Center for Complex Quantum Systems

Complex Quantum Systems Past Seminars

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
Thursday January 22	Tarun Grover University of California, Santa Barbara Host: Greg Fiete	Highly Entangled Quantum Matter
Thursday January 29	Rahul M. Nandikishore Princeton University Host: Greg Fiete	Many body localization: a new frontier for quantum statistical physics
Saturday January 31	CQS Workshop 16 Lectures Host: Keji Lai	Two-dimensional van der Waals Materials workshops
Monday February 2 11:30am-12:30pm	Andrew Potter University of California, Berkeley Host: Greg Fiete	Symmetry and topology in quantum materials from Weyl semimetals to correlated topological insulators
Thursday February 5	Fan Zhang UT Dallas Host: Allan H. MacDonald	Time-Reversal-Invariant Topological Superconductivity
Thursday February 12	Marcus Betz Technical University of Dortmund Host: Elaine Li	Examples of coherent control on the nanoscale
Wednesday February 18 Informal Seminar RLM 11.238	Taku Fukuta Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Host: Linda Reichl	Absorption spectrum of quantum wires with an impurity: A semi-infinite chain vs. an infinite chain
Thursday February 19	Hua Chen UT Austin Host: Allan H. MacDonald	A Magnetic Majorana Fermion Factory
Wednesday February 25 1:00pm Informal Seminar RLM 11.238	Geva Arwas Ben-Gurien University Host: Linda Reichl	Superfluidity and chaos
Thursday February 26	Enrico Rossie College of William and Mary Host: Allan MacDonald	Two-dimensional heterostructures with spin-orbit coupling
Friday February 27 SPECIAL SEMINAR 11:00am	Akihiko Sekine IMR of Tohoku University Host: Allan MacDonald	Stability of Dirac and Weyl Semimetals against Strong Long-Range Coulomb Interactions
Saturday February 28 RLM 11.204 10:00am - 5:00pm	CQS/CM Workshop Host: Qian Niu	UT - PKU Exchange program workshops
Thursday March 5	APS March Meeting	APS March Meeting
Tuesday March 10	Thierry Jolicoeur University of Paris Host: Allan MacDonald	Pfaffian or AntiPfaffian?
Thursday March 12	A. Douglas Stone Yale University Host: Mark Raizen	Random and chaotic laser: Why They are Interesting and What They are Good For
Thursday March 19	SPRING BREAK	SPRING BREAK
Tuesday March 24	Yong Chen Purdue University Host: Ken Shih	Topological Surface Transport in Topological Insulators
Thursday March 26	Karin Everschor-Sitte UT Austin Host: Allan MacDonald	Half-metallic magnetism and the search for better spin valves
Thursday April 2	James P. Lewis University of West Virginia Host: Alex Demkov	Improved optical adsorption from disorder: A tale of B-site alloying in cuprate delafossite oxide (ABO2) systems
Thursday April 9	Chong-Yu Ruan Michigan State University Host: Manfred Fink	Exploration and manipulation of interaction-driven phase transitions in correlated electron crystals using femtosecond optical doping
Thursday April 16	Alex Demko UT Austin	Integrated films of transition metal oxides for information technology
Thursday April 21	Brian R La Cour UT Austin Host: Allan H. MacDonald	Challenging the Church-Turing Thesis: Quantum Computing and Classical Entanglement
Thursday April 23	Zheng Wang UT Austin Host: Ken Shih	Nano-phononics enabled by guided-wave nanophotonics
Thursday April 30	Andrea Young UC Santa Barbara Host: Allan H. MacDonald	Layer-resolved probe of charge order in atomically thin bilayers
Tuesday May 5	Yu Tsung Tsai University of Buffalo Host: Ken Shih	Spontaneous circular polarization of photoluminescence from WS2 single layers
Thursday May 7	Max Di Ventra University of California, San Diego Host: Alex Demkov	Memcomputing: a brain-inspired computing paradigm to store and process information on the same physical platform
Thursday May 21	Marios Tsatsos Sao Paulo University, Brazil Host: Allan MacDonald	Bose-Einstein condensates beyond the mean-field approach: principles and applications in ultracold atomic gases
Friday June 12 1:00PM RLM 11.204	Yi-Der Lin The University of Texas at Austin Ph.D. Defense	The Vibrational Dynamics of 3D HOCl Above Dissociation

Fall 2014
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
Tuesday September 2	Martin Weitz Bonn University, Germany Host: Mark Raizen	Bose-Einstein Condensation of Photons
Thursday September 4	Harold Baranger Duke University Host: Allan H. MacDonald	Waveguide QED: Quantum Transport of Strongly-Correlated Photons
Thursday September 11	John Q. Xiao University of Delaware Host: Elaine Li	Quantifying interface and bulk contributions to spin-orbit toque in magnetic bilayers
Thursday September 18	Brian LeRoy University of Arizona Host: Allan H. MacDonald	Imaging and Spectroscopy of Graphene Heterostructures
Thursday September 25	Lan Laun Ut Austin Host: Allan H. MacDonald	Nanoscale magnetic imaging at ambient conditions using a scanning nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond
Tuesday September 30	Tianxing Ma Beijing Normal University Host: Greg Fiete	Pairing in doped Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice: A quantum Monte Carlo study
Thursday October 2	Kaden Hazzard Rice University Host: Daniel Heinzen	The miracle of molecules: exploring quantum magnetism in ultracold matter
Thursday October 9	Hsiang-Hsuan Hung The University of Texas at Austin Host: Greg Fiete	Correlation effects in topological phase transitions
Thursday October 16	David Broido Boston College Host: Elaine Li	Can other materials besides diamond have ultrahigh thermal conductivity? A first principles study.
Tuesday October 21	Brian La Cour The University of Texas at Austin Host: Linda Reichl	Challenging the Church-Turing Thesis: Quantum Computing and Classical Entanglement
Thursday October 23	Ken Shih The University of Texas at Austin	Probing Electronic Structures of Emerging 2D Materials Beyond Graphene
Thursday October 30	Alex de Lozanne The University of Texas at Austin	Spin
Thursday November 6	Charles Radin The University of Texas at Austin Host: Qian Niu	Can there be a critical point for the solid/fluid phase transition?
Thursday November 13	Stephen E. Harris Stanford University Host: Mark Raizen	Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Slow light
Thursday November 20	Scott Aaronson MIT Host: Greg Fiete	BosonSampling

