Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Nonreciprocal chiral magnons in multiferroic Ni3TeO6

Daniel Mazzone, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 11 a.m., Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Introducing PRX Energy: A new journal from the American Physical Society

Jacilynn Brant, Ph.D., Managing Editor, PRX Energy, American Physical Society

Friday, March 25, 2022, 11 a.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Detecting, mapping, and manipulating a ferro-rotational order in solids

Liuyan Zhao, University of Michigan

Thursday, September 23, 2021, 11 a.m., Bldg. 734 (Virtual)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Density Matrix Renormalization Group Study of Doped Mott Insulator on Square Lattice

Donna Sheng, California State University

Wednesday, July 14, 2021, 11 a.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Fluctuating spin and charge stripes in the two-dimensional Hubbard model in the thermodynamic limit

Peizhi Mai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Thursday, July 8, 2021, 11 a.m., Bldg. 734 (Virtual)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

High-harmonic generation in quantum materials

Denitsa Baykusheva, Harvard University

Thursday, June 24, 2021, 11 a.m., Bldg. 734 (Virtual)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Focusing Light with an Atomic Lens

Jack Griffiths, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Wednesday, May 12, 2021, 11 a.m., Bldg. 734 (Virtual)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Neutron and X-Ray Scattering Studies of Complex Oxides

Anuradha Vibhakar, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 11 a.m., Bldg. 734 (Virtual)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Machine learning augmented characterization for emergent quantum materials

Mingda Li, (MIT)

Thursday, April 22, 2021, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734 (Virtual Event)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Magnon and Spin Orbital Excitation in the Honeycomb XY Antiferromagnet CoTiO3

Bo Yuan, University of Toronto, Canada

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 11 a.m., Bldg. 734 (Virtual Event)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Magnetic and structural properties of Ce(Pd,Pt)2Al2 intermetallics

Petr Doležal, Charles University, Czech Republic

Thursday, March 4, 2021, 12 p.m., Bldg. 734 (Virtual)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Probing the finite-momentum spectrum of a light-induced superconductor

Matteo Mitrano, Harvard University

Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 11 a.m., Bldg. 734 (Webcast)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Shear-induced ordering in liquid μ-jets revealed by x-ray cross-correlation analysis

Verena Markmann, Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany

Friday, January 29, 2021, 11 a.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spin Orbital Dimer Singlets and Vibronic Fluctuations in a Cluster Mott Insulator

Kemp Plumb, Brown University

Thursday, November 5, 2020, 11 a.m., Virtual Seminar

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Collective Excitations in Quantum Materials

Edoardo Baldini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, June 18, 2020, 11 a.m., https://bluejeans.com/956965585

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Towards Novel Quantum Materials: Design, Synthesis and Characterizations

Ruidan Zhong, Princeton University

Thursday, May 7, 2020, 1:30 p.m., Zoom CMPMSD Seminar

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Tuning of spin-orbital interactions and charge gap by epitaxial strain in Sr2IrO4

Thorsten Schmitt, Photon Science Division, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland

Monday, February 24, 2020, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Field-theoretical approach to strongly-correlated problems: RIXS in metals and Spin fermion model

Igor Tupitsyn, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Monday, February 24, 2020, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Emergent phenomena from disorder on a 3D Topological Insulator surface

Yishuai Xu, New York University

Friday, February 7, 2020, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

RIXS study of charge dynamics in cuprates

Jiaqi Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences / BNL

Thursday, February 6, 2020, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Effect of Zeeman coupling on the Majorana vortex modes in iron-based topological superconductors

Pouyan Ghaemi, The City College of New York

Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Interlayer charge dynamics in metallic transition metal dichalcogenides

Edoardo Martino, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Symmetry Protected Topological Semimetals

Jennifer Cano, SUNY-Stony Brook

Thursday, January 16, 2020, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Entropic elasticity and negative thermal expansion in crystalline solids

Igor Zaliznyak, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Thursday, January 9, 2020, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

In-situ TEM sample-management solutions Wildfire and Lightning Heating and Biasing – capturing real dynamics in TEM

Yevheniy Pivak, DENSsolutions

Monday, December 9, 2019, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Topological transition on anisotropic hexagonal lattices and effective phonon model for the Quantum Hall transition

Andreas Sinner, University of Augsburg, Germany

Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 1 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Engineering magnetism with light with the novel photovoltaic perovskite CH3NH3PbI3

László Forró, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Thursday, October 24, 2019, 2:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Heavy-fermion quantum criticality and unconventional superconductivity

Frank Stegllich, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics & Solids, Germany

Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Nematic superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene

Laura Classen, University of Minnesota

Tuesday, September 10, 2019, 1 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Tailoring the twinning of DyBa2Cu3O7-x thin films with atomic-layer-by-layer molecular beam epitaxy

Daniel Putzky, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany

Monday, August 26, 2019, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The 2-spinon contribution to the longitudinal structure factor in the XXZ model

Isaac Perez Castillo, Institute of Physics, UNAM and London Mathematical Laboratory

Thursday, August 22, 2019, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Fermi arcs, nodal and antinodal gaps in cuprates : the 'pairon' model to the rescue

William Sacks, Sorbonne University, France

Friday, July 26, 2019, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Strange superconductivity near an antiferromagnetic heavy-fermion quantum critical point

Chung-Hou Chung, Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

Wednesday, July 24, 2019, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electron beam effects on organic ices

Marco Beleggia, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Monday, July 22, 2019, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Excitonic condensation of strongly correlated electrons

Professor Jan Kunes, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 2:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Tracking phase textures in complex oxides using coherent x-rays

Xiaoqian Chen, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Monday, June 17, 2019, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Probing quantum materials with multiple spectroscopic techniques

Eduardo H. da Silva Neto, University of California, Davis

Thursday, June 6, 2019, 1:30 p.m., ISB - Bldg. 734

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Mega-electron-volt ultrafast electron diffraction at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Xiaozhe Shen, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Monday, June 3, 2019, 2 p.m., Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

In situ imaging of gold nanocrystals during the CO oxidation reaction studied by Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging

Ana Flavia Suzana, Brazilian Association of Synchrotron Light Technology-ABTLUS, Brazil

Thursday, May 23, 2019, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Superconductivity and magnetism at ferroelectric critical point"

Alexander Balatsky, UConn Nordita

Thursday, April 18, 2019, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Tailoring electronic and thermal properties of bulk Cu26T2(Ge,Sn)6S32 colusite through defects engineering and functionalization of the conductive network

Emmanuel Guilmeau, CRISMAT Laboratory, Caen, France

Thursday, April 11, 2019, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Importance of electron interactions in understanding the photo-electron spectroscopy and the Weyl character of MoTe2

Niraj Aryal, Florida State University

Thursday, April 11, 2019, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Charge and lattice entanglement in quantum materials observed by TEM: Tb2Cu0.83Pd0.17O4 and Cu2S"

Wei Wang, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 3 p.m., Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Topological semimetals predicted from first-principles and theoretical approaches

Jiawei Ruan, School of Physics, Nanjing University, China

Monday, April 1, 2019, 11 a.m., Building 734, Seminar Room 201

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Neutron scattering study of strongly correlated systems

Yao Shen, Fudan University, China

Monday, March 11, 2019, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Unconventional superconductivity and complex tensor order in half-Heusler superconductors

Igor Boettcher, University of Maryland

Tuesday, February 26, 2019, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

: Electronic structure of d-metal systems as revealed by ab initio modeling of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering

Lei Xu, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany

Friday, February 15, 2019, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) as a probe of exciton-phonon coupling

Andrey Geondzhian, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France (UTC+1)

Thursday, February 14, 2019, 9:30 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Phase transition in functional materials and structural dynamics as studied by UTEM

Ming Zhang, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Tuesday, February 12, 2019, 10 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Stimulation of quantum phases by time-dependent perturbations

Victor Galitski, University of Maryland

Thursday, February 7, 2019, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Novel Electrochemistry for Fuel Cell Reactions: Efficient Synthesis and New Characterization Methods

Zhixiu Liang

Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 4:30 p.m., Bldg. 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Strongly-correlated systems: Controllable field-theoretical approach

Igor Tupitsyn, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Recent Progress in Non-perturbative methods for QFTs

Lorenzo Vitale, Boston University

Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Effect of ion irradiation on the mechanical behavior and microstructural evolution of nanoscale metallic alloys

Gowtham Sriram Jawaharram, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Exact Solution and Semiclassical Analysis of BCS-BEC Crossover in One Dimension

Tianhao Ren, Columbia University

Monday, January 7, 2019, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Uncovering the interactions behind quantum phenomena

Keith Taddei, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Tuesday, December 18, 2018, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Discussion of opportunities related to Quantum Information initiative

Alexei Tsvelik, BNL

Friday, December 7, 2018, 3 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Laser induces dynamics in complex oxides with visible/NIR and X-ray probe (Note: This will be a skype presentation)

Sergii Parchenko, Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

First-principles description of correlated materials with strong spin-orbit coupling: the analytic continuation and branching ratio calculation

Jae-Hoon Sim, Department of Physics, KAIST, Korea, Republic of (South)

Monday, December 3, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Localized-to-itinerant crossovers in Kondo materials

Daniel Mazzone, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NSLS-II

Monday, December 3, 2018, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. Conf. Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Dirac fermions and critical phenomena: exponents and emergent symmetries

Michael Scherer, University of Cologne, Germany

Thursday, November 8, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

In-situ Investigation of Crystallization of a Metallic Glass by Bragg Coherent X-ray Diffraction

Bo Chen, Tongji University, China

Monday, October 15, 2018, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Universality and quantum criticality of the one-dimensional spinor Bose gas

