LASSP SOLID STATE and THEORY SEMINARS 700 Clark Hall, 4:30 p.m Tuesdays, or Thursdays 701 Clark Hall, 1:15 p.m. Thursdays

Fall 1999 Aug. 31 Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania Scherk’s First Surface, Twist-Grain Boundaries and All That Sep. 7 No Seminar Sep. 14 Paul Tedrow, MIT Spin Polarized Tunneling in Superconductors and Ferromagnets Sep. 20–24 N. David Mermin, Cornell University Autumn School Lectures, Quantum Computation: Software Sep. 27–Oct. 1 David DiVincenzo, IBM Autumn School Lectures, Quantum Computation: Hardware Sep. 30 Barbara Terhal, IBM Autumn School Lecture, Quantum Information Theory Oct. 5 Marlan Scully, Texas A&M University and MPI für Quantenoptik Bose Einstein Condensation and the Laser Phase Transition Analogy Oct. 12 Fall Break Oct. 19 Nicola Mazari, Naval Research Laboratory The Exotic Dynamics of a Simple Metal: Probing Aluminum Surfaces with Computer Experiments Oct. 26 Venky Narayanamurti, Harvard University Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy (BEEM) and Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Hetero- structural Quantum Wells and Quantum Dots Nov. 2 Thomas Natterman, University of Cologne The Roughening Transition in Regular and Random Media

Nov. 9 William Gallagher, IBM Magnetic Tunnel Junctions — Potentially New, Universal Random Access Memory Technology: From PRL to Circuit Demonstration in 3 Years and Products in ??? Nov. 16 Jason Ho, The Ohio State University and Cornell University What Does BEC Do for Condensed Matter Physics? Nov. 23 Priya Vashishta, Louisiana State University Multimillion Atom Simulation of Materials on Parallel Computers — Past, Present and Future Spring 2000 Jan. 25 Brian Anderson, JILA, University of Colorado Vortices in a Dilute-Gas Bose-Einstein Condensate Feb. 1 Paul McEuen, University of California, Berkeley Carbon Nanotubes – A (Nearly) Ideal 1D Conductor Feb. 8 Dan Stamper-Kurn, California Institute of Technology Shedding Light on Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates Feb. 15 Ian R. Fisher, Ames Lab and Iowa State University Symmetry, Energy Scales and Length Scales: Ways to Look at the Physics of New Materials Feb. 22 Andrea Cavalleri, University of California, San Diego Measurements of Ultrafast Lattice Dynamics in Solids Feb. 29 Hari Manoharan, IBM Almaden Research Center Quantum Mirages Mar. 2 Robert Leheny, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Two-Dimensional Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnet Mar. 7 Zhen Yao, Technische Universiteit Delft Carbon Nanotube Wires and Junctions Mar. 14 Barry Stipe, IBM Almaden Research Center Tuning in to Individual Atoms and Molecules with Scanning Probes

Mar. 21 Spring Break Apr. 6 David Goldhaber-Gordon, Harvard University Electron Spin in Quantum Dots Apr. 11 Alex Travesset, Syracuse University The Statistical Mechanics of Topological Defects on Curved Surfaces Apr. 18 Michael Berry, University of Bristol Quantum Mechanics, Chaos, and the Primes Fall 2000 Sep. 5 Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois Turbulence! Sep. 12 Arshard Kudrolli, Clarke University Clustering and Segregation in Granular Flows Sep. 19 Roberto Merlin, University of Michigan Coherent and Squeezed Phonons: Controlling Lattice Motion with Ultrafast Light Pulses Sep. 26 Robert Buhrman, A&EP, Cornell University Spin Transport Effects in Magnetic Nanostructures Oct. 3 Christina Marchetti, Syracuse University Depinning Transition and Collective Transport in Random Media: From Superconductors to Fluid Flow Oct. 10 Fall Break Oct. 17 Mark Nelkin, New York University Pressure Fluctuations in Turbulent Flows Oct. 24 J. C. Davis, University of California, Berkeley Exploring High Tc Superconductivity: One Atom at a Time

