Schedule

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There is a Station Q seminar weekly at 2:15pm in Elings Hall 2250 (directly north of KITP,) for which they have a [|calendar]. Leon Balents holds group meetings on Fridays at 1PM. There is a Google calendar called //UCSB Condensed Matter// listing condensed matter seminars. (Google calendars' [|help].)

Week of January 19-23

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Wed, Jan 21 || 10:00 am || SSR || **All participants** || //Organizational Meeting// ||  ||
 * Wed, Jan 21 || 11:00am || SSR || Paco Guinea || Some theoretical challenges in Graphene ||  ||
 * Thur, Jan 22 || 10:00am || Aud || Ying Ran || Helical metal inside a topological band insulator || Physics Department Talk ||
 * Thur, Jan 22 || 11:00am || SSR || Dmity Abanin || Long-range interactions between adatoms in graphene ||  ||
 * Thur, Jan 22 || 3:30pm || South Hall 6635 || Edward Frenkel || Langlands program and mirror symmetry I || UCSB Distinguished Lecture in the Mathematical Sciences ||
 * Fri. Jan. 23 || 10:30AM || Tower Room || Luis Brey, Paco Guinea, and Hsiu-Hau Lin || Informal session on "Impurity States in Graphene" || All participants invited! ||
 * Fri. Jan. 23 || 3:30PM || South Hall 6635 || Edward Frenkel || Langlands program and mirror symmetry II || UCSB Distinguished Lecture in the Mathematical Sciences ||

**Week of January 26-30**

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon., Jan 26 || 11:00 am || SSR || Jim Eisenstein || "Chiral Heat Transport in the QHE" ||  ||
 * Tues, Jan 27 || 10:00am || SSR || Jason Ho || "Overview of the Quantum Simulation Project" ||  ||
 * Tues. Jan. 27 || 1:30M || Tower Room || Hsiu-Hau Lin, Paco Guinea || Informal session on "Impurity States in Graphene", Part II ||  ||
 * Wed. Jan. 28 || 10:00am || Tower Room || Herb Fertig, Ganpathy Murthy, Jinwu Ye || Informal session on Bilayer Exciton Condensates || B=0 and nu=1 ||
 * Thur, Jan 29 || 10:00am || SSR || Naoto Nagaosa || "Kondo Effect and Spin Hall Effect in Au Metal" ||  ||
 * Fri. Jan. 30 || 10:00am || Tower Room || Paco Guinea, Herb Fertig, Ganpathy Murthy || Informal session on "Impurity States in Graphene", Part III; "Bilayer Exciton Condensates", Part II ||  ||

**Week of February 2 - 6**

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon., Feb 2 || 1:45-3:15PM || Tower Room || Herb Fertig, Lloyd Engel || Informal session on "Pinning in Quantum Hall Systems" ||  ||
 * Tues, Feb. 3 || 10:00AM || SSR || Lloyd Engel, NHMFL || "Experiments on Pinning Modes in Quantum Hall Systems" || Our experimentalist of the week ||
 * Tues, Feb. 3 || 4PM || Broida, 1640 || Cenke Xu, Harvard || "Nematic and Magnetic Orders in Fe-Based Superconductor//"// || Physics Dept. colloquium ||
 * Wed. Feb. 4 || 10:00AM || Tower Room || Ganpathy Murthy, Markus Kindermann || Informal session on BIlayers (III), and Zero and One Dimensional Systems ||  ||
 * Thur, Feb. 5 || 11:00AM || SSR || Jason Alicea || "New puzzles in bismuth subjected to strong magnetic fields" || Note time and location. ||
 * Thur, Feb. 5 || 1:30PM || SSR || Henrik Johannesson, Nancy Sandler || Informal session on 0 and 1D systems (II) || Note time and location ||
 * Fri, Feb. 6 || 10:00AM || SSR || Chetan Nayak || "Non-Abelian Topological States and Quantum Computation.' || Note location ||