Thursday, September 27, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Multiloop functional renormalization group: Exact flow equations from the self-consistent parquet relations

Fabian Kugler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany

Thursday, September 20, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB 734 Conference Room 201

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Pair-breaking quantum phase transition in superconducting nanowires

Andrey Rogachev, University of Utah

Friday, September 7, 2018, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spinon Confinement and a Longitudinal Mode in One Dimensional Yb2Pt2Pb

Bill Gannon, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University

Thursday, August 23, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Advances in high energy electron holography

Dr. Toshiaki Tanigaki, Hitachi, Japan

Friday, August 10, 2018, 1:30 p.m., Conference room in building 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Imaging Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Materials

Kenneth Beyerlein, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany

Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Atomic level structural characterization of materials by electron microscopy

Shize Yang, Center for Functional Nanomaterials

Thursday, July 26, 2018, 4 p.m., Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Mechanism of strange metal and strange metal state near a heavy fermion quantum critical point

Chung-Hou Chung, Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

Wednesday, July 18, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conference Room 201

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electron-microscopy-guided designing of ferroelectric materials for nonvolatile memories and multifunctional nanodevices

Linze Li, University of California @ Irvine

Thursday, July 12, 2018, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Room-temperature magnetic spiral order induced by disorder

Christopher Mudry, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland

Monday, July 2, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Imaging of Local Structure and Dynamics in Hard and Soft Condensed Matter Systems

Dmitry Karpov, New Mexico State University

Friday, June 22, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Theories of transport scaling in disordered semimetals and topological spin-nematic excitonic insulators in graphite under high magnetic field

Ryuichi Shindo, Peking University, China

Thursday, June 21, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Fermi-Surface Reconstruction in Nd-doped CeCoIn5

Elizabeth Green, Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Thursday, June 21, 2018, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Seminar Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

X-ray Scattering as a Tool for Understanding Nanostructured Materials

Robert Koch, Alfred University

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Doublon-holon origin of the subpeaks at the Hubbard band edges

Seung-Sup Lee, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany

Thursday, June 14, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Defects and their functional properties in multiferroic hexagonal systems

Shaobo Cheng, McMaster University Canada

Monday, June 11, 2018, 2:30 p.m., Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Developing theoretical understanding of non-equilibrium phenomena

Alexander Kemper, North Carolina State University

Thursday, May 24, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Picoastronomy: an electron microscopist's view of the history of the Solar System

Rhonda Stroud, US Naval Research Laboratory

Friday, May 4, 2018, 2 p.m., Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Chemistry beyond the crystal- advanced Fourier techniques

Simon Kimber, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Monday, April 30, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Topological properties of Weyl semimetals in the presence of randomness

Jedediah Pixley, Rutgers

Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Building and understanding magnetic nano-structures, one atom at a time

Adrian Feiguin, Northeastern University

Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Plastic Deformation at the Nanoscale and Superconductivity Enhancement in Decompression

Bin Chen, Shanghai Laboratory of Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), China

Thursday, April 5, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Seminar Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Non-abelian symmetries and applications in tensor networks

Andreas Weichselbaum, Brookhaven National Lab

Thursday, March 29, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Accurate spectral calculations for testing electronic structures, low energy excitations, and vibronic interactions

Keith Gilmore, The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France

Thursday, March 29, 2018, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spatial Resolution of Low-Loss EELS

R.F. Egerton, University of Alberta, Canada

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 2 p.m., Building 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Quantum dimer models for high temperature superconductors

Garry Goldstein, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Friday, March 16, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Splitting of electrons and violation of the Luttinger sum rule

Eoin Quinn, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Thursday, March 15, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Enabling emergent spin-orbit magnetism in iridate-based heterostructures

Jian Liu, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thursday, March 15, 2018, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Seminar Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

3D non-Fermi liquid behavior from 1D critical local moments

Laura Classen, BNL

Thursday, March 1, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Topological Spin Excitations in a Highly Interconnected 3D Spin Lattice

Yuan Li, International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, China

Thursday, February 22, 2018, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Nematic superconductivity in topological materials

Matt Smylie, Argonne National Laboratory

Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Establishing Jeff =3/2 Ground State in a Lacunar Spinel GaTa4Se8

Myung Joon Han, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spin-orbit coupling and electronic correlations in Hund's metals: Sr2RuO4

Minjae Kim, École Polytechnique, France

Monday, January 22, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"In situ characterization of the phase behavior of metal oxides at extreme conditions"

Leighanne Gallington, Argonne National Laboratory

Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Singular density fluctuations in the strange metal phase of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x observed with momentum-resolved EELS (M-EELS)

Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Friday, January 12, 2018, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Bose condensation of excitons in TiSe2

Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Thursday, January 11, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Photoemission studies of the electronic properties of rare-earth intermetallics and oxide interface"

Alla Chikina, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Monday, January 8, 2018, 3 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Seminar Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Illuminating rationally engineered complex oxides

Derek Meyers, BNL

Friday, January 5, 2018, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spin fluctuations in 122 transition metal arsenides measured using inelastic neutron scattering technique

Aashish Sapkota, Ames Laboratory

Thursday, December 21, 2017, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Examples of translational research using thermoelectric oxides

Ryoji Funahashi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Japan

Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 3 p.m., Conference Room, Building 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Complementary response of static spin-stripe order and superconductivity to non-magnetic impurities and pressure in cuprates

Zurab Guguchia, Columbia University

Thursday, November 16, 2017, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Quasiparticle spectra from stochastic many-body methods

Vojtech Vlcek, University of California, Los Angeles

Thursday, November 9, 2017, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Proximity effects in cuprate/manganite multilayers

Christian Bernhard, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Monday, November 6, 2017, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Seminar Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Wandering amongst the Feynamn diagrams

Nikolay Prokofiev, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Friday, November 3, 2017, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Theory and Computation Guided Discovery of New Thermoelectric Materials

Vladan Stevanovic, Colorado School of Mines & National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Pressure-driven collapse of Jeff=1/2 electronic state in a honeycomb iridate

Young-June Kim, University of Toronto, Canada

Friday, October 20, 2017, 3 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Domain walls and phase boundaries - new nanoscale functional elements in complex oxides

Jan Seidel, UNSW Sydney

Monday, October 16, 2017, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Suppression of weak ferromagnetism in ultrathin iridates by interfacial engineering of octahedral rotations

Yuefeng Nie, Nanjing University, China

Thursday, September 28, 2017, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Ultrafast TEM and Time-of-Flight EELS using microwave cavities

Jom Luiten, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Friday, September 22, 2017, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Two new applications of geometric critical phenomena for disordered electron systems

Matthew Foster, Rice University

Thursday, September 21, 2017, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Experiments on electron hydrodynamics with and without applied magnetic fields

Andrew Mackenzie, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany

Wednesday, August 23, 2017, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conf. Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering on "moderately correlated" quantum materials

L. Andrew Wray, New York University

Thursday, June 22, 2017, 1 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Tailoring Lattice and Charge at Complex Oxide Nanostructures and Interfaces

Xia Hong, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Tuesday, June 20, 2017, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Laser-driven Pulsed Neutron Sources as a Potential Pool-side Characterization Tool for Nuclear Fuels

Sven Vogel, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Monday, June 19, 2017, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

A model of chiral spin liquids with tunable edge states

Christopher Mudry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Thursday, June 15, 2017, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Thin-Film Alchemy: Using Epitaxial Engineering to Unleash the Hidden Properties of Oxides

Darrell G. Schlom, Cornell University

Monday, May 15, 2017, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Transient Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Electrons After Sudden Excitations

Marco Schiro, Institut de Physique Theorique (IPhT), CEA, Saclay, France

Thursday, May 4, 2017, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spin-liquids in novel triangular and kagome rare-earth magnets

Martin Mourigal, Georgia Tech

Friday, April 28, 2017, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Magnetometry Study of Underdoped Cuprate YBa2Cu3O6.55

Fan Yu, University of Michigan

Friday, April 28, 2017, 11 a.m., Bldg. 734, ISB. Conf. Rm. 168

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Unpaired Spins in Superconductors: From Assassin to Enabler

Jeffrey Lynn, NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Thursday, April 20, 2017, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Listening to the hydrodynamic noise of Dirac fluid in graphene

Kin Chung Fong, Raytheon BBN Technologies and Harvard University

Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electronic Squeezing of Pumped Phonons: Negative $U$ and Transient Superconductivity

Dante Kennes, Columbia University

Thursday, April 13, 2017, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Explore Mesoscopic Physics in Strongly Correlated Electron Materials with IR near-field microscopy and spectroscopy

Mengkun Liu, Stony Brook University

Thursday, March 30, 2017, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Thermalization and light cones in a model with weak integrability breaking

Stefan Groha, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 11 a.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering and X-ray Emission Spectroscopy of Iron Pnictide Superconductors

Jonathan Pelliciari, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Monday, March 27, 2017, 10 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Shining a light on high-Tc superconductivity

Peter Johnson, BNL

Friday, March 24, 2017, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Nematic quantum paramagnet and possible application to FeSe

Fa Wang, International Center for Quantum Materials Peking University, China

Thursday, March 23, 2017, 11 a.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Transport and signatures of Mottness versus Hundness in strongly correlated metals

Xiaoyu Deng, Rutgers

Thursday, March 9, 2017, 11 a.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Ab Initio electronic structure of solids: correlation effects beyond the GW method

Andrei Kutepov, Rutgers University

Thursday, March 2, 2017, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Thermalization and chaos in quantum systems

Sriram Ganeshan, Stony Brook University

Tuesday, February 14, 2017, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Anion-based approaches to engineering functionality in perovskite oxide heterostructures