Oct. 26 Michael Chertkov, Los Alamos National Laboratory Pulse Confinement in Optical Fibers with Random Dispersion Oct. 31 No Seminar Nov. 7 Leonid Glazman, University of Minnesota Kondo Effects in Quantum Dots Nov. 14 Barbara Frisken, Simon Fraser University Vesicle Formation by Extrusion through Micropores Nov. 21 No Seminar Nov. 28 Daniel Lathrop, University of Maryland Jets, Cones, and Singularities in Surface Waves Nov. 30 Jürgen Hafner, University of Vienna Non-collinear Magnetism in Two and Three Dimensions Spring 2001 Jan. 25 Steven Girvin, University of California, Santa Barbara Physics of "Which Layer?" Uncertainty Jan. 30 Michael Fogler, MIT Liquid Crystals and Quantum Hall Effect Feb. 1 No Seminar Feb. 6 Oleg Tchernyshyov, Institute for Advanced Study Exorcising the p Particle Feb. 8 Roy Bar-Ziv, Rockefeller University Collective Binding of a RecA Protein as a DNA Decoder Feb. 13 Peter Abbamonte, University of Groningen Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering from Insulating Cuprates

Feb. 15 Alexei Tkachenko, Lucent Technologies DNA and its Interactions Feb. 20 Anthony Dinsmore, Harvard University Colloidal Suspensions: Model Systems for Complex Materials Feb. 22 Horacio Castillo, Boston University Dynamical Transition in a Low Dimensional Glassy System Feb. 27 Jonathan Friedman, SUNY Stony Brook Quantum Taxonomy: Making a (Schrödinger’s) Cat out of a SQUID Mar. 6 Joel Moore, Bell Labs–Lucent Technologies Some Unexpected Correlation Effects In Quantum Dots and (Mostly Chiral) Luttinger Liquids Mar. 20 Spring Break Apr. 10 Arthur La Porta, Cornell University A Mosquito's View of Turbulence Apr. 17 Hongkun Park, Harvard University Transport and Scanned Probe Investigations of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Apr. 24 James Sauls, Northwestern University The Sound of Broken Symmetry: Acoustic Faraday Rotation in Superfluid 3He Fall 2001 Sep. 11 Vincent Crespi, Pennsylvania State University Theory of Nanostructures: Boron-Based Nanotubes, Nanocones, Perfect Bearings, the Strongest Nanotubes, and Magnetic Hurricanes in Ordered Porous Magnets Sep. 18 James Sethna, Cornell University Plasticity from a Physicist's Perspective Sep. 25 Jeevak Parpia, Cornell University Superfluid 3He and 3He-4He Mixtures in Aerogel

Oct. 2 Igor Aleiner, SUNY Stony Brook Metal-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions: New Twist of the Old Story? Oct. 9 Fall Break Oct. 11 Reinhard Lipowsky, Max Planck Institute Movements of Molecular Motors Oct. 16 J. C. Séamus Davis, University of California, Berkeley Quantum Nanofluidics: Physics and Applications Oct. 23 Gergely Zarand, Harvard University Magnetic Semiconductors: Frustrated Magnets Oct. 30 Maxim Zalalutdinov, Cornell University High-frequency Optical MEMS Nov. 6 Mark Dykman, Michigan State University Quantum Computing Using Electrons in Helium Nov. 13 Michael Levene, A&EP, Cornell University Zero-mode Waveguides for Single Molecule Analysis and DNA Sequencing Nov. 20 Alexander V. Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory Impurity States and Marginal Stability in Unconventional Superconductors Nov. 27 Daniel Lathrop, University of Maryland Jets, Cones and Singularities in Surface Waves Dec. 4 Wouter Rappel, University of California, San Diego Cellular Signaling Networks: What Can Theoretical Models Tell Us? Spring 2002 Jan. 22 Yuval Oreg, Weizmann Institute Fermions and Bosons in Superconducting Amorphous Wires

Jan. 29 Matthew Hastings, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dielectric Breakdown Models, Fractal Growth, and Conformal Maps Feb. 5 Roland Kawakami, University of California Ferromagnetic Imprinting of Nuclear Spins in Semiconductors Feb. 12 Lev Kaplan, University of Washington Quantum Chaos: Wave Function Ergodicity, Localization, and Transport in Generic Systems Feb. 19 Michael Woodside, Cornell University Imaging Single-Electron Motion in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots Feb. 26 Konrad Lehnert, Yale University Coherence Time and Excited-state Lifetime of a Cooper-pair Box Mar. 5 Young-June Kim, Brookhaven National Laboratory X-ray Scattering Studies of Electron Correlations in Transition Metal Oxides Mar. 12 Orly Alter, Stanford University Quantum Measurement of a Single System Mar. 19 Spring Break Mar. 26 Nikolay Dokholyan, Harvard University Identifying Importance of Amino Acids for Protein Folding Apr. 2 Ilya Gruzberg, MIT Tail States in Superconductors With Magnetic Impurities Apr. 9 Anton Darhuber, Princeton University Microscale Fluid Dynamics on Chemically Patterned Surfaces: From Wet Printing to Microfluidic Actuation Apr. 16 Alexander Lobkovsky, Northeastern University Extreme Physics of Crack Tips Apr. 23 Richard Wiener, Pacific University Controlling Chaotic Pattern Dynamics

