LASSP SOLID STATE and THEORY SEMINARS 700 Clark Hall, 4:30 p.m Tuesdays, or Thursdays 701 Clark Hall, 1:15 p.m. Thursdays
Fall 1999
Aug. 31 Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania Scherk’s First Surface, Twist-Grain Boundaries and All That
Sep. 7 No Seminar
Sep. 14 Paul Tedrow, MIT Spin Polarized Tunneling in Superconductors and Ferromagnets
Sep. 20–24 N. David Mermin, Cornell University Autumn School Lectures, Quantum Computation: Software
Sep. 27–Oct. 1 David DiVincenzo, IBM Autumn School Lectures, Quantum Computation: Hardware
Sep. 30 Barbara Terhal, IBM Autumn School Lecture, Quantum Information Theory
Oct. 5 Marlan Scully, Texas A&M University and MPI für Quantenoptik Bose Einstein Condensation and the Laser Phase Transition Analogy
Oct. 12 Fall Break
Oct. 19 Nicola Mazari, Naval Research Laboratory The Exotic Dynamics of a Simple Metal: Probing Aluminum Surfaces with Computer Experiments
Oct. 26 Venky Narayanamurti, Harvard University Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy (BEEM) and Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Hetero- structural Quantum Wells and Quantum Dots
Nov. 2 Thomas Natterman, University of Cologne The Roughening Transition in Regular and Random Media
Nov. 9 William Gallagher, IBM Magnetic Tunnel Junctions — Potentially New, Universal Random Access Memory Technology: From PRL to Circuit Demonstration in 3 Years and Products in ???
Nov. 16 Jason Ho, The Ohio State University and Cornell University What Does BEC Do for Condensed Matter Physics?
Nov. 23 Priya Vashishta, Louisiana State University Multimillion Atom Simulation of Materials on Parallel Computers — Past, Present and Future
Spring 2000
Jan. 25 Brian Anderson, JILA, University of Colorado Vortices in a Dilute-Gas Bose-Einstein Condensate
Feb. 1 Paul McEuen, University of California, Berkeley Carbon Nanotubes – A (Nearly) Ideal 1D Conductor
Feb. 8 Dan Stamper-Kurn, California Institute of Technology Shedding Light on Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates
Feb. 15 Ian R. Fisher, Ames Lab and Iowa State University Symmetry, Energy Scales and Length Scales: Ways to Look at the Physics of New Materials
Feb. 22 Andrea Cavalleri, University of California, San Diego Measurements of Ultrafast Lattice Dynamics in Solids
Feb. 29 Hari Manoharan, IBM Almaden Research Center Quantum Mirages
Mar. 2 Robert Leheny, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Two-Dimensional Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnet
Mar. 7 Zhen Yao, Technische Universiteit Delft Carbon Nanotube Wires and Junctions
Mar. 14 Barry Stipe, IBM Almaden Research Center Tuning in to Individual Atoms and Molecules with Scanning Probes
Mar. 21 Spring Break
Apr. 6 David Goldhaber-Gordon, Harvard University Electron Spin in Quantum Dots
Apr. 11 Alex Travesset, Syracuse University The Statistical Mechanics of Topological Defects on Curved Surfaces
Apr. 18 Michael Berry, University of Bristol Quantum Mechanics, Chaos, and the Primes
Fall 2000
Sep. 5 Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois Turbulence!