Steve May, Drexel University

Thursday, January 26, 2017, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Ultrafast Dynamical Phenomena in Nanostructural Materials by 4D Electron Microscopy

Xuewen Fu, California Institute of Technology

Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 2 p.m., Building 480, Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Creation and Control of Low Dimensional Electron System in Transition Metal Oxides

Milan Radovic, Paul Scherer Institut, Switzerland

Monday, January 23, 2017, 11 a.m., Building 734, conference room 201

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Transient Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Electrons After Sudden Excitations

Marco Schiro, Institut de Physique Theorique (IPhT), CEA, Saclay, France

Friday, January 13, 2017, 1:30 p.m., Seminar Room 2nd Floor Bldg 734

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Complexity in Spin-Frustrated Rock-Salt Manganites

Alexandros Lappas, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research & Technology, Greece

Thursday, December 1, 2016, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy at Large Angles

Mark Sutton, McGill University

Tuesday, November 22, 2016, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Probing the magnetic structure of EuPtIn4 via x-ray resonant magnetic scattering

Jose Renato Mardegan, Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany

Tuesday, November 22, 2016, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Seminar Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Tracking chemical reactions with time-resolved x-ray spectroscopic techniques

Tadese Abebaw Assefa, European XFEL Laboratory, Germany

Monday, November 21, 2016, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Surface X-ray Diffraction for Operando Characterization of Chemical Reactions on Surfaces"

Roberto Felici, Istituto SPIN - CNR, Italy

Friday, November 4, 2016, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Sem. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Driven Dirac Materials

Alexander Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Thursday, October 27, 2016, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Seminar Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Creating Spatially Ordered States in Monolayer Graphene

Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia University

Friday, October 21, 2016, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

X-ray Imaging via Bragg CDI: From Ultrafast Physics to Defect Dynamics

Andrew Ulvestad, Argonne National Laboratory

Friday, October 7, 2016, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The numerical renormalization group as a viable multi-band impurity solver for dynamical mean-field theory

Katharina Stadler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, ASC, Germany

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Interplay of structure, magnetism and superconductivity in the 112 Fe based superconducting family

Ni Ni, UCLA

Thursday, September 15, 2016, 1:30 p.m., Seminar Room, 2nd Fl, ISB Bldg. 734

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The first-principles study of structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of strongly correlated materials: DFT+DMFT approach.

Hyowon Park, University of Illinois

Thursday, August 25, 2016, 3 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Controlling the metal-insulator transition in LaNiO3

Frederick Walker, Yale University

Thursday, August 18, 2016, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Bldg., Conf Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Quantiative Determination of the the Fluctuations Leading to Superconductivity in Cuprates

Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside

Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Equilibrium States and Dynamics of Spin Assemblies in Magnetic Thin Films, Heterostructures and Nanostructured Entities

Ramesh B. Budhani, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Tuesday, May 17, 2016, 11 a.m., Building 480, Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Dirac Materials

Alexander Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Monday, May 16, 2016, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Topological Insulators and Dirac Semimetals - Recent Progress in New Materials

Robert J. Cava, Princeton University

Thursday, March 31, 2016, 10 a.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Phase transitions in strongly correlated systems from diagrammatic multi-scale methods

Andrey Antipov, University of Michigan

Thursday, March 24, 2016, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

SU(N) symmetric tensor network simulations of strongly correlated quantum many-body systems

Andreas Weichselbaum, Ludwig Maximilians University

Tuesday, March 22, 2016, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

From Molecular Beam Epitaxy to high magnetic field Quantum Oscillations

Yoshiharu Krockenberger, NTT Basic Research Laboratories

Monday, March 21, 2016, 1:30 p.m., Bldg.480 Conf. Rm

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Real-space Visualization of the Superconducting Proximity effect and Josephson tunneling on Nano-sized Pb thin film

Howon Kim, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan

Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless-like transition in a highly underdoped La2-xSrxCuO4

Dragana Popovic, NHMFL Tallahassee

Thursday, February 11, 2016, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electron Transport through a Proximitized Nanowire

Leonid Glazman, Yale University

Thursday, January 7, 2016, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Soft mode branches, quantum central peak, and strong isotropic negative thermal expansion above a perovskite quantum phase transition

Jason Hancock, University of Connecticut

Monday, December 14, 2015, 1:30 p.m., ISB Conf. Room 201 (upstairs), Bldg. 734

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

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TBA, Stony Brook

Thursday, December 10, 2015, 2:45 p.m., 2nd Fl seminar room, Bldg. 734

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Magnetotransport in Weyl and Dirac Metals

Gustavo Monteiro, Stony Brook University

Thursday, December 10, 2015, 1:30 p.m., ISB Building, Room 201

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Pixelated detection in Differential Phase Contrast Interesting properties of pixelated STEM

Matus Krajnak, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Thursday, November 5, 2015, 11 a.m., Bldg.480 Conf. Rm

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"The Internal Structure of a Vortex in a Two-Dimensional Superfluid with Long Healing Length"

Igor Aleiner, Columbia University

Thursday, October 29, 2015, 2 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conf. Rm. 201

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

MITs, magnetism, and dopants: Probing the nanoscale using advanced STEM

Jack Y. Zhang, University of California Santa Barbara

Thursday, October 29, 2015, 11 a.m., Bldg.480 Conf. Rm

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Three dimensional topological semimetal Cd3As2: insights from magneto-optical spectroscopy

Ana Akrap, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480 Conf. Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

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Sasa Dordevic, University of Akron

Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 1:30 p.m., Building 734, Room 201

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

GW+DMFT: a diagrammatically controlled ab initio theory of strong correlation in real materials

Sangkook Choi, Rutgers University

Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 11 a.m., Building 734, Room 201

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Sergey Zvyagin, High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Helmholtz Center Dresden, Germany

Thursday, October 15, 2015, 1:30 p.m., Building 734, Room 201

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

TBATopological Nodal-Line Fermions in Strong Spin-Orbit Metal PbTaSe2

Tay-Rong Chang, National Tsing Hua University Taiwan, Taiwan

Thursday, October 8, 2015, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Inelastic Neutron Scattering of Manganese Pnictide Compounds LaMnPO and CaMn2Sb2

Daniel McNally, Stony Brook University/BNL

Monday, September 28, 2015, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Single-atom Impurity Effects in Iron-based Superconductors

Shuheng H. Pan, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Friday, September 25, 2015, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

A Giant Phonon Anomaly associated with Superconducting Fluctuations in the Pseudogap Phase of Cuprates

Yehua Liu, ETH, Switzerland

Thursday, September 24, 2015, 1:30 p.m., Bldg 734, 2nd Fl Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Atomic spin chain realization of a model for quantum criticality

Rianne van den Berg, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

Thursday, September 17, 2015, 1:30 p.m., Bldg 734, 2nd Fl Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Discovery of Weyl fermions in condensed matter

Hong Ding, Inst. of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Wednesday, July 22, 2015, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 734, ISB Conf. Room 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Imaging and Understanding Atomic-Scale Surface Interactions: Quantitative Investigations Using In Situ Electron Microscopy

Prof. Tevis Jacobs, University of Pittsburgh

Monday, July 20, 2015, 1:30 p.m., Conference Room, Building 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Revisiting Josephson junction phase dynamics and its codes

Francesco Tafuri, Seconda Università di Napoli & CNR-SPIN, Unità di Napoli, Italy

Monday, July 13, 2015, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Microscopic engineering of complex oxide ground states

Derek Meyers, University of Arkansas

Monday, June 29, 2015, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

GGE and applications for integrable models

Garry Goldstein, Rutgers University

Thursday, June 4, 2015, 4 p.m., ISB 2nd floor seminar room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Band edge and photo induced superconductivity

Garry Goldstein, Rutgers

Thursday, June 4, 2015, 1:30 p.m., 2nd Fl Lecture Room ISB

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Transport properties of novel thermoelectric materials

Hang Chi, Department of Physics, University of Michigan

Thursday, May 28, 2015, 11 a.m., Bldg.480 Conf. Rm

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Establishing an Atomistic Picture of Gas Adsorption in Metal Organic Frameworks

Anna Plonka, SUNY-Stony Brook, Poland

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Competing Superexchange Interactions in Double Perovskite Osmates

Ryan Morrow, Ohio State University

Monday, April 20, 2015, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

2-dimensional Superconductivity at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interface

Jean-Marc Triscone, DQMP, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Printed nanocomposite capacitors for power conversion applications, and solution processed methods for producing ferroic complex oxide nanoparticles

Stephen O'Brien, Department of Chemistry, The City college of New York, New York, NY 10031, Energy Institute, City University of New York, NY 10031

Monday, March 30, 2015, 11 a.m., Conference Room, Building 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Graphene on Ir(111), adsorption and intercalation of Cs and Eu atoms

Predrag Lazic, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia

Thursday, March 19, 2015, 1:30 p.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Non-equilibrium electronic structure and ultrafast dynamics of solid materials

Uwe Bovensiepen, Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Friday, February 20, 2015, 1:30 p.m., ISB, Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electronic phase separation and magnetic phase behavior in the Ru-doped spin-orbit Mott insulator Sr3Ir2O7

Chetan Dhital, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 11 a.m., ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spin-orbital separation in the quasi-one-dimensional Mott insulator Sr2CuO3

Jeroen van den Brink, Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden and Department of Physics, TU Dresden, Germany

Monday, February 9, 2015, 1:30 p.m., ISB 201 seminar room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

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Thursday, February 5, 2015, 4:30 p.m., 2nd floor conference room, Bldg 734

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Progress of RCE processed REBCO Coated Superconductors in Korea"

Dr. Sang-Soo Oh, Superconductivity Research Center, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Korea, Republic of (South)