Apr. 30 Aashish Clerk, Yale University Resonant Cooper-Pair Tunneling: Quantum Noise and Quantum Measurement Fall 2002 Sep.10 Bruno Eckhardt, University of Marburg Turbulence Transition in Shear Flows Sep. 17 Karsten Flensberg, Niels Bohr Institute Coulomb Drag of Coupled Electron Systems Sep. 24 Lance R. Collins, Cornell University Clustering of Particles in Turbulence: Implications for Early Cloud Development Oct. 1 David DeMille, Yale University Quantum Computation with Trapped Polar Molecules Oct. 8 Shin Inouye, University of Colorado Interactions in Dilute Fermi Gases — Toward Fermionic Superfluidity Oct. 10 Christopher Mudry, Paul Scherrer Institut Freezing Transition in a Problem of Anderson Localization Oct. 15 Fall Break Oct. 22 Kyle McElroy, University of California, Berkeley Fourier Transform Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy Accessing the Cuprate Quasiparticle States from Real-space Oct. 24 Richard Klemm, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d Bicrystal c-axis Twist Josephson Junctions: A New Phase Sensitive Test of Order Parameter Symmetry Oct. 29 Erich Mueller, The Ohio State University Rotating Cold Gases: Vortices, Spin Textures, and Strong Correlation Nov. 5 Guido Burkhard, University of Basel Optimized Quantum Computation Using the Exchange Interaction

Nov. 14 Ashvin Vishwanath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dirac Quasiparticles in the Superconductor Vortex State Nov. 19 David Lubensky, Lucent Technologies Unzipping DNA: From Pulling to Pores and Back Again Nov. 26 Chinlin Guo, Harvard University The Possible Mechanisms in Yeast Chemotropism: Insights to Eukaryote Gradient Sensing Spring 2003 Jan. 28 Ashvin Vishwanath, MIT Luttinger Liquid Physics in Dimensions Higher than One Feb. 3 Erich Mueller, The Ohio State University Quantum Degenerate Fermi Vapors Feb. 11 Itamar Borukhov, University of California, Los Angeles Linker-Assisted Biopolymer Aggregation Feb. 13 Berenike Maier, Columbia University Single Pilus Motor Forces Exceed 100pN Feb. 18 Sharad Ramanathan, Harvard University Noise in Signal Transduction Systems Feb. 25 Piet Brouwer, Cornell University Wavefunctions in the Crossover Between Random Matrix Ensembles Feb. 27 Steven G. Lipson, Technion Pattern Formation in Drying Water Films Mar. 4 No Seminar Mar. 11 Zvonimir Dogic, University of Pennsylvania Imaging Kinetic Pathways of Phase Transitions in Colloidal Liquid Crystals

Mar. 18 Spring Break Mar. 25 Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University Quantum Hall Bilayers at Total Filling v=1 Mar. 27 Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University Recent Developments in The Quantum Hall Effects Apr. 1 Peter Abbamonte, Cornell University Probing the Structure of the Mobile Carrier Liquid in Copper-Oxide Superconductors Apr. 8 Stan Leibler, Rockefeller University Space, Time and Genetic Networks Apr. 15 Mohit Randeria, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and University of Illinois High Tc Superconductivity: New Insights from Variational Functions Apr. 22 Bella Lake, Oxford University Neutron Scattering Studies of La2-xSrxCuO4 Fall 2003 Sep. 2 Pietro Gambardella, Institut de Physique des Nanostructures Surface Dilute Magnetic Systems, Nanoparticles, and Nanowires: XMCD and STM Studies Sep 11 Christopher Mudry, Paul Scherrer Institut Disorder and d-Wave Superconductivity Sep. 16 Tetsuo Hanaguri, University of Tokyo STM/STS Studies on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: Search for Electronic Phase Separation Near the Metal-to-Mott-Insulator Transitions Sep. 23 Roman Movshovich. Los Alamos National Laboratory Pauli Limiting, First Order Superconducting Phase Transition, and Possible Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Inhomogeneous Superconducting State in CeCoIn5 Sep. 30 Andre Leclair, LEPP, Cornell University Russian Doll Renormalization Group Flows