Sep. 12 Arshard Kudrolli, Clarke University Clustering and Segregation in Granular Flows
Sep. 19 Roberto Merlin, University of Michigan Coherent and Squeezed Phonons: Controlling Lattice Motion with Ultrafast Light Pulses
Sep. 26 Robert Buhrman, A&EP, Cornell University Spin Transport Effects in Magnetic Nanostructures
Oct. 3 Christina Marchetti, Syracuse University Depinning Transition and Collective Transport in Random Media: From Superconductors to Fluid Flow
Oct. 10 Fall Break
Oct. 17 Mark Nelkin, New York University Pressure Fluctuations in Turbulent Flows
Oct. 24 J. C. Davis, University of California, Berkeley Exploring High Tc Superconductivity: One Atom at a Time
Oct. 26 Michael Chertkov, Los Alamos National Laboratory Pulse Confinement in Optical Fibers with Random Dispersion
Oct. 31 No Seminar
Nov. 7 Leonid Glazman, University of Minnesota Kondo Effects in Quantum Dots
Nov. 14 Barbara Frisken, Simon Fraser University Vesicle Formation by Extrusion through Micropores
Nov. 21 No Seminar
Nov. 28 Daniel Lathrop, University of Maryland Jets, Cones, and Singularities in Surface Waves
Nov. 30 Jürgen Hafner, University of Vienna Non-collinear Magnetism in Two and Three Dimensions
Spring 2001
Jan. 25 Steven Girvin, University of California, Santa Barbara Physics of "Which Layer?" Uncertainty
Jan. 30 Michael Fogler, MIT Liquid Crystals and Quantum Hall Effect
Feb. 1 No Seminar
Feb. 6 Oleg Tchernyshyov, Institute for Advanced Study Exorcising the p Particle Feb. 8 Roy Bar-Ziv, Rockefeller University Collective Binding of a RecA Protein as a DNA Decoder
Feb. 13 Peter Abbamonte, University of Groningen Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering from Insulating Cuprates
Feb. 15 Alexei Tkachenko, Lucent Technologies DNA and its Interactions
Feb. 20 Anthony Dinsmore, Harvard University Colloidal Suspensions: Model Systems for Complex Materials
Feb. 22 Horacio Castillo, Boston University Dynamical Transition in a Low Dimensional Glassy System
Feb. 27 Jonathan Friedman, SUNY Stony Brook Quantum Taxonomy: Making a (Schrödinger’s) Cat out of a SQUID
Mar. 6 Joel Moore, Bell Labs–Lucent Technologies Some Unexpected Correlation Effects In Quantum Dots and (Mostly Chiral) Luttinger Liquids
Mar. 20 Spring Break
Apr. 10 Arthur La Porta, Cornell University A Mosquito's View of Turbulence
Apr. 17 Hongkun Park, Harvard University Transport and Scanned Probe Investigations of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Apr. 24 James Sauls, Northwestern University The Sound of Broken Symmetry: Acoustic Faraday Rotation in Superfluid 3He
Fall 2001
Sep. 11 Vincent Crespi, Pennsylvania State University Theory of Nanostructures: Boron-Based Nanotubes, Nanocones, Perfect Bearings, the Strongest Nanotubes, and Magnetic Hurricanes in Ordered Porous Magnets
Sep. 18 James Sethna, Cornell University Plasticity from a Physicist's Perspective
Sep. 25 Jeevak Parpia, Cornell University Superfluid 3He and 3He-4He Mixtures in Aerogel
Oct. 2 Igor Aleiner, SUNY Stony Brook Metal-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions: New Twist of the Old Story?
Oct. 9 Fall Break
Oct. 11 Reinhard Lipowsky, Max Planck Institute Movements of Molecular Motors
Oct. 16 J. C. Séamus Davis, University of California, Berkeley Quantum Nanofluidics: Physics and Applications
Oct. 23 Gergely Zarand, Harvard University Magnetic Semiconductors: Frustrated Magnets
Oct. 30 Maxim Zalalutdinov, Cornell University High-frequency Optical MEMS
Nov. 6 Mark Dykman, Michigan State University Quantum Computing Using Electrons in Helium
Nov. 13 Michael Levene, A&EP, Cornell University Zero-mode Waveguides for Single Molecule Analysis and DNA Sequencing
Nov. 20 Alexander V. Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory Impurity States and Marginal Stability in Unconventional Superconductors
Nov. 27 Daniel Lathrop, University of Maryland Jets, Cones and Singularities in Surface Waves
Dec. 4 Wouter Rappel, University of California, San Diego Cellular Signaling Networks: What Can Theoretical Models Tell Us?
Spring 2002
Jan. 22 Yuval Oreg, Weizmann Institute Fermions and Bosons in Superconducting Amorphous Wires Jan. 29 Matthew Hastings, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dielectric Breakdown Models, Fractal Growth, and Conformal Maps
Feb. 5 Roland Kawakami, University of California Ferromagnetic Imprinting of Nuclear Spins in Semiconductors
Feb. 12 Lev Kaplan, University of Washington Quantum Chaos: Wave Function Ergodicity, Localization, and Transport in Generic Systems
Feb. 19 Michael Woodside, Cornell University Imaging Single-Electron Motion in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots
Feb. 26 Konrad Lehnert, Yale University Coherence Time and Excited-state Lifetime of a Cooper-pair Box
Mar. 5 Young-June Kim, Brookhaven National Laboratory X-ray Scattering Studies of Electron Correlations in Transition Metal Oxides
