Events During the 2016 Spring Semester
January 2016
- Friday, January 15th
- Christopher Reeg, University of Florida
- Superconducting proximity effect in topological and spin-orbit materials
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Levchenko
- Thursday, January 21st
- Hong-Yi Xie, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University
- Transport coefficients of graphene: Interplay of impurity scattering, Coulomb interaction, and optical phonons
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
February 2016
- Thursday, February 4th
- Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
- TBD
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Vavilov
- Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
- TBD
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Vavilov
- Ivar Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
- Dynamics of interacting disordered quantum spin systems
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Vavilov
- Thursday, February 11th
- Michael Schuett, University of Minnesota
- Origin of the in-plane resistivity anisotropy of the iron pnictides: scattering rate or plasma frequency?
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Monday, February 15th
- Robert Austin, Princeton
- The Emergent Collective Behavior of Bacteria Under Stress
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm; 1003 Engineering Centers Building (Tong Auditorium), hosted by Susan Coppersmith
March 2016
- Thursday, March 3rd
- Brad Christensen, University Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- To a loophole-free test of local realism and beyond.
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Mcdermott
- Thursday, March 10th
- Viktoriia Kornich, University of Basel
- Phonon-mediated decay of singlet-triplet qubits in double quantum dots in GaAs/AlGaAs and Si/SiGe heterostructures
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Vavilov
- Friday, March 11th
- Salha Jebari, CEA Grenoble
- Microwave response and photon emission of a voltage baised Josephson junction
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Robert McDermott
- Wednesday, March 30th
- Pavel Nagornykh, University of Maryland
- Cooling and stabilization of levitated graphite nanoplatelets
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by McDermott
April 2016
- Thursday, April 7th
- Dr. Ray Simmonds , NIST, Boulder
- Clearly witnessing the quantum fluctuations of a mechanical oscillator
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by McDermott
- Tuesday, April 12th
- Lara Faoro, CNRS
- Out-of -time-order correlators in solid state physics
- 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Robert Mcdermott
- Thursday, April 14th
- Jason Kestner, UMBC
- Dynamically corrected entangling gates for spin qubits
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Coppersmith
- Tuesday, April 19th
- Karl Petersson, University of Copenhagen
- Semiconductors for Superconducting Qubits
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Smith/Coppersmith
- Thursday, April 21st
- Alex Kuzmich, University of Michigan
- Quantum optics with ultra-cold atoms
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; Chamberlin 5310, hosted by Saffman
May 2016
- Thursday, May 12th
- Prof. Masa Ishigami, U. Central Florida
- Measurement of resistance induced by a single potassium atom on chiral-angle known nanotubes: understanding the impact of a model scatterer for nanoscale sensors
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Robert McDermott
June 2016
- Thursday, June 2nd
- Prof. Matteo Mariantoni, U. Waterloo and the Institute for Quantum Computing
- Prototyping Extensible Quantum Computing Architectures
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin , hosted by McDermott
July 2016