Condensed Matter Seminar Series (2019-2020)

Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Utah

Schedule: Tuesday, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, unless otherwise noted.
Location: JFB 334, unless otherwise noted.
Parking: Park at the metered stalls on President's Circle, or park in the visitor pay lot that is south-east of the James Fletcher Building.
CMS Committee: Sarah Li (Chair), Evan Lafalce, Mikhail Raikh, Hans Malissa.
Reimbursements: Rochelle Tarin-Olivas.

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Insititution	Host	Title of Seminar
Aug 20	Vagharsh Mkhitaryan	Ames Lab	Hans Malissa	“Dressed States and Multi-Photon Resonances in Strongly Driven Ensemble of Weakly Coupled Spin-Pairs”
Aug 27	Christian Kern	University of Utah	Local	“On the Hall Effect in Composites”
Aug 28 special	Yuting Hu	SUSTC (China)	Yong-Shi Wu	“Entanglement Entropy, Quasiparticle Fluctuations, and Fhermal Entropy in Topological Phases”
Sep 03	John Lupton	University of Regensburg	Hans Malissa	“Excitons with Negative-Mass Electrons”
Sep 10	Adrian Del Maestro	University of Vermont	Andrey Rogachev	“Entanglement Area Law in Superfluid ⁴He”
Sep 17	Christian Kurtsiefer	National U. of Singapore	Stephan Le Bohec	“Atom-Photon Interaction in a Strong Focusing Regime”
Sep 24	Uyen Huyhn	University of Utah	Local	“Studies of the Exciton Fine Structure in Bulk Metal Halide Perovskite Single Crystals by Photoinduced Transient Quantum Beatings”
Oct 01	RPT - No Seminar
Oct 08	Fall Break - No Seminar
Oct 15	Volker Blum	Duke University	Sarah Li	“Materials Physics from Simple to Complex Tunable Semiconductors from a First Principles Computational Approach”
Oct 22	Haoliang Liu	University of Utah	Local	“Parity Time Symmetry in Magnonics”
Oct 29	Ashkan Salamat	UNLV	Shanti Deemyad	“Pressure-Mediated Band Gap Engineering of Sn – N, O Compounds”
Nov 05	Ben Hunt	Carnegie Mellon U.	Vikram Deshpande	“Novel Superconductors in Two-Dimensional Materials and Heterostructures”
Nov 12	Matt Beard	NREL	Valy Vardeny, Sarah Li	“Controlling Charge, Spin and Light in Pb-Halide Perovskite Polycrystalline Films, Single Crystals, Nanocrystals, and Perovskite Layered Systems”
Nov 19	Leah Weiss	University of Chicago	Christoph Boehm	“Probing Triplet Excitons with Spin in Organic Semiconductors”
Nov 26	Thanksgiving - No Seminar
Dec 03	Lea Santos	Yeshiva University	Mikhail Raikh	“Time Scales and Manifestations of Chaos in Many-Body Quantum Dynamics”

Spring 2020

Date	Speaker	Insititution	Host	Title of seminar
Jan 07	Special Colloquium
Jan 14	Special Colloquium
Jan 21
Jan 28	Reserved for faculty candidate
Feb 04
Feb 11	Reserved for faculty candidate
Feb 18
Feb 25
Mar 03
Mar 10	Spring Break - No Seminar
Mar 17
March 24
Mar 31
Apr 07
Apr 14
Apr 21