Mar. 12 Orly Alter, Stanford University Quantum Measurement of a Single System
Mar. 19 Spring Break
Mar. 26 Nikolay Dokholyan, Harvard University Identifying Importance of Amino Acids for Protein Folding
Apr. 2 Ilya Gruzberg, MIT Tail States in Superconductors With Magnetic Impurities
Apr. 9 Anton Darhuber, Princeton University Microscale Fluid Dynamics on Chemically Patterned Surfaces: From Wet Printing to Microfluidic Actuation
Apr. 16 Alexander Lobkovsky, Northeastern University Extreme Physics of Crack Tips
Apr. 23 Richard Wiener, Pacific University Controlling Chaotic Pattern Dynamics
Apr. 30 Aashish Clerk, Yale University Resonant Cooper-Pair Tunneling: Quantum Noise and Quantum Measurement
Fall 2002
Sep.10 Bruno Eckhardt, University of Marburg Turbulence Transition in Shear Flows
Sep. 17 Karsten Flensberg, Niels Bohr Institute Coulomb Drag of Coupled Electron Systems
Sep. 24 Lance R. Collins, Cornell University Clustering of Particles in Turbulence: Implications for Early Cloud Development
Oct. 1 David DeMille, Yale University Quantum Computation with Trapped Polar Molecules
Oct. 8 Shin Inouye, University of Colorado Interactions in Dilute Fermi Gases — Toward Fermionic Superfluidity
Oct. 10 Christopher Mudry, Paul Scherrer Institut Freezing Transition in a Problem of Anderson Localization
Oct. 15 Fall Break
Oct. 22 Kyle McElroy, University of California, Berkeley Fourier Transform Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy Accessing the Cuprate Quasiparticle States from Real-space
Oct. 24 Richard Klemm, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d Bicrystal c-axis Twist Josephson Junctions: A New Phase Sensitive Test of Order Parameter Symmetry
Oct. 29 Erich Mueller, The Ohio State University Rotating Cold Gases: Vortices, Spin Textures, and Strong Correlation
Nov. 5 Guido Burkhard, University of Basel Optimized Quantum Computation Using the Exchange Interaction
Nov. 14 Ashvin Vishwanath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dirac Quasiparticles in the Superconductor Vortex State
Nov. 19 David Lubensky, Lucent Technologies Unzipping DNA: From Pulling to Pores and Back Again
Nov. 26 Chinlin Guo, Harvard University The Possible Mechanisms in Yeast Chemotropism: Insights to Eukaryote Gradient Sensing
Spring 2003
Jan. 28 Ashvin Vishwanath, MIT Luttinger Liquid Physics in Dimensions Higher than One
Feb. 3 Erich Mueller, The Ohio State University Quantum Degenerate Fermi Vapors
Feb. 11 Itamar Borukhov, University of California, Los Angeles Linker-Assisted Biopolymer Aggregation
Feb. 13 Berenike Maier, Columbia University Single Pilus Motor Forces Exceed 100pN
Feb. 18 Sharad Ramanathan, Harvard University Noise in Signal Transduction Systems
Feb. 25 Piet Brouwer, Cornell University Wavefunctions in the Crossover Between Random Matrix Ensembles
Feb. 27 Steven G. Lipson, Technion Pattern Formation in Drying Water Films
Mar. 4 No Seminar
Mar. 11 Zvonimir Dogic, University of Pennsylvania Imaging Kinetic Pathways of Phase Transitions in Colloidal Liquid Crystals
Mar. 18 Spring Break
Mar. 25 Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University Quantum Hall Bilayers at Total Filling v=1
Mar. 27 Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University Recent Developments in The Quantum Hall Effects
Apr. 1 Peter Abbamonte, Cornell University Probing the Structure of the Mobile Carrier Liquid in Copper-Oxide Superconductors
Apr. 8 Stan Leibler, Rockefeller University Space, Time and Genetic Networks
Apr. 15 Mohit Randeria, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and University of Illinois High Tc Superconductivity: New Insights from Variational Functions
Apr. 22 Bella Lake, Oxford University Neutron Scattering Studies of La2-xSrxCuO4
Fall 2003
Sep. 2 Pietro Gambardella, Institut de Physique des Nanostructures Surface Dilute Magnetic Systems, Nanoparticles, and Nanowires: XMCD and STM Studies
Sep 11 Christopher Mudry, Paul Scherrer Institut Disorder and d-Wave Superconductivity
Sep. 16 Tetsuo Hanaguri, University of Tokyo STM/STS Studies on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: Search for Electronic Phase Separation Near the Metal-to-Mott-Insulator Transitions
Sep. 23 Roman Movshovich. Los Alamos National Laboratory Pauli Limiting, First Order Superconducting Phase Transition, and Possible Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin- Ovchinnikov Inhomogeneous Superconducting State in CeCoIn5
Sep. 30 Andre Leclair, LEPP, Cornell University Russian Doll Renormalization Group Flows Oct. 7 Vincent Liu, MIT Breached Pairing Superfluidity: A Possible New State of Matter in Cold Fermi Atoms
Oct. 14 Moses Chan, Pennsylvania State University Observation of a Supersolid State of Matter
Oct. 21 N. Phuan Ong, Princeton University Vortex Nernst Effect and Pairing Strength in Phase Diagram of the Cuprates
