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Past RQMP (CPM) seminars

Thursday, November 21st, 2024, 10:30
Van der Waals Epitaxy of Transition Metal Disulphide Nanostructures: Tailoring Electronic Structure by Growth Variations
Borna Pielić
Universität Siegen
Abstract
Thursday, November 14th, 2024, 10:30
Bounding Green Function Singular Values and Shannon Capacity
Sean Molesky
Polytechnique Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, November 7th, 2024, 10:30
Searching for dark matter using nuclear shape oscillations
Amar Vutha
University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, October 31st, 2024, 10:30
Probing and Controlling Quantum Materials with Light
Albert Liu
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
Tuesday, September 24th 2024, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold
Alexandre Bourassa
Google Quantum
Abstract
Wednesday, September 18th 2024, 10:00 (Boardroom - room 105/Online)
Note special day, time and venue
A two-dimensionally programmable photonic chip for classical and quantum information processing
Tatsuhiro Onodera
Cornell University
Abstract
Tuesday, August 27th 2024, 13:00
Special CPM Seminar
Exploring the effects of liquid substrate fluctuations on the ordering of two-dimensional materials
Simiso K. Mkhonta
Physics Department, University of Eswatini
Abstract
Friday, August 9th 2024, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special CPM Seminar
Quantum Phase Transition, Unidirectional Superconductivity and Missing Shapiro Steps in Semiconductor Josephson Junctions
Hongqi Xu
Beijing Key Laboratory of Quantum Devices and School of Electronics, Peking University
Abstract
Tuesday, July 30th 2024, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Special CPM Seminar
Harnessing spectrally-encoded synthetic dimensions for quantum and topological photonics
Avik Dutt
University of Maryland
Abstract
Tuesday, July 16th 2024, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - 103/Online)
Special CPM Seminar
Shedding light on collective modes in two-dimensional superconductors
Ben Levitan
Weizmann Institute
Abstract
Conference Room (room 103) / Online
Thursday, June 20th 2024, 11:00 (Boardroom - room 105/Online)
Special CPM Seminar
Topological photonics in synthetic frequency dimensions
Dali Cheng
Stanford University
Abstract
Wednesday, June 12th 2024, 10:30 (Keys Auditorium - room 112)
Special CPM Seminar
How nonlinearity distorts the evidence for photoinduced superconductivity
J. Steven Dodge
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Thursday, May 2nd 2024, 10:30
Logic and memory functions in molecular tunnelling junctions
Hippolyte Astier
AMAT-NUS Corp Lab / Gradečak Group, National University of Singapore
Abstract
Thursday, April 25th 2024, 10:30
Excitons and Excimers in Molecular π-Stacks
Frank Spano
Department of Chemistry, Temple University
Abstract
Thursday, April 11th 2024, 10:30
Quantum Hall Phase Diagram of Bilayer Graphene
Efrat Shimshoni
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University
Abstract
Thursday, April 4th 2024, 10:30
The excitement and frustration of persistent photoconductivity in lead-halide perovskites
John A. Marohn
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
Abstract
Thursday, March 28th 2024, 10:30
One hundred years of polarons
Feliciano Giustino
University of Texas at Austin
Abstract
Thursday, March 21st 2024, 10:30 (In person only)
Characterizing cell-to-surface interactions at the nanoscale by back-focal-plane microscopy for biosensing and nanoparticle delivery
Lucien Weiss
Département de génie physique, Polytechnique Montréal
Abstract
POSTPONED: Thursday, March 14th 2024, 10:30
Cyril Proust
Thursday, February 22nd 2024, 10:30
Ultrafast Quantum Photonics: Beating Decoherence with Fast Light
Ben Sussman
National Research Council & University of Ottawa
Abstract
Thursday, February 15th 2024, 10:30
Simulating Spin Systems Using Programmable Quantum Simulators
Victor Drouin-Touchette
Université de Sherbrooke & PASQAL
Abstract
Thursday, February 1st 2024, 10:30
Exponential Quantum Speedup for Simulating Classical Harmonic Oscillators
Nathan Weibe
University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, January 18th 2024, 10:30
New approaches for the investigation of confined hyperbolic polaritons in Van der Waals crystals
Sébastien Francoeur
Polytechnique Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, January 11th 2024, 10:30
Quantum Sensing with Diamond Defects
Erika Janitz
Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, University of Calgary
Abstract
Thursday, December 7th 2023, 10:30
Navigating protein landscapes with a machine-learned transferable coarse-grained model
Cecilia Clementi
Freie Universität
Abstract
Thursday, November 30th 2023, 10:30
Van Roosbroeck's equations with topological terms: The case of Weyl semimetals
Ion Garate
Département de physique, Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, November 23rd 2023, 10:30 (Boardroom - room 105
Quantum microscopy using spatially correlated photons
Bienvenu Ndagano
INRS-EMT
Abstract
Thursday, November 9th 2023, 10:30
Electron dynamics in quantum materials probed by advanced momentum-resolved spectroscopies
Fabio Boschini
INRS-EMT
Abstract
Thursday, November 2nd 2023, 10:30
Tracing electrons in organic optoelectronic materials
Sarah Burke
Departments of Chemistry and Physics & Astronomy, UBC
Abstract
Thursday, October 26th 2023, 10:30
Quantum Optics with 2D and Not 2D Materials
Pankaj K. Jha
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University
Abstract
Thursday, October 19th 2023, 10:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Crafting Light at the Nanoscale: Disruptive Optical and Optoelectronic Applications Harnessing the Power of Reverse Micelles
Ayse Turak
Departments of Physics, Concordia University
Abstract
Thursday, October 5th 2023, 10:30
Learnability phase transition in monitored quantum dynamics
Matteo Ipolitti
Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
Abstract
Friday, September 29th 2023, 14:00
Special CPM Seminar
Heat transport in Weyl semimetals in the hydrodynamic regime
Dima Gutman
Bar-Ilan University
Abstract
Thursday, September 21st 2023, 10:30
Joint CPM/RQMP/INTRIQ Seminar
Solid-state qubits and quantum cavities for fault-tolerant quantum computing
Bill Coish
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, September 14th 2023, 10:30
Multi-control of magnetoelectric and magnetotransport properties in nanoscale magnetic heterostructures
Yu-Hui Tang
Department of Physics, National Central University of Taiwan
Abstract
Thursday, September 7th 2023, 10:30
Strange metallic transport of strongly interacting Hubbard model and hard core bosons
Assa Auerbach
Technion
Abstract
Wednesday, June 21st 2023, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special CPM Seminar
Breaking Kirchhoff's Law of Thermal Radiation and Its Implications in Energy Applications
Bo Zhao
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston
Abstract
Monday, May 1st 2023, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Dynamic electron interactions in quantum materials probed via TR-ARPES and RIXS
Fabio Boschini
INRS
Abstract
Monday, April 24th 2023, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Joint INTRIQ/RQMP (CPM) Seminar
Spin qubits in semiconductor heterostructures: The promise and the reality
Xuedong Hu
Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Abstract
Monday, April 17th 2023, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Chimie covalente et interactions électron-phonon dans des nanostructures de carbones
Richard Martel
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, April 14th 2023, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special CPM Seminar
Why the band structure of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can lie to you and what to do about it
Alexander McDonald
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Monday, April 3rd 2023, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
2D Quantum materials and devices at the atomic scale
Adina Luican-Mayer
University of Ottawa
Abstract
Monday, March 27th 2023, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
The physics of electron-doped ferroelectrics and quantum paraelectrics
Bill Atkinson
Trent University
Abstract
Friday, March 24th 2023, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special INTRIQ/CPM Seminar
Noncommuting charges and their effect on entanglement
Shayan Majidy
Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Monday, March 20th 2023, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Electrons with Planckian Scattering in the Strange Metal Phase of Cuprate Superconductors
Amirreza Ataei
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Monday, March 13th 2023, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Hund Metals: Strong Electronic Correlations Beyond the Mott Paradigm
Antoine Georges
Flatiron Institute
Abstract
Monday, February 27th 2023, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Abundance of Ground States in a Frustrated Quantum Antiferromagnet
Owen Benton
MPI PKS
Abstract
Wednesday, February 22nd 2023, 11:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Measurements conspire nonlocally to restructure critical quantum states
Samuel Garratt
UC Berkely
Abstract
Monday, February 20th 2023, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Determining the modal structure of quantum light using intensity interferometry
Guillaume Thekkadath
NRC
Abstract
Monday, February 13th 2023, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Quantization of dynamics in quasi-periodically driven systems