Oct. 7 Vincent Liu, MIT Breached Pairing Superfluidity: A Possible New State of Matter in Cold Fermi Atoms Oct. 14 Moses Chan, Pennsylvania State University Observation of a Supersolid State of Matter Oct. 21 N. Phuan Ong, Princeton University Vortex Nernst Effect and Pairing Strength in Phase Diagram of the Cuprates Oct. 28 Nikolay V. Prokof’ev, University of Massachusetts Two-Component Bosons in an Optical Lattice: Groundstates and Phase Transitions Nov. 4 Smitha Vishveshwara, University of Illinois Unearthing Fractional Statistics via a Hanbury Brown-Twiss Set-Up Nov. 11 Adam Durst, Yale University Radiation-Induced Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a 2D Electron Gas Nov. 18 Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania Charge and Statistics of Dilute Laughlin Quasiparticles Nov. 25 Raymond W. Simmonds, National Institutes of Science and Technology An Improved Josephson Junction Based Quantum Bit Spring 2004 Feb. 3 Kenneth O’Hara, National Institutes of Standards and Technology A New Playground for Many-Body Physics: Strongly-Correlated Atomic Gases Feb. 10 Jack Harris, Harvard University Cold Atoms Without Laser Cooling: the Frontier of Buffer Gas Trapping Feb. 12 Heather Lewandowski, NIST/JILA, University of Colorado Cooling and Trapping OH Molecules Feb. 17 Nadya Mason, Harvard University Local Gate Control of Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots

Feb. 19 Itai Cohen, Harvard University The Shear Excitement of Confined Colloidal Suspensions Feb. 24 Cheng Chin, University of Innsbruck Formation and Bose-Einstein Condensation of Ultracold Molecules Feb. 26 Jan Liphardt, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Five Years of Tension: Mechanical Unfolding of Single Ribozymes using Optical Traps Mar. 9 Hakan Tureci, Yale University Modes of Wave-Chaotic Dielectric Resonators Mar. 23 Spring Break Apr. 6 Garnet Chan, University of Cambridge A Renormalization Group Approach to Electronic Structure Theory

Apr. 13 Gerard Wong, University of Illinois Complex Behavior of Simple Ions Near Biological Polyelectrolytes Apr. 20 Patrick Mang, Stanford University Scattering Studies of the Electron-Doped High-Temperature Superconductor Nd2-xCexCuO4 Apr. 29 Jay Banavar, Pennsylvania State University Geometry and Physics of Proteins May 4 John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory Quantum Magnetic Excitations from Stripes in Cuprate Superconductors May 6 Marcel Franz, University of British Columbia Nodal Protectorate in Underdoped Cuprates Fall 2004 Aug. 31 Andreas Savin, CNRS, Paris Adiabatic Connections in Density Functional Theory

Sep. 7 Keith Schwab, University of Maryland Experiments at the Quantum Limit of Mechanical Devices....and a new really easy readout technique.... Sep. 14 Nicholas Bigelow, University of Rochester Rotating a Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensate: From Vortices to Quantum Hall Sep. 28 Shmuel Fishman, Technion, Haifa, Israel Quantum Chaos and Atom Optics: From Experiments to Number Theory Oct. 5 David Nelson, Harvard University Non-Hermitian Luttinger Liquids and Vortex Physics Oct. 12 Fall Break Oct. 19 Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania What’s Kelvin’s Problem? Oct. 26 Allan Griffin, University of Toronto Recent Work on Quasiparticle Energy Spectrum in a Superfluid Gas of Fermi Atoms Nov. 2 A. J. Sievers, LASSP, Cornell University Intrinsic Energy Localization in Macroscopic and Atomic Lattices Nov. 9 Moses Chan, Pennsylvania State University Can a Solid be Superfluid? Nov. 16 Rena Zieve, University of California, Davis Single Vortex Pinning in a Superfluid Nov. 23 Michal Lipson, Elec. & Comp. Eng., Cornell University On-chip Nanophotonic Devices Nov. 30 Bertrand Reulet, Yale University Finite Frequency Measurements of the Non-Gaussian Current Fluctuations in Mesoscopic Systems Dec. 7 Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego Fluctuation-Dominated Front Propagation

Spring 2005 Feb. 10 Amit Meller, Rowland Institute at Harvard Translocation and Unzipping Kinetics of DNA Molecules Using a Nanopore Feb. 15 Eric Bauer, Los Alamos National Laboratory Superconductivity in a Very Strange Place: The Story of PuCoGa5 Feb. 22 Chinlin Guo, Harvard University Long-range Cooperativity in Yeast Mating Polarization Feb. 24 Keith Schwab, University of Maryland Probing the Quantum Limit of Nanomechanical Devices Mar. 3 Karen Daniels, Duke University Freezing and Melting in Granular Materials Mar. 8 Tobias Kippenberg, California Institute of Technology Ultra-High-Q Optical Microcavities Mar. 10 Zoran Hadzibabic, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Supérieure Layered 2D Bose-Einstein Condensates in an Optical Latttice Mar. 15 Kyle Shen, Stanford University Evolution of Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2 from Mott Insulator to High-Tc Superconductor: “The Story from Einstein’s Electrons” Mar. 22 Spring Break Apr. 5 Matthias Troyer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Quantum Criticality and Exotic Phases in Quantum Magnets and Lattice Bosons Mar. 12 Denis Ullmo, Duke University Mesoscopic Kondo Problem Apr. 19 Ilya Nemenman, Columbia University How Much Does a Fly Know About Its World?

