PHYSICS 293
CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR
FALL 2012

SEMINAR TIME AND LOCATION: Thursday, 4:10-5:00 pm, Physics-Geology 416.

SEMINAR SCHEDULE:

Thursday, September 27:

Prof. Srinivas Raghu
Stanford University
"Effects of longer-range interactions on unconventional superconductivity"
Abstract

Thursday, October 4:

Prof. Daniel Arovas
University of California, San Diego
"The amplitude mode in condensed matter - Higgs hunting on a budget"
Abstract

Thursday, October 11:

Prof. Shufeng Zhang
University of Arizona
"Spin information propagation via electrons and magnons"
Abstract

Thursday, October 18:

Prof. Cenke Xu
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Symmetry Protected Criticality and Symmetry Protected Topological Phases"
Abstract

Thursday, October 25:

Dr. Joseph Bradley
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"Wind Turbines, Nuclear Waste, and Fundamental Physics" -or- "Why you should care about f-electrons"
Abstract

Thursday, November 1:

Dr. Korana Burke
University of California, Davis
"Turnstiles as a Chaotic Ionization Mechanism in Rydberg Atoms"
Abstract

Thursday, November 8:

Prof. Kevin Mitchell
University of California, Merced
"Burning Invariant Manifolds: Barriers to Front Propagation in Fluid Flows"
Abstract

Thursday, November 15:

Prof. Peter Nordlander
Rice University
Title TBA
Abstract TBA

Thursday, November 22:

Thanksgiving Holiday

Thursday, November 29:

Dr. Jake Koralek
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Ultrafast Lasers and the emergent properties of solids"
Abstract

Thursday, December 6:

Dr. Jeff Nelson
Manager, Nanostructure Physics Department
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
"Solar Glitter: Low-Cost, Solar Energy Harvesting with Microsystems Enabled Photovoltaics"
Abstract