| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Sem./Coll. |
| 01/26 |
M. Zahid Hasan
Princeton |
"Experimental Discovery of Topological Order in bulk Solids and Superconductors" |
Colloquium |
| 02/01 |
Vladimir Manucharyan
Harvard University |
"Decoherence of a superconducting qubit due to coherent quantum phase-slips" |
Seminar |
| 02/08 |
Daniel S. Dessau
University of Colorado, Boulder |
"On the Origin of Pseudogaps and Fermi Arcs in Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors" |
Seminar |
| 02/09 |
Douglas D. Osheroff
Stanford
Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics |
"Superfluidity in 3He: The Story Behind the Discovery" |
Colloquium |
| 02/15 |
Karen Michaeli
MIT |
"Quantum kinetic approach to the calculation of thermal transport and the Nernst effect" |
Seminar |
| 02/16 |
Alexis P. Malozemoff
American Superconductor |
"Electric Power Applications of High Temperature Superconductors" |
Colloquium |
| 02/23 |
Michel Meunier
Polytechnique, Montreal |
"Plasmonic enhanced femtosecond laser nanoprocessing and cell nanosurgery" |
Colloquium |
| 03/01 |
Arnab Sen
Boston University |
"Phase transitions in "J-Q" type models in two dimensions" |
Seminar |
| 03/02 |
David K. Campbell
Boston University |
"The Fermi Pasta Ulam (FPU) Problem and The Birth of Nonlinear Science" |
Colloquium |
| 03/14 |
Steven Weinberg
University of Texas
Winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics |
"Field Theory Problems in Cosmology" |
Magde
Colloquium |
| 03/15 |
Ribhu Kaul
University of Kentucky |
"Interlay of Quantum Criticality and Geometric Frustration in Columbite" |
Seminar |
| 03/16 |
Wolfgang Ketterle
MIT
Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics
|
"Bose-Einstein condensation in ultracold gases and studies of superfluidity" |
Colloquium |
| 03/17 |
Haigang Zhang
Institute of Physics,
Chinese Academy of Science &
University of California, Irvine |
"Graphene Superlattice on Ru(0001) Surface" |
Seminar |
| 03/28 |
Liangbing Hu
Stanford University |
"Nanostructured Energy Devices: Manipulating Electrons, Photons and Ions" |
Colloquium |
| 03/30 |
Jeremy N. Munday
California Institute of Technology |
"Nanoscale optics and photonics: from the zero-point energy to photovoltaics" |
Colloquium |
| 03/31 |
Jake D. Koralek
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley |
"Ultrafast optics and the emergent properties of solids" |
Colloquium |
| 04/05 |
Chris Laumann
Harvard University |
"SU(2)-invariant spin liquid on the triangular lattice with spinful Majorana excitations" |
Seminar |
| 04/06 |
Peter Moulton
Q-Peak |
"Development of High-Power, Tm:silica Fiber Lasers: Spectroscopy and Laser Physics" |
Colloquium |
| 04/12 |
Ganpathy Murthy
University of Kentucky |
"Bilayer quantum Hall effect at nu=1 in a periodic potential" |
Seminar |
| 04/13 |
Stephen Arnold
Polytechnique Institute of New York University |
"From the Death of an Icon to the Birth of a Physical Principle for ultra-sensitive label-free Bio-sensing" |
Colloquium |
| 04/14 |
Rafael Jaramillo
Harvard University |
"Oxide Thin Films, Electronic Inhomogeneity, and Advanced Solar Photovoltaics" |
Colloquium |
| 04/19 |
Dmitri Feldman
Brown University |
"Beyond bosons and fermions: how to detect and use anyons" |
Seminar |
| 04/20 |
Paul C. W. Chu
University of Houston |
"Superconductivity - from 4 K to 164 K and beyond" |
Colloquium |
| 04/26 |
Zhengxin Liu
Tsinghua University |
"Symmetry protected topological phases: realizations in spin chains and spin ladders" |
Seminar |
| 04/27 |
Joseph Rizzo, M.D.
Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary
Lead Scientist on the Boston Retinal Implant Project |
"Development of a Retinal Implant for the Blind: Status of the Boston Retinal Implant Project and Overview of the Competitive Landscape" |
Colloquium |
| 04/28 |
Fr. Paul Gabor, S.J.
Vatican Observatory Research Group |
"Are We Alone? Astro-Biological Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life" |
Colloquium |
| 04/28 |
Robert Konik
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
"Exciton Hierarchies in Carbon Nanotubes" |
Colloquium |
| 05/03 |
Anton Burkov
University of Waterloo |
"Spin-dependent transport and magnetic response in topological insulators" |
Seminar |
| 05/04 |
David Pines
University of Illinois |
"Grand Challenges in Superconductivity: From 1948 to 2011" |
Colloquium |