Anushya Chandran
Boston University
Abstract
Monday, February 6th 2023, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
High-Pressure Hydrides and Electron-phonon Superconductivity: questions about the Experiments and questions about the Theory
Frank Marsiglio
Departement of Physics, University of Alberta
Abstract
Monday, January 30th 2023, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Electron localization in quantum materials using dynamical cluster approach
Hanna Terletska
Middle Tennessee State University
Abstract
Wednesday, January 25th 2023, 10:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special CPM Seminar
Manipulating and Measuring States of an Optomechanical Resonator in the Quantum Regime
Yiqi Wang
Yale University
Abstract
Monday, January 16th 2023, 11:00 (R.E.Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Quantum scars and their relations to subspaces with “broken” time evolution operators
Pierre-Gabriel Rozon
Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, January 12th 2023, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Special RQMP (CPM) Seminar
Investigation of Multifrequency Raman Generated Spectra
Donna Strickland
Nobel Laureate
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Monday, December 19th 2022, 09:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special INTRIQ/CPM Seminar
Tracking protein conformation with a single NV center
Benjamin D'Anjou
Centre of Quantum Bioscience, Ulm University
Abstract
Monday, December 12th 2022, 11:00 (R.E.Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Quantum Nonreciprocity with Nonlinearity and Weyl semimetals
Alex Krasnok
Florida International University
Abstract
Monday, December 5th 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Heat conduction in herbertsmithite: field dependence at the onset of the quantum spin liquid regime
Quentin Barthélémy
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Monday, November 28th 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Surface engineering for sustainable future: Multifunctional coatings for optics, energy, and aerospace applications
Ludvik Martinu
Polytechnique Montréal
Abstract
Monday, November 21st 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Excitations and dynamics of fractional quantum Hall fluids of light (and of atoms)
Iacopo Carusotto
Università di Trento
Abstract
Monday, November 14th 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Electronic structure and charge order in square planar low valence nickelates
Yao Shen
Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
Monday, November 7th 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
A Dual Outlook for Inverse Design
Sean Molesky
Polytechnique
Abstract
Monday, October 31st 2022, 11:00 (R.E.Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Quantum state representation with artificial and spiking neural networks
Stefanie Czischek
University of Ottawa
Abstract
Monday, October 24th 2022, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
RQMP (CPM)/INTRIQ Seminar
Quantum Computational Advantage with a Programmable Photonic Processor
Nicolás Quesada
Polytechnique
Abstract
Monday, October 17th 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Paramagnon scattering and pseudogaps from weak to strong coupling
Friedrich Krein
TU Wein
Abstract
Friday, October 7th 2022, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special CPM Seminar
Atomistic modelling of exchange interaction in silicon qubits
Rajib Rahman
School of Physics, University of New South Wales
Abstract
Monday, September 26th 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Mechanical sensors for exploring the dark sector
Swati Singh
University of Delaware
Abstract
Monday, September 19th 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Self-healing UV curable coatings for wood finishing system
Chloé Paquet
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Monday, September 12th 2022, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation: What, why, how, when?
Sankar Das-Sarma
University of Maryland
Abstract
Thursday, August 18th 2022, 10:30 (R.E.Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special INTRIQ Seminar
Progress in Atomically-Precise Dopant-in-Semiconductor Fabrication by Scanning Tunneliing Microscopy
Taylor J. Z. Stock
London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London
Abstract
Wednesday, July 6th 2022, 13:00
Special CPM Seminar
Topological insulators and superconductors present anomalous states at their boundaries
Wladimir A. Benalcazar Moncayo
Princeton University
Abstract
Monday, March 21st 2022, 11:30
Special CPM Seminar
Evidence for deconfined U(1) gauge theory at the transition between toric code and double semion
Thomas Scaffidi
University of Toronto
Abstract
CANCELLED: Friday, May 15th 2020, 14:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Susumu Saito
Tokyo Institute of Technology
CANCELLED: Thursday, April 23rd 2020, 10:30
Tomislav Frisic
Department of Chemistry, McGill University
CANCELLED: Thursday, April 16th 2020, 10:30
Mark Wilson
University of Toronto
CANCELLED: Thursday, April 9th 2020, 10:30
Lindsay Leblanc
University of Alberta
CANCELLED: Thursday, April 2nd 2020, 10:30
Stefanos Kourtis
Université de Sherbrooke
CANCELLED: Thursday, March 26th 2020, 10:30
Aspects of Topological Photonics
Mikael Rechtsman
Penn State
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, March 19th 2020, 10:30
The 17 position knob:Tuning interactions with rare earths
Paul Canfield
Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University
Abstract
Thursday, March 12th 2020, 10:30
Mapping Semiconductor Nanowire Junction Potentials
Karen Kavanagh
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Thursday, February 27th 2020, 10:30
Femtosecond laser micromachining of materials to engineer functional surfaces
Anne Marie Kietzig
Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 19th 2020, 11:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Exciton many body interactions in two-dimensional semiconductors
Xiaoyang Zhu
Columbia University
Abstract
Thursday, February 13th 2020, 10:30
Collective computation and regulation in the immune system
Andreas Mayer
Princeton University
Abstract
Thursday, January 30th 2020, 10:30
INTRIQ Seminar
Integrated frequency micro combs
Roberto Morandotti
INRS-EMT
Abstract
Thursday, January 16th 2020, 10:30
INTRIQ Seminar
Microwave quantum measurement based on inelastic Cooper pair tunneling
Max Hofheinz
(Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Institut Quantique, Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Tuesday, January 14th 2020, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Time- and angle-resolved photoemission of quantum materials
Fabio Boschini
Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, UBC
Abstract
Thursday, January 9th 2020, 10:30
Diagnosing quantum chaos using entanglement as a resource
Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise
UBC
Abstract
Thursday, December 12th 2019, 10:30
Atomically Precise Doping in Silicon by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Taylor J.Z. Stock
London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London
Abstract
Thursday, December 5th 2019, 10:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
The Physics of Electron Transfer at Solid-Liquid Interfaces
Kirk Bevan
Materials Engineering, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, November 21st 2019, 10:30
Josephson Detection of Multiband Effects in Superconductors
James Williams
University of Maryland
Abstract
Thursday, November 14th 2019, 10:30
Cavity Spintronics
Can-Ming Hu
University of Manitoba
Abstract
Thursday, November 7th 2019, 10:30
Engineering of Majorana bound states via efficient real-space parameter optimization
Ion Garate
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, October 31st 2019, 10:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Insulating phases of topological superconductors - the Majorana-Zero Modes point of view
Yuval Oreg
Weizmann Institute
Abstract
Thursday, October 24th 2019, 10:30
INTRIQ Seminar
Nanoscale circuits in microwave cavities as a platform for sensing topological matter and engineering interactions between photons
Takis Kontos / Audrey Cottet
Laboratoire de Physique de l'École Normale Supérieure
Abstract
Thursday, October 17th 2019, 10:30
Theoretical understanding of photon spectroscopies in correlated materials in and out of equilibrium
Thomas Devereaux
Stanford University
Abstract
Thursday, October 10th 2019, 10:30
Bio and Quantum Nanoplasmonics: From Single Proteins to Single Ion Emitters
Reuven Gordon
University of Victoria
Abstract
Thursday, October 3rd 2019, 10:30
Special collective modes from spin-orbit coupling
Saurabh Maiti
Concordia University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 2nd 2019, 14:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
A new high resolution optical detection scheme to study the interaction of enzymes along a replication fork
Vincent Croquette
École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles
Abstract
Thursday, September 26th 2019, 10:30
Neural effects of transcranial brain stimulation
Christopher Pack
Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 3rd 2019, 10:30
Special CPM Seminar
Multiscale time-dependent-quantum-transport/classical-micromagnetics approach to dynamics of noncollinear magnetic textures
Branislav Nikolić
University of Delaware
Abstract
Thursday, June 13th 2019, 14:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Phase fingerprint of topological transition in Josephson Junctions