Spring 2014
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
Thursday January 23	Tom Lemberger Ohio State University Host: Ken Shih	"Band structure of Asteroid belt in solar system: An analogy to the energy band in condensed matter physics"
Thursday January 30	Greg Fiete UT Austin	"Strongly Correlated Topological Phases in Transition Metal Oxides"
Thursday February 6	Allan MacDonald UT Austin	"Some properties of Majorana States in Semiconductor Quantum Wires"
Thursday February 13	Massoud Ramezani Masir University of Antwerpen, Belgium Host: Allan MacDonald	"Coulomb impurity and homogeneous magnetic field in graphene"
Thursday February 20	Elaine Li UT Austin	"Controlling Spin Waves in Magnetic Bilayers"
Thursday February 27	Christof Jung UNAMA Cuernavaca, Mexico Host: Linda Reichl	"The Frontiers of Chaos Theory"
Thursday March 20	Philip Adams Louisiana State University Host: Alex de Lozanne	Hysteresis, Avalanches, and Slow Relaxation: Complex non-equilibrium spin dynamics in simple superconductors
Thursday March 27	Host:
Thursday April 3	Liang Du Chinese Academy of Sciences Host: Greg Fiete	"Metal-insulator transition in three band Hubbard model with strong spin-orbit coupling"
Thursday April 10	Srinivas Raghu Stanford Unitversity Host: Greg Fiete	"Wilsonian and Large N theories of non-Fermi liquids at quantum critical points"
Thursday April 17	Linda Reichl UT Austin	Transport Processes in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Thursday April 24	Brian Skinner Argonne National Laboratory Host: Allan MacDonald	"Negative compressibility and supercapacitors"
Thursday May 1	David Weld UC Santa Barbara Host: Mark Raizen	"Prospects and Challenges of Neutral Atom Quantum Simulation"

Fall 2013
Thursday September 5	Ewelina Hankiewicz University at Wurzburg, Germany Host: Allan MacDonald	"Spin Helical Transport in Superconducting Topological Insulators"
Thursday September 12	Jing Shi University of California, Riverside Host: Elaine Li	"Spin Seebeck vs. anomalous Nernst: which is more important?"
Thursday September 19	Myriam Sarachik City College of New York Host: Mark Raizen	"CRITICAL BEHAVIOR OF A STRONGLY-INTERACTING 2D ELECTRON SYSTEM"
Thursday September 26	Rui Du Rice University Host: Allan MacDonald	"Exploring Electron-Hole Quantum Phases in InAs/GaSb Bilayers"
Thursday October 3	Hua Chen UT Austin Host: Allan MacDonald	Novel physics in strongly spin-orbit coupled materials: Ir alloys and oxides
Thursday October 10	Inti Sodemann UT Austin Host: Allan MacDonald	"Broken symmetry, stripes and Landau level mixing in the fractional quantum Hall regime of graphene and gallium arsenide"
Thursday October 17	Johannes Lischner University of California, Berkeley Host: Allan MacDonal	"First-principles studies of spectral functions: spin multiplets, plasmon satellites and spin fluctuations"
Thursday October 24	Matthias Sitte UT Austin Host: MacDonald	"Interaction effects on almost flat surface bands in topological insulators"
Thursday October 31	Erich Gust UT Austin Host: Linda Reichl	"Transport Processes in Bose-Einstein Condensates"
Thursday November 7	George Bourianoff Intel Corporation Host: MacDonald & George Fiete	"Weakly coupled oscillator arrays for efficient phase coherent information processing"
Thursday November 14	Louis Bouchard University of California, Los Angles Host: Greg Fiete	"Nanoscale studies of electronic and magnetic properties in topological materials"
Thursday November 21	Jie Shan Case Western Reserve University Host: Elaine Li	"Atomically thin MoS2 crystals - a new two-dimensional semiconductor"
Tuesday December 3 RLM 11.238	Noah Koizeki Dept. of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan Host: Linda Reichl/Tomio Petrosky	"Band structure of Asteroid belt in solar system: An analogy to the energy band in condensed matter physics"
Thursday December 5	Xiaoting Zhou UT Austin Host: Greg Fiete	"Quasi-particle Scattering in the surface of the 3D Topological Insulators"

