Calendar

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Club Meeting 08/30: Dr. Ka Ming Tam

On Aug 30, Dr. Ka Ming Tam will talk about

Title: Ising Model
(with a focus on low dimensions)

Article:
Quantum Criticality in an Ising Chain: Experimental Evidence for Emergent E8 Symmetry
Science 8 January 2010
Vol. 327 no. 5962 pp. 177-180

link

Time: Aug 30 2011, Tue, 4-5pm
Location: Rm 262, Nicholson Hall

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Club meeting 08/23: Conrad Moore

On Aug 23, Conrad Moore will talk about:

Title: Diagrammatic Perturbation Series via the Replica Method

Article:
Systematic and causal corrections to the coherent potential approximation
Jarrell et al.
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, VOLUME 63, 125102

Conrad will mainly focus on Section 2 and the Appendix.

Time: 08/23/2011 4-5pm
Location: Rm 262 Nicholson Hall

Friday, August 19, 2011

Fall semester meeting time CHANGED

The fall semester meeting time is changed from Wed 4-5pm to

Tuesday, 4-5 pm

The meeting location is still Rm 262.

The reason of this change is because several club members cannot attend a Wednesday meeting and the room is occupied by a class on Wednesday. The change was made final by a small scale vote.

If a speaker has time conflict with this new arrangement, please email me asap to find another time, although I will also contact each speaker to make sure.

Monday, August 15, 2011

Club Meeting 08/17: Gaoming Wang

Gaoming Wang will talk about skyrmion on Aug 17.

Title: The Skyrmion Crystal
Article: Near room-temperature formation of a skyrmion crystal in thin-films of the helimagnet FeGe
Yu et al.
Nature Materials 10, 106–109 (2011)

link

Time: Aug 17 noon 12-1pm
Location: Rm 435 Nicholson Hall

Note that the time and location will change to Wed 4-5pm, Rm 262, starting next week.

update 08/21: The fall semester meeting time is changed to Tue 4-5pm. Location is still Rm 262. see this post.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Club meeting 08/10/11: Kebei Jiang

Kebei Jiang will talk on Aug 10 about:

Title: Physics of Ghost Imaging

He will introduce two articles:

1
Yanhua Shih, "The physics of ghost imaging", International Conference on Quantum Information (ICQI) 2008 paper: QTuB1

2
Yaron Bromberg, "Ghost Imaging with a single detector", PRA, 79, 053840 (2009)

Time: 08/10/2011 12-1pm
Location: Rm 435 Nicholson Hall