Javad Shabani
New York University
Abstract
Wednesday, May 8th 2019, 10:30
Special CPM Seminar
Pre-topological fractional states in one dimension
Eran Sela
Tel-Aviv University
Abstract
Thursday, April 25th 2019, 10:30
Collective Relaxational Dynamics in Molecular Nanomagnets
Anupam Garg
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
Abstract
Thursday, April 11th 2019, 10:30
INTRIQ Seminar
A pathway for quantum computing in silicon
Jonathan Baugh
Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Tuesday, April 9th 2019, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
“Cornering” the electrons on a topological insulator - Higher order TIs
Ranjani Seshadri
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, April 4th 2019, 10:30
INTRIQ Seminar
Interfacing dopants with CMOS transistors and superconducting circuits for quantum information processing
Eva Dupont-Ferrier
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, March 28th 2019, 10:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Physics with intense Terahertz pulses at LCLS
Matthias Hoffman
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Abstract
Thursday, March 21st 2019, 10:30
Energy Loss Spectroscopy at High Resolution: Probing the local electronic structure and the plasmonic response of materials
Gianluigi Botton
Department of aterials Science and Engineering, McMaster University
Abstract
Thursday, March 14 2019, 10:30
New insights into electron and phonon transport in materials: application to thermoelectrics
Jesse Maassen
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University
Abstract
Thursday, February 28th 2019, 10:30
Making and Measuring Macromolecular Machines
Zev Bryant
Stanford
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, February 21st 2019, 10:30
Photon spectroscopies in correlated materials in and out of equilibrium
Thomas Devereaux
Stanford
Abstract
Thursday, February 14th 2019, 10:30
Exciting dynamics in multiple time dimensions
Ivar Martin
Argonne
Abstract
Tuesday, February 12th 2019, 11:30
Special CPM Seminar
Magnetic Weyl and Dirac Kondo semimetal phases in heterostructures
Ashley Cook
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Thursday, February 7th 2019, 10:30
New approaches in time-resolved ARPES
Andrea Damascelli
Quantum Matter Institute and Physics & Astronomy Department, UBC
Abstract
Thursday, January 31st 2019, 10:30
Charge Density Wave Order and Nematicity in High-Temperature Superconductors
David Hawthorn
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Thursday, January 24th 2019, 10:30
Hot superconductors and cold insulators
Danny Shahar
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Abstract
Thursday, January 17th 2019, 10:30
Photo-Mechanical Materials: Stuff that Wiggles in Sunlight
Christopher Barrett
Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 15th 2019, 10:30
Special CPM Seminar
Criticality and universality of Floquet topological phase transitions
Paolo Molignini
ETH Zurich
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, January 10th 2019, 10:30
Surprises From Entropy
Greg van Anders
Queen's University
Abstract
Thursday, December 6th 2018, 10:30
Relating morphology and optical response in soft optoelectronic materials
Lena Simine
Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, November 29th 2018, 10:30
Nanoelectronic sensors for biological molecules
Delphine Bouilly
Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) & Département de physique, Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, November 22nd 2018, 10:30
When molecular beam epitaxy meets nanowires
Songrui Zhao
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, November 15th 2018, 10:30
Structure and energetics of doped organic semiconductors
Ingo Salzmann
Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Concordia University
Abstract
Thursday, November 8th 2018, 10:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Shifting landscapes: energy level alignment and the role of polarization and Hubbard U at organic heterojunctions
Sarah A. Burke
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Department of Chemistry, and Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia
Abstract
Thursday, November 1st 2018, 10:30
Synthetic oscillators as toy models for biological gene circuits: engineering, quantitative analysis and applications
Laurent Potvin-Trottier
Concordia University
Abstract
Thursday, October 25th 2018, 10:30
Amplitude and Phase Dynamics in a Photo-induced Charge Density Wave Transition
Anshul Kogar
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, October 18th 2018, 10:30
Multiple scale model for cell migration in monolayers: Elastic mismatch between cells enhances mobility
Martin Grant
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, September 20th 2018, 10:30
Interplay of Topology and Geometry in Fractional Quantum Hall Liquids
Kun Yang
National High Magnetic Field Lab & Physics Department, Florida Stat University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 18th 2018, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Molecularly-linked gold nanoparticle films across the insulator-to-metal transition: from hopping to strong electron correlations
Monique Tie
University of Toronto
Abstract
Wednesday, August 22nd 2018, 14:00
Special CPM Seminar
Interplay between intrinsic and emergent topological protection on interacting helical modes
Dmitri Gutman
Bar-Ilan University
Abstract
Thursday, July 12th 2018, 10:30
Hydrogen and Graphene: from tuning of hydrogen adsorption by gate voltage, to Si dangling bonds in quasi-free-standing monolayer graphene
Stefan Heun
NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR & Scuola Normale Superiore
Abstract
Monday, June 18th 2018, 14:00
Special CPM Seminar
Ionic liquid gating of InAs nanowire-based field effect transistors
Francesco Rossella
NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore & Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR
Abstract
Thursday, June 7th 2018, 14:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Direct characterization of ultrafast energy-time entangled photon pairs
Jean-Philippe MacLean
University of Waterloo
Abstract
Friday, May 18th 2018, 10:30
Special CPM Seminar
A Pillar of Condensed Matter Spectroscopy Fails Inspection
Eric Heller
Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, May 10th 2018, 14:00
Special CPM Seminar
Solute precipitate nucleation: theoretical and computational advances
Baron Peters
UCSB
Abstract
Thursday, May 10th 2018, 10:30
Understanding advanced materials: from Li-ion batteries to magnetic phase competition in Heusler alloys
Eric McCalla
Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, May 3rd 2018, 10:30
Spin-orbit coupling in spintronics and photovoltaics
Paul Haney
NIST
Abstract
Thursday, April 26th 2018, 10:00
Note special time
Engineering electronic states at transition metal oxide interfaces: picoscale distortions and electronic correlations
Sohrab Ismail-Beigi
Department of Applied Physcis, Yale University
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, April 19th 2018, 10:30 (Keys Auditorium - room 112)
Note special venue
Structure and energetics of doped organic semiconductors
Ingo Salzmann
Concordia University
Abstract
Thursday, April 12th 2018, 11:30
Note special time
Graphene aerogels: from self-assembly to applications
Marta Cerruti
Materials Engineering, McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, March 28th 2018, 15:00
Special CPM Seminar
Nanostructured Stealth Surfaces for Visible and Near-Infrared Light
Zhaolu Diao
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Abstract
Thursday, March 22nd 2018, 14:00
Note special time
Graphene Quantum Strain Transistors
Alexandre Champagne
Department of Physics, Concordia University
Abstract
Thursday, March 15th 2018, 10:30
Network structure in aging: spherical-cow people
Andrew Rutenberg
Dalhousie University
Abstract
Thursday, February 1st 2018, 15:00
Note special time
The nonequilibrium physics of amorphous materials: collective dynamics, emergent behavior, and memory effects
Joerg Rottler
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia
Abstract
Thursday, January 11th 2018, 10:30
Computational Modeling of Calcium Ion Batteries
Manuel Smeu
Department of Physics, Binghamton University
Abstract
Tuesday, December 5th 2017, 11:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Note special venue
The Majorana-Hubbard model
Ian Affleck
UBC
Abstract
Thursday, November 30th 2017, 10:30
Prediction and rational control of the evolution of microbial populations by integrating biophysics and population genetics
Adrian Serohijos
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, November 23rd 2017, 10:30
Ultrafast optoelectronics in 2D materials and their heterostructures
Mathieu Massicotte
Abstract
Thursday, November 16th 2017, 10:30
Flexible, stretchable and healable electronics
Fabio Cicoira
Chemical Engineering, École Polytechnique
Abstract
Thursday, October 26 2017, 10:30
Probing Dirac fermions in correlated electron materials via magneto-infrared spectroscopy
Zhigang Jiang
School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstract
Thursday, October 19th 2017, 10:30
Principles of and progress in building atomic electronic machines for classical and quantum circuitry: they really work
Bob Wolkow
University of Alberta
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, October 18th 2017, 10:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Note special venue
Phonon networks with SiV centers in diamond waveguides
Marc-Antoine Lemonde
Atominstitut, TU Wien
Abstract
