Tuesday seminar
The seminar takes place Tuesdays at 2:15pm in our seminar room (Elings Hall 2250).Current schedule
Fall 2007 schedule
12/18 Joost Slingerland, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Fractional Quantum Hall Hierarchy and the Second Landau Level
12/11 Steve Simon, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs
Effect of Landau Level Mixing on Braiding Statistics
12/6 Stefanos Papanikolaou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topological phases and topological entropy of systems
with finite correlation length
11/30 Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topological Entanglement Entropy in Chern-Simons Theories
and Quantum Hall Fluids
11/20 Matthew Hastings, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Locality in Many Body Systems
11/13 Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
Life before, around, and (eventually) beyond 5/2 and 12/5
11/6 Ribhu Kaul, Harvard University
Deconfined Quantum Criticality in Mott Insulators and Metals
10/30 Greg Fiete, Caltech
Universal Periods in Quantum Hall Droplets
10/23 Congjun Wu, UC San Diego
New features of orbital physics with cold bosons and fermions in optical lattices
10/16 Jeroen van den Brink, Leiden
Limit to quantum coherence due to spontaneous symmetry breaking
10/9 Kumar Raman, UC Riverside
Devil's staircases, quantum dimer models, and stripe formation
in strong coupling models of quantum frustration
10/2 Scott Morrison, Station Q
Spiders for SU(n)
9/27 Hong Yao, Stanford
An exact chiral spin liquid with non-Abelian anyons
9/18 Didier Poilblanc, Toulouse
Doping frustrated magnets and quantum dimer models
9/11 KITP conference, no seminar
9/4 Roderich Moessner, Oxford
Magnetic monopoles in spin ice
Spring 2007 schedule
6/14 Michael Levin, Harvard
Real space renormalization group and the emergence of topological order
5/31 Yong Baek Kim, University of Toronto
Frustrated Magnets on the Kagome and Hyper-Kagome Lattices
5/24 Niu Qian, University of Texas, Austin
Berry phase effects on electronic properties
5/22 Lukasz Fidkowski, Stanford and Station Q
Double Point Contact in the k=3 Read-Rezayi State
5/17 David Awschalom, UCSB
Generating and manipulating spins in semiconductors
5/9 Marcel Franz, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Anyons in a weakly interacting system
5/3 Kun Yang, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Florida State University
Simplicity and Complexity at the Edge of Quantum Hall Liquids:
Chiral Luttinger Liquid, Edge Reconstruction, and non-Abelian Quasiparticles
4/26 KITP conference, no seminar
4/19 informal discussion, no seminar
4/5 Chetan Nayak, Station Q
Edge States and Tunneling of Non-Abelian Quasiparticles in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Winter 2007 schedule
3/29 Waheb Bishara, Caltech
Non-Abelian Anyon Superconductivity
3/22 John Martinis, UCSB
Experimental Measurement of the time for tunneling
3/15 Hans Peter Büchler, Innsbruck
Strongly correlated 2D quantum phases with cold polar molecules
3/1 UCLA conference, no seminar
2/22 Alexei Kitaev, Caltech
Qubits and other devices based on superconducting inductors
2/15 Krysta Svore, Microsoft
Noise Threshold for a Fault-Tolerant Two-Dimensional Lattice Architecture
2/1 Xiao-Gang Wen, MIT
Quantum phase transitions and non-Abelian states in double-layer FQH systems
1/25 Michael Freedman, Station Q
Local Hamiltonians: gapped or gapless in the thermodynamic limit?