Friday, January 23, 2015, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Band Structure Engineering in Mg2Si1-xSnx and (Bi1-xSbx)2Te3: from Bulk to Surface Transport

Wei Liu, Department of Physics, University of Michigan

Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 10:30 a.m., Bldg. 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Bounds for the electric potential of water-oil interfaces

Mihail Popescu, Ian Wark Research Institute, Univ. of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Thursday, July 26, 2012, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Raman scattering studies of phonons and magnons in FeSe-based superconductors

Qing-Ming Zhang, Department of Physics, Renmin University, Beijing, China

Monday, July 16, 2012, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

From YBCO nanowires and Josephson junctions to superconducting hybrids:properties and macroscopic quantun phenoma

Francesco Tafuri, CNR-SPIN and Seconda Università di Napoli, ITALY, Italy

Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 2 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

New routes to the electric-field control of magnetism

Chun-Gang Duan, Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Thursday, June 28, 2012, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Structure of Iron-Chalcogenide Superconductors and Thin-films

Hefei Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thursday, June 28, 2012, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 - Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Controlling Quantum Condensed Matter with Light

Andrea Cavalleri, Max Planck Department for Structural Dynamics, Center For Free Electron Laser – Hamburg, Germany

Monday, June 4, 2012, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Development of Iron-chalcogenide Superconducting wires

Toshinori Ozaki, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

Thursday, May 31, 2012, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Counting magnetons and electrons with electrons

Marco Beleggia, Technique Univ. of Denmark, Denmark

Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 735, Conf. Room A

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Size Effect in Nano-structured Thin Films Fabricated

Wei-Li Lee, Institute of Physics, Taiwan, Taiwan

Thursday, May 17, 2012, 12 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

X-ray Nanovision

Oleg Shyprko, University of California @ San Diego

Friday, May 11, 2012, 10 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Structure and Magnetism in Superconducting Iron Chalcogenides

Vivek Thampy, Johns Hopkins University

Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 10:30 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Active Charged Soft Colloids from p(NIPAm-co-AAc): Packing Dynamics and Structure

Melaku Muluneh, Harvard University

Monday, April 16, 2012, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Power Conversion Technology using Nanocomposite based Capacitors

Stephen O'Brien, CUNY

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conf. room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Playing a lego game for a quasi-two-dimensional frustrated magnet

Seunghun Lee, University of Virginia

Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 10 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Packing Them In: Using Virus Capsids to Direct the Synthesis and Packaging of Polymers, Minerals, and Proteins

Trevor Douglas, Montana State University

Thursday, March 22, 2012, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Investigating MBE-grown complex oxides using soft x-ray and ultraviolet spectroscopies

Jarrett Moyer, Yale University

Thursday, March 22, 2012, 12 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The process, microstructure and mechanical properities of γ-TiAl alloys

Yuyong Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Friday, March 16, 2012, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Self-Organization of Ultra Cold Atoms in Optical Cavities

M. J. Bhaseen, Cambridge University

Thursday, March 8, 2012, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Laser ARPES on High-Temperature Superconductors

Xingjiang Zhou, National Lab for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Monday, March 5, 2012, 2 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Magneto-electric coupling in organo-metallic materials"

Vivien Zapf, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Monday, March 5, 2012, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

“From simplicity to complex in high temperature superconductivity: imaging multiscale phase separation in a cuprate in a non-equibrium state"

Antonio Bianconi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Thursday, February 23, 2012, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Edge states in the spin quantum Hall effect

Roberto Bondesan, (CEA), France

Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 2 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Femtosecond trajectories through symmetry-breaking transitions in superconductors and charge-density waves.

Dragan Mihailovic, Jozef Stefan Institute and International Post graduate school, CENN Nanocenter and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Friday, February 17, 2012, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Quantifying transient dynamics in materials using time resolved in situ TEM

Geoffrey Campbell, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Thursday, February 16, 2012, 11 a.m., bldg. 735, Room B

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Pressure tuning of quantum ordering of high temperature superconductors

Xiaojia Chen, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Thursday, February 2, 2012, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Strong Disorder Effects in Topological Materials

Emil Prodan, Yeshiva University

Thursday, January 26, 2012, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Soft x-ray spectroscopy calculations beyond the one body picture

Oana Bunau, Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux condensés (IMPMC), Paris, France

Friday, January 20, 2012, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Unconventional multi-band feature and pairing symmetry in Ba122 system superconductors as revealed by optical spectroscopy

Yaomin Dai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Thursday, January 5, 2012, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Common feature of unconventional superconductivity

Xianhui Chen, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Physics, China

Monday, December 19, 2011, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Imaging and Electric Control of Boundary Magnetization in Chromia and Chromia-based Exchange Bias Heterostructures

Xi He, University of Nebraska

Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Setting up a Nanolab inside a TEM

Litao Sun, Southeast University, China

Friday, December 2, 2011, 11 a.m., Bldg. 735 conf. room A

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spinons in the S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on kagome

Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University

Thursday, November 17, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Fe-based superconducting thin films: From fundamental properties to functional devices

Silvia Haindl, The Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden), Germany

Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 11 a.m., Building 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Scanning tunneling microscopy study of KxFe2-ySe2 grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Wei Li, Tsinghua University, China

Thursday, November 10, 2011, 4:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Consequences of Frustration for Order in Spinel Antiferromagnets

Gregory MacDougall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Thursday, October 20, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Probing layer imbalance in bilayer graphene with electrostatic capacitance measurements

Andrea Young, Columbia University

Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 12 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Exotic phenomena in strongly correlated layered ruthenates

David Fobes, Tulane University

Thursday, October 13, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The structural relationship between negative thermal expansion and quartic anharmonicity of cubic ScF3

Chen Li, California Institute of Technology

Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Interfaced-control Mott transition in complex oxide interfaces

Jian Liu, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Monday, October 10, 2011, 12 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spin-state-related transport in cobalt oxides

Ichiro Terasaki, Dept. of Physics, Nagoya University, Japan

Friday, October 7, 2011, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

High-Efficiency Photovoltaic Solar-Energy Conversion

Michael Levy, Institute of Technology, Georgia

Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 11 a.m., Bldg. 735 conf room B

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Neutron scattering studies of the interplay between magnetism and unconventional superconductivity"

Karol Marty, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

Thursday, September 29, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

UNCONVENTIONAL TRANSPORT AROUND METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITIONS

Hanna Terletska,, LSU/BNL

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Symmetry breaking and high-mobility transport in graphene-based heterostructures

Cory Dean, Columbia University

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Superconductor-Insulator Transition Induced by Electrostatic Charging in High Temperature Superconductors

Xiang Leng, University of Minnesota

Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Ordering of organic nano-layer on water surface

Milan Sanyal, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India

Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spin waves in non-equilibrium Fermi liquids

Kevin Bedell, Boston College

Thursday, August 25, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spectroscopy of the Quantum Hall System and Single Spin Quantum Dots

Oliver Dial, Harvard Univ.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Crystal growth of REBCO high temperature superconductor by Top-Seeded Solution-Growth (TSSG), Top-Seeded Melt-Growth (TSMG), and Liquid Phase Epitaxy (LPE)

Prof. Xin Yao, Department of Physics Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Development of Skutterudite Thermoelectric Materials and Modules

Junqing Guo, Materials Research Laboratory, Furukawa Co., Ltd., Japan

Friday, July 15, 2011, 4:15 p.m., Bldg. 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

STM imaging of symmetry-breaking structural distortion in the Bi-based cuprate superconductors

Jennifer Hoffman, Harvard University

Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Thermoelectric phononic metamaterials

Slobodan Mitrovic, California Institute of Technology

Monday, July 11, 2011, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

" Unified Paradigm for High Temperature Superconductors"

Hong Ding, Institute of Physics, China

Friday, June 10, 2011, 11 a.m., Conference room Bldg 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Nanoscale Manipulation of Materials and Light Using Plasmons, Electrons, and Phase Transitions

Eugene Donev, University of Kentucky

Thursday, June 9, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spatial Complexity Due to Incipient Electronic Nematicity in Cuprates

Erica Carlson, Purdue University

Thursday, May 26, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spin-orbit qubits in InAs nanowires

Stevan Nad Perge, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Netherlands

Monday, May 16, 2011, 2 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Space quantization and the graphene transistor

Chris Regan, UCLA

Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spintronic with a pure spin current

Yi Ji, University of Delaware

Thursday, April 14, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The manipulation of the spin ordering in ZnCoO by the hydrogen mediation and its application for spin device

Se-Young Jeong, Pusan National University, Korea

Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Low dimensional superconductivity and proximity effects of Pb nano-islands

Jungdae Kim, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, March 31, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Normal and superconducting properties of high-Tc cuprates in the multielectron theory

Sergey Ovchinnikov, L.V. Kirensky Institute of Physics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Russian Federation

Monday, March 21, 2011, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Is there a simple relation between the critical temperature and the superconducting gap in cuprate superconductors ?

Alain Sacuto, Université Paris Diderot, France

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 1 p.m., Bldg. 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The phase transitions in PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3 and PbMg1/3Ta2/3O3 relaxor ferroelectrics.

S. N. Gvasaliya, Laboratorium fur Festkorperphysik, ETH Honggerberg, Switzerland

Thursday, March 10, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The current-phase relation of graphene-based

Cesar Chialvo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 1 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Neutron Magnetic Form Factor in Strongly Correlated Materials

Maria Pezzoli, Rutgers University

Thursday, February 24, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spectroscopy of the soliton lattice formation in quasi-one-dimensional fermionic superfluids with population imbalance

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland

Thursday, February 17, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Finding Majorana fermions in topological superconductors

Suk Bum Chung, Stanford University

Thursday, February 17, 2011, 11 a.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Scanned Probe Ferromagnetic Resonance Imaging using localized spin wave modes

Inhee Lee, Ohio State University

Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The Return of Majorana: The end of a 75-year old scientific search?