Thursday, October 12th 2017, 10:30
How to make the Landau framework for topological order: Introduction to the recipe book
Gennady Chitov
Laurentian University
Abstract
Friday, October 6th 2017, 14:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Quantum Hall Ferromagnets and Skyrmions in Graphene
Mark-Oliver Goerbig
Université de Paris-Sub
Abstract
Friday, October 6th 2017, 10:30
Special CPM Seminar
Squeezed light for current and future gravitational wave detectors
Georgia Mansell
Australian National University
Abstract
Thursday, October 5th 2017, 10:30
Stochastic Simulation to Model Gene Expression and Kinetic Proofreading
Philip Nelson
University of Pennsylvania
Monday, October 2nd 2017, 15:00
Special CPM Seminar
Interfacing squeezed light with mechanical systems
Ulrik Andersen
Technical University of Denmark
Abstract
Thursday, February 8th 2017, 10:30
Alexandre Champagne
Concordia University
Tuesday, September 5th 2017, 10:30 (Room 326)
Special CPM Seminar
Note special venue
Quantum limits of sensing and imaging
Animesh Datta
University of Warwick
Abstract
Monday, August 7th 2017, 10:30
Special CPM Seminar
Imaging coherent thermoelectric transport through quantum devices
Boris Brun-Barrière
UC Louvain
Abstract
Wednesday, July 19th 2017, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
A Multiprobe AFM With Controlled Ultra-Close Contact Capabilities & Spectroscopy for Single Molecule Physics and Biology
David Lewis
Nanonics
Abstract
Monday, June 26th 2017, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Nano microscopy faster than a cycle of light
Tyler Cocker
University of Regensberg
Abstract
Tuesday, May 30th 2017, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Dynamic nuclear polarization and resistively-detected NMR in semiconductor two-dimensional systems
Yoshiko Hirayama
Tohoku University
Abstract
Monday, May 15th 2017, 10:30
IEEE Magnetics Society 2016 Distinguished Lecture
The Hall effects Edwin Hall never imagined
Xiaofeng Jin
Fudan University
Abstract
Friday, May 12th 2017, 10:00
Special CPM Seminar
Optical tweezers combined with AFM - Investigating cell mechanics and single molecules on multiple scales
Florian Kumpfe
JPK Instruments
Abstract
Thursday, May 11th 2017, 10:30
Dysfunctional signaling bistability in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia:
theoretical modeling, single-cell measurements, and clinical insight
Grégoire Altan-Bonnet
Immunodynamics group, National Cancer Institute, NIH
Abstract
Monday, May 8th 2017, 11:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Realizing quantum spin liquid phases in spin-orbit driven correlated materials
Gideon Wachtel
University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, May 4th 2017, 12:00
Joint Theory HEP/CPM Seminar
Universal dynamics near quantum critical points
William Witczak-Krempa
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, May 4th 2017, 10:30
Physics of genome folding
Leonid A. Mirny
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Thursday, April 27th 2017, 10:30
Precise Chemical, Physical, and Electronic Nanoscale Contacts
Paul Weiss
California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract
Thursday, April 6th 2017, 10:30
Probing atomic and electronic structures of 2D electronic materials and their heterostructures
Ken Shih
Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin
Abstract
Thursday, March 30th 2017, 10:30
New color centers in diamond for long distance quantum communication
Nathalie de Leon
Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, March 16th 2017, 10:30
Physics of genome folding
Leonid A. Mirny
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Friday, March 10th 2017, 13:00 (room 326)
Special CPM Seminar
Asylum Research Webinar: Recent Advances in AFM Instrumentation for Biological Studies
Nicholas A. Geisse
Oxford Instruments Asylum Research
Abstract
Thursday, March 2nd 2017, 10:30
Engineering Superconducting Quantum Processors: At the Intersection of Engineering and Quantum Physics
Alireza Najafi-Yazdi
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, February 23rd 2017, 13:30
Note special time
Resolving microscopic dynamics in condensed matter with ultrafast THz spectroscopy
Jean-Michel Ménard
University of Ottawa
Abstract
Thursday, February 16th 2017, 10:30
The Benefits of Being Thin: The Revolutionary Potential of Ultrathin Membranes for Biology and Medicine
Jim McGrath
University of Rochester
Abstract
Thursday, February 9th 2017, 15:30
Note special time
Toward band structure engineering in graphene with adatoms
Erik Henriksen
Washington University in St. Louis
Abstract
Thursday, February 2nd 2017, 10:30
Counter-diabatic driving in many-particle systems
Anatoli Polkovnikov
Boston University
Abstract
Thursday, January 26th 2017, 10:30
Single-molecule studies of DNA replication in live cells
Rodrigo Reyes
Department of Biology, McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 24th 2017, 12:00 (room 326)
Joint Theory HEP/CPM Seminar
Renormalization group flows and boundary states in conformal field theories
John Cardy
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Thursday, January 12th 2017, 10:30
Biophysical models of protein evolutionary dynamics
Alexander Morozov
Rutgers University
Abstract
Thursday, December 15th 2016, 10:30
Paper-Based Microfluidic Biosensors for Disease Diagnostics
Xinyu Liu
Mechanical Engineering
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, December 8th 2016, 10:30
Zuckermann Lecture
The mechanical work of titin folding and muscle contraction
Julio Fernández
Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University
Abstract
Friday, November 25th 2016, 10:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Quantum optomechanics with superfluid helium
Alexey Shkarin
Yale University
Abstract
Thursday, November 24th 2016, 10:30
Multiscale Modelling of Graphene from Nano to Micron Scales
Tapio Ala-Nissila
Aalto University
Abstract
Thursday, November 10th 2016, 10:30
Low dimensional electrons: On the road to hybrid quantum systems
Johannes Pollanen
Michigan State University
Abstract
Thursday, November 3rd 2016, 10:30 ( Boardroom - room 105)
Entanglement dynamics following quantum quenches in Floquet topological insulators and quantum critical systems
Aditi Mitra
New York University
Abstract
Thursday, October 27th 2016, 10:30
Dislocation-mediated phyllotactic transformations in tubular crystals
Daniel Beller
Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, October 20th 2016, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Active hybrid devices based on physisorbed elements on Graphene: from superconducting transport to biomedical applications
Vincent Bouchiat
Département nanosciences, Institut Néel
Abstract
Thursday, October 20th 2016, 10:30
Signatures of the chiral anomaly in phonon dynamics
Ion Garate
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Wednesday, October 19th 2016, 10:30
Special CPM Seminar
Quantitative Single-Cell Biophysics: Unraveling Bacterial Adaptation Dynamics under Fluctuating Environments
Guillaume Lambert
Cornell University
Abstract
Monday, October 17th 2016, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Scalable synthesis of WS2 on graphene and h-BN: an all-2D platform for light-matter transduction
Antonio Rossi
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Abstract
Friday, October 14th 2016, 11:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Resolving Nanoscale heterogeneity with single Particle Imaging
Duane Loh
Department of Physics & Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore
Abstract
Thursday, October 13th 2016, 10:30
Electric polarization, magnetic order and Berry phase in multiferroics
Reza Nourafkan
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, October 6th 2016, 10:30 ( Boardroom - room 105)
Wallace Lecture
Transport, Magnetic and Optical Properties of Non-colinear Antiferromagnets
Qian Niu
Department of Physics, University of Texas
Abstract
Thursday, September 29th 2016, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Entanglement in the Bose Hubbard Model
Adrian Del Maestro
University of Vermont
Abstract
Thursday, September 29th 2016, 10:30
Strain doping: a new avenue for understanding and controlling materials
Zac Ward
Thin films and Nanostructures Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Abstract
Thursday, September 22nd 2016, 10:30
Topological transport out of equilibrium
Tami Pereg-Barnea
Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Monday, September 19th 2016, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Electron quantum optics in ballistic conductors
Gwendal Feve
École Normale Supérieure
Abstract
Thursday, September 15th 2016, 10:30
Subcycle Quantum Optics
Denis Seletskiy
Department of Physics and Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz
Abstract
Thursday, September 8th 2016, 10:30
Searching for topological phases in transition metal oxide thin films and heterostructures
Gregory Fiete
UT Austin
Abstract
Thursday, September 1st 2016, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Flexible Sagnac interferometers
Yosi Avron
Technion - Israel institute of technology
Tuesday, August 30th 2016, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Toward Single Atom Qubits on a Surface: ESR in the STM
William Paul
IBM Research
Abstract
Tuesday, August 16th 2016, 10:30
Special CPM Seminar
Probing matter with neutrons
Sebastian Busch
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum
Abstract
Tuesday, July 12th 2016, 10:00
Special CPM Seminar
Nanoscale Chemical Imaging by Photo-Induced Force Microscopy
Tom Albrecht
Molecular Vista, Inc.