Spring 2013
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
January 18	Barbara Jones IBM Almaden Research Ctr Host: Allan H. MacDonald	First-principles Study of Atomic-Scale Engineered Spin Chains
January 24	Nicole Benedek Materials Science & Engineering, UT Austin	Why are there so few perovskite ferroelectrics?
January 31	Hsiang-Hsuan Hung The Center for Complex Quantum Systems, UT Austin Host: Greg Fiete	Quantum Monte Carlo studies of correlation effects in solid state systems
February 7	Yasufumi Araki The Center for Complex Quantum Systems, UT Austin Host: Allan H. Macdonald	Topological phase structure for graphene by lattice strong coupling expansion
February 14	Gabi Kotilar Rutgers University	Layered Iron Pnictides and Chalchogenides as Hunds metals a new class of strongly correlated materials
February 21	Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau University of California, Riverside Host: Allan H. MacDonald	Quantum Transport and Correlated Phenomena in Bilayer and Trilayer Graphene Membranes
February 28	Deji Akinwandes Electrical & Computer Engineering, UT Austin	New adventures with graphene, silicene, and dichalcogenides
March 7	Ken Shih The Center for Complex Quantum Systems, UT Austin	Quantum control of metal/semiconductor hybrid systems: from atomic layer superconductivity to deep sub-diffraction nanolasers
March 26	Joseph Maciejko Princeton University	Superconductivity of disordered Dirac fermions
April 4 RLM 7.124, 2:00pm	Srinivas Raghu Stanford University	Quantum critical metals in d=3+1
April 11	Xavier Marti University of California, Berkeley	Antiferromagnetic semiconductor spintronics 2-5pm
April 18	Chee Wei Wong Columbia University	Controlling light in mesoscopic systems: new frontiers in nonlinear, ultrafast, quantum and precision measurements
April 25	Noa Marom ICES, UT Austin	The Interface Problem: A Many-Body Perturbation Theory Perspective
April 30	Ziyang Meng Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State	Properties near quantum critical point in two dimensional Hubbard Model
May 2	Gurundev Dutt University of Pittsburg	Hybrid Quantum Devices with Single Spins in Diamond

Spring 2012
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
January 26	Qian Niu UT Austin	Engineering topological phases in graphene
February 2	Hong Yao Stanford University Host: Fiete/CQS	Quantum spin liquids in two dimensions
Friday February 3 2:00, 5.124	Rajamani Vijayaraghavan UC Berkeley Host: CM	Special Colloquium Watching the quantum wavefunction evolve in real time: From quantum jumps to feedback
February 9	Thomas Koerzdoerfer Georgia Institute of Technology Host: Chelikowsky/CQS	Density functional theory for organic electronic materials: problems and prospects
Monday February 13 4pm, 11.204	Keji Lai Stanford University Host:CM faculty	Special Colloquium Probing Nanoscale Electronic Phases in Quantum Materials
Tuesday February 14	Ward Plummer Louisiana State University Host: Shih	Manifestations of Broken Symmetry: Surfaces of Correlated Electron Materials
February 16	Robert Continetti UC San Diego Hosts: John Stanton and Mark Raizen	Joint AMO/CNDL/CQS/CM Seminar Photodetachment of Dynamics and Dissociative Photodetachment of Molecular Anions
Monday February 20 4:00, 11.204	Ding-shyue (Jerry) Yang California Institute of Technology Host: CM	Special Colloquium Seeing is believing: Four-dimensional visualization of electronic and structural dynamics
Tuesday February 21 12:30, 13.202	JiangFeng Du University of Science and Technology of China Host: Shih/Niu	Preserving electron spin coherence in solids
Tuesday February 21	Ulrich Zuelicke Victoria University Host: MacDonald	Quantum-confined holes: More spin for your buck!
February 23	Barry Sanders University of Calgary Host: CQS	Swarm-intelligence machine learning for feedback-based quantum metrology
March 1	Adolfo del Campo Los Alamos National Laboratory Host: Mark Raizen	Joint CQS/CM/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Shortcuts to adiabaticity in quantum devices
March 6	Steve Brueck University of New Mexico Host: Shvets	Functional Nanomaterials and Nanodevices using Interferometric Lithography
March 8	Edo Waks University of Maryland Host: Shvets	CANCELLED -- To be rescheduled in Fall 2013-- Strong light-matter interactions in semiconductor quantum dots coupled to photonic crystals
Friday March 9 4:00, 7.104	Markus Arndt University of Vienna Host: Mark Raizen	Joint CQS/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar On the limits of the quantum superposition principle: the role of the internal particle states
March 15		Spring Break
March 22	Jak Chakhalian University of Arkansas Host:Fiete/CQS	Whither the correlated oxide interface
March 29	Xiaoliang Qi Stanford University Host:Fiete/CQS	Topological nematic states and non-Abelian lattice dislocations
April 5	Mark Stiles NIST Host:MacDonald/CQS	Domain Wall Motion in Magnetic Nanowires
April 12	Sakhrat Khizroev Florida International University Host: Tsoi	Focused Ion Beam Based Prototyping of Nanodevices
April 19	Dirk Englund Columbia University Host: Li	Semiconductor Quantum Technologies for Information Processing and Precision Measurements
Friday April 20 BME 3.204 all day	CQS Symposium on Condensate Quantum Mechanics Host:CQS	John Martinis, UCSB, Jim Eisenstein, Caltech David Snoke, University of Pittsburg, Dan Ralph, Cornell
April 26	Jens Brede University of Hamburg Host:IGERT/Shih	Atomic-scale spin-resolved studies of carbon based systems on ferromagnetic substrates: single molecular magnets and graphene
May 1	Wei-Cheng Lee University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Host: MacDonald	Non-Fermi liquid behavior due to Orbital Fluctuations in Iron Pnictide Superconductors
May 3	David Weiss Penn State Host: Heinzen	Experiments with Atoms in Optical Lattices

