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Center for Complex Quantum Systems    

 

Complex Quantum Systems/Condensed Matter Seminars

All seminars to take place at 3:30 in RLM 7.104 unless otherwise indicated

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 2012
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SPEAKER
TITLE OF TALK

September 6




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September 13


Scott Chambers
Pacific Northwest National Lab

Host: Demkov

TBA

September 20




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September 27




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October 4




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October 11




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October 18




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October 25




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November 1




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November 8




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November 15




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November 22




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Thanksgiving Day

November 29




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December 6




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