Oct. 28 Nikolay V. Prokof’ev, University of Massachusetts Two-Component Bosons in an Optical Lattice: Groundstates and Phase Transitions
Nov. 4 Smitha Vishveshwara, University of Illinois Unearthing Fractional Statistics via a Hanbury Brown-Twiss Set-Up
Nov. 11 Adam Durst, Yale University Radiation-Induced Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a 2D Electron Gas
Nov. 18 Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania Charge and Statistics of Dilute Laughlin Quasiparticles
Nov. 25 Raymond W. Simmonds, National Institutes of Science and Technology An Improved Josephson Junction Based Quantum Bit
Spring 2004
Feb. 3 Kenneth O’Hara, National Institutes of Standards and Technology A New Playground for Many-Body Physics: Strongly-Correlated Atomic Gases
Feb. 10 Jack Harris, Harvard University Cold Atoms Without Laser Cooling: the Frontier of Buffer Gas Trapping
Feb. 12 Heather Lewandowski, NIST/JILA, University of Colorado Cooling and Trapping OH Molecules
Feb. 17 Nadya Mason, Harvard University Local Gate Control of Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots
Feb. 19 Itai Cohen, Harvard University The Shear Excitement of Confined Colloidal Suspensions
Feb. 24 Cheng Chin, University of Innsbruck Formation and Bose-Einstein Condensation of Ultracold Molecules
Feb. 26 Jan Liphardt, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Five Years of Tension: Mechanical Unfolding of Single Ribozymes using Optical Traps
Mar. 9 Hakan Tureci, Yale University Modes of Wave-Chaotic Dielectric Resonators
Mar. 23 Spring Break
Apr. 6 Garnet Chan, University of Cambridge A Renormalization Group Approach to Electronic Structure Theory
Apr. 13 Gerard Wong, University of Illinois Complex Behavior of Simple Ions Near Biological Polyelectrolytes
Apr. 20 Patrick Mang, Stanford University Scattering Studies of the Electron-Doped High-Temperature Superconductor Nd2-xCexCuO4
Apr. 29 Jay Banavar, Pennsylvania State University Geometry and Physics of Proteins
May 4 John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory Quantum Magnetic Excitations from Stripes in Cuprate Superconductors
May 6 Marcel Franz, University of British Columbia Nodal Protectorate in Underdoped Cuprates
Fall 2004
Aug. 31 Andreas Savin, CNRS, Paris Adiabatic Connections in Density Functional Theory
Sep. 7 Keith Schwab, University of Maryland Experiments at the Quantum Limit of Mechanical Devices....and a new really easy readout technique....
Sep. 14 Nicholas Bigelow, University of Rochester Rotating a Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensate: From Vortices to Quantum Hall
Sep. 28 Shmuel Fishman, Technion, Haifa, Israel Quantum Chaos and Atom Optics: From Experiments to Number Theory
Oct. 5 David Nelson, Harvard University Non-Hermitian Luttinger Liquids and Vortex Physics
Oct. 12 Fall Break
Oct. 19 Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania What’s Kelvin’s Problem?
Oct. 26 Allan Griffin, University of Toronto Recent Work on Quasiparticle Energy Spectrum in a Superfluid Gas of Fermi Atoms
Nov. 2 A. J. Sievers, LASSP, Cornell University Intrinsic Energy Localization in Macroscopic and Atomic Lattices
Nov. 9 Moses Chan, Pennsylvania State University Can a Solid be Superfluid?
Nov. 16 Rena Zieve, University of California, Davis Single Vortex Pinning in a Superfluid
Nov. 23 Michal Lipson, Elec. & Comp. Eng., Cornell University On-chip Nanophotonic Devices
Nov. 30 Bertrand Reulet, Yale University Finite Frequency Measurements of the Non-Gaussian Current Fluctuations in Mesoscopic Systems
Dec. 7 Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego Fluctuation-Dominated Front Propagation
Spring 2005
Feb. 10 Amit Meller, Rowland Institute at Harvard Translocation and Unzipping Kinetics of DNA Molecules Using a Nanopore
Feb. 15 Eric Bauer, Los Alamos National Laboratory Superconductivity in a Very Strange Place: The Story of PuCoGa5
Feb. 22 Chinlin Guo, Harvard University Long-range Cooperativity in Yeast Mating Polarization
Feb. 24 Keith Schwab, University of Maryland Probing the Quantum Limit of Nanomechanical Devices
Mar. 3 Karen Daniels, Duke University Freezing and Melting in Granular Materials
Mar. 8 Tobias Kippenberg, California Institute of Technology Ultra-High-Q Optical Microcavities
Mar. 10 Zoran Hadzibabic, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Supérieure Layered 2D Bose-Einstein Condensates in an Optical Latttice
Mar. 15 Kyle Shen, Stanford University Evolution of Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2 from Mott Insulator to High-Tc Superconductor: “The Story from Einstein’s Electrons”
Mar. 22 Spring Break
Apr. 5 Matthias Troyer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Quantum Criticality and Exotic Phases in Quantum Magnets and Lattice Bosons
Mar. 12 Denis Ullmo, Duke University Mesoscopic Kondo Problem
Apr. 19 Ilya Nemenman, Columbia University How Much Does a Fly Know About Its World?
