Program for the Nordita Meeting on Quantum Fluids
Week August 16 - 18
Week August 20 - 24
Week August 27 - 31
Week September 3 - 7
Week September 10 - 14
Week September 17 - 21
Week September 24 - 28
***** Week August 16 - 18 ******
August 16, 14.00
J. Jain (Penn State)
"Testing the pfaffian model for even denominator fractional quantum Hall
effect"
***** Week August 20 - 24 ******
August 20, 14.00
J. Moore (Berkley)
"Topological defects and superfluidity in spinor condensates"
August 21 14.00
J. Hietarinta (Turku)
"Knots in the Faddeev-Skyrme models"
August 22, 11.00
B. Svistunov (UMass Amherst):
"Supersolid State of Matter" place: FA32 (OBS)
14.00
Ernst Helmut Brandt (Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart)
"Vortex Lattices in Superconducting Bulk and Films with and without Pinning"
August 23, 14.00
Emil Lundh (Umeå)
"Transition from a two-dimensional superfluid to a one-dimensional Mott insulator"
August 24 14.00
E. Sonin (Jerusalem)
"Orbital magnetic dynamics in chiral p-wave superconductors"
***** Week August 27 - 31 ******
August 27, 10.30
J.M. Speight (Leeds)
"Instantons and the strong coupling limit of the Faddeev-Hopf model"
14.00
Ashvin Vishwanath (Berkley)
"Fluctuating Quantum Spirals and non-Fermi liquid physics in the
metallic
helimagnet MnSi"
August 28, 10.30
J.M. Speight (Leeds)
Manton's geometric vortex dynamics
14.00
S. Das Sarma (Maryland)
"Bizarre transport properties of a quintessential Fermi Liquid:
The story of the jellium 2D electron liquid"
August 29, 11.00, FA31
Shankar Das Sarma (Maryland)
"Topological quantum computing"
14.00
B. Svistunov (UMass Amherst)
"Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for the problem of BCS-BEC crossover"
August 30, 14.00
V. Cheianov (Lancaster)
"Dynamics of spin waves in a one-dimensional itinerant ferromagnet"
August 31, 14.00
L. Balents (UCSB)
“Spin liquid and solid in pyrochlore antiferromagnets”
***** Week September 3 - 7 ******
September 3 14.00
TBA
September 4, 14.00
L. Balents (UCSB)
"Quasi 1d Antiferromagnets",
September 5, 11.00 place: FA31
Soucheng Zhang (Stanford)
"Quantum spin Hall effect"
14.00
E. Babaev
"Metallic hydrogen: projected novel quantum fluid?"
September 6 15.15, AlbaNova colloquum
Shoucheng Zhang
Quantum spin Hall Effect
September 7, 14.00 place: FB42
Frank Wilczek (MIT)
"QCD Meets BCS"
***** Week September 10 - 14 ******
Monday September 10, 14.00
Zlatko Tesanovic (John Hopkins)
"Duality in Superconductors and Superfluids - a general
introduction"
Tuesday September 11, 14.00
K. Machida
"Quantum vortices in various superfluids"
Wednsday September 12, 11:00, place: FA31
Z. Tesanovich (John Hopkins):
"d-wave Duality, Gauge Theories and thePhysics of High Temperature Superconductors"
Thursday September 13, 14.00
E. Ardonne (CalTech)
"Non-abelian statistics in the interference noise of the Moore-Read quantum Hall state"
Friday September 14
Emil Bergholtz (Stockholm Univ.)
"The Quantum Hall system: solvable limit and beyond"
***** Week August 17 - 21 ******
Monday September 17
No talk scheduled.
Tuesday September 18, 14.00
No talk scheduled.
Wednesday September 19 14:00
T. H. Hansson (Stockhom Univ.)
"Fractional statistics of QH quasiholes and quasielectrons"
Thursday September 20, 14.00
J. Lidmar (KTH)
"Quantum phase slips in Josephson junction arrays "
Friday September 14
No talk scheduled.
***** Week August 24 - 28 ******
Monday September 24, 11.00
Carsten Hutter (Stockholm Univ.)
"Coupling of superconducting qubits: an introduction"
Tuesday September 25, 14.00
Mats Wallin (KTH)
"Quantum phases of helium"
Wednesday September 26, 11.00 place: FA31
Stephanie Reimann (Lund Univ.)
Vortices in quantum dots and Bose condensates
14.00
Frank Wilczek (MIT) place: FB54
"Near-Zero Modes in Superconducting Graphene"
Thursday September 27, 14.00
Jani-Petri Martikainen (Helsinki)
"Three-component mixture of ultra-cold fermions and interband pairing in optical lattices"
