Seminar+Schedule

=Seminar Calendar=

Pyrochlore Magnets || and other experiments with correlated electrons || antiferromagnets || couplings for magnetism-driven ferroelectricity ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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 * ||  ||   || Week of **August 13** ||   ||
 * Mon, Aug 13 || 14:30 || Aud ||  || Organizational meeting. ||
 * Wed, Aug 15 || 10:30 || Aud || [|Atsushi Fujimori] || Experimenter of the week. Chemical potential shifts in strongly correlated systems: from titanates to cuprates. [|[Podcast]] ||
 * Fri, Aug 17 || 10:30 || Aud || Maxim Mostovoy || Seminar. TP-symmetry breaking in solids: magnetically induced ferroelectricity. [|[Podcast]] ||
 * ||  ||   || Week of **August 20** ||   ||
 * Wed, Aug 22 || 12:30 || SSR || Silvia Picozzi || Seminar. Dual Nature of improper ferroelectricity in a magnetoelectric multiferroic. [[|Podcast]] ||
 * Thu, Aug 23 || 14:00 || Aud || John Greedan || Seminar. Mott Transition in Nd[1-x]TiO3: Hole Doping of a Mott Insulator. [[|Podcast]] ||
 * Fri, Aug 24 || 10:30 || SSR || [|Rossitza Pentcheva], [|Nicola Spaldin] || Discussion. __Multilayer heterostructures based on oxide materials__ [[|Podcast]] ||
 * ||  ||   || Week of **August 27** ||   ||
 * Mon, Aug 27 || 12:15 || Aud || Leon Balents, Jeroen van den Brink || Director's blackboard lunch: Overview of the Motterials07 program [[|Podcast]] ||
 * Tue, Aug 28 || 10:30 || Aud || Young Lee || Seminar: Neutron and x-ray scattering studies of frustrated quantum magnets in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions [[|Podcast]] ||
 * Wed, Aug 29 || 12:00 || SSR || Antoine Georges || Seminar: __Cuprates: Superconductivity near the Nodes, Mottness at the Antinodes__ [[|Podcast]] ||
 * Thu, Aug 30 || 10:30 || Aud || Philippe Sindzingre, Shinsei Ryu || Seminar: Kagome antiferromagnet [[|Podcast]] ||
 * Fri, Aug 31 || 10:30 || SSR || Stefan Wessel, Ying-Jer Kao, Chung-Hou Chung || Discussion: __Supersolids__ [[|Podcast]] ||
 * ||  ||   || Week of **September 3** ||   ||
 * Tue, Sep 4 || 10:30 || Aud || Nicola Spaldin || Tutorial. Why are magnetism and ferroelectricity contra-indicated? [[|Podcast]] ||
 * Wed, Sep 5 || 12:00 || SR || Collin Broholm || Seminar. Magnetism and ferroelectricity on a kagome staircase. ||
 * Thu, Sep 6 || 10:30 || Aud || Alexander Lichtenstein || Tutorial. LDA U and beyond [[|Podcast]] ||
 * Fri, Sep 7 || 10:30 || SSR || Roderich Moessner || Discussion. Frustrated magnets [[|Podcast]] ||
 * ||  ||   || Week of **September 17** ||   ||
 * Tue, Sep 18 || 10:30 || Aud || Matthew Fisher || Tutorial: spin liquids [[|Podcast]] ||
 * Wed, Sep 19 || 12:00 || SSR || Daniil Khomskii, Yukitoshi Motome || Discussion: Orbital order [[|Podcast]] ||  ||
 * Thu, Sep 20 || 10:30 || Aud || Claire Lhuillier || Discussion: Z_2 vortices in Heisenberg antiferromagnets [[|Podcast]] ||
 * Fri, Sep 21 || 10:30 || SSR || Open microphone || Bring your own topic and/or add to the list of orbital related topics [[|Podcast]] ||
 * ||  ||   || Week of **September 24** ||   ||
 * Mon, Sep 24 || 12:15 || Aud || Daniil Khomskii || Blackboard Lunch: Correlated electrons: charges, spins, orbitals and their interplay ||
 * Tue, Sep 25 || 10:30 || Aud || Yukitoshi Motome || Discussion: Orbital and magnetic physics in vanadium spinels ||
 * Thu, Sep 27 || 10:30 || Aud || Andrey Mishchenko || Seminar: Diagrammatic Monte Carlo as an exact tool for a problem of a complex object interacting with bosons. What else can be done? ||
 * ||  ||   || Week of **October 1** ||   ||
 * Tue, Oct 2 || 10:30 || Aud || Leon Balents (moderator) || Discussion: frustration ||
 * Thu, Oct 4 || 10:30 || Aud || Jak Tchakhalian || Seminar: Physics at the Interface of Complex Oxides ||
 * ||  ||   || Week of **October 8** ||   ||
 * Mon, Oct 8 || 12:15 || SSR || participants || Discussion: frustration (2) - bring your lunch . See list ||
 * Tue, Oct 9 || 10:30 || Aud || Bruce Gaulin || Seminar: Frustration, Satifaction, and Fluctuations in
 * Thu, Oct 11 || 10:30 || Aud || Karlo Penc || Seminar: Pyrochlore spin systems in magnetic field ||
 * ||  ||   || Week of **October 15** ||   ||
 * Mon, Oct 15 || 12:15 || Aud || Nicola Spaldin || Discussion: Grand Challenges in Oxides ||
 * Tue, Oct 16 || 10:30 || Aud || Amit Keren || Seminar: A magnetic analog of the isotope effect in cuprates
 * Thu, Oct 18 || 10:30 || Aud || Oleg Starykh || Seminar: Orders and excitations in frustrated quasi-one-dimensional
 * ||  ||   || Week of **October 22** ||   ||   ||
 * Tue, Oct 23 || 10:30 || Aud || H R Krishnamurthy || Discussion/Overview: Manganites ||  ||
 * Wed, Oct 24 || 12:30 || SSR || M Zahid Hasan || Seminar: Novel Phases and Topological Excitations in systems with Unusual Symmetries ||  ||
 * Thu, Oct 25 || 10:30 || Aud || Eva Pavarini || Seminar: Orbital fluctuations in the different phases of the Mott insulators LaVO3 and YVO3 ||  ||
 * ||  ||   || Week of **October 29** ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tue Oct 30 || 10:30 || Aud || A Vishwanath || Seminar: Novel orders from geometrical frustration ||  ||
 * Wed Oct 31 || 12:30 || SSR || N.Phuan Ong || Seminar: The effect of quantizing fields on Dirac-like excitations in graphene and Bi ||  ||
 * Thu Nov 1 || 10:30 || Aud || W Brenig || Seminar: Defects in quantum magnets: some critical, some frustrated ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || Week of **November 5** ||   ||   ||
 * Tue Nov 6 || 10:30 || Aud || Michel Kenzelmann || Seminar: Magneto-electric multiferroicity in quantum magnetic insulators ||  ||
 * Wed Nov 7 || 12:30 || SSR || Philip Phillips || Seminar: Hidden charge-2e boson in doped Mott insulators: Field theory of Mottness ||  ||
 * Thu Nov 8 || 10:30 || Aud || Roger Melko || Seminar: The case for deconfined quantum criticality in the J-K and J-Q models: a comparative QMC study ||  ||
 * ||  ||   || Week of **November 12** ||   ||   ||
 * Tue Nov 13 || 10:30 || Aud || Philipp Werner || Seminar: Diagrammatic Monte Carlo method for fermions ||  ||
 * Wed Nov 14 || 12:30 || SSR || Peter Abbamonte || Seminar: Observation of unidirectional charge order near room temperature in Zn-doped La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4} ||  ||
 * Thu Nov 15 || 10:30 || Aud || George Jackeli || Seminar: Dimer phases in quantum antiferromagnets with orbital degeneracy ||  ||
 * ||  ||   || Week of **November 19** ||   ||   ||
 * Mon Nov 19 || 10:30 || SSR || Hidenori Takagi || Seminar: Quantum liquid produced by geometrical frustration in spinel oxides ||  ||
 * Tue Nov 20 || 10:30 || Aud || Michel Gingras || Seminar: Experimentally motivated problems in some highly frustrated rare-earth magnetic materials ||  ||
 * Wed Nov 21 || 12:30 || SSR || Rajiv Singh || Seminar: Finite-temperature and ground state properties of kagome lattice antiferromagnets ||  ||
 * ||  ||   || Week of **November 26** ||   ||   ||
 * Tue Nov 27 || 10:30 || Aud || Dimitri Argyriou || Seminar: Function from frustration in modern multiferroics ||  ||
 * Wed Nov 28 || 12:30 || SSR || Luuk Ament || Seminar: Theory of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering ||  ||
 * Thu Nov 29 || 10:30 || Aud || Sumio Ishihara || Seminar: Impurity effects in orbital ordered systems ||
 * Thu Nov 30 || 2:30 || Aud || George Sawatzky || Discussion: TBA ||
 * ||  ||   ||   || Week of **December 3** ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tue Dec 4 || 10:30 || Aud || Jason Alicea || Seminar: Frustrated Diamond Lattice Antiferromagnets ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Wed Dec 5 || 10:30 || SSR || Sudhakar Yarlagadd || Seminar: Cooperative electron-phonon interaction in one dimension ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Wed Dec 5 || 12:30 || SSR || Lev Bulaevskii || Seminar: Orbital currents and polarization in Mott insulators ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Thu Dec 6 || 10:30 || Aud || Mona Berciu || Seminar: The Green's function of a Holstein polaron ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tue Dec 11 || 12:30 || TBA || Dirk van der Marel || Seminar: Optics clues to pairing glues ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Wed Dec 12 || 12:30 || SSR || Sang-Wook Cheong || Seminar: Symmetric vs. antisymmetric
 * Thu Dec 13 || 11:00 || TBA || Maurits Haverkort || Seminar: Spin-orbit effects in the ruthenates ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