Fall 2011
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
September 1	Linda Reichl University of Texas CQS Member	Decay processes in Bose-Einstein condensates
September 8	Dmytro Pesin University of Texas at Austin Host: MacDonald	Current induced magnetization dynamics in spin-orbit coupled thin film ferromagnets
September 15	Ying Ran Boston College Host: CQS/Fiete	Fractional Chern/topological insulators and their possible realizations
September 22	Subhadeep Gupta University of Washington Host: Mark Raizen	Joint CQS/CNLD Seminar Quantum Degenerate Mixtures of Highly Mismatched Atoms
September 29	David Pekker Cal Tech Host: CQS/Heinzen	Upper branch and the competition between pairing and ferromagnetic instabilities in ultracold Fermi gases near Feshbach resonances
October 6	Liang Fu Harvard/MIT Host: CQS/Fiete	From Odd-Parity Pairing to Topological Superconductivity
October 13	Jon Dowling Louisiana State University Host: CQS	Quantum Interferometric Sensors
October 27	Mehdi Kargarian University of Texas	Topological Insulator Phases on the distorted Pyrochlore Lattice and doping the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model
November 3	Taylor Hughes University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Host: CQS/Fiete	Torsion and Viscosity in Condensed Matter Physics
November 10	Adrian Feiguin University of Wyoming Host: MacDonald/Fiete	Using symmetries to understand molecular devices and to study magnetic ad-atoms on substrates
November 17	Maxim Tsoi University of Texas CQS Member	Spin-torque excitations in magnetic nanostructures
November 24		Thanksgiving Day

Summer 2011
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
June 30	Rodrigo Castillo-Garza University of California, Riverside Host: Raizen/CQS	Precise Measurements of the Casimir Force at Different Temperatures

Spring 2011
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
January 27	Jeff Kimble Cal Tech Host: Raizen/CQS	Joint CQS/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Quantum Networks with Single Atoms, Photons, and Phonons
February 3	Richard Taylor University of Oregon Host: Raizen/CQS	Can Electrons Travel Like Bullets Through Solid State Devices?
February 10	Ian Spielman NIST and University of Maryland Host: Heinzen	Bose-Einstein condensates and synthetic gauge fields
February 17	Alex Khanikaev UT Austin	Nonreciprocity in optics: from photonic crystals to metamaterials
February 24	John Markert UT Austin	Superconductivity
March 3	Congjun Wu University of California San Diego Host: Greg Fiete	Unconventional metamagnetism in the $t_{2g}$-orbital system of Sr3Ru2O7
Friday March 4 4pm RLM 5.104	Dr. Bruce Klappauf University of British Columbia Host: Mark Raizen	Joint AMO/CQS Seminar Canadian Collision Coverage
March 10	Greg Fiete University of Texas CQS Member	Interaction effect in topological insulators and quantum spin liquids
March 17		Spring Break
March 24	John Hall JILA, University of Colorado Host: Mark Raizen	A new Metric System? Questions in and beyond Physics
March 24 3:30 RLM 13.202	Dongil Kim University of Texas at Austin	Final Defense Non-instantaneous collapse of wave function and resolution of quantum Zeno paradox
Tuesday, March 29 RLM 13.202	Savannah Garmon University of Toronto Host: CQS	Coalescing exceptional points in the spectrum of open quantum systems and the transition from Fano resonance to avoided level crossing
March 31	Jon Dowling Louisiana State University Host: CQS	POSTPONED TO FALL 2011 Quantum Sensors
April 7	Ali Yazdani Princeton University Host: Ken Shih	Joint CQS/IGERT Seminar Visualizing Helical Metals on the Surface of Topological Insulators
April 14	Jiwoong Park Cornell University	Joint CQS/IGERT Seminar Atomically Defined Carbon Nanostructures
April 21	Nadya Mason University of IllinoisHost: MacDonald	Transport through Andreev bound states in a graphene quantum dot
April 28	OPEN Host:
May 5	Dimitri N Basov University of California, San Diego Host: Greg Fiete	Dirac plasmons at the graphene-SiO2 interface

Fall 2010
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
September 2	Qian Niu Univeristy of Texas CQS Member	Fractal physics in superconducting nanostructures
September 9	Daniela Pfannkuche University of Hamburg Host: MacDonald	How Many Atoms Make a Soliton? Particle and Spin Dynamics in Ultracold Atomic Gases
September 16	Ken Shih Univeristy of Texas CQS Member	Quantum Phenomena in Ultra-thin Metallic Films
September 23	Peter Jarvis University of Tasmania Hobart Tas Host:Arno Bohm	Entanglement and tripartite EPR states
October 7	Linda Reichl University of Texas CQS Member	Quantum dot and waveguide dynamics at the nanoscale
Friday, October 15 3:00, RLM 13.202	Anupam Garg Northwestern University Host:Niu	Collective Relaxation of Magnetization in Single Molecule Magnets
October 21	Sebastian Huber Weizmann Institute of Science Host:Greg Fiete	Condensation of Bosons in Flat Bands: From Frustrated Magnets to Cold Atoms
October 28	Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario Harvard University	Quantum coherences as a resource for Photosynthetic exciton transport
November 4	Wang-Kong Tse UT Austin	Magneto-optical and Magneto-electric Effects in Thin-Film Topological Insulators
November 11	Karin Everschor University of Cologne Host:Allan MacDonald	Spin transfer torques in chiral magnetic structures
Friday, November 12 3:00 RLM 13.202	Kazunari Hashimoto Osaka Prefecture University Host: CQS	Special CQS Graduate Student Seminar Eigenvalue Problem of the Liouvillian for One-dimensional Quantum Lorentz Gas and its Nonhydrodynamic regime
Tuesday, November 16 3:30 RLM 5.104	German Luna Acosta Universidad Autonoma de Puebla Host: CQS	The disordered Kronig-Penny model. Theory and experiment.
November 18	Bruce Kane University of Maryland Host: Mark Raizen	Joint Complex Quantum Systems/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Levitated Spinning Graphene
November 25		Thanksgiving Holiday
December 2	Mark Raizen University of Texas	Controlling Matter in a New Light

