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Speaker: Dr. Olivia New, Stuart Sheperd, Carlo Rodrigo
Time: May 14, 2019, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: BRIM 311
Dr. Olivia New: Chief Academic Officer, Co-Founder, STEM ACES EDUCATION INC. Dr. Olivia New’s STEM experience as a Research and Development Professional in industry and academic settings and a University Lecturer (instructing, course design, writing, marking, and grading undergraduate Chemistry courses exams) inspired the concept and development of STEM ACES Education Inc. particularly some of the effective teaching methods...
Time: School: May 1, 2019, Workshop: May 2-3, 2019
Location: Brimacombe 311
This two-day workshop on May 2-3 will focus on recent advances in the field of interacting Majorana fermion systems in various geometries. Progress in experimental detection and manipulation of Majorana fermions in solid state devices promises that such interacting systems could be soon amenable to laboratory studies. Various exotic phenomena predicted in recent theoretical works, such as the emergent space-time...
Time: Apr 16, 2019, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: BRIM 311
This will be a very special career panel featuring four local panelists from the world of venture capitalism and investment. Our speakers' diverse expertise include next-generation materials, clean energy technologies, radiopharmaceuticals, real estate, automotive, medical technology, and software. They all bring a passion for innovation in science and technology that is certain to make for some exciting discussion.
Speaker: D.N. Basov, Columbia University, http://infrared.cni.columbia.edu
Time: Apr 4, 2019, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: BRIM 311
Abstract:
In 1944 Hans Bethe reported on “the diffraction of electromagnetic radiation by a hole small compared with the wave-length” [Physical Review 66, 163 (1944)]. This seminal paper was among the early precursors to a new and vibrant area of research: near field nano-optics. I will discuss recent nano-optical experiments on quantum materials including graphene and other atomically layered...
Speaker: Pascal Puech, CEMES/university Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Time: Mar 29, 2019, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Quantum Matter Institute
The crystallite sizes of carbon materials like coke are linked to their mechanical and electrical properties. Having a reliable method to determine these sizes is required for industrials. Due to its versatility and simplicity, Raman spectroscopy is a significant technique for carbon as the signal collected is quite large. Since the work of Tuinstra and Koenig [JCP53, 1126,1970], and after...
Speaker: Tom Goldstein, UMass, Amherst
Time: Mar 28, 2019, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: BRIM 311
Atomically thin Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have many potential applications including flexible electronics, opto-electronics, spintronics (and many more) due to their quasi-2D nature and remarkable electronic properties. The excitons of semiconducting TMDCs are of particular interest due to the ‘valley’ index, an additional electron degree of freedom with potential use for data storage and computation. These excitons have an exceptionally...
Speaker: Allan H. MacDonald, Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
Time: Mar 15, 2019 14:00 - 15:00
Location: BRIM 311
Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene (MATBG) is a remarkably tunable and relatively simple strongly correlated electron system, with its own set of specific peculiarities. My talk will focus on similarities and differences between the interaction physics of flat-band moiré superlattices MATBG and transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers which simulate Hubbard model physics more closely. I will discuss the nature of the...
Speaker: Bradley J. Siwick Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, Center for the Physics of Materials, McGill University
Time: Feb 28, 2019, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: BRIM 311
In this talk I will describe how combining ultrafast lasers and electron microscopes in novel ways makes it possible to directly ‘watch’ the time-evolving structure of condensed matter on the fastest timescales open to atomic motion. By combining such measurements with complementary (and more conventional) spectroscopic probes one can develop structure-property relationships for materials under even very far from equilibrium...
Speaker: Yuvel Oreg, Weizmann Institute of Science
Time: Feb 26, 2019, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: HENN 318
The thermal Hall conductance is a universal and topological property which characterizes the fractional quantum Hall ( FQH ) state. Quantized values of the thermal Hall conductance has only recently been measured experimentally in integer quantum Hall ( IQH ) and FQH regimes, These finding include observation of half integer quantized heat conductance at filling 5/2. In this talk I...
Speaker: Dr. Hiroki Wadati
Time: February 25, 2019, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: BRIM 311
Control of spin states by optical excitations in magnetically ordered materials has attracted considerable attention since the ultrafast demagnetization in Ni was observed within 1 picosecond (ps) by time-resolved magneto-optic Kerr effect (trMOKE) studies [1].
Time-resolved x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (trXMCD) can provide information on element-specific spin dynamics.
X-rays from synchrotron radiation (SR) have time structures related to...