Jay Deep Sau, University of Maryland

Thursday, February 10, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Topological invariants and topological insulators

Rahul Roy, Oxford, UK

Thursday, February 3, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

High pressure neutron Larmor diffraction measurements of ferromagnetic superconductor UGe2.

Dmitri Sokolov, Univ. of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Monday, January 31, 2011, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Multi-gapped states in BCS superconductors

Eldad Bettelheim, Hebrew University

Thursday, December 9, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

In-situ TEM on deformation and phase transition in nanostructued materials (Nanowires and nanocrystalline materials)

Scott Mao, University of Pittsburgh

Thursday, December 9, 2010, 10 a.m., Bldg. 735 Conf. Room B

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

3-D and Atomic-Scale Spectroscopic Imaging by Aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Huolin Xin, Cornell Univ.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 11 a.m., Bldg. 735 conference room B

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Continuous metal-insulator transition at 410 K of the antiferromagnetic perovskite NaOsO3

Kazunari Yamaura, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

Monday, December 6, 2010, 3 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Interacting electrons in 1D beyond the Luttinger-liquid limit: transport and relaxation

Oleksandr Levchenko, Argonne National Laboratory

Monday, December 6, 2010, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

2D Electron Gas at Oxide Interfaces

Ramesh Budhani, National Physical Laboratory, India

Friday, December 3, 2010, 10:30 a.m., Building 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Multiferroic Vortices

S.-W. Cheong, Rutger's University

Thursday, December 2, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Giant flavor-Hall effect and nonlocal transport in Dirac materials

Dmitry Abanin, Princeton University

Thursday, December 2, 2010, 11 a.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Neutron scattering study of the Fe-based superconductor materials

Wei Bao, Renmin University of China, China

Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 11 a.m., Building 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Exploring Connections between Quantum Phase Transition and Entanglement

Hai-Qing Lin, Beijing Computational Science Research Center

Friday, November 19, 2010, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

: Electronic Compressibility and Magnetization of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructure Interface

Lu Li, MIT

Monday, November 15, 2010, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Probing iron-based superconductors through photoelectrons

Hong Ding, Chinese Academy of Science, China

Friday, November 5, 2010, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Complex Oxide Interfaces – A Laboratory for Generating Novel Quantum States

Hanns-Ulrich Habermeier, Max Planck Institute, Germany

Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 1 p.m., 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electron Transport in Single-Molecule Transistors Based on High-Spin Molecules

Jacob Grouse, Lux Research

Friday, September 10, 2010, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Fundamental Properties and Applicability of Carbon based Nanostructures: Implication for Biomolecular Sensors

Yung Woo Park, Department of Physics and Astronomy & Nano Systems Institute-National Core Research, Korea

Thursday, August 19, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Large oscillations of the magnetoresistance in nano-patterned high-temperature superconducting films

Ilya Sochnikov, Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University,, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Thursday, July 29, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

A Magnetic Analog of the Isotope Effect in Cuprates

Amit Keren, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Monday, July 26, 2010, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Quantum Criticality in Geometrically Frustrated Pr2Ir2O7

Jan Guido Donath, Max Planck Institue, Germany

Friday, July 23, 2010, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Investigating the Internal Structure and Chemistry of a Dead Sea Scroll Parchment Fragment with Ink using Synchrotron X-ray Micro-beam Techniques

Bridget Murphy, University of Kiel

Thursday, July 1, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Momentum transfer dependent Soft X-ray RIXS in low dimensional cuprate systems

Thorsten Schmitt, PSI, Switzerland

Thursday, June 10, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Dissipationless Nernst effects

Vadim Oganesyan, City University of New York (CUNY)

Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 510, 2-160

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Exotic Quantum Phenomena in Graphene Layers in Strong Magnetic Fields

Liyuan Zhang, BNL

Thursday, June 3, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in the pnictides

Andrey Chubukov, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Thursday, May 27, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Dirac Materials

Alexander Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 1 p.m., Conference Room, Bldg. 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Theory of nonequilibrium magnetooscillations in 2D electron transport in high Landau levels

Ivan Dmitriev, Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Friday, April 2, 2010, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

High Efficiency Thermoelectrics in Caged Compounds

Xun Shi, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Thursday, April 1, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Revealing the role of anchoring groups in the electrical conduction through single-molecule junctions

Artur Erbe, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Germany

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Multiblock polymers, Functionalization, and the Design of Polymer

Alex Travesset, Iowa State University

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Grain boundaries in cuprates and pnictides – are there reasonable hopes for better properties?

David Larbalestier, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University

Monday, March 1, 2010, 11 a.m., Bldg. 703 Large Conf. room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Recent Advances in Thermoelectric Energy Conversion and Refrigeration Materials: Nanocomposite Thermoelectrics

Terry Tritt, Clemson University

Thursday, February 11, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Fermi Surface investigation across the quantum critical point

Cigdem Capan, University of California, Irvine

Friday, January 29, 2010, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Magnetization processes in flux-closure micron-sized dots

Olivier Fruchart, Institut Néel (CNRS, France

Monday, January 25, 2010, 11 a.m., Bldg. 735 Room B

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Theory of Ice Premelting in Porous Media

Hendrik Hansen-Goos, Yale University

Thursday, January 21, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The spin density wave transition and the genus expansion

Maxim Metlitski, Harvard University

Thursday, January 21, 2010, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

1D Bose gas as the non-relativistic limit of the sinh-Gordon model

Marton Kormos, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy

Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Luttinger Liquids

Adrian Del Maestro, University of British Columbia

Monday, December 21, 2009, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Size-dependent Impurity Activation Energy in GaN Nanowires

Joonah Yoon, MIT

Friday, December 18, 2009, 11 a.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electronic Structure Properties and a Bonding Model of Thermoelectric Half-Heusler and Boride Phases

Jack Simonson, University of Virginia

Friday, December 11, 2009, 11 a.m., Bldg. 703 Conf. room 20 2nd floor

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Molecular Science on a Nanoscale

Seonghoon Lee, Seoul National University, Korea

Monday, December 7, 2009, 11 a.m., Bldg. 735, Room A

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Optical Second Harmonic Generation Measurements of BaTi205 and Low-k Dielectrics

Joanna Atkin, Columbia University

Monday, November 23, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Neutron-scattering study on stripe correlations in impurity doped high-Tc superconductorLa2-xSrxCuO4

Masaki Fujita, Tohoku University, Japan

Friday, November 20, 2009, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Growth, fabrication and characterization of InxGa1-xN based photodetectors

Juan Pereiro, Technical University of Madrid, Spain

Friday, November 20, 2009, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Combinatorial MBE Synthesis and Characterization of Si/Ge-based Magnetic Epitaxial Films

Liang He, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Nanoparticles with key-lock interactions: from mess to order and complexity

Alexei Tkachenko, BNL, Center for Functional Nanomaterials

Thursday, November 5, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

``Breaking the Tyranny of Copper: The Emergence of a New Generation of High-Tc Superconductors Based on Iron

David Mandrus, Oak Ridge NationalLab.

Monday, October 19, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Building Limited Size, Ultra Stable Scanning Probe Microscopes;

Karoly Holczer, UCLA

Thursday, October 15, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Crystal Growth and Physical Properties of Intermetallics: Challenges and Opportunities

Julia Chan, Louisiana State Univ

Thursday, October 15, 2009, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Filtered Cathodic Vacuum Arc System and CuAlNi Shape Memory

Hanshen Zhang, Univ. of California at Berkeley

Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Creating Low-Dimensional Electronic States in Superconducting Oxide Heterostructures

Yusuke Kozuka, Department of Advanced Materials Science, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Monday, September 21, 2009, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Hidden Order in URu2Si2 : a DMFT Perspective

Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers University

Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Phase Diagrams of Superconducting Complex Oxides Studied via Electrostatic Tuning

Carlos Sa de Melo, School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology

Thursday, September 10, 2009, 3 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electron-phonon interactions in superconducting graphite intercalation compounds

Mark Dean, Cambridge University, U.K.

Thursday, September 10, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Stable topological phase of fermionic polar molecules

Georgy Shlyapnikov, Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique(CNRS), France, France

Thursday, September 3, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Depth dependent studies of magnetic and superconducting properties of thin films and heterostructures with polarized low energy muons

Elvezio Morenzoni, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electron Spin Resonance Study of Graphene

Laszlo Forro, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Thursday, August 6, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Radiation damage in metals and polymers

Raymond Egerton, University of Alberta and National Institute for Nanotechnology, Canada

Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 11 a.m., CFN Bldg. 735 Conf. Room A

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Effect of covalent bonding on magnetism and the missing neutron intensity in cuprates

Igor Zaliznyak, BNL

Thursday, July 16, 2009, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Ultrafast magnetization dynamics in a system with tunable angular momentum

Andrei Kirilyuk, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Thursday, July 9, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Key Pairing Interaction in Cuprate Superconductors

Alexandre Alexandrov, Loughborough University, United Kingdom

Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

One dimensional ordering of doping oxygen in HgBa2CuO4+d superconductors evidenced by X-Ray Diffuse scattering

Robert Comes, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, France

Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Magnetic and orbital ordering in vanadium spinels

Bella Lake, Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin, Berlin

Thursday, June 25, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Room Temperature Ferromagnetism and Surface Morphology of Cr-doped Ga2Se3/Si (001), a Candidate Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor

Esmeralda Yitamben, University of Washington

Friday, June 19, 2009, 1 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

How to induce superconductivity in AEFe2As2: an insight from Ba(Fe1-xTMx)2As2 studies

Sergei Bud'ko, Ames Laboratory

Thursday, June 18, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Ivo Dimitrov, Brown University, Rhode Island

Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Charge Transport in Lead Selenide Nanocrystal Arrays

Tamar Mentzel, Harvard/ MIT

Friday, May 29, 2009, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spatially resolved spin and charge transport in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 thin films.