Spring 2010
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
January 28	James Chelikowsky UT Austin Host: CQS	Quantum Algorithms for Functionalized Nanostructures
February 4	Shaul Mordechai Ben-Gurion University Host:Mark Raizen	Joint Complex Quantum Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Vibrational spectroscopy for medical applications: challenges and feasibility
February 11	Douglas Natelson Rice University Host: Alex de Lozanne & CQS	Atomic- and molecular-scale devices: Beyond DC electronic transport
February 18	Michael Hermele University of Colorado Host: Greg Fiete & CQS	Mott insulators of ultracold alkaline earth fermions: A new class of quantum magnets
February 25	Richard Taylor University of Oregon Host: CQS	Snowflakes, Stress and Semiconductors: Do You See a Pattern Here?
March 4	Erich Schneider UT Mechanical Engineering	Joint CQS/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Elemental and Isotopic Partitioning in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
March 11	Xiaofeng Jin Fudan University Host:Qian Niu	Disentangling Intrinsic and Extrinsic Mechanisms of Anomalous Hall Effect Joint Condensed Matter and Complex Systems Seminar
March 11	Neil Shafer-Ray University of Oklahoma Host:Mark Raizen	Geometric Phase Optics: Putting Berry's Geometric Phase to Work in an Optical Beam
March 18	Spring Break	Spring Break
March 25	Peter Nordlander Rice University Host: Gennady Shvets & CQS	Plasmons in strongly coupled metallic nanostructures
April 1	Marcel Franz University of British Columbia Host:Greg Fiete	Unusual magneto-electric phenomena in topological insulators
Arpri 8	Chuanwei Zhang Washington State University Host: Qian Niu & CQS	Induced Topological Order and Quantum Computation in a Fermionic Cold Atom Superfluid
April 15	Hui Cao Yale University Host: Gennady Shvets & CQS	Light Localization and Its Applications
April 22	Open
April 29	Richard Osgood, Jr Columbia University Host: Gennady Schvets & CQS	Skating on a Very Small Surface: Motion of Electrons on 1 and 2D NanoSurfaces
May 6	Jason Petta Princeton University Host: Elaine Li	Strong-arming electron spin dynamics
Tuesday May 18 2:00 RLM 13.202	Kenichi Noba Osaka Prefecture University Host: CQS	Stability and instability of a time-oscillating discrete electron state coupled with continuous states
Thursday May 20 10:00 RLM 7.116	Tomas Jungwirth Institute of Physics ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic and University of Nottingham, UK) Host: A. MacDonald	Ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic semiconductors for spintronics
June 1 11:00am RLM 5.104	Laith Haddadr Colorado School of Mines Host: Mark Raizen	Joint Nonlinear Dynamics/Complex Quantum Systems Special Seminar The nonlinear Dirac equation in Bose-Einstein condensates: Solutions and spectrum of low energy excitations

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Fall 2009
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
September 3	Ulrich Warring Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg Host:Mark Raizen	Spectroscopy on Os^- with Regard to Cold Negative Ions
September 10	Elaine Li University of Texas	Interplay between disorder and Coulomb interaction in a quantum well
September 17	Enrico Rossi University of Maryland Host:Allan MacDonald	Klein tunneling in disordered graphene p-n-p junctions
Tuesday September 22	Tim Coffey CQS Graduate Student	CQS Graduate Student Seminar Series: Kinematic Manifestation of Bohmian Dynamics
September 24	Wolfgang Ketterle MIT Host:Mark Raizen	Superfluidity of fermions with imbalanced spin populations
October 1	Joachim Stohr SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Host: Allan MacDonald	Exploration of the Ultra-Small and Ultra-Fast Worlds with X-Rays
Monday October 5 1:00 RLM 11.204	Dan Melconian Texas A&M University Host: Mark Raizen	Joint Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Quantum Systems Seminar Probing fundamental properties of the weak interaction: atomic meets nuclear meets high-energy physics
October 15	Allan MacDonald University of Texas	Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy in Graphene
Tuesday October 20	Peter Bryant CQS Graduate Student	CQS Graduate Student Seminar Series: A new way to predict quantum decoherence
October 22	Zhenhua Qiao University of Texas	Universal Conductance Fluctuations of the Mesoscopic Systems in the Crossover From Metal to Insulator
October 29	Xiaoyang Zhu University of Texas	Excitons, Hot Carriers, & the Ultimate Solar Cell
November 5 2:00 RLM 11.204	Heather Lewandowski JILA Host:Mark Raizen	Millikelvin Molecular Interactions
November 12	Christopher Richardson University of Maryland Host: Mark Raizen	Graphitic Carbon Growth on Si using Molecular Beam Epitaxy
November 19	Alex Barr CQS Graduate Student	CQS Graduate Student Seminar Series: HOCl: A Nonlinear Dynamicist?s Playground
November 26	Thanksgiving Break	Thanksgiving Day
December 3	Jairo Sinova Texas A&M University Host: Allan MacDonald	Spin-injection Hall effect: a new member of the spintronics Hall family and its implications in nano-spintronics

Summer 2009
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
July 9 3:00 NST 1.104	Federico Capasso Harvard University	The bright future of sub-wavelength photonics: from light manipulation to quantum levitation at the nanoscale
July 9 4:15 NST 1.104	Vinothan N. Manoharan Harvard University	The Physics of Self-Assembly: Experiments and Theory
July 15 9:30 RLM 5.112	Jon Schuller Stanford University	Dielectric Optical Antenna Emitters and Metamaterials
August 13 3:30 RLM TBA	Selim Jochim University of Heidelberg	Few-body physics in an ultracold gas of fermions

