Condensed Matter Seminar

Please note:  for Spring 2012 there is a change in time for the Condensed Matter Seminar.   All seminars will be held on Fridays at 12:30 in 231 Interdisciplinary Sciences.

Spring 2012

April 6, 2012

No Seminar this week

April 13, 2012

Sandeep Pathak, Louisiana State University, "Ground State Properties of Strongly Correlated 2D systems"

April 20, 2012

Itay Hen, UC Santa Cruz, "Complexity of the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm"

April 27, 2012

Ehsan Khatami, Georgetown University, "Thermodynamics and quantum phase transitions of frustrated magnets"

May 4, 2012

Haile Owusu, UC Santa Cruz, "Matrix Types: Towards A Theory Of Quantum Integrability"

May 11, 2012

Frank Bridges, UC Santa Cruz, "When local structure and average structure differ: Important consequences and some examples"

May 18, 2012

Ruben Andrist, ETH Zurich, "Understanding quantum error correction schemes using classical disordered spin models"

May 25, 2012

Tarun Grover, UC Berkeley, "Quantum Entanglement and Strongly Correlated Topological Phases ofMatter"

June 1, 2012

Torsten Ehrhardt, Mathematics Department, UCSC, "Computation of a correlation function in the triangular dimer model"

June 8, 2012

TBA