Cameron Hughes, California Institute of Technology

Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Metal-insulator transition in thin film vanadium dioxide

Dmitry Ruzmetov, Harvard University

Thursday, May 21, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

High Energy Neutron Scattering from Hydrogen

Roger Cowley, Oxford University, United Kingdom

Thursday, May 14, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Approximate and exact calculations of tc and of the gap function in superconductivity

Daniel Mattis, University of Utah

Friday, May 8, 2009, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Pair-breaking effect on mesoscopic persistent currents far above the superconducting Tc - a solution to the puzzle?

Yoseph Imry, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel

Thursday, May 7, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Dynamics of a Nonlinear Luttinger Liquid

Leonid Glazman, Yale University

Thursday, April 30, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Searching for superconductivity in transition metal dichalcogenides: a high pressure study

Laszlo Forro, Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

Thursday, April 30, 2009, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Implications of inherent inhomogeneities near the SIT

Zvi Ovadyahu, The Racah Institute of Physics, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Striped Superconductivity

Steve Kivelson, Dept. of Physics, Stanford University

Monday, April 27, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

How 'strange metal' state in high temperature superconductors becomes conventional

Lia Krusin-Elbaum, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Thursday, April 23, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Quantum Transport in Oxide Channels with Organic Gates

Masashi Kawasaki, WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan

Monday, April 13, 2009, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and Vortex Imaging in the Iron-Pnictide High-Tc Superconductors

Jennifer Hoffman, Harvard University

Friday, April 10, 2009, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Hydrostatic pressure induced lattice anomalies in the cuprates:

Efthymios Liarokapis, Department of Physics, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Athens 15780, Greece

Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Strong-field THz pulses as a tool for studying non-equilibrium superconductivity on an ultra-fast time scale

G. Carr, BNL

Monday, March 23, 2009, 2:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Superconductivity and Magnetism in LaO{1-x}F{x}FeAs

Bernd Buechner, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany

Thursday, March 12, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Methods for ab-initio determination of nanostructure from the atomic pair distribution function

Phillip Duxbury, Michigan State University

Thursday, February 26, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Weak phase stiffness and mass divergence of superfluid in underdoped cuprates: Are we seeing the end of the tunnel?

Wei Ku, BNL

Thursday, February 5, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

X-ray diffuse scattering studies of the local structural inhomogeneities in high temperature superconductors

Xuerong Liu, University of California, San Diego

Thursday, January 29, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Important Aspects Related to the Pairing Mechanism of Iron-Based Superconductors Revealed by ARPES

Hong Ding, Institute of Physics, Beijing

Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 11 a.m., Bldg. 510, Room 2-160

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Quasiparticle band structure induced by electron-phonon interaction: The hydrogen terminated W(110) surface as an example

Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl, Department Materials Physics, University of Leoben, Austria

Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Bose Condensation of Exciton Polaritons

Peter Littlewood, Cavendish Laboratory, United Kingdom

Friday, December 12, 2008, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

SQUID based DC magnetization and AC susceptibility of RuSr2GdCu208 under 10 kbar of pressure

Jim O'Brien, Quantum Design

Friday, December 5, 2008, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Superconductivity under pressure

Xiao-Jia Chen, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Thursday, December 4, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Crystal Growth at CEA Grenoble

Gerard Lapertot, CEA, Grenoble, France

Friday, November 14, 2008, 3:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Mysterious Phonon Anomalies in Chromium, Cuprates, and Iron Pnictides: New Inelastic X-ray Scattering Results

Dmitry Reznik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Growth Carbon Nanotubes for Functional Devices

Arnaud Magrez, Laboratoire des Nanostructures et des Nouveaux Matériaux Electroniques, Switzerland

Monday, November 10, 2008, 10 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Towards the Lifshitz transition in elemental bismuth: Light electrons gone heavy at the metal-insulator transition?

N. Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University

Thursday, October 30, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Surface Structure and Electronic Properties of InN and its Alloys

Chris McConville, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Friday, October 24, 2008, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Nearly neutral graphene on Ir(111)

Marko Kralj, Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia

Thursday, October 16, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Research on Thermoelectric Materials and Thermoelectric Power Generation Systems in KERI

Min Wook Oh, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute(KERI)

Friday, October 10, 2008, 2 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Symmetry of the superconducting gap in iron-pnictides superconductors from penetration depth study

Catalin Martin, Ames Lab/Iowa State University

Thursday, October 9, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Composite pairing in the new high Tc Heavy Fermion superconductors

Piers Coleman, Rutgers University

Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The Physics of Asphaltenes

Eric Sirota, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company

Thursday, September 25, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Bulk and Interfacial Structure of Water Characterized by First Principles Simulations

Marivi Fernandez-Serra, SUNY-Stony Brook

Thursday, September 18, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Coexistence of competing orders with two energy gaps in momentum and real space in high-Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+delta

Zhihui Pan, Boston College

Friday, September 5, 2008, 10 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Contact Electrochemical Replication of Monolayer Patterns

Jacob Sagiv, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Friday, August 22, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electron holography and its application to the study of magnetic materials and semiconductor devices.

Tsukasa Hirayama, Nanostructures Research Laboratory, Japan Fine Ceramics Center, Japan

Monday, August 11, 2008, 2 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Hard and Soft X-ray Scattering at the ALS

Alexander Hexemer, Advanced Light Source

Monday, August 11, 2008, 11 a.m., Seminar Room, Bldg. 725

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electron energy-loss spectroscopy for nanostructure analysis

Feng Wang, National Institute for Nanotechnology, Edmonton, Canada

Friday, August 8, 2008, 1:30 p.m., CFN Bldg.735 Room B

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

High Tc Cuprates - still challenging theory after 20 years

T. Maurice Rice, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Extented Recursion in Operator Space (EROS), a new impurity solver

Jean-Pierre Julien, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Thursday, July 17, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Quantum Effects in High-Tc Superconductor systems and nanostructures

Francesco Tafuri, University of Naples, Italy

Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Nanostructures in the light of synchrotron radiation: From ensemble average to single object properties

Till Metzger, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France

Thursday, May 29, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Probing Electron Energy Distribution in Carbon Nanotubes

Yung-Fu Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thursday, May 22, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The Study of Atomic Surface Transport Processes in Layer-by-Layer Growth Using Time-Resolved Surface X-Ray Diffraction

Gyula Eres, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Tunable Crystalline Structures in Polymeric Semiconductor Films for Organic-based Electronics Applications

Hoichang Yang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

TOPOLOGY OF FERMION NODES AND PFAFFIAN PAIRING WAVEFUNCTIONS

Lubos Mitas, North Carolina State University

Thursday, May 8, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Spin-dependent transport in Al grains and single Debye relaxation in BST nanopartiles

Liyuan Zhang, Purdue University

Monday, May 5, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Investigation of interfacial electronic structure and magnetism in the oxide multilayers: Case study of YBa2Cu3O7/La1-xCaxMnO3 and LaNiO3/LaAlO3

Heon-Jung Kim, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany

Thursday, April 10, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Theory of the Universal Aspects of the Phase Diagram of Cuprates

Chandra Varma, University of California- Riverside

Thursday, April 3, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Experimental study of magnetic phase transition in the itinerant helimagnet MnSi at ambient and high pressure

Sergei Stishov, Institute for High Pressure Physics Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Thursday, March 27, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Photoexcited States in Oxide Nanostructures

Oliver Diwald, Institute of Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology

Thursday, March 20, 2008, 10 a.m., Bldg. 480,conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Understanding Novel States at the Interface Between Complex Oxides

John Freeland, Argonne National Laboratory

Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Competing Disorder and Coulomb Interaction Effects in Graphene

Matthew Foster, Columbia University

Thursday, February 28, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Possibility of Wigner crystallization in polymer nanowires

Milan Sanyal, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India

Thursday, February 21, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Drawing conclusions from graphene

Antonio Castro-Neto, Boston University

Thursday, February 7, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Superconductivity and Magnetism in the ruthenium- based Eu2-xCexRuSr2Cu2O10-δ and Cu-doped YSr2RuO6 systems

Eduard Galstyan, Texas Center for Superconductivity

Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 11 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Interaction of vortices in thin superconducting films and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition

Vladimir Kogan, Ames Lab

Thursday, January 31, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Theory of Non-Equilibrium Superconductivity in the Non-Adiabatic Regime

Emil Yuzbashyan, Rutgers University

Thursday, January 17, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Growth of Nanoscale BaTiO3/SrTiO3 Superlattices by Molecular-Beam Epitaxy

Arsen Soukiassian, Penn State University

Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 10:30 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Understanding Dichotomy in Thin Superconducting Nanowires

Alexey Bezryadin, UIUC

Thursday, December 20, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Dynamical response of one-dimensional interacting systems

Maxim Khodas, University of Minnesota

Thursday, December 20, 2007, 9:30 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electronic Structure and Mechanisms of High Temperature Superconductivity

Sergey Ovchinnikov, Kirensky Institute of Physics Siberian Branch of RAS, Russian Federation

Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Effects of electric field on resistance of two dimensional electrons in a magnetic field

Sergey Vitkalov, Physics Department of the City University of NY

Thursday, December 13, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Domain Wall Dynamics in Manganite Orbital Phases