Spring 2009
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
January 22	Valery Milner University of British Columbia Host: Mark Raizen	Joint Complex Quantum Systems/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Coherent Scattering with Incoherent Light: New Spectroscopy with Ultra-Short Laser Pulses
January 29	Timo A. Lahde University of Washington Host: Allan MacDonald	Is suspended graphene an insulator?
February 5	Ila Fiete University of Texas at Austin, Neurobiology	Joint Complex Quantum Systems/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar How neurons do calculus: dead-reckoning by grid cells in rats
February 12	Open
February 19	Matthias Steffen IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Host:Ken Shih	The Quest Towards a Scalable Qubit
February 26	Jungsang Kim Duke University Host: Mark Raizen	Engineering a Quantum Information Processor
March 5	Paul Barbara University of Texas at Austin	Single Molecule Spectroscopy of Organic Semiconductors
March 12	Doug Stone Yale University Host: Mark Raizen	Joint Complex Quantum Systems/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Ab Initio Theory of Novel Micro and Nano Lasers?
March 19	Spring Break	Spring Break
Monday March 23 1:00-4:00 NST 1.104	Osaka-Austin Exchange Program Workshop	Osaka-Austin Exchange Program Workshop Schedule and Osaka abstracts
March 26	Cheng Chin University of Chicago Host: Mark Raizen	Joint Complex Quantum Systems/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Having the cake and seeing it too -- Probing ultracold atoms in the Mott insulating phase
Monday April 6 10am RLM 11.204	Jeff Steinhauer The Technion	Joint Complex Quantum Systems/ Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Direct observation of number squeezing in an optical lattice
Tuesday April 7	Ali Mostafazadeh Koc University Host: Arno Bohm	Joint Complex Quantum Systems/Atomic, Molecular and Optical Seminar Complex Scattering Potentials, Resonances with Zero Width, and Resonating Waveguides
April 9	Jing Shi University of California, Riverside Host: Qian Niu	Anomalous Nernst Effect in GaMnAs: What Do We Learn from It?
April 16	Mark Raizen University of Texas CQS Member	Maxwell's Demon near Maximal Efficiency
April 23	Yoshihisa Yamamoto Stanford University Host: Ken Shih	Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of exciton-polaritons
April 30	Sujeev Wickramasekara Grinnell College and University of Iowa Host: Arno Bohm	Time asymmetry in quantum physics: boundary conditions and physical applications
Monday May 4 3:00 RLM 14.318	Analahba Roy University of Texas	Final Defense Dynamics of Quantum Control in Trapped Ultracold-Atom Systems
May 7	Kuntheak Kheng University Joseph Fourier	A high-temperature single photon Source from CdSe/ZnSe nanowires quantum dots

Fall 2008
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
September 4	Gregory Fiete UT Austin	Joint Complex Quantum Systems/Condensed Matter Seminar Universal Periods in Quantum Hall Droplets
September 11	Alex de Lozanne University of Texas CQS Member	Bilayer manganites: a playground for magnetoresistance, charge density waves and spin reorientation transitions
September 18	Zhong Fang Institute of Physics, Beijing Host: Qian Niu	Many-body effects in density functional calculations
September 25	Michael Fuhrer University of Maryland Host: Allan MacDonald	Intrinsic and Extrinsic Limits of Charge Carrier Mobility in Graphene
October 2	Michael Leuenberger University of Central Florida Host:Elaine Li	Berry-phase oscillations of the Kondo effect and Berry-phase blockade in single-molecule magnets
October 9	Shoucheng Zhang Stanford University Host: CQS - Qian Niu	Effective field theory of topological insulators
October 13 1:00 RLM 11.204	Jason Fleischer Princeton University Host: Mark Raizen	Joint Complex Quantum Systems/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Special time and location: 1:00PM RLM 11.204 Towards Optical Hydrodynamics
October 16	Thomas Vojta Missouri University of Science and Technology Host: CQS - Linda Reichl	Quantum phase transitions with disorder and dissipation
October 23	Arkady Krokhin University of North Texas Host: CQS - Linda Reichl	Statistical correlations and localization-delocalization transition in DNA molecules
October 30	Francis Robicheaux Auburn University Host: Mark Raizen	Joint Complex Quantum Systems/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Making and Holding (?) Atomic Anti-matter
November 6 1:30 RLM 11.204	Dmitry Budker University of California, Berkeley Host: Mark Raizen	Joint Complex Quantum Systems/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Special time and location: 1:30PM RLM 11.204 Optical atomic magnetometers and their applications in nuclear magnetic resonance
November 13	Tanja Rindler-Daller University of Cologne Host: CQS - Qian Niu	Vorticity in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates in the strong-coupling regime
November 20	Alexei Sokolov Texas A & M University Host: Mark Raizen	Joint Complex Quantum Systems/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Quantum Coherence in Molecular Gasses and Solids: Physics and Applications
Tuesday, November 25 RLM 11.238 10:00	Jin-Wook Jung University of Texas	Final Defense Analysis of Atomic and Molecular Negative Ions in a Constant Electric Field Using a Resolvent Method
November 27		Thanksgiving break
December 4	Hossein Sadeghpour ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Host: Mark Raizen	Joint Complex Quantum Systems/Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Cooling and trapping of magnetized Rydberg atoms
Spring 2008
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
January 24	Linda Reichl University of Texas at Austin CQS Member	The Quantum Control of Cold Atomic Systems
January 31	Tom Killian Rice University Host: CQS Center	Watching Ions Dance Near Absolute Zero
February 7	Warren Warren Duke University Host: Mark Raizen	Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaotic Evolution, and Contrast Enhancement in Magnetic Resonance
February 14	open
February 21	Paul McEuen Cornell University Host: CQS Center	Nano carbon: from terahertz transistors to atomic membranes
Wednesday February 27 RLM 13.202 2:00	Ranjit Nair Centre for Philosopy and Foundations of Science, New Delhi Host: CQS Center	Knowledge from ignorance: new perspectives on the second law
February 28	Brian DeMarco University of Illinois Host: CQS Center	Experiments on Disorder and Transport in the Bose-Hubbard model
March 6	Arkady Krokhin University of North Texas Host: CQS Center	CANCELED DUE TO WINTER WEATHER Statistical correlations and localization-delocalization transition in DNA molecules
March 13	Spring Break	Spring Break
March 20	E.C.G. Sudarshan UT Austin	Generalized Tomography
March 27	Randall Hulet Rice University Host: CQS Center	Fermion Pairing with Ultracold Atoms
April 3	Andrey Chabanov Univeristy of Texas at San Antonio Host: CQS: Gennady Shvets	Towards Anderson Photon Localization
April 10	Maxim Tsoi UT Austin CQS Member	Transverse electron focusing as a way of studying electron transport
Friday April 11 RLM 11.2046 10:00	Kavan Modi UT Austin	Final Defense On the experimental realization of open quantum dynamics
Monday April 14 RLM 14.318 10:00	Hoshik Lee UT Austin	Final Defense Quantum Chaos and Electron Transport in a ripple waveguide
April 17	Louis Taillefer Universite de Sherbrooke Host: CQS Center	The Fermi surface of high-Tc superconductors
Friday April 18 RLM 7.116 2:00	Cesar A. Rodriguez UT Austin	Final Defense Non-Markovian Open Quantum Systems and FLAN
April 24	Anil Shaji University of New Mexico Host: CQS Center	Generalized quantum metrology with Bose - Einstein condensates
May 1	Mark Stockman Georgia State University Host: CQS Center	Ultrafast and Quantum Nanoplasmonics