May 3 Alessandra Lanzara, University of California, Berkeley Electron-Lattice Interaction and Competing Orders in Cuprates Superconductors
Fall 2005
Aug. 30 Georg Hoffstaetter, LEPP, Cornell University Toward an Energy Recovery Linac X-ray Source at Cornell
Sep. 6 Vladimir Privman, Clarkson University Evaluation of Decoherence for Quantum Control and Computing
Sep. 13 Nikolay Prokof'ev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst How Can Superfluidity Occur in a Crystalline Solid
Sep. 20 David Thouless, University of Washington Vortex Dynamics in Superfluids
Oct. 4 Nandini Trivedi, Ohio State University Can Disorder Induce Metallic Behavior in a Mott Insulator?
Oct. 11 Fall Break
Oct. 18 Richard Templer, Imperial College, University of London Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Aqueous Mixtures of Eye Lens Proteins
Oct. 25 George Thurston, Rochester Institute of Technology Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Aqueous Mixtures of Eye Lens Proteins
Nov. 1 Jan Luning, Stanford University Lensless Spectromicroscopy by X-ray Fourier Transform Holograph
Nov. 8 Igor Aleiner, Columbia University Metal-Insulator Transition in a Weakly Interacting Many-Electron System with Localized Single- Particle States
Nov. 15 No Seminar, Gold Lecture by Roger Blandford
Nov. 22 Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida Where Does the Nanoscale Gap Disorder in the Cuprates Come From?
Nov. 29 James R. Fienup, University of Rochester Phase Retrieval for Astronomy and X-ray Diffraction Microscopy
Spring 2006
Jan. 19 Subhadeep Gupta, University of California, Berkeley Bose-Einstein Condensates in Storage Rings and Optical Cavities
Jan. 31 Norman Birge, Michigan State University Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Mesoscopic SNS Josephson Junctions
Feb. 7 Matthias Liepe, Cornell University A Science Makes Science: Superconducting RF for the Cornell ERL and Beyond
Feb. 14 Carlos Bustamante, Cornell University Statistical Methods for Detecting Natural Selection in the Human Genome
Feb. 21 Markus Kindermann, Cornell University Correlations and Entanglements in Nanostructures
Feb. 28 Ted Hodapp, APS Education and Outreach Division Physics Teaching: The Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Mar. 7 David Weiss, Pennsylvania State University Experiments with 1D Bose Gases
Mar. 21 Andy Mackenzie, University of St. Andrews Linking Surface to Bulk in Transition Metal Oxides
Mar. 28 Eric Dufresne, Yale University Coulomb Blockade in Soft Condensed Matter
Apr. 11 Anders Sandvik, Boston University Antiferromagnetic to Valence Bond Solid Transitions in Two Dimensions Apr. 18 Joshua Socolar, Duke University Universal Dynamical Structures in Random Boolean Networks
Apr. 25 Chris Jacobsen, SUNY Stony Brook To Live and Die in L.A. (lab apparatus): Radiation Limits for Studies in Biology and Soft Matter
May 2 Alexey Bezryadin, University of Illinois Superconducting Nanowires
Fall 2006
Sep. 12 Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin Computational Complexity and Complex Systems
Sep. 19 David Lee, LASSP, Cornell University H Atoms Embedded in Solid Molecular Hydrogen: To BE c or Not to BE c
Sep. 26 Lydia Sohn, University of California, Berkeley Spanning the Length Scales with Artificial Pores
Oct. 3 Aashish Clerk, McGill University Surprises in Quantum Nano-Electromechanics
Oct. 10 Fall Break
Oct. 17 Bethe Lecture
Oct. 24 Douglas Scalapino, University of California, Santa Barbara The Hubbard Model and the High Tc Cuprates
Oct. 31 Daniel Stick, University of Michigan Quantum Computing Using Trapped Ions
Nov. 7 Greg Boebinger, Florida State University The Cusp at Optimum Doping in the Low-Temperature Hall Number of the High-Temperature Superconductors
Nov. 9 Wendy Mao, Los Alamos National Laboratory Studying Low-Z Materials at High Pressure
Nov. 14 Chris Hammel, The Ohio State University Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy
Nov. 21 Jennifer Schwarz, Syracuse University Classical and Quantum Models of Correlated Percolation
Nov. 28 Daniel Fisher, Harvard University Simple Models of Glass Transitions
Dec. 5 Steve Lamoreaux, Yale University The Oklo Natural Nuclear Reactor and the Time Stability of the Fundamental Constants of Nature
Spring 2007
Feb. 1 Aaron Leanhardt, University of Colorado High Energy Physics with Ultracold Atoms and Molecules: Tabletop Searches for CP Violation and Extra Dimensions