Joshua Turner, University of Oregon

Thursday, December 6, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Antagonistic Orders in Nanoengineered Ferromagnet - Superconductor Heterostructures

Ramesh Budhani, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Friday, November 30, 2007, 10 a.m., Bldg. 480 - conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Exploring Magnetic Order and Unconventional Superconductivity in CeMIn5

Joe Thompson, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Thursday, November 29, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Interfaces between Functional Electronic Systems

Jochen Mannhart, Augsburg University, Germany

Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Many Body Localization and Finite Temperature Metal-Insulator Transition

Igor Aleiner, Columbia University

Monday, November 19, 2007, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Studies of Complex Oxides and Nanostructured Materials by Density-Functional Theory

Dr. Weidong Luo, ORNL

Friday, November 16, 2007, 10 a.m., Bldg. 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Graphite, Graphene and 'Relativistic' Electrons

Eva Andrei, Rutgers University

Thursday, November 15, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Vortex Instabilities and Flux Waves in Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O

Dr. Yosef Yeshurun, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Crystal Growth and Magnetic Neutron Scattering: A Tale of three Complex Oxides

Dr. Martin Greven, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab

Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Image Formation in High Resolution Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Dr. Mark Oxley, ORNL

Thursday, November 1, 2007, 10 a.m., Bldg. 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Natural, Artificial, and Stuffed Spin Ice

Peter Schiffer, Penn State

Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Conference Room, Bldg. 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Development of Ingas avalanche photodiodes for photon counting applications

Alberto Tosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Friday, September 14, 2007, 10 a.m., Bldg. 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Advances in time-correlated single photon counting instrumentation

Michael Wahl, PicoQuant GimbH, Berlin, Germany

Friday, September 14, 2007, 9:30 a.m., Bldg. 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Fundamental studies of doping and properties modifications in oxide semiconductors epitaxial films

Scott Chambers, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Monday, September 10, 2007, 1:30 p.m., small conference room bldg. 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Large-Scale Monte Carlo Study of a Realistic Lattice Model for Ga_(1-x}Mn_xAs and Other Lightly Magnetically Doped Semiconductors

Yucel Yildirim, BNL

Thursday, August 30, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Exchange Bias in Epitaxial Manganite Bilayers

Alexey Kobrinskii, University of Minnesota

Thursday, August 30, 2007, 10 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Aspects of single crystal growth of intermetallic and oxide compounds by floating zone method

Dr. Guenter Behr, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany

Tuesday, August 28, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Coherent Lattice Vibrations in Superconductors

Alan Kadin, Hypres, Inc., Elmsford, NY

Thursday, August 23, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electron Phonon Coupling in Copper Oxide Superconductors Investigated by Inelastic Neutron and X-ray Scattering: Latest Results

Dmitry Reznik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

Thursday, August 2, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Imaging the effect of the lattice, supermodulation and scattering in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ

Jinho Lee, Cornell University

Thursday, July 19, 2007, 10 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Elementary Lattice Excitation of a Quantum Solid - bcc 4He

Oshri Pelleg, Technion Israel Institute

Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 2 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Observation of Leggett's collective mode in a multi-band MgB2 superconductor

Girsh Blumberg, Bell Laboratories

Monday, July 2, 2007, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Functional Materials and Systems by Self-Assembly and Folding

Derek Bruzewicz, Harvard University

Friday, June 29, 2007, 9:45 a.m., Bldg. 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

High-Throughput Combinatorial Thermoelectrics Research Using Sputtering

Evan Thomas, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Thursday, June 28, 2007, 2:45 p.m., Bldg. 480 - conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

High-Throughput Screening System for Thermoelectric Materials

Makoto Otani, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Thursday, June 28, 2007, 2 p.m., Bldg. 480 - conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Ultrahydrophobicity and Wettability of Microtextured Surfaces

Gareth McKinley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, June 28, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS) and the study of Zero and Negative-Volume-Expansion materials

Fivos Drymiotis, Clemson University

Thursday, June 21, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The non-Fermi-liquid behavior of strongly correlated Fermi systems within the Fermi-liquid approach: Does Fermi sea have a beach?

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland

Thursday, June 7, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Nanoscale Observation of Delayering in Alkane Films

Mengjun Bai, University of Missouri-Columbia

Thursday, May 31, 2007, 10 a.m., Bldg. 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Optics and Optoelectronics with Carbon Nanotubes

Vasili Perebeinos, IBM, USA

Thursday, May 24, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Preparation and Multilayered Aggregation of Uniform Colloidal Cholesterol Particles

Vuk Uskokovic, Clarkson University

Thursday, May 10, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Using Stereochemistry to Control Structure and Rheology: Teaching Old Biomaterials New Tricks

Surita Bhatia, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Monday, May 7, 2007, 10 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The Fluctuating Bond Mechanism - a new proposal for Pairing in High Temperature Superconductivity

Dennis Newns, IBM

Thursday, May 3, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

N-leg ladders and the high Tc cuprate problem

Doug Scalapino, UCSB

Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Quantum nematic phases of correlated electrons

Vadim Oganesyan, Yale University

Thursday, April 19, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electronic Correlations in Layered Metals: Optical Spectroscopy of Organic Conductors

Martin Dressel, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany

Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

High Resolution Tunneling Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Electronic Systems

Raymond Ashoori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Friday, April 13, 2007, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Quantum Kondo Volume Collapse

Maxim Dzero, Rutgers University

Thursday, April 12, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Is there a roton beyond a roton?

Igor Zaliznyak, BNL

Thursday, April 5, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Low Temperature Transport of Dirac Quasiparticles in Cuprate Superconductors

Adam Durst, Stony Brook University

Thursday, March 22, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Instrumentation and Analysis Tools to Escape the Dipole Scattering Limit

Tim Fister, University of Washington

Thursday, March 15, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Computing the dynamics of quantum spin chains and one dimensional Bose gases

Jean-Sebastian Caux, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Thursday, March 1, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Coulomb Blockade in Soft Condensed Matter

Eric Dufresne, Yale University

Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Thermal and quantum fluctuations in micromechanical devices

Jack Harris, Yale University

Friday, February 23, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Feshbach Shape Resonances in Superlattices of Quantum Stripes and Quantum Wells: A Possible Mechanism for High Tc Superconductivity

Antonio Bianconi, University of Rome, Italy

Thursday, February 15, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Plasmonic elements for nanophotonics

Vitali Vlasko-Vlasov, ANL

Thursday, February 8, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electronic structure at NiO / Fe3O4 and CoO / Fe3O4 interfaces

Hui-Qiong Wang, Department of Applied Physics, Yale University

Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Emergent electronic states in superconductors on the border of magnetism

Christos Panagopoulos, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Thursday, February 1, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Quantum entropy between a spin and its environment

Karyn Le Hur, Yale University

Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 11 a.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Transport and other properties of disordered superconducting films

Yonatan Dobi, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 11 a.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Conductance Versus Conformation of Single Molecule Junctions Using Amine-Gold Linkages

Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University

Thursday, January 25, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Optically detected ultrafast electronic and lattice processes of patterned plasmonic nanoparticles of different shapes

Wenyu Huang, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 9:30 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Ultrafast structural dynamics observed with atomic scale resolution

Nuh Gedik, California Institute of Technology

Monday, January 22, 2007, 1 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

X-ray Study of the Electric Double Layer at the Surface of Silica Hydrosol

Aleksey Tikhonov, BNL

Thursday, January 18, 2007, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Power generation of p-type Ca3Co4O9/n-type CaMnO3 module

Saori Urata, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan

Thursday, January 18, 2007, 11 a.m., Conference Room, Bldg. 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Exploration Of Thermoelectric Oxides And Development Of Modules Consisting Of The Oxide Devices

Ryoji Funahashi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Thursday, January 18, 2007, 10 a.m., Conference Room, Bldg. 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Polymer Crystallization Enabled Carbon Nanotube Functionalization: Morphology, Structure and Applications

Lingyu Li, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Wednesday, January 17, 2007, 9:30 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Friction at the Nanoscale

Matthew Brukman, North Carolina State University

Friday, January 12, 2007, 10 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Particle Detection Using Superfluid Helium

Bhaskar Sethumadhavan, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 10 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Patterning Nanoliquids with Chemical Templates

Antonio Checco, BNL

Thursday, December 7, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Cuprate superconductivity: the current state of play

Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Wednesday, November 22, 2006, 2 p.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Topological defects and Colloidal Particles in Liquid Crystals: Three-Dimensional Imaging and Patterns

Oleg Lavrentovich, Kent State University

Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electronic conducting states in nano- and mesoscale molecular junctions

Nikolai Zhitenev, Lucent Technologies

Thursday, November 16, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Percolative model of metal-insulator transition in Cr-doped V2O3

Anatoly Frenkel, Yeshiva University

Thursday, November 9, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The Nodal Metal in Cuprates: A New State of Matter?