Fall 2007
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
August 30	Hao Ling UT Austin Host: Gennady Shvets	Electrically Small Antennas - Theory, Design and Challenges
September 6	Jim Chelikowsky UT Austin	Magnetism and Electronic Properties at Small Length Scales: The Role of Quantum Confinement in the Nanoworld
September 13	Brian La Cour UT Austin	Noncontextuality and the Kochen-Specker Theorem: A New Perspective
September 20	L. Frank Register UT Austin	Modeling of transport and scattering in nanoscale electronic devices with "Schrödinger Equation Monte Carlo"
September 27	open
October 4	Don Eigler IBM Almaden Research Center Host: CQS Center	Classical Computation in Quantum Nanostructures: A Long Road to an Uncertain Future
October 11	Boris Altshuler Columbia University Host: Mark Raizen	Many-Body Localization
October 18	Tamar Seideman Northwestern University Host: Mark Raizen	Toward Coherent Control in the Nanoscale
October 25	open
November 1	Lothar Frommhold UT Austin	Spectroscopy of Molecular Collisional Complexes
November 8	Marlan Scully Texas A&M University and Princeton University Host: CQS Center	QUANTUM CONTROL OF LIGHT: From FAST CARS and Slow Light to anthrax detection and Dicke superradiance
November 15	Andrew Sykes University of Queensland Host: Mark Raizen	Pair Correlations in the 1D Bose gas
November 22		Thanksgiving
November 29	Mark Raizen UT Austin	New Frontiers in Trapping of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Molecules: Late-Breaking Results
December 6	Peter Abbamonte University of Illinois Host: CQS Center	Electronic reconstruction at transition metal oxide interfaces
Spring 2007
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
February 1	Ken Shih CQS Member	Quantum Engineering of Nanostructures: Electronics and Photonics
February 8	Loren Pfeiffer Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent Host: Linda Reichl	The role of MBE in discovering new physics
February 22	Seamus Davis Cornell University Host: Alex de Lozanne	Is the elusive 'hidden electronic order' of the cuprates neither hidden nor ordered?"
March 1	Charles Marcus Harvard University Host: Linda Reichl	Quantum Mechanics in the Information Age
March 8	Open	March APS Meeting in Denver
March 15	Spring Break	Spring Break
March 22	Alex Demkov CQS Member	Zintl-Klemm intermetallics as glue in semiconductor/oxide heteroepitaxy
March 29	Francis Hellman UC Berkeley Host: Alex de Lozanne	Amorphous magnetic semiconductors: the enormous magnetoresistance, magnetization, and optical properties of a-GdxSi1-x
April 5	Sanjay Banerjee UT Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Host: Linda Reichl	Transport in Mesoscopic Transistors
Wedensday April 11 RLM 11.204 1:00	Wing Yim Tam Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Host: Harry Swinney	Joint Nonlinear Dynamics/Complex Quantum Systems Seminar From Crystals to Quasicrystals Using Optical Interference Holography
April 12	Allan MacDonald CQS Member	Excitonic Superfluidity
April 13 3:00 - RLM 14.318	Erich Gust UT Austin	Qualifier: Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensation
Tuesday April 17	Alessandra Lanzara University of California, Berkeley Host: Alex de Lozanne	One, two, three, infinity. From single layer graphene to infinite layers graphite
Tuesday April 24 RLM 14.318 3:30	Sterling Garmon UT Austin	Final Defense The Role of the Van Hove Singularity in the Time Evolution of Electronic States in a Low-Dimensional Superlattice Semiconductor
April 26	Thomas Taubner Stanford University Host: Gennady Shvets	Infrared microscopy on the Nanoscale: From vibrational spectroscopy to Superlensing
Tuesday May 1 RLM 14.318 2:00	Benjamin Holder UT Austin	Final Defense Coherent control of cold atoms in an optical lattice
Fall 2006
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
August 31	Dr. Brian LaCour UT Austin	Ensemble-based Bayesian Tracking
September 14	Nimrod Moiseyev Technion	Adiabatic theorem for open systems: Alignment/entanglement of molecules by lasers
September 21	Gennady Shvets UT Austin	Metamaterials in mid-infrared: from superlenses to negative index materials
October 5	Joseph Thywissen University of Toronto	Bose and Fermi gases in single- and double-well chip traps
October 12	Qian Niu UT Austin	Berry phase in orbital magnetization and the anomalous Nernst effect
October 17	Howard Carmichael University of Auckland,	Joint Complex Quantum Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Quantum Jumps and the Quasiclassical Motion of a Trapped Ion
October 19	Bogdan Damski Los Alamos National Lab	Joint Complex Quantum Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Cold Atoms in a One Dimensional Box
October 26	Suhail Zubairy Texas A&M University	Quantum interferometry: From quantum eraser to quantum lithography
November 2	Antonio Castro Neto Boston University	The Amazing Properties of Two-Dimensional Carbon