Feb. 13 Chao-Lin Kuo, California Institute of Technology CMB Beyond the Acoustic Peaks
Feb. 15 Feng Wang, University of California, Berkeley Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconducting and Metallic Nanostructures
Feb. 20 Daniel Needleman, Harvard University Single Molecule Dynamics in Cell Division
Feb. 27 Yael Roichman, New York University Holographic Optical Tweezers, Reaching into the Microscopic World
Mar. 1 Nuh Gedik, California Institute of Technology Ultrafast Structural Dynamics Observed with Atomic Scale Resolution
Mar. 13 David Schurig, Duke University The Transformation Design Method and Metamaterials: Tools to Realize Invisibility and Other Interesting Effects
Mar. 20 Spring Break
Apr. 3 Meera Parish, Princeton University Polarized Atomic Fermi Condensates
Apr. 10 Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania Jamming
Apr. 17 Dan Stamper-Kurn, University of California, Berkeley Dynamics of a Magnetic Superfluid
Apr. 24 Ron Lifshitz, University of Tel Aviv Quasicrystals — Some of Nature’s Most Intriguing Forms of Matter
Fall 2007
Sep. 11 Joel Brock, Cornell University Time-Resolved X-ray Studies of Pulsed Laser Deposition
Sep. 18 Kamil Ekinci, Boston University Nanomechanical Sensing and Metrology: Recent Progress
Sep. 25 Peter Armitage, The Johns Hopkins University — A Cooper solid?: Electrodynamics of the 2D Superconductor-Insulator Quantum Phase Transition
Oct. 2 Karyn Le Hur, Yale University Charge Fractionalization and Transport in Low Dimensions
Oct. 9 Fall Break
Oct. 16 Narayanan Menon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Wrinkling, Folding and Crumpling of Elastic Sheets
Oct. 23 Joseph Orenstein, University of California, Berkeley The Persistent Spin Helix: Spin Propagation in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
Oct. 30 Trey Porto, National Institutes of Standards and Technology Controlled Exchange Interactions Between Pairs of Neutral Atoms in an Optical Lattice
Nov. 6 Wilhelm Zwerger, Technical University of Munich Pairing versus Superfluidity in Ultracold Fermi Gases
Nov. 13 Philip W. Adams, Louisiana State University Avalanches, Reentrance, and Incoherent Pairing: The Extraordinary Behavior of Ordinary Superconductors in High Magnetic Fields
Nov. 20 Erkki Thuneberg, University of Oulu Pi-states and Dissipative Currents in Superfluid 3He Josephson Junctions
Nov. 27 Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers University Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: A Dynamical Mean Field Theory Perspective
Spring 2008
Feb. 5 Shinsei Ryu, University of California, Santa Barbara 3D Topological Insulators and 2D Anderson Delocalization
Feb. 7 Eun-Ah Kim, Stanford University The Theory of the Nodal Nematic Quantum Criticality
Feb. 12 Hui Deng, California Institute of Technology The Matter-Light Quantum Interfaces for Scalable Quantum Networks
Feb. 19 William Ryu, Princeton University A Biophysicist Looks at the Thermal Response and Motor Behavior of E. coli and C. elegans
Feb. 21 Markus Müller, Harvard University Nernst Effect and Magnetohydrodynamics Near Quantum Criticality in Superconductors, Graphene and Black Holes
Feb. 26 Ahmet Yildiz, University of California, San Francisco Single Molecule Studies of Motor Protein Movement with Nanometer Precision
Mar. 4 Mukund Vengalattore, University of California, Berkeley Equilibrium Phases of a Dipolar Magnetic Superfluid
Mar. 18 Spring Break
Mar. 25 Philipp Werner, Columbia University Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Methods for Fermions
Apr. 1 Weining Man, Princeton University Geometry and Symmetry in Photonics and Material Science
Apr. 8 Egor Babaev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Counterflow Condensates: From Projected Metallic Hydrogen to Multicomponent Bose-Einstein and Excitonic Condensates
Apr. 15 Steven Chu, Bethe Lecturer Coherent Control of Ultra-Cold Matter
Apr. 22 Eric Akkermans, Technion Photon Localization and Dicke Superradiance: A Crossover to Small World Networks
Apr. 29 Paul Francois, Rockefeller University Deriving Structure from Computational Evolution
Fall 2008
Sep. 2 Anthony Dinsmore, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Nucleation and Sublimation of Crystals: Insights from Experiments with Colloids