**Week of February 9 - 13**

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Feb. 9 || 12:15PM || Aud || Sankar Das Sarma || “Low Dimensional Electron Systems: A Landscape of Graphene, Quantum Hall Effects, MOSFET, Luttinger Liquid, and Beyond”

|| Director's Luncheon Talk || Maria: Infrared Nature of Undoped Graphene (Is Graphene a Fermi Liquid?) Eugene: Transport in Graphene ||  ||
 * Tues, Feb. 10 || 10:00AM || SSR || HongWen Jiang || "Probing Collective States in a Two-subband Electron System" || Our experimentalist of the week ||
 * Wed, Feb 11 || 10:00AM || SSR || Peter Silvestrov, Ganpathy Murthy || Informal session on Spin Hall Effect, and on Phase Transitions in Quantum Dots || This is a mixed session. ||
 * Thurs, Feb. 12 || 10:00AM || SSR || Sergio Ulloa || "Tunable quantum phase transition in a Kondo system." ||  ||
 * Fri, Feb. 13 || 10:00AM || SSR || Eugene Hwang, Maria Vozmediano || Informal session on Graphene:

**Week of February 16 - 20**

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tues, Feb. 17 || 10:00AM || AUD || Guillaume Gervais || "Experiments for 1D/2D Physics on a Chip" || Experimentalist of the week ||
 * Wed, Feb. 18 || 1:30PM || AUD || Sankar Das Sarma, Rudolph Morf || The Nu=5/2 Qubit

Why and how? Sankar What makes us hopeful? Rudolf || Note this is a PM talk || Kun: "Thermopower as a Possible Bulk Probe of Non-Abelian Quasiparticle Statistics" Ziqiang: "Pairing in Even Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall States" ||  || Vijay: "Graphene: A High Temperature Superconductor?" Soo-Jong:"Engineering Graphene from String Theory" || Note location. ||
 * Thurs. Feb. 19 || 10:00AM || SSR || Kun Yang and Ziqiang Wang || Informal session on nu=5/2
 * Fri. Feb. 20 || 10:00AM || AUD || Vijay Shenoy and Soo-Jong Rey || Informal session on graphene

**Week of February 23 - 27**

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||
 * < Mon, Feb. 23 ||< **New Directions in Low Dimensional Electron Systems Conference** ||
 * < Tues, Feb. 24 ||< **New Directions in Low Dimensional Electron Systems Conference** ||
 * < Wed, Feb. 25 ||< **New Directions in Low Dimensional Electron Systems Conference** ||
 * < Thurs. Feb. 26 ||< **New Directions in Low Dimensional Electron Systems Conference** ||
 * < Fri. Feb. 27 ||< **New Directions in Low Dimensional Electron Systems Conference** ||

**Week of March 2-6**
Yigal: "The 0.7 Anomaly in Quantum Point Contacts" Achim: "Transport in 1-d systems: role of approximate symmetries" || Note time. 0 and 1D systems || Shankar: "A New Fermionic Fixed Point and Test of Hertz-Millis ||  ||
 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon., March 2 || 2:00PM || SSR || Yigal Meir, Achim Rosch || Informal Session
 * Tues., March 3 || 10:00AM || SSR || Ian Spielman || "2D Bose-Hubbard Systems at NIST: A Progress Report" || Experimentalist of the week. Note location. ||
 * Wed. March 4 || 10:00am || SSR || Donna Sheng, Shankar || Donna: "Numerical Studies Probing Non-Abelian FQHE at 5/2"
 * Thurs. March 5 || 10:00AM || AUD || Cristiana Morais-Smith || "Cold Atoms as Condensed Matter Simulators" ||  ||

**Week of March 9-13**
Akira Furusaki || Randy: Paring between Fermions with population imbalance in 3D and 1D Nematic and chiral ordered phases in frustrated spin chains in magnetic field || Informal session, mixing topics || Kirill Shtengel || The Role of Anions in Pnitides || informal session ||
 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon., March 9 || 2:00PM || SSR || Randy Hulet
 * Tues., March 10 || 10:00AM || AUD || Randy Hulet || Damping of superfluid transport by disorder || Experimentalist of the week. Note location. ||
 * Wed. March 11 || 10:00am || SSR || Jason Ho || New theoretical developments in interacting Fermi gases ||  ||
 * Thurs. March 12 || 10:00AM || SSR || Mona Berciu