Activities nearby:

 * [|Seminars at Microsoft Station Q]
 * [|Seminars and colloquia at UCSB]

Experimenter of the week:

 * August 13. [|Atsushi Fujimori] (University of Tokyo).
 * August 20. [|John Greedan] (McMaster University).
 * August 27. [|Young S. Lee] (MIT).
 * September 3. [|Collin Broholm] (Johns Hopkins University).
 * September 10. [|Conference].
 * September 17.
 * September 24.
 * October 1. [|Jak Tchakhalian] (University of Arkansas).
 * October 8. [|Bruce Gaulin] (McMaster University).
 * October 15. [|Amit Keren] (Technion).
 * October 22. [|M. Zahid Hasan] (Princeton).
 * October 29. [|N. Phuan Ong] (Princeton).
 * November 5. Michel Kenzelmann (ETH Zurich/PSI/University of Minnesota).
 * November 12. [|Peter Abbamonte] (University of Illinois, Urbana).
 * November 19. Hidenori Takagi (University of Tokyo).
 * November 26. [|Dimitri Argyriou] (Hahn-Meither Institut).
 * December 3. [|J.C. Seamus Davis] (Cornell)
 * December 10. [|Dirk van der Marel] (University of Geneva) and [|Sang-Wook Cheong] (Rutgers University).