Abstract
Monday, July 4th 2016, 14:00
Special CPM Seminar
Molecular mechanisms of lubrication
Roland Bennewitz
INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials
Abstract
Friday, June 17th 2016, 14:00
Special CPM Seminar
Testing Landauer's Principle in a Feedback Trap
John Bechhoefer
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Friday, May 20th 2016, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
3D manufacturing of metallic implants
Michael de Wild
Institute for Medical and Analytical Technologies, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
Abstract
Wednesday, May 18th 2016, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105
Special CPM Seminar
Measurement of 2D topological invariants from anomalous edge spectral flow
Sriram Ganeshan
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
Abstract
Thursday, May 5th 2016, 15:30
Thermodynamics of Accuracy
Luca Peliti
Institute for Advanced Study
Abstract
Thursday, April 21st 2016, 15:30
Ström-Olsen Lecture
Quantum Squeezing of Motion
Keith Schwab
Caltech
Abstract
Thursday, April 14th 2016, 15:30
Anomalous Hall Effect Generalities in Dirac Materials
Alex Levchenko
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Abstract
Thursday, April 7th 2016, 15:30
Controlling coherent spins with nanoscale addressability: Coupled dynamics of ferromagnetic vortices and individual nitrogen-vacancy spins
Jesse Berezovsky
Case Western Reserve University
Abstract
Thursday, March 31st 2016, 15:30
Mechanics of in-vivo and in-vitro embryonic tissues
Karine Guevorkian
IGBMC Strasbourg
Abstract
Thursday, March 24th 2016, 15:30
Superparamagnetism at oxide interfaces revealed by scanning SQUID-on-tip microscopy
Yonathan Anahory
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Abstract
Wednesday, March 23rd 2016, 14:30
Special CPM Seminar
Hydrodynamic quantum analogs
John Bush
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, March 15th 2016, 11:00
Note special time
Special CPM Seminar
Heat transfer and energy conversion using near-field thermal radiation
Raphaël St-Gelais
Cornell University & Columbia University
Abstract
Thursday, March 10th 2016, 15:30
Organic polariton lasers: quantum fluids of light
Stéphane Kéna-Cohen
École Polytechnique
Abstract
Tuesday, March 8th 2016, 13:00
Special CPM Seminar
Old news and new news about single-photon sensitivity in human vision
Philip Nelson
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Tuesday, March 8th 2016, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Universality in Soft Active Matter
Chiu Fan Lee
Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
Abstract
Thursday, February 25th 2016, 09:00
MIAM / McGill Nanotools User Meeting
Wednesday, February 24th 2016, 10:30
Special CPM Seminar
Concurrent Remote Entanglement with Continuous Variables
Ananda Roy
Yale University
Abstract
Monday, February 22nd 2016, 11:00 (room 326)
Special CPM Seminar
Josephson Photonics: The Bright Side of Inelastic Cooper Pair Tunnelling
Max Hofheinz
Laboratoire de Transport Electronique Quantique et Supraconductivité, Institut des Nanosciences et Cryogénie, CEA Grenoble
Abstract
Thursday, February 11th 2016, 15:30
Density functional theory based on absolutely localized molecular orbitals: computational efficiency and physical insight
Rustam Khaliullin
Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Abstract
Friday, February 5th 2016, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Weyl semi-metal: a new topological state in condensed matter
Xi Dai
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Thursday, February 4th 2016, 15:30
Bringing bioelectricity to light
Adam Cohen
Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, January 28th 2016, 15:30
A new paradigm for polaronic behavior
Mona Berciu
UBC
Abstract
Thursday, January 21st 2016, 15:30
Transport and interaction effects in moire patterns formed by graphene on boron nitride
Ashley DaSilva
University of Texas
Abstract
Thursday, January 14th 2016, 15:30
Linking high harmonics from gases and bulk solids
Giulio Vampa
University of Ottawa
Abstract
Thursday, December 10th 2015, 15:30
Organic superconductors and quantum criticality in molecular matter
Claude Bourbonnais
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, November 26th 2015, 15:30
Chemically synthesized CdSe quantum nanowires: Correlations between structural, optical, and electronic properties
Tobias Kipp
Department of Chemistry, Universität Hamburg
Abstract
Thursday, November 19th 2015, 15:30
Interacting surface states of topological insulators
Joseph Maciejko
University of Alberta
Abstract
Wednesday, November 11th 2015, 10:00
Special CPM Seminar
Characterization and measurement of qubit-environment entanglement generation during pure dephasing
Katarzyna Roszak
Wroclaw University of Technology
Abstract
Thursday, November 5th 2015, 15:30
Seeing the invisible: journey into the quantum world
Shohini Ghose
Wilfrid Laurier University
Abstract
Thursday, October 29th 2015, 15:30
Magnetism without tetragonal symmetry-breaking in iron-based superconductors
Rafael Fernandes
University of Minnesota
Abstract
Wednesday, October 28th 2015, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Prospects for Hydrogen Storage in Graphene
Stefan Heun
CNR-Nano/Scuola Normale Pisa
Abstract
Friday, October 23rd 2015, 10:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Testing the reality of the quantum wavefunction
Stephanie Simmons
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Thursday, October 22nd 2015, 15:30
Quasi-2D materials for spintronics - Topological Insulators and Graphene
Ching-Tzu Chen
IBM
Abstract
Thursday, October 15th 2015, 15:30
DNA dynamics in the bulk and in a quasi-one-dimensional confinement
Aniket Bhattacharya
Department of Physics, University of Central Florida
Abstract
Tuesday, October 13th 2015, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Appearance of Multiple Percolative Patterns via Cascades of Geometric Transitions
Gennady Y. Chitov
Department of Physics, Laurentian University
Abstract
Friday October 9th 2015, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
From quantum oscillations to charge order in high-Tc cuprate superconductors
Cyril Proust
LNCMI/CNRS Toulouse
Abstract
Thursday, October 8th 2015, 15:30
Probing 3D Kitaev spin liquid states with Raman scattering
Fiona Burnell
University of Minnesota
Abstract
Wednesday, October 7th 2015, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Enhanced Bulk-Edge Coulomb Coupling in Fractional Fabry-Perot Interferometers
Bernd Rosenow
Leipzig University
Abstract
Thursday, October 1st 2015, 15:30
AlGaN-based technology for deep UV emitters
Zlatko Sitar
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University
Abstract
Friday, September 25th 2015, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Switching single photons with a color center in a diamond photonic crystal nanocavity
Ruffin Evans
Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, September 24th 2015, 15:30
Early cancer detection by enrichment of circulating tumor DNA
Andre Marziali
UBC Physics and Astronomy & Boreal Genomics
Abstract
Thursday, September 17th 2015, 15:30
Local force mapping of an NdFeB micro-magnet arrays using a custom-made Microparticle MFM probe
Florence Marchi
Grenoble Alpes University & Néel Institute/CNRS
Abstract
Thursday, September 10th 2015, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Zuckermann Lecture
Precision and reproducibility in development
Thomas Gregor
Princeton
Abstract
Tuesday, September 8th 2015, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Quantum Magnetoconductivity in Topological Semimetals
Shun-Qing Shen
Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong
Abstract
Tuesday, August 18th 2015, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special CPM Seminar
Elucidating the Mechanism for the Catalytic Hydrodeoxygenation of Phenols
Jean-Sabin McEwen
Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University
Abstract
Monday, August 3rd 2015, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special CPM Seminar
Molecular toolkit for surface materials with switchable tribological functions
Johanna Blass
Leibniz-Institute for New Materials, Saarland University
Abstract
Thursday, June 25th 2015, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Transport signatures of long-range nuclear-spin coherence in a quantum-dot spin valve
Stefano Chesi
CSRC, Beijing, China
Abstract
Monday, June 1st 2015, 15:00
Special CPM Seminar
The Physics of semiflexible polymer chains
Jeff Z. Y. Chen
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Thursday, May 21st 2015, 15:30
Pushing GaAs to the extreme: from the 5/2 FQHE to spin qubits
Michael Manfra
Purdue University
Abstract
Wednesday, May 20th 2015, 11:00 (room 326)
Special CPM Seminar
Isotope engineering of silicon and diamond for quantum information processing
Kohei Itoh
Keio University
Friday, May 15th 2015, 14:00 (room 326)
Special CPM Seminar
Optomechanics With A Twist
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Rochester Institute of Technology
Abstract
Tuesday, May 5th 2015, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Direct observation of ultrafast long-range charge separation at polymer-fullerene heterojunctions
Carlos Silva
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, May 1st 2015, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Electronic landscapes of organic semiconductor nanostructures: mapping states for charge transfer at sub-molecular scales using pixel-by-pixel STS
Sarah Burke
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy / Dept. of Chemistry, University of British Columbia
Abstract
Thursday, April 30th 2015, 15:30
Proposed Realization and Signatures of Floquet Topological Superconductors and Insulators
Babak Seradjeh
Indiana University
Abstract
Monday, April 27th 2015, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Why does graphene behave as a weakly interacting system?