Sep. 9 Cynthia Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory Local Probes at the Nanoscale: Avalanches, Melting, and Jamming Transitions
Sep. 16 John Shumway, Arizona State University A Path Integral Approach to Computational Nanoscience
Sep. 23 Seth Fraden, Brandeis University PhaseChip 2.0: Manipulating Phase Diagrams with Microfluidics
Sep. 30 Gerald Mahan, Pennsylvania State University Vibrations of Nanotubes and Nanowires
Oct. 7 Antti-Pekka Jauho, Technical University of Denmark Atomistic Modeling of Electronic and Thermal Transport Properties of Si-Nanowires
Oct. 21 Gianfranco Durin, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica Crackling Noise and Complexity in Natural Systems
Oct. 28 Cindy Regal, JILA, University of Colorado Cooling and Detecting Nanomechanical Motion with a Microwave Cavity
Nov. 4 Mona Berciu, University of British Columbia Spectral Weight Transfer for Holstein Polarons
Nov. 11 Michael Lawler, SUNY Binghamton and Cornell University Emergent Paramagnetic Phases in the Hyper-Kagome Quantum Antiferromagnet Na4IR3O8
Nov. 18 Britton Plourde, Syracuse University Tailored Superconducting Channels for Controlling Vortex Dynamics
Nov. 25 Eva Andrei, Rutgers University Graphene Seen Through Transport and Tunneling Measurements
Dec. 2 Kathleen J. Stebe, University of Pennsylvania Oriented Assembly of Anisotropic Particles by Capillary Interactions
Spring 2009
Jan. 27 Jennifer Schwarz, Syracuse University Structure in Active Filament Networks
Feb. 3 Peng Chen, Cornell University Single-Molecule Imaging Nanoscale Catalysis and Electrocatalysis
Feb. 10 Wendy Zhang, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago Memory as Vibration in a Disconnecting Air Bubble
Feb. 17 Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland Massless and Massive Electrons in Atomically-thin Carbon
Feb. 24 Nicholas Bigelow, University of Rochester Making and Manipulating Dipolar Quantum Gases
Mar. 3 Paul Fendley, University of Virginia Topological Quantum Computation with Non-Abelian Anyons
Mar. 10 Anatoli Polkovnikov, Boston University Quantum Nearly Adiabatic Dynamics in Closed Systems
Mar. 27 Mustansir Barma, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Clustering Induced by Fluctuating Forces
Mar. 31 Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley Topological Insulators and Magnetoelectric Coupling in Solids
Apr. 7 Doug Durian, University of Pennsylvania Granular Unsteadiness
Apr. 14 Jenny Hoffman, Harvard University Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and Vortex Imaging in the Iron-Pnictide High-Tc Superconductors
Apr. 21 Takashi Imai, McMaster University 77 Why Does Undoped FeSe Become a High- Tc Superconductor Under Pressure? — Se NMR Study
Apr. 28 Hae-Young Kee, University of Toronto Microscopic Route to the Effective Interaction for the Nematic Phase in Ruthenates
Fall 2009
Sept. 1 Mark Bowick, Syracuse University Defects, Drops and Structured Vesicles
Sept. 8 Garnet Chan, Cornell University Thinking About Wavefunctions
Sept. 15 Subir Sachdev, Harvard University Where is the Quantum Critical Point in the Cuprate Superconductor
Oct. 1 Austen Lamacraft, University of Virginia Low Energy Dynamics of Spinor Condensates
Oct. 7 Joint Biophysics–LASSP Seminar Meredith Betterton, University of Colorado Theory of Microtubule Depolymerization by the Kinesin-8 Kip3p
Oct. 20 Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory Simplifying Local Excitations in Correlated Charge-Transfer Insulators
Oct. 27 Nathan Gemelke, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago In situ Microscopy of an Atomic Mott Insulator
Nov. 3 Craig Fennie, A&EP, Cornell University Controlling Ferroelectric and Magnetic Order in Complex Materials
Nov. 10 Raffi Budakian, University of Illinois Observation of Fractional Fluxoid States in Mesoscopic Rings of Sr2RuO4 by Ultrasensitive Cantilever Magnetometry
Nov. 17 John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory Striped Superconductivity
SPRING 2010
Jan. 26 Antonio Badolato, University of Rochester Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Single Quantum Dots
Feb. 2 Matthew Fisher, California Institute of Technology Spin Bose-Metals in Weak Mott Insulators
Feb. 9 Robert Bennett, Cornell University Studies of Superfluid 3He, Confined to a Single 0.6 mm Thick Slab, Using DC SQUID NMR
Feb. 16 Andrew Mackenzie, University of St. Andrews Thermodynamic Studies of Phase Formation in the Vicinity of Quantum Criticality in Sr3Ru2O7