May 3 Alessandra Lanzara, University of California, Berkeley Electron-Lattice Interaction and Competing Orders in Cuprates Superconductors Fall 2005 Aug. 30 Georg Hoffstaetter, LEPP, Cornell University Toward an Energy Recovery Linac X-ray Source at Cornell Sep. 6 Vladimir Privman, Clarkson University Evaluation of Decoherence for Quantum Control and Computing Sep. 13 Nikolay Prokof'ev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst How Can Superfluidity Occur in a Crystalline Solid Sep. 20 David Thouless, University of Washington Vortex Dynamics in Superfluids Oct. 4 Nandini Trivedi, Ohio State University Can Disorder Induce Metallic Behavior in a Mott Insulator? Oct. 11 Fall Break Oct. 18 Richard Templer, Imperial College, University of London Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Aqueous Mixtures of Eye Lens Proteins Oct. 25 George Thurston, Rochester Institute of Technology Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Aqueous Mixtures of Eye Lens Proteins Nov. 1 Jan Luning, Stanford University Lensless Spectromicroscopy by X-ray Fourier Transform Holograph Nov. 8 Igor Aleiner, Columbia University Metal-Insulator Transition in a Weakly Interacting Many-Electron System with Localized Single-Particle States Nov. 15 No Seminar, Gold Lecture by Roger Blandford

Nov. 22 Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida Where Does the Nanoscale Gap Disorder in the Cuprates Come From? Nov. 29 James R. Fienup, University of Rochester Phase Retrieval for Astronomy and X-ray Diffraction Microscopy Spring 2006 Jan. 19 Subhadeep Gupta, University of California, Berkeley Bose-Einstein Condensates in Storage Rings and Optical Cavities Jan. 31 Norman Birge, Michigan State University Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Mesoscopic SNS Josephson Junctions Feb. 7 Matthias Liepe, Cornell University A Science Makes Science: Superconducting RF for the Cornell ERL and Beyond Feb. 14 Carlos Bustamante, Cornell University Statistical Methods for Detecting Natural Selection in the Human Genome Feb. 21 Markus Kindermann, Cornell University Correlations and Entanglements in Nanostructures Feb. 28 Ted Hodapp, APS Education and Outreach Division Physics Teaching: The Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers Mar. 7 David Weiss, Pennsylvania State University Experiments with 1D Bose Gases Mar. 21 Andy Mackenzie, University of St. Andrews Linking Surface to Bulk in Transition Metal Oxides Mar. 28 Eric Dufresne, Yale University Coulomb Blockade in Soft Condensed Matter Apr. 11 Anders Sandvik, Boston University Antiferromagnetic to Valence Bond Solid Transitions in Two Dimensions

Apr. 18 Joshua Socolar, Duke University Universal Dynamical Structures in Random Boolean Networks Apr. 25 Chris Jacobsen, SUNY Stony Brook To Live and Die in L.A. (lab apparatus): Radiation Limits for Studies in Biology and Soft Matter May 2 Alexey Bezryadin, University of Illinois Superconducting Nanowires Fall 2006 Sep. 12 Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin Computational Complexity and Complex Systems Sep. 19 David Lee, LASSP, Cornell University H Atoms Embedded in Solid Molecular Hydrogen: To BE c or Not to BE c Sep. 26 Lydia Sohn, University of California, Berkeley Spanning the Length Scales with Artificial Pores Oct. 3 Aashish Clerk, McGill University Surprises in Quantum Nano-Electromechanics Oct. 10 Fall Break Oct. 17 Bethe Lecture Oct. 24 Douglas Scalapino, University of California, Santa Barbara The Hubbard Model and the High Tc Cuprates Oct. 31 Daniel Stick, University of Michigan Quantum Computing Using Trapped Ions Nov. 7 Greg Boebinger, Florida State University The Cusp at Optimum Doping in the Low-Temperature Hall Number of the High-Temperature Superconductors