Sankar Das Sarma
University of Maryland
Abstract
Thursday, April 16th 2015, 15:30
Visualizing RNA transcription in cells at single nucleotide resolution
Stirling Churchmann
Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, April 9th 2015, 15:30
Shining light on Topological Insulators
Nuh Gedik
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, April 2nd 2015, 15:30
Hidden, Composite and Emergent Order in heavy fermion materials
Piers Coleman
Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers University
Abstract
Thursday, March 26th 2015, 15:30
New Directions in Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with Molecular-Resolution Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Nan Jiang
Northwestern University
Abstract
Thursday, March 19th 2015, 15:30
Ström-Olsen Lecture
Strange electrons in quantum materials
Alessandra Lanzara
UC Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract
Thursday, March 12th 2015, 15:30
From electron shot noise to quantum optics
Bertrand Reulet
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, February 26th 2015, 15:30
Repelled, yet attracted: the case of strongly correlated superconductivity
André-Marie Tremblay
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Wednesday, February 18th 2015, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Periodically driven Ising model
Garry Goldstein
Rutgers University
Abstract
Monday, February 16th 2015, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Electronic band structure and superconducting gaps in Fe-based superconductors
Pierre Richard
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics
Abstract
Thursday, February 5th 2015, 15:30
Nonlinear Quantum Liquids in One Dimension
Leonid Glazman
Yale University
Abstract
Monday, February 2nd 2015, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special CPM Seminar
Light matters - from Floquet topological insulators to topological polaritons
Gil Refael
CalTech
Abstract
Thursday, January 29th 2015, 15:30
Nanostructures: Rational Design for Energy-related Applications
Dongling Ma
INRS
Abstract
Thursday, January 22nd 2015, 15:30
Spin, orbital, and spin-orbit excitations in iridates
Young-June Kim
University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, January 8th 2015, 15:30
Spin Current: The Torque Wrench of Spintronics
Mark Stiles
NIST
Abstract
Thursday, December 11th 2014, 15:30
First-Principles Approach for Investigations of Structural and Electronic Properties and Energy Level Alignment at Aqueous Semiconductor Interfaces
James Muckerman
Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
Tuesday, November 25th 2014, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Perturbative and exact non-Fermi Liquids
Shouvik Sur
McMaster University
Abstract
Monday, November 24th 2014, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special CPM Seminar
Fabrication and characterization of gate-defined structures in metamorphic InAs heterostructures
Javad Shabani
California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Santa Barbara
Abstract
Thursday, November 13th 2014, 15:30
Hofstadter's Butterfly in the clean limit
Cory Dean
Columbia University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 11th 2014, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
What Happens Inside a Unit Cell Matters - Effects of Umklapp Processes on Correlated Materials
Wei-Cheng Lee
Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Binghamton University / SUNY
Abstract
Thursday, November 6th 2014, 15:30
THz quantum cascade lasers - back to the future
Zbig Wasilewski
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Thursday, October 30th 2014, 15:30
Experimental Quantum Electronics in 10-nm Scale Carbon Systems
Alexandre Champagne
Concordia University
Abstract
Thursday, October 23rd 2014, 15:30
Probing and programming biomolecular machines using synthetic nucleic acids
Mark Bathe
Department of Biological Engineering, MIT
Abstract
Thursday, October 16th 2014, 15:30
Optimal Quantum Control of Excitonic Qubits in Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Kimberly Hall
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhouse University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 15th 2014, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special CPM Seminar
Entropy production and fluctuation relations in thermodynamics of small non-Markovian systems
Tapio Ala-Nissila
Aalto University School of Science
Abstract
Thursday, October 9th 2014, 15:30
Wallace Lecture
Quantum optomechanics and quantum heat engines
Pierre Meystre
Department of Physics and College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
Abstract
Tuesday, October 7th 2014, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Dynamics of Andreev states in a mesoscopic NS ring coupled to a superconducting resonator
Hélène Bouchiat
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud
Abstract
Thursday, October 2nd 2014, 15:30
Has Compelling Experimental Evidence for Order-by-Disorder at Last Been Found in a Frustrated Magnetic Material?
Michel Gingras
Department of Physics, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Thursday, September 25th 2014, 15:30
First-Principles Modeling of Atomically Controlled Nanostructures
Vincent Meunier
Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institut
Abstract
Wednesday, September 24th 2014, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Theoretical Insight into Multi-Channel Scanning Probe Imaging of Metal Oxide Surfaces
Milica Todorović
Department of Condensed Matter Physics Theory, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Abstract
Thursday, September 18th 2014, 15:30
Brownian motion, diffusion equation, and human genetic history
Simon Gravel
Department of Human Genetics, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, September 4th 2014, 15:30
Approaching the limit: Multiplexed Super-Resolution Microscopy with DNA-PAINT and Exchange-PAINT
Ralf Jungmann
Wyss Institute, Harvard University
Abstract
Tuesday, August 19th 2014, 14:00
Special CPM Seminar
Stark effect control of spin rectification in a nanowire multi-dot system
Stefano Roddaro
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Abstract
Friday, August 8th 2014, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special CPM/CSC Seminar
Using time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy to probe electronic and structural dynamics in everything from proteins to nanoparticles to molecules in solution
Chris Milne
Paul Scherrer Institut
Abstract
Friday, July 18th 2014, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Exploring the Quantum Properties of Propagating Microwave Fields
Andreas Wallraff
ETH Zurich
Abstract
Monday, June 16th 2014, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Quantum fluids of light
Cristiano Ciuti
Université Paris Diderot
Abstract
Tuesday, June 10th 2014, 14:30
Special CPM Seminar
A Haldane-like spin chain in the limit of strong anisotropy
Solomon Akaraka Owerre
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, June 3rd 2014, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Engineering photons & phonons in optomechanical arrays
Florian Marquardt
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Abstract
Monday, May 26th 2014, 14:00
Special CPM Seminar
Revealing molecular dynamics by scanning noise microscopy and spectroscopy
Rolf Möller
Faculty of Physics, Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CeNIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen
Abstract
Thursday, May 15th 2014, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Hybrid lipids promote the formation of nanoscale domains in membranes
Benoit Palmieri
McGill University & Weizmann Institute of Science
Abstract
Wednesday, May 14th 2014, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
ac Josephson effect in topological Josephson junctions
Manuel Houzet
CEA Grenoble
Abstract
Monday, May 5th 2014, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Topological Superconductor - Luttinger liquid Junctions
Ian Affleck
UBC
Abstract
Thursday, May 1st 2014, 15:30
Studying Monopoles in Spin Ice at Ultra Low Temperatures
Jan Kycia
University of Waterloo
Abstract
Thursday, April 24th 2014, 15:30
Competitive Structural Transitions in Torsionally Stressed: DNA Their Analysis and Roles in Regulation
Craig Benham
UC Davis Genome Center
Abstract
Thursday, April 17th 2014, 15:30
Chiral Fermi liquids
Dmitrii Maslov
University of Florida
Abstract
Thursday, April 10th 2014, 15:30
Building Novel Optical Materials with Plasmonic Nanocrystals
Andrea Tao
Department of NanEngineering, University of California, San Diego
Abstract
Thursday, April 3rd 2014, 15:30
Quantum Critical Behavior in a Resonant Level Coupled to a Dissipative Environment
Harold Baranger
Duke University
Abstract
Thursday, March 27th 2014, 15:30
Self-organization in animal development and the physics of active foams
David Lubensky
University of Michigan
Abstract
Thursday, March 20th 2014, 15:30
Quantum quench dynamics in spin and topological systems
Smitha Vishveshwara