November 7	Erich Gust UT Austin	Qualifier Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensation
November 9	J. R. Kirtley IBM Watson Research Center, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, and Center for Probing the Nanoscale, Stanford University	Past, present, and prospects for superconducting �rings
November 16	Maxim Tsoi UT Austin	Spintronics: from ferromagnets to antiferromagnets
November 21	Han Hsu UT Austin	Final Defense Interaction of Intense Laser Fields with Carbon Nanotubes>
November 23	open	(Thanksgiving Week)
November 28	Tim Coffey UT Austin	Qualifier Uniqueness of Bohmian Trajectories
November 30	Alexander Barr UT Austin	Qualifier Saddle-Node Bifurcations in HCP: Classical and Quantum Manifestations
November 30	Lincoln Carr Colorado School of Mines	Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling and Entangled States in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Spring 2006
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
January 19	Jonathan Bird SUNY Buffalo	NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES Quantum Switching of Electrons in Coupled Quantum Wires
February 2	Sami Mitra American Physical Society	Physical Review Letters: The editorial office, the peer-review process, and recent changes
February 9 2:00 RLM 7.118	Gerhard Hegerfeldt University of Gottingen	The quantum jump approach and quantum trajectories in quantum optics
February 16	Qian Niu UT Austin	Berry phase effects on the electron
February 23 RLM 5.126	Michael Snyder UT Austin	Final Defense Quantum computation with ballistic electron waveguides
February 28 Tuesday RLM 5.104	Ennio Arimondo Universita di Pisa	Joint Condensed Matter/CNLD/Complex Quantum Systems Seminar For a rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate in an accelerated periodic potential
March 2	German Luna Acosta Universidad Autonoma de Puebla	Mixed chaos, dynamical tunelling, micro-lasers and beam splitters
March 9	Han Pu Rice University	Joint Complex Quantum Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar Dipolar Condensate in Atomic Gases
March 16	Spring Break	Spring Break
March 23	Mark Reed Yale University	NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES Atomic and molecular scale electronic transport
March 30	Girish Agarwal Oklahoma State University	NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES Measurement Induced Quantum Entanglement in a Collective System
April 6	Christian van den Broeck Hasselt University	From Maxwell demon to Brownian refrigerator
April 13	Nikolai Sergeev UT Austin	Ab initio study of inelastic transport in molecular electronic devices
April 20	Harold Baranger Duke University	NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures
April 27	Marlan Scully Texas A&M University	NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES From Bose and Einstein to Bogoliubov and Beyond: a rich tradition of optical and statistical physics
Tuesday May 2 RLM 5.104	Valery Pokrovsky Texas A&M University	Joint Condensed Matter/CNLD/Complex Quantum Systems Seminar Electronic paramagnetic resonance in low-dimensional metals
May 4	Mark Raizen UT Austin	Experiments with a "Particle in a Box": Bose Einstein condensates, and Maxwell's Demon
Fall 2005
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF TALK
September 22	Mr. Sterling Garmon UT Austin	Anomalous Photo-absorption in a Semiconductor Superlattice, RLM 11.204
October 13	Mr. Dongil Kim UT Austin	von Neumann measurement theory vs. the Schrödinger equation in a three level quantum system, RLM 13.202
October 20	Massimiliano Di Ventra University of California San Diego	NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES Transport in nanoscale systems: physical issues and open questions
October 27	Supriyo Datta Purdue University	NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES Nanodevices and Maxwell´s Demons
November 3	Chikako Uchiyama University of Yamanashi	Open Quantum Systems
November 10	Alex de Lozanne UT Austin	NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES Seeing phase transitions with magnetic force microscopy
Wednesday, November 16	Ms. Daungruthai Jarukanont UT Austin	Qualifier Quasi-Bound States in the Driven Morse System RLM 13.202 2:00PM
November 17	Barry Sanders University of Calgary	Joint Stat Mech/Nonlinear Dynamics & AMO Seminar Large Double-EIT and Mutual Phase Shifts in Rebidum
24 November	open	(Thanksgiving Week)
Friday, December 2	Luming Duan University of Michigan	NANOSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES Quantum simulation and computation with cold trapped atoms 4:00 pm
Friday, December 9	Christof Jung Centro de Ciencias Fisicas, Cuernavaca	How to describe and classify highly excited molecular vibrations 4:00 pm

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