Nov. 9 Wendy Mao, Los Alamos National Laboratory Studying Low-Z Materials at High Pressure Nov. 14 Chris Hammel, The Ohio State University Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy Nov. 21 Jennifer Schwarz, Syracuse University Classical and Quantum Models of Correlated Percolation Nov. 28 Daniel Fisher, Harvard University Simple Models of Glass Transitions Dec. 5 Steve Lamoreaux, Yale University The Oklo Natural Nuclear Reactor and the Time Stability of the Fundamental Constants of Nature Spring 2007 Feb. 1 Aaron Leanhardt, University of Colorado High Energy Physics with Ultracold Atoms and Molecules: Tabletop Searches for CP Violation and Extra Dimensions Feb. 13 Chao-Lin Kuo, California Institute of Technology CMB Beyond the Acoustic Peaks Feb. 15 Feng Wang, University of California, Berkeley Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconducting and Metallic Nanostructures Feb. 20 Daniel Needleman, Harvard University Single Molecule Dynamics in Cell Division Feb. 27 Yael Roichman, New York University Holographic Optical Tweezers, Reaching into the Microscopic World Mar. 1 Nuh Gedik, California Institute of Technology Ultrafast Structural Dynamics Observed with Atomic Scale Resolution

Mar. 13 David Schurig, Duke University The Transformation Design Method and Metamaterials: Tools to Realize Invisibility and Other Interesting Effects Mar. 20 Spring Break Apr. 3 Meera Parish, Princeton University Polarized Atomic Fermi Condensates Apr. 10 Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania Jamming Apr. 17 Dan Stamper-Kurn, University of California, Berkeley Dynamics of a Magnetic Superfluid Apr. 24 Ron Lifshitz, University of Tel Aviv Quasicrystals — Some of Nature’s Most Intriguing Forms of Matter Fall 2007 Sep. 11 Joel Brock, Cornell University Time-Resolved X-ray Studies of Pulsed Laser Deposition Sep. 18 Kamil Ekinci, Boston University Nanomechanical Sensing and Metrology: Recent Progress Sep. 25 Peter Armitage, The Johns Hopkins University — A Cooper solid?: Electrodynamics of the 2D Superconductor-Insulator Quantum Phase Transition Oct. 2 Karyn Le Hur, Yale University Charge Fractionalization and Transport in Low Dimensions Oct. 9 Fall Break Oct. 16 Narayanan Menon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Wrinkling, Folding and Crumpling of Elastic Sheets

Oct. 23 Joseph Orenstein, University of California, Berkeley The Persistent Spin Helix: Spin Propagation in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Oct. 30 Trey Porto, National Institutes of Standards and Technology Controlled Exchange Interactions Between Pairs of Neutral Atoms in an Optical Lattice Nov. 6 Wilhelm Zwerger, Technical University of Munich Pairing versus Superfluidity in Ultracold Fermi Gases Nov. 13 Philip W. Adams, Louisiana State University Avalanches, Reentrance, and Incoherent Pairing: The Extraordinary Behavior of Ordinary Superconductors in High Magnetic Fields Nov. 20 Erkki Thuneberg, University of Oulu Pi-states and Dissipative Currents in Superfluid 3He Josephson Junctions Nov. 27 Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers University Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: A Dynamical Mean Field Theory Perspective Spring 2008 Feb. 5 Shinsei Ryu, University of California, Santa Barbara 3D Topological Insulators and 2D Anderson Delocalization

Feb. 7 Eun-Ah Kim, Stanford University The Theory of the Nodal Nematic Quantum Criticality Feb. 12 Hui Deng, California Institute of Technology The Matter-Light Quantum Interfaces for Scalable Quantum Networks Feb. 19 William Ryu, Princeton University A Biophysicist Looks at the Thermal Response and Motor Behavior of E. coli and C. elegans Feb. 21 Markus Müller, Harvard University Nernst Effect and Magnetohydrodynamics Near Quantum Criticality in Superconductors, Graphene and Black Holes

Feb. 26 Ahmet Yildiz, University of California, San Francisco Single Molecule Studies of Motor Protein Movement with Nanometer Precision Mar. 4 Mukund Vengalattore, University of California, Berkeley Equilibrium Phases of a Dipolar Magnetic Superfluid Mar. 18 Spring Break Mar. 25 Philipp Werner, Columbia University Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Methods for Fermions Apr. 1 Weining Man, Princeton University Geometry and Symmetry in Photonics and Material Science Apr. 8 Egor Babaev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Counterflow Condensates: From Projected Metallic Hydrogen to Multicomponent Bose-Einstein and Excitonic Condensates Apr. 15 Steven Chu, Bethe Lecturer Coherent Control of Ultra-Cold Matter Apr. 22 Eric Akkermans, Technion Photon Localization and Dicke Superradiance: A Crossover to Small World Networks Apr. 29 Paul Francois, Rockefeller University Deriving Structure from Computational Evolution Fall 2008 Sep. 2 Anthony Dinsmore, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Nucleation and Sublimation of Crystals: Insights from Experiments with Colloids Sep. 9 Cynthia Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory Local Probes at the Nanoscale: Avalanches, Melting, and Jamming Transitions Sep. 16 John Shumway, Arizona State University A Path Integral Approach to Computational Nanoscience