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract
Thursday, March 13th 2014, 15:30
Entanglement entropy at strongly-interacting critical points
Roger Melko
University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, March 12th 2014, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special CPM Seminar
Scanning SQUID-on-tip microscopy of vortex matter
Yonathan Anahory
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Abstract
Thursday, February 27th 2014, 15:30
New platforms for 1D topological superconductors: spin polarization and transport properties
Pascal Simon
LPS Orsay
Abstract
Thursday, February 20th 2014, 15:30
Exploring ultrafast dynamics on the nanoscale
Frank Hegmann
University of Alberta
Abstract
Tuesday, February 18th 2014, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special CPM Seminar
Single particle effects on the dynamics of quasi-particles: Old ideas, new issues, performed experiments, and possible experiments
J.E. Sipe
Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, February 13th 2014, 15:30
Criminal associations: How Bcl-2 family proteins conspire to make pores in membranes
Cécile Fradin
Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University
Abstract
Thursday, February 6th 2014, 15:30
Possible charge analogues of spin transfer torques in bulk superconductors
Ion Garate
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Wednesday, February 5th 2014, 12:00
Special CPM Seminar
Probing magnetic nanostructures by scanning probe technique
Mircea V. Rastei
Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg
Abstract
Thursday, January 30th 2014, 15:30
Local Probe Measurements of New Quantum Spin Liquid Candidates
Jeffrey Quilliam
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, January 23rd 2014, 15:30
A roadmap to high efficiency intermediate band photovoltaics
Jacob Krich
University of Ottawa
Abstract
Thursday, January 16th 2014, 15:30
Spectral Hole Burning, Recovery and Thermocycling in Chlorophyll-Protein Complexes: Distributions of Barriers on the Protein Energy Landscape
Valter Zazubovits
Concordia University
Abstract
Thursday, December 12th 2013, 15:30
Quantum assisted sensing with diamond spins
Ania Bleszynski-Jayich
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract
Thursday, December 5th 2013, 15:30
Topological phases in graphene
Zlatko Papic
Perimeter Institute/Waterloo Institute for Quantum Computing
Abstract
Monday, December 2nd 2013, 15:30
Special CPM seminar
Self-assembly of colloidal particles at nematic interfaces
Mohamed Gharbi
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Thursday, November 28th 2013, 15:30
Plasmonics for Efficient Light Manipulation in the Quantum and Classical Regimes
Yongmin Liu
Northeastern University
Abstract
Thursday, November 21st 2013, 15:30
Non-uniform Phases in Superconducting and Superfluid He-3 Films
Anton Vorontsov
Montana State University
Abstract
Thursday, November 14th 2013, 15:30
Layered Materials for Future Electronics: From Engineer's Viewpoint
Youngki Yoon
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Monday, November 11th 2013, 13:30
Special CPM seminar
Topological Physics in Band Insulators
Eugene Mele
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Thursday, November 7th 2013, 15:30
Quantum Hall physics in layered/2D materials: from graphene to topological insulators
Yong P. Chen
Purdue University
Abstract
Thursday, November 7th 2013, 11:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Phase shifting, squeezing and non-Gaussian states in a strongly coupled opto-electromechanical resonator
Menno Poot
Yale University
Abstract
Thursday, October 31st 2013, 15:30
Exotic and Unexpected Magnetic Phenomena in Intra-Lanthanide Phases in Low Magnetic Fields (<1 kOe) and Low Temperature (<100 K)
Karl Gschneidner
AMES Laboratory and Iowa State University
Abstract
Thursday, October 24th 2013, 15:30
A Glance at Novel Quantum Correlations in the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
Gábor Csáthy
Purdue University
Abstract
Thursday, October 17th 2013, 15:30
Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconudctor-Semiconductor Nanowire Devices
Sergey Frolov
University of Pittsburgh
Abstract
Friday, October 11th 2013, 11:00
Special CPM seminar
Correlated quantum phenomena in the strong spin-orbit regime
William Witczak-Krempa
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, October 10th 2013, 15:30
Optical microresonators: The interplay of light and matter
Pablo Bianucci
Concordia
Abstract
Thursday, October 3rd 2013, 15:30
Effect of Helium on Porous Vycor Glass: Anomalous Thermal Conductivity Reduction
Zhigang Cheng
Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
Abstract
Thursday, September 26th 2013, 15:30
Electrons in Graphene: Particles with SU(4) symmetry
Amir Yacoby
Department of Physics, Harvard University
Abstract
Monday, September 23rd 2013, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Quantum effects in optomechanical systems
Pierre-François Cohadon
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure
Abstract
Thursday, September 19th 2013, 15:30
The Glassy State, Magnetically Viewed from the Frozen End
Giancarlo Jug
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Abstract
Thursday, September 12th 2013, 15:30
Optical Two-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy of Epitaxially Grown Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Steve Cundiff
JILA, NIST and University of Colorado
Abstract
Thursday, September 5th 2013, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Stochastic gene expression, cell size regulation and cellular decision making
Vahid Shahrezaei
Imperial College London
Abstract
Thursday, August 15th 2013, 15:30
Quantum sensing and engineering with nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond
Steve Bennett
Harvard University
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, July 25th 2013, 15:30
Effect of Helium on Porous Vycor Glass: Anomalous Thermal Conductivity Reduction
Zhigang Cheng
Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
Friday, July 12th 2013, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Indirect Interaction of Spins via Ferromagnet
Fabio Pedrocchi
University of Basel
Abstract
Thursday, June 27th 2013, 15:30
Optical signatures of silicon-based spins in diamond
Tina Müller
University of Cambridge
Abstract
Wednesday, June 19th 2013, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Note special venue
Single-atom spin qubits in silicon
Andrea Morello
Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology, University of New South Wales
Abstract
Monday, June 17th 2013, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Note special venue
Thermal Probe Nanolithography: closed-loop, high-speed, high-resolution, 3D
Felix Holzner
SwissLitho AG / IBM Research - Zürich / ETH Zürich
Abstract
Monday, June 10th 2013, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Opportunities for Research using OPAL, the new Australian Research Reactor
Robert A. Robinson
Bragg Institute, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Abstract
Monday, June 3rd 2013, 15:30 (Piano Room - room 211)
Special CPM Seminar
Note special venue
Vibrating vortices as a probe of quasiparticles in unconventional superconductors
David Broun
SFU
Abstract
Monday, June 3rd 2013, 14:00 (Room 326)
Special Seminar
Quantum entanglement between two diamonds separated by 3 meters
Hannes Bernien
T.U. Delft
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, May 16th 2013, 15:30
Soheil Baharia
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Thursday, May 9th 2013, 15:30
Macroscopic spin tunnelling and the ground state of an easy axis system with an exchange interaction
Manu Paranjape
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, April 25th 2013, 15:30
Quantitative Magneto-mechanical Detection and Control of the Barkhausen Effect
Mark Freeman
University of Alberta
Abstract
Wednesday, April 24th 2013, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Electrical transport in nanoparticle solids and applications to infrared photodetection
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest
The University of Chicago
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, April 18th 2013, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Measurement and manipulation of qubits based on individual charges/spins in semiconductor quantum dots
HongWen Jiang
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles
Abstract
Thursday, April 11th 2013, 15:30
Making Compound Semiconductor Nano-Dots, -Rings, and -Spikes
Joanna Mirecki Millunchick
Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Abstract
Thursday, March 28th 2013, 15:30
Detecting Non-Abelian Anyons by Charging Spectroscopy
Gilad Ben Shach
Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, March 21st 2013, 15:30
How cells build stereotyped molecular machines
Jackie Vogel
Department of Biology, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, March 14 2013, 15:30
How electronic structure calculations can help in the design of new polymers for photovoltaic applications