Feb. 23 Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin Neutral Atom Quantum Gates via Rydberg Excitation
Mar. 2 Stephen Cronin, University of Southern California Unique One- and Two-Dimensional Phenomena Observed in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
Mar. 9 Robert Willett, Lucent Technology Alternating e/4 and e/2 Period Interference Oscillations as Evidence for Filling Factor 5/2 Non- Abelian Quasiparticles
Mar. 30 Boris Svistunov, University of Massachusetts Supersolidity of Helium-4
Apr. 6 Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Strongly Interacting Media
Apr. 13 Richard Scalettar, University of California, Irvine The Hubbard Model: From Condensed Matter to Atomic Physics
Apr. 20 Jon Machta, University of Massachusetts Physics and Phase Transitions in Parallel Computational Complexity
Apr. 27 Elbio Dagotto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Studying Models for Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems Using Computational Techniques
May 4 Alexei Kitaev, California Institute of Technology Mathematical Classification of Gapped Free-Fermion Hamiltonians
FALL 2010 Seminars held at 4:00 pm
Aug. 31 David Huse, Princeton University
Sept. 7 Helmut Schiessel, Leiden University Chromatin: A Multi-Scale Jigsaw Puzzle in Biophysics
Sept. 14 Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign The Effective Fine Structure Constant of Graphene
Sept. 21 Jerry Gollub, Haverford College Remarkable Phenomena in Low Reynolds Number Flow
Sept. 28 Louis Taillefer, University of Sherbrooke Fermi Surface Reconstruction and Quantum Criticality in Cuprate Superconductors
Oct. 5 Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan From Aristotle to Onsager and Beyond: Packing and Assembling Tetrahedra
Oct. 19 Ivan Bozovic, Brookhaven National Laboratory Unscrambling the Physics of High-Temperature Superconductivity by Atomic-Layer Engineering
Oct. 26 Masadul Haque, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems Interaction Induced Hierarchy of Edge-Locking Effects
Nov. 2 Peter Johnson, Brookhaven National Laboratory The Pseudogap Phase of the Cuprate Superconductors: Are We Getting Closer?
Nov. 9 Clare Yu, University of California, Irvine Glasses, Stress, and Attenuation
Nov. 19 Tony Heinz, Columbia University Seeing Electrons in Two Dimensions: Optical Spectroscopy of Graphene
Nov. 23 Jeevak Parpia, Cornell University A Pre-Thanksgiving Diet: Add Dirt to 3He, Squeeze, and Measure
Nov. 30 Jane Wang, Cornell University Physics of Living Matter: Insect Flight and Related Problems
SPRING 2011
Feb. 1 Lisa Manning, Princeton University How Does Surface Tension Emerge From Structure in Biological Tissues?
Feb. 8 Steven Olmschenk, NIST and University of Maryland Quantum Information with Atoms and Light
Feb. 15 Murat Acar, California Institute of Technology Network-Dosage Compensation in Gene Circuits
Feb. 22 Lucy Bai, Rockefeller University Single-Cell Biophysical Study on Nucleosome-Depleted Region and Gene Regulation
Mar. 1 Yusuke Nishida, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Universal Physics with Ultracold Atoms: Efimov Effect, BCS-BEC Crossover, and Beyond
Mar. 3 Jing Xia, California Institute of Technology Topological Phases and Their Competition with Symmetry-Breaking Orders
Mar. 8 Pierre Thibault, Technical University of Munich X-ray Imaging in the Style of Bird Calls
Mar. 10 Eleni Katifori, Rockefeller University Design Principles in the Plant Kingdom: Loops, Optimality and the Architecture of Leaf Veins
Mar. 15 Lode Pollet, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Zurich Byteing the Supersolid
Mar. 17 Eric Brown, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago Shear Thickening in Concentrated Suspensions
Apr. 5 Itai Cohen, Cornell University Using a Confocal Rheoscope to Investigate Soft Squishy Materials
Tuesday, 4/12 Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bethe Lecturer) Toward Quantum Magnetism with Ultracold Atoms
Apr. 19 Taylor Hughes, Stanford University Anomalies and Torsion in Condensed Matter Systems
Apr. 26 Minoru Yamashita, Kyoto University Thermal Transport Studies of Quantum Spin Liquids
May 3 Evgeny Tsymbal, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions: Controlling Electron and Spin Transport by Ferroelectric Polarization