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 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, Autumn School Lectures, Quantum Computation: Software

Sep. 27–Oct. 1 David DiVincenzo, IBM Autumn School Lectures, Quantum Computation: Hardware

Sep. 30 , IBM Autumn School Lecture, 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 ?

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, 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 : 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, –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 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, 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, 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 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, 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