**Week of March 16-20**

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Thursday, March 19 || 10:00am || SSR || Kun Yang || Supersymmetry and other (hopefully) interesting things in Bose-Fermi mixtures || Informal session. Anyone willing to speak is welcome. ||
 * ||  ||   ||   ||   || **This is March Meeting week for APS.** ||

**Week of March 23-27**
D. Yoshioka || How to send current through a charge-neutral mode
 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Monday, March 23 || 2:00pm || SSR || Yuval Gefen || From transmission phase to quantum phase transition: Transport through quantum dots unraveled ||  ||
 * Tues., March 24 || 10:00am || AUD || Marc Bockrath || Correlated Electron Phenomena in Carbon Nanotubes || Experimentalist of the week. ||
 * Wed., March 25 || 10:00AM || SSR || Anton Akhmerov

Edge state of zigzag graphene nanoribon -- wave function and current || Informal session ||
 * Thur. March 26 || 10:00am || SSR || Steven Simon ||  ||  ||

**Week of March 30 - April 3**
Fabian Heidrich-Meisner || Anyons in the Lowest Landau Level
 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Monday, March 30 || 12:15pm || AUD || Steve Simon || Topological states in condensed matter || Director's Luncheon Talk ||
 * Tuesday, March 31 || 10:30am || AUD || Jan von Delft || Nonequilibrium Dynamics of an Kondo Exciton || Please note that we will start 30 minutes later than the regular schedule ||
 * Wed, April 1 || 10:00am || SSR || Smitha Vishveshwara

The sudden expansion of interacting fermions in 1D optical lattices || Informal session ||
 * Thur., April 2 || 10:00AM || SSR || Milica Milovanovic || Wave functions and superfluid disordering of the quantum Hall bilayer ||  ||

Week of April 6 - April 10

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tuesday, April 7 || 10:00am || AUD || Woowon Kang || Temporal Dynamics of Quantum Hall States in the Second Landau Level || Experimentalist of the week ||
 * Wed, April 8 || 10:00am || SSR || Ivan Gonzalez
 * Wed, April 8 || 10:00am || SSR || Ivan Gonzalez

Vladimir Yudson || Entanglement Entropy in Heisenberg Spin Ladders

Delocalization by disorder in layered systems ||  ||
 * Thur., April 9 || 10:00AM || SSR || Felix von Oppen

Gil Refael || Synthetic electric fields in graphene and carbon nanotubes

Sagnac interference in carbon nanotube loops ||  ||

**Week of April 13 - 17**

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||
 * < Mon, April 13 ||< **Graphene Week** ||
 * < Tues, April 14 ||< **Graphene Week** ||
 * < Wed, April 15 ||< **Graphene Week** ||
 * < Thurs. April 16 ||< **Graphene Week** ||
 * < Fri. April 17 ||< **Graphene Week** ||

Week of April 20 - April 24

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tuesday, April 21 || 10:00am || AUD || Eugene Demler
 * Tuesday, April 21 || 10:00am || AUD || Eugene Demler

Victor M. Yakovenko || Nonequlibrium dynamics of ultracold atoms

Angular oscillations in a tilted magnetic field in layered metals and bilayers: Q2D, Q1D, graphite/graphene, etc ||  ||
 * Thur., April 23 || 10:00AM || SSR || Hao Wang || Three body interaction and disorder effect on 5/2 quantum Hall state || talk will be followed by informal discussions on FQHE. Anyone is welcome to speak. ||
 * Thur., April 23 || 10:00AM || SSR || Hao Wang || Three body interaction and disorder effect on 5/2 quantum Hall state || talk will be followed by informal discussions on FQHE. Anyone is welcome to speak. ||

Week of April 27 - May 1

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~ <span class="wiki_link"> __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tuesday, April 28 || 10:00am || SSR || Ribhu Kaul
 * Tuesday, April 28 || 10:00am || SSR || Ribhu Kaul

Rodrigo Pereira || The Interplay of Quantum Criticality and Geometry Frustration in CoNb_2O_6