Sep. 23 Seth Fraden, Brandeis University PhaseChip 2.0: Manipulating Phase Diagrams with Microfluidics Sep. 30 Gerald Mahan, Pennsylvania State University Vibrations of Nanotubes and Nanowires Oct. 7 Antti-Pekka Jauho, Technical University of Denmark Atomistic Modeling of Electronic and Thermal Transport Properties of Si-Nanowires Oct. 21 Gianfranco Durin, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica Crackling Noise and Complexity in Natural Systems Oct. 28 Cindy Regal, JILA, University of Colorado Cooling and Detecting Nanomechanical Motion with a Microwave Cavity Nov. 4 Mona Berciu, University of British Columbia Spectral Weight Transfer for Holstein Polarons Nov. 11 Michael Lawler, SUNY Binghamton and Cornell University Emergent Paramagnetic Phases in the Hyper-Kagome Quantum Antiferromagnet Na4IR3O8 Nov. 18 Britton Plourde, Syracuse University Tailored Superconducting Channels for Controlling Vortex Dynamics Nov. 25 Eva Andrei, Rutgers University Graphene Seen Through Transport and Tunneling Measurements Dec. 2 Kathleen J. Stebe, University of Pennsylvania Oriented Assembly of Anisotropic Particles by Capillary Interactions Spring 2009 Jan. 27 Jennifer Schwarz, Syracuse University Structure in Active Filament Networks Feb. 3 Peng Chen, Cornell University Single-Molecule Imaging Nanoscale Catalysis and Electrocatalysis

Feb. 10 Wendy Zhang, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago Memory as Vibration in a Disconnecting Air Bubble Feb. 17 Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland Massless and Massive Electrons in Atomically-thin Carbon Feb. 24 Nicholas Bigelow, University of Rochester Making and Manipulating Dipolar Quantum Gases Mar. 3 Paul Fendley, University of Virginia Topological Quantum Computation with Non-Abelian Anyons Mar. 10 Anatoli Polkovnikov, Boston University Quantum Nearly Adiabatic Dynamics in Closed Systems Mar. 27 Mustansir Barma, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Clustering Induced by Fluctuating Forces Mar. 31 Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley Topological Insulators and Magnetoelectric Coupling in Solids Apr. 7 Doug Durian, University of Pennsylvania Granular Unsteadiness Apr. 14 Jenny Hoffman, Harvard University Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and Vortex Imaging in the Iron-Pnictide High-Tc Superconductors Apr. 21 Takashi Imai, McMaster University Why Does Undoped FeSe Become a High- Tc Superconductor Under Pressure? — 77Se NMR Study Apr. 28 Hae-Young Kee, University of Toronto Microscopic Route to the Effective Interaction for the Nematic Phase in Ruthenates Fall 2009 Sept. 1 Mark Bowick, Syracuse University Defects, Drops and Structured Vesicles

Sept. 8 Garnet Chan, Cornell University Thinking About Wavefunctions Sept. 15 Subir Sachdev, Harvard University Where is the Quantum Critical Point in the Cuprate Superconductor Oct. 1 Austen Lamacraft, University of Virginia Low Energy Dynamics of Spinor Condensates Oct. 7 Joint Biophysics–LASSP Seminar Meredith Betterton, University of Colorado Theory of Microtubule Depolymerization by the Kinesin-8 Kip3p Oct. 20 Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory Simplifying Local Excitations in Correlated Charge-Transfer Insulators Oct. 27 Nathan Gemelke, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago In situ Microscopy of an Atomic Mott Insulator Nov. 3 Craig Fennie, A&EP, Cornell University Controlling Ferroelectric and Magnetic Order in Complex Materials Nov. 10 Raffi Budakian, University of Illinois Observation of Fractional Fluxoid States in Mesoscopic Rings of Sr2RuO4 by Ultrasensitive Cantilever Magnetometry Nov. 17 John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory Striped Superconductivity SPRING 2010 Jan. 26 Antonio Badolato, University of Rochester Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Single Quantum Dots Feb. 2 Matthew Fisher, California Institute of Technology Spin Bose-Metals in Weak Mott Insulators

