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Condensed Matter Seminars Spring 2004

All seminars are on Fridays at 2:00 PM in 231 ISB

Tea and cookies are served at 1:45 PM. A campus map is available here.


April 9, 2004
Low energy magnetism and field induced ordering in lightly doped La_2-xSr_xCuO_4
Adrian Gozar
Bell Laboratories

April 16, 2004
Measurements of Decoherence
Josh Folk
Stanford University and MIT

April 23, 2004
Recent Neutron and X-ray Scattering Studies of the Electron-Doped Superconductor Nd2-xCexCuO4
Patrick Mang
Stanford University

April 30, 2004
On generalizing Luttinger's theorem to superfluids and other exotic states of matter
Arun Paramekanti
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara

May 7, 2004
On Wang-Landau sampling for classical and quantum systems
Matthias Troyer
Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich

May 14, 2004
Typical versus average superfluid density: Understanding the vortex glass phase
Helmut Katzgraber
Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich

May 19, 2004
Two ways to destroy a Fermi liquid: hole and electron-doped cuprates
Andre-Marie Tremblay
Universite de Sherbrooke Please note: Event held in ISB 356, 2:00 p.m.

May 21, 2004
A New Theory of Manganites Exhibiting Colossal Magnetoresistance
H. R. Krishnamurthy
Centre for Condensed Matter Theory Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

May 28, 2004
Frustrated Ferromagnetism--spin ice in a field
Roderich Moessner
CNRS and Ecole Normale Superieure

June 4, 2004
Evidence for a Universal Relationship between Local Structure and Magnetization in Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites
Lisa Downward
Physics Department, UCSC