Spectral functions of gapless one-dimensional systems ||  || to a weak magnetic field ||  ||
 * Thur., April 30 || 10:00AM || SSR || Mikhail Raikh || Anomalous sensitivity of high-mobility interacting 2D electron gas
 * Thur., April 30 || 10:00AM || SSR || Mikhail Raikh || Anomalous sensitivity of high-mobility interacting 2D electron gas

Week of May 4 - May 8
Michael Pustilnik || Quantum explosion in one dimension" ||  ||
 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~ <span class="wiki_link"> __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tuesday, May 5 || 10:00 am || AUD || ||  || Experimental talk of the week ||
 * Wed., May 6 || 10:00am || MSR || Sasha Balatsky
 * Thur, May 7 || 10:00am || SSR || Qimiao Si || Quantum Criticality out of Equilibrium ||  ||

Week of May 11- May 17

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~ <span class="wiki_link"> __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tuesday, May 12 || 10:00 am || AUD || Eugene Mishchenko || ||   ||
 * Thur, May 14 || 10:00am || SSR || Jairo Sinova
 * Thur, May 14 || 10:00am || SSR || Jairo Sinova

Igor Lerner ||

Does a bad metal become good superinsulator ||  ||

Week of May 18- May 22

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~ <span class="wiki_link"> __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tuesday, May 19 || 10:00 am || AUD || Amir Yacoby

Oskar Vafek || Breaking of symmetries in suspended bilayer graphene

Interaction and disorder effects in graphene || experimentalist of the week ||
 * Wed., May 20 || 3:00pm || AUD || Amir Yacoby || ||   ||
 * Thur, May 21 || 10:00am || AUD || Simon Trebst

Sudhakar Yarlagadda || Interacting anyons in topological quantum liquids

Supersolidity in a Bose-Holstein model ||  || 

Week of May 25- May 29

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~ <span class="wiki_link"> __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Tuesday, May 26 || 10:00 am || AUD || L. Glazman || Phenomenology of Generic One-Dimensional Quantum Liquids ||  ||
 * Wed., May 27 || 10:00am || MSR || Achim Rosch

R. Winkler || Skyrmions in MnSi

Trigonal Band Structure and Time-Reversal Invariance in Graphene ||  ||
 * Thur, May 28 || 10:00am || SSR || B. Shklovskii || How do ions go through biological ions channels and nanopores? ||  ||



Week of June 1- June 5

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~ <span class="wiki_link"> __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Monday, June 1 || 2:00pm || SSR || Zahid Hasan || Direct detection of topological order in topological insulators via imaging of spin-textured edge-states ||  ||
 * Tuesday, June 2 || 10:00 am || AUD || Joel Moore || Topological insulator: magnetoelectric coupling and Majorana excitations ||  ||
 * Wed., June 3 || 10:00am || MSR || Julia Meyer

Misha Fogler || Subband Transitions in Interacting Quantum Wires

Coulomb Gap in 1D ||  || ||  ||
 * Thur, June 4 || 10:00am || SSR || Andreas Ludwig || Classification of Topological Insulators and Superconductors
 * Friday, June 5 || 10:00am || SSR || Zahid Hasan || First observation of Spin-Helical Dirac fermion modes and future direction of research on Topological Insulators ||  ||

Week of June 8- June 12

 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~ <span class="wiki_link"> __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Monday, June 8 || 2:00pm || SSR || Alex Seidel || Valence Bond States on the Kagome Lattice: Linear Independence and RVB-Hamiltonian ||  ||
 * Tuesday, June 9 || 10:00 am || AUD || Hari Manoharan || Peeking at the Berry Phase in Dirac Materials || Experimentalist of the week ||
 * Wed., June 10 || 10:00am || MSR || Duncan Haldane || "Hall viscosity" and intrinsic metric of imcompressible fractional Hall fluids ||  ||
 * Wed. June 10 || 12:30PM || SSR || Hari Manoharan || Peeking at the Berry Phase in Dirac Materials, Part II ||  ||
 * Thur, June 11 || 10:00am || SSR || Rahul Roy

Fiona J Burnell || TBA

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