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Hans Hübl
News on an old donor: Manipulation and detection of the spin states of phosphorus in silicon
26
Feb 2007
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 Saint George Street, MP 606
Latha Venkataraman
Conductance of Single Molecule Junctions Using Amine-Gold Linkages
19
Feb 2007
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Robert A. Kaindl
Ultrafast THz Spectroscopy: From Excitons to Cooper Pairs
14
Feb 2007
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 606
Ka-Ming Tam
Multiscale functional renormalization group studies of electron-phonon coupled systems
12
Feb 2007
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
McLennan Labs, Room 606
Nicholas. J. Curro
NMR Studies of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
05
Feb 2007
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Room MP 606 - 60 Saint George Street
Dr. Nuh Gedik
Ultrafast structural dynamics observed with atomic scale resolution
30
Jan 2007
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, Burton Tower, MP 408
G. Sambandhamurthy
CANCELLED (TO BE RESCHEDULED)
29
Jan 2007
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Room MP 606, 60 St. George Street
Dr. Nikolai Zhitenev
Electronic conducting states in nano- and mesoscale molecular devices
22
Jan 2007
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George St., Burton Tower, MP 408
Roman Lutchyn
Kinetics of Superconducting Quantum Circuit
15
Jan 2007
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
David Venus
Measurements of critical slowing down in a 2-dimensional Ising system
20
Nov 2006
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Christopher Homes
Scaling relations and the dirty limit in high-temperature superconductors
01
Nov 2006
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Chris Hooley
Simulating condensed matter systems using cold atoms: some practical observations
30
Oct 2006
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Chris Hooley
Sodium cobalt oxide: what's going on at high doping?
06
Oct 2006
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Nandini Trivedi
Disorder and (d-wave) Superconductors: Why are the nodes protected?
03
Oct 2006
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
W. Atkinson
Coexisting Phases and Superfluid Density in Underdoped High Temperature Superconductors
25
Sep 2006
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Andrew Mackenzie
Formation of a nematic fluid at high fields in Sr3Ru2O7
20
Sep 2006
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Duncan O'Dell
Trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates
12 - 14
Aug 2006
midnight - midnight
TBA
Frontiers of Quantum Decoherence
An International Workshop
08
Aug 2006
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George Street, MP 408
Rajeev Ahluwalia
Microstructural evolution during martensitic transformations
19
May 2006
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George St., MP 408
G. Baskaran
The World of Resonating Valence Bond Superconductors
25
Apr 2006
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
60 St. George St., MP 606
G. Baskaran
Theory of Supersolid Helium 4
24
Apr 2006
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George St. MP 408
Kenneth Gray
Metals, Insulators and their Transitions: Strongly Correlated Manganites
18
Apr 2006
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St.GeorgeSt., MP 1115 (NON-STANDARD DAY AND ROOM)
David Broun
Superfluid density reveals a quantum critical point between d-wave superconductivity and a Mott insulator
17
Apr 2006
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George St., MP 408
Roger Melko
Quantum Monte Carlo studies of hard-core bosons with ring exchange
10
Apr 2006
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St.George St., MP 408
Nicola Spaldin
Why are there so few magnetic ferroelectrics?
03
Apr 2006
noon - 1:30 p.m.
60 St. George St., MP 408
Erhai Zhao
Spin transport in Ferromagnet-Superconductor heterostructures --- Teaching nanomagnets new tricks
Erhai Zhao speaks about spin dependent properties of hybrid ferromagnetic / superconductor materials.
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