Mike Norman, Argonne National Laboratory

Thursday, November 2, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

The phenomenological theory of the pseudogap regime of the copper-oxides oxides

Alexei Tsvelik, BNL

Thursday, October 19, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Understanding and Optimizing Organic Photovoltaic Cells

Barry Rand, Princeton University

Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 11 a.m., Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Optical properties of NaxCoO2 single crystals

Nan Lin Wang, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Thursday, September 21, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Water at Local Scales

Robert Szoszkiewicz, Georgia Institute of Technology

Thursday, August 3, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Direct ARPES Studies on Strained High-Tc Films

Davor Pavuna, Laboratory for Physics of Functional Matter, Switzerland

Friday, July 28, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480, conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Identification and Simulation of Charge-Transfer States in Large Molecules

Mark Pederson, Naval Research Lab

Thursday, July 27, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Ordered Thin Alumina Film with Tempting Electronic, Structural, and Template Properties

Marko Kralj, Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia and Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Bonn, Germany

Tuesday, July 25, 2006, 1:30 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Synthesis and Utilization of Metal Nanostructure

Jingyi Chen, University of Washington, Seattle

Friday, July 21, 2006, 10 a.m., Bldg. 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Time Resolved Measurements of Charge, Spin and Lattice Dynamics

Nuh Gedik, Caltech, California Institute of Technology

Thursday, July 6, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Dynamic response of one-dimensional interacting fermions

M. Pustilnik, Geogia Tech

Thursday, June 22, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Nanocomposites: EMI Shielding Applications

Yonglai Yang, University of Virginia

Monday, June 19, 2006, 10 a.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Matter and Materials made from Spheres

Vinothan Manoharan, Harvard University

Thursday, June 15, 2006, 1:30 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Interface Composition and Band Alignment in Nanoscale Electronics

Eric Garfunkel, Rutgers University

Thursday, June 8, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Fingerprints of the interaction with the bosonic continuum in the cuprates

Andrei Chubukov, University of Wisconsin, USA

Friday, June 2, 2006, 11 a.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Flame Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes

Jorge Camacho

Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480 conference room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Dopant induced nanoscale electronic disorder in high-Tc superconductors

Ziqiang Wang, Boston College

Thursday, May 25, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Oxide thin films and nanostructures: Chemical, electrochemical and template synthesis

Steven Limmer, University of Missouri-Rolla

Monday, May 22, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Bldg. 480 Conference Room

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Superconductivity in disordered thin films: giant mesoscopic fluctuations

Mikhail Skvortsov, Russia

Friday, May 19, 2006, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Correlated d-wave Superconductivity and the Physics of Cuprates

Zlatko Tesanovic, John Hopkins

Thursday, May 18, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

About spin and charge in S=1/2 cuprate spin chains

Ruediger Klingeler, Leibniz-Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Germany

Wednesday, May 17, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Room 2-160, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Physics of Negatively Refracting Electromagnetic Materials

Steve Anlage, Center for Superconductivity, University of Maryland

Friday, May 12, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Conference Room, Bldg. 480

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Magnetism and martensitic transitions in Heusler magnetic shape memory alloys

Lluis Manosa, University of Barcelona, Spain

Friday, May 5, 2006, 11 a.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Recent progress in magneto-optical imaging of superconducting transport properties in high Tc superconducting films

Christian Jooss, University of Gottingen, Germany

Thursday, May 4, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Study of MgB2 Josephson Junctions

Ke Chen, Penn State

Thursday, April 27, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Casimir Forces and the Wetting of Thin Films

Rafael Garcia, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Thursday, April 20, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Interpretation of Complex Images in Coherent X-ray Diffraction

Ian Robinson, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

Thursday, April 20, 2006, 11 a.m., Conference Room A, Bldg. 725

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Imaging Magnetic Nanostructures via Resonant Soft X-ray Spectro Holography

Olav Hellwig, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Thursday, April 20, 2006, 10 a.m., Conference Room A, Bldg. 725

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Layered Manganites and Cobaltites: What's New?

John Mitchell, Argonne National Lab

Friday, April 14, 2006, 11 a.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum Matter at the Atomic Scale

Prof. J.C. Seamus Davis, Cornell University

Thursday, April 13, 2006, 11 a.m., Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Planar Josephson Junctions and Arrays by Electron Beam Lithography and Ion Damage

Shane Cybart, University of California at Berkeley

Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 11 a.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Fluctuations in Superconductors Near the Super-to-Insulator Transition

Thomas Lemberger, Ohio State University

Thursday, April 6, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Switching Behavior of Nanomagnetic Particle Arrays

David Abraham, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Monday, April 3, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Magnetic Field Induced Quantum Phase Transitions in Haldane-Gap Chains

Fabian Essler, Oxford University, UK

Thursday, March 30, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Mechanism of Pore Formation by Antimicrobial Peptides--A Micellar Phenomenon in Membranes

Huey Huang, Rice University

Thursday, March 16, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Magnetic and Transport Properties of Lightly Doped La_(2-x) Sr_(x) CuO (4)

Vladimir Juricic, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Thursday, March 9, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Quantum Hall Edge State Transport

Emiliano Papa, University of Virginia

Thursday, March 2, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

DNA - Decorated Carbon Nanotubes for Chemical and Biological Sensing

A. T. Charlie Johnson, Jr., University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, February 23, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Structure of Short Range Spin Order in a Doped Perovskite (La1.5Sr.5CuO4)

Andrei Savici, BNL

Thursday, February 16, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The Optic and Acoustic magnetic excitations in optimum-doped YBa2Cu3O6.95

Hyungje Woo, University of Tennessee

Thursday, February 9, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electronic Transport in Carbon Nanotubes

Reinhold Egger, University of Duesseldorf, Germany

Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

ARPES in high-Tc cuprates: what is simple and what is not

Sergey Borisenko, IFW-Dresden, Germany

Friday, February 3, 2006, 11 a.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Resonant X-ray scattering studies of orbital ordering in 3d and 5f systems

Stuart Wilkins, ESRF, France

Thursday, February 2, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

ARPES spectra of hole- and electron-doped high Tc superconductors

Denis Sunko, Department of Physics, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Tuesday, January 31, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

In situ Measurements of Quantum Conductance and Magnetoresistance in Nickel Nanocontacts

Cheol-Soo Yang, Univ. of Massachusetts - Amherst

Thursday, January 26, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Nanometer-Scale Self Assembly in Semiconductor Microelectronics

Charles Black, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Monday, January 23, 2006, 11 a.m., Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

The Classical Limit of Quantum Transport

Piet Brouwer, Cornell University

Thursday, January 19, 2006, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Correlated Electron Heterostructures

Andrew Millis, Columbia University

Tuesday, January 10, 2006, 10 a.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

TBA

Vadim Oganesyan, Yale University

Thursday, December 15, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Electric field induced redistribution of polar nano-regions in ferroelectric relaxors

Guangyong Xu, BNL

Thursday, December 8, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small seminar room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Novel States in Strongly Correlated Spinel CuIr2S4

Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University

Thursday, December 1, 2005, 1:30 p.m.,

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Nanoscale Fluid Flow on Chemical Channels

Joel Koplik, City College of New York

Thursday, November 17, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Nanostructure Determination in Electronic Materials and Beyond

Simon Billinge, Michigan State University

Thursday, November 10, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

Experiments with Classical and Quantum Vortices in Josephson Nano-Junctions

Alexey Ustinov, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 1 p.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Chromium: The Unsolved Problem

Peter Böni, Munich Technical University

Thursday, September 1, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Finite-Size and Quantum Coherence Effects in Ballistic Superconductor-Ferromagnet Nanostructures

Zoran Radovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro

Thursday, August 18, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Microscopic Model for the Inverse Mott Transition in FeSi x Ge 1-x and Related Compounds

T.M. Rice, ETH Zurich

Thursday, July 21, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Pu Superconductivity: Bridging the Gap between Heavy Fermions and High Tc Cuprates

Nick Curro, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Thursday, June 23, 2005, 2:30 p.m., Building 510, Room 2-95

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Dimerized Phases of Quasi One-Dimensional Magnets

Oleg Starykh, University of Utah

Thursday, June 9, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Quantum Vortices and Competing Orders in the Cuprate Superconductors

Lorenz Bartosch, Yale University

Thursday, May 26, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Thermal Transport in Low-Dimensional Magnets, or How the Camel Got His Hump

Alexander Chernyshev, UC Irvine

Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 3:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Dispersion Anomalies in the Cuprates: Spin Fluctuations vs. Phonons

Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thursday, May 19, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Electronic Phase Separation in La2-xSrxCuO4+y

Barrett Wells, University of Connecticut

Thursday, May 12, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Controlled Assembly and Transport in Nanocrystal Structures

Marija Drndic, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, April 28, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

QCD and RHIC: Parallels with Condensed Matter Physics

Dimitri Kharzeev, BNL - Physics Department

Thursday, April 21, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Real-time Studies of Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Superconductors

Jure Demsar, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Yb14MnSb11: A "Natural" Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor

David Mandrus, University of Tennessee

Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Properties of Atomically Uniform Pb Films on Si

Mary Upton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thursday, April 7, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

What lies above: Evidence for a vortex liquid state above Tc in the cuprates.

N. Phuan Ong, Princeton University

Thursday, April 7, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Anderson Insulators as Quantum Glasses

Zvi Ovadyahu

Thursday, March 31, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Complexes, Functional Modules, and Pathways in Biological Networks

Victor Spirin, MIT

Thursday, March 24, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Avalanche Dynamics in Complex Networks

Kwang-II Goh, Seoul National University, Korea

Friday, March 18, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Magnetic Speckle at ALS

Karine Chesnel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, France

Thursday, March 17, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

X-ray scattering evidence of a new displacive short range order or correlations in the high Tc superconductors Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d

Robert Comes, Université Paris-Sud

Friday, January 7, 2005, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Testing Models of the Electron Liquid With Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

Clement Burns, Western Michigan University

Thursday, August 21, 2003, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Resonant Elastic and Inelastic Scattering With Soft X-Rays

Michel Van Veenendaal, Northern Illinois University

Thursday, July 31, 2003, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Condensed-Matter Physics Seminar

Some Consequences of Orbital Degeneracy in Transition-Metal Oxides: Orbital Order, Orbital Peierls Transition, and Orbital Induced Ferroelectricity

Jeroen van den Brink, University of Leiden, Netherlands

Thursday, July 24, 2003, 1:30 p.m., Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510