Feb. 9 Robert Bennett, Cornell University Studies of Superfluid 3He, Confined to a Single 0.6 mm Thick Slab, Using DC SQUID NMR Feb. 16 Andrew Mackenzie, University of St. Andrews Thermodynamic Studies of Phase Formation in the Vicinity of Quantum Criticality in Sr3Ru2O7 Feb. 23 Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin Neutral Atom Quantum Gates via Rydberg Excitation Mar. 2 Stephen Cronin, University of Southern California Unique One- and Two-Dimensional Phenomena Observed in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Mar. 9 Robert Willett, Lucent Technology Alternating e/4 and e/2 Period Interference Oscillations as Evidence for Filling Factor 5/2 Non-Abelian Quasiparticles Mar. 30 Boris Svistunov, University of Massachusetts Supersolidity of Helium-4 Apr. 6 Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Strongly Interacting Media Apr. 13 Richard Scalettar, University of California, Irvine The Hubbard Model: From Condensed Matter to Atomic Physics Apr. 20 Jon Machta, University of Massachusetts Physics and Phase Transitions in Parallel Computational Complexity Apr. 27 Elbio Dagotto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Studying Models for Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems Using Computational Techniques May 4 Alexei Kitaev, California Institute of Technology Mathematical Classification of Gapped Free-Fermion Hamiltonians FALL 2010 Seminars held at 4:00 pm Aug. 31 David Huse, Princeton University

Sept. 7 Helmut Schiessel, Leiden University Chromatin: A Multi-Scale Jigsaw Puzzle in Biophysics Sept. 14 Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign The Effective Fine Structure Constant of Graphene Sept. 21 Jerry Gollub, Haverford College Remarkable Phenomena in Low Reynolds Number Flow Sept. 28 Louis Taillefer, University of Sherbrooke Fermi Surface Reconstruction and Quantum Criticality in Cuprate Superconductors Oct. 5 Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan From Aristotle to Onsager and Beyond: Packing and Assembling Tetrahedra Oct. 19 Ivan Bozovic, Brookhaven National Laboratory Unscrambling the Physics of High-Temperature Superconductivity by Atomic-Layer Engineering Oct. 26 Masadul Haque, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems Interaction Induced Hierarchy of Edge-Locking Effects Nov. 2 Peter Johnson, Brookhaven National Laboratory The Pseudogap Phase of the Cuprate Superconductors: Are We Getting Closer? Nov. 9 Clare Yu, University of California, Irvine Glasses, Stress, and Attenuation Nov. 19 Tony Heinz, Columbia University Seeing Electrons in Two Dimensions: Optical Spectroscopy of Graphene Nov. 23 Jeevak Parpia, Cornell University A Pre-Thanksgiving Diet: Add Dirt to 3He, Squeeze, and Measure Nov. 30 Jane Wang, Cornell University Physics of Living Matter: Insect Flight and Related Problems

SPRING 2011 Feb. 1 Lisa Manning, Princeton University How Does Surface Tension Emerge From Structure in Biological Tissues? Feb. 8 Steven Olmschenk, NIST and University of Maryland Quantum Information with Atoms and Light Feb. 15 Murat Acar, California Institute of Technology Network-Dosage Compensation in Gene Circuits Feb. 22 Lucy Bai, Rockefeller University Single-Cell Biophysical Study on Nucleosome-Depleted Region and Gene Regulation Mar. 1 Yusuke Nishida, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Universal Physics with Ultracold Atoms: Efimov Effect, BCS-BEC Crossover, and Beyond Mar. 3 Jing Xia, California Institute of Technology Topological Phases and Their Competition with Symmetry-Breaking Orders Mar. 8 Pierre Thibault, Technical University of Munich X-ray Imaging in the Style of Bird Calls Mar. 10 Eleni Katifori, Rockefeller University Design Principles in the Plant Kingdom: Loops, Optimality and the Architecture of Leaf Veins Mar. 15 Lode Pollet, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Zurich Byteing the Supersolid Mar. 17 Eric Brown, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago Shear Thickening in Concentrated Suspensions Apr. 5 Itai Cohen, Cornell University Using a Confocal Rheoscope to Investigate Soft Squishy Materials Tuesday, 4/12 Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bethe Lecturer) Toward Quantum Magnetism with Ultracold Atoms

Apr. 19 Taylor Hughes, Stanford University Anomalies and Torsion in Condensed Matter Systems Apr. 26 Minoru Yamashita, Kyoto University Thermal Transport Studies of Quantum Spin Liquids May 3 Evgeny Tsymbal, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions: Controlling Electron and Spin Transport by Ferroelectric Polarization