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Condensed Matter Seminar Winter 2006

2:00-3:30 p.m. 231 ISB


January 13, 2006
Networks of constraints in glasses
Marc Mezard
CNRS - Universite Paris Sud

February 3, 2006
Towards a statistical theory of transport by strongly-interacting lattice fermions
Subroto Mukerjee
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

February 17, 2006
Possible New Physics at Quantum Critical Points: Nontrivial Topology in 2D
Zaira Nazario
Stanford University

February 24, 2006
Origins of negative thermal expansion: simple models for complex materials
Zack Schlesinger
Physics Department, UCSC

March 3, 2006
Thermoelectric properties of a nanocontact
Keivan Esfarjani
Physics Department, UCSC & Sharif University

March 10, 2006
Quantum and classical order and criticality in pyrochlore antiferromagnets
Leon Balents
Physics Department, UC Santa Barbara

Julie Reiner, x9-3744, reiner@ucsc.edu