Michel Côté
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, February 28th 2013, 15:30
Hybrid Systems for Quantum Networks
Chris Wilson
IQC, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Thursday, February 21st 2013, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Phonon-Dressed Mollow Triplets and Mollow Quintuplets from Coherently Driven Quantum Dots
Stephen Hughes
Department of Physics, Queen's University
Abstract
Thursday, February 7th 2013, 15:30
Tip-enhanced optical spectroscopy — breaking the diffraction limit towards the nanoworld
Andreas Rüdiger
Nanoelectronics-Nanophotonics, INRS-EMT
Abstract
Thursday, January 31st 2013, 15:30
Observation of fractional ac Josephson effect: the signature of Majorana particles
Leonid Rokhinson
Purdue University
Abstract
Thursday, January 24th 2013, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Magnetic hyperfine interactions on 140Ce in rare-earth magnetic compounds
Artur Carbonari
Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN-CNEN/SP)
Abstract
Thursday, January 17th 2013, 15:30
Signaling dynamics and embryonic patterning
Aryeh Warmflash
Rockefeller University
Abstract
Thursday, January 10th 2013, 15:30
Thermoelectric quantum transport in quantum point contacts and random matrix theory of thermopower statistics
Adel Abbout
Service de Physique de l'État Condensé, CEA Saclay & Laboratoire CRISMAT, ENSICAEN
Abstract
Thursday, November 22nd 2012, 15:30
Solute Trapping on the Nanoscale
Oussama Moutanabbir
Department of Engineering Physics, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, November 15th 2012, 14:00
Note special time
Organic electronics at the interface with biology
Fabio Cicoira
Department of Chemical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, November 8th 2012, 15:30
The Kondo exciton: a quantum quench towards strong spin-reservoir correlations
Hakan Tureci
Princeton University
Abstract
Thursday, November 1st 2012, 15:30
Investigations in graphene morphology: conformal adhesion, wrinkling instability and adhesion transitions
William G. Cullen
University of Maryland
Abstract
Thursday, October 25th 2012, 15:30
Surface States, Edge Currents and the Chiral Ground State of Superfluid 3He
Jim Sauls
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 23rd 2012, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Disorder, interactions, and zero-bias anomalies
Rachel Wortis
Trent University
Abstract
Thursday, October 18th 2012, 15:30
Surface coatings and culture methods to modulate cell responses
Patrick Vermette
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Wednesday, October 17th 2012, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Transient Terahertz Photoconductivity of Insulating Cuprates
Steve Dodge
Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Monday, October 15th 2012, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Thermometry and Cooling of Ultracold Atoms in Spin-Dependent Optical Lattices
David McKay
University of Toronto / University of Illinois
Abstract
Thursday, October 11th 2012, 15:30
Mechanical Force in Nanoscale Biology: From hemostasis to DNA self-assembly
Wesley Wong
Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School Affiliate
Abstract
Thursday, September 27th 2012, 15:30
Carbon nanotube resonators coupled to charge and flux
Gary Steele
Delft University of Technology
Abstract
Thursday, September 20th 2012, 15:30
Dynamic Properties of Synthetic Protein Nano-motor Constructs
Martin Zuckermann
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University & McGill University
Abstract
Monday, September 17th 2012, 14:30
Special CPM Seminar
Transport through NEMS: semiclassical dynamics in the nonadiabatic regime
Anja Metelmann
Technische Universität Berlin
Abstract
Thursday, September 13th 2012, 15:30
Quantifying Waddington's Landscape: Modeling the gene networks that underlie cellular identity
Pankaj Mehta
Boston University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 12th 2012, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Quantum control of a superconducting qubit with quantum bath engineering
Kater Murch
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Thursday, September 6th 2012, 15:30
Ultrafast all-optical switching and optical nonlinearity in GaAs, InGaAs and InP
Hiroyuki Bando
Department of Nanomaterial Science, Chiba University
Abstract
Thursday, August 30th 2012, 15:30
Visibility of nanolayered crystals and their applications
Mohamed Malik Benameur
École Polytechnique de Lausanne
Abstract
Wednesday, August 29th 2012, 12:30
Special CPM Seminar/Quantum Lunch
Time-dependent single-electron transport: irreversibility and out-of-equilibrium properties
Klaus Ensslin
ETH Zürich
Abstract
Thursday, July 12th 2012, 15:30
Probing Mechanisms of Myosin Molecular Motors Using Single Molecule Techniques
Mary Elting
Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
Abstract
Thursday, June 21st 2012, 15:30
Electrode work function tuning in organic solar cells
Ayse Turak
Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University
Abstract
Thursday, May 31st 2012, 11:00 (Board Room - room 105)
Note special time and venue
Deterministic Preparation of a Tunable Few-Fermion System
Friedhelm Serwane
MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg
Abstract
Tuesday, May 29th 2012, 12:00
Special CPM Seminar
Pairing of critical Fermi-surface states
Max Metlitski
KITP, UC Santa-Barbara
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, May 23rd 2012, 16:00
Special CPM Seminar
Electronic Physics in Dirac materials: from Graphene to Topological insulators
Yong P. Chen
Purdue University
Abstract
Thursday, May 17th 2012, 15:30
Order from Disorder: Spin and Charge Transport in Systems with Nanoscale Random Spin-Orbit Coupling
Evgeny Sherman
Department of Physical Chemistry, Universidad del Pais Vasco
Abstract
CANCELLED: Monday, May 7th 2012, 09:30
Neutron Scattering in Australia at the OPAL Research Reactor - the impact of a major new neutron source
Rob Robinson
Bragg Institute
Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 15:30
Confined Polymers as model chromosomes
Bae-Yeun Ha
University of Waterloo
Abstract
Thursday, April 19th 2012, 15:30
Transition Paths in Protein Folding
Henri Orland
Spht-CEA Saclay
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, April 12th 2012, 15:30
Quantifying Waddington's Landscape: Modeling the gene networks that underlie cellular identity
Pankaj Mehta
Boston University
Abstract
Friday, March 30th 2012, 10:00 (Board Room - room 105)
Special Biophysics Seminar
Polymer translocation driven by asymmetry: effects due to differing viscosities or obstacle arrangements on either side of the nanopore
Hendrick de Haan
University of Ottawa
Abstract
Thursday, March 29th 2012, 15:30
Quantum cascade lasers: from principles to THz lasers
Emmanuel Dupont
Institute For Microstructural Sciences, NRC
Abstract
Thursday, March 22nd 2012, 15:30
Quantum information and quantum optics with superconducting devices
Adrian Lupascu
Institute for Quantum Computing & Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Monday, March 19th 2012, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Spins and photons: towards quantum registers in diamond
Lily Childress
Yale University
Abstract
Monday, March 19th 2012, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Josephson-Majorana cycle in topological single-electron hybrid transistors
Nicolas Didier
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Abstract
Thursday, March 15th 2012, 15:30
Graphene: Kinks, Superlattices, Landau levels, and Magnetotransport
Arun Paramekanti
Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, March 8th 2012, 15:30
Engineering the property of graphene with adatoms
Jun Zhu
Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
Abstract
Wednesday, March 7th 2012, 13:00
Joint HEP/CPM Seminar
Torsion, Hall Viscosity and Topological Insulators
Robert Leigh
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract
Tuesday, March 6th 2012, 14:30
Special CPM Seminar
Charge Transport in a Super-lattice - A semi-classical model and numerical simulation using moment methods
Yossi Farjoun
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, February 23rd 2012, 15:30
Entanglement specrum of condensed matter systems
Andrei Bernevig
Princeton University
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, February 22nd 2012, 13:00
Joint HEP/CPM Seminar
Topological Phases in One Dimension
Lukasz Fidkowski
Station-Q, Microsoft
Abstract
Thursday, February 16th 2012, 15:30
Joint HEP/CPM Seminar
Strange metals: field theory vs holography
Subir Sachdev
Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, February 9th 2012, 15:30
Diffusion of Eye-lens Proteins Measured Using Coherent X-ray Scattering
Larry Lurio
Northern Illinois University
Abstract
Thursday, February 2nd 2012, 15:30
Electronic Liquid Crystalline Phases in a Spin-Orbit Coupled Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
Erez Berg
Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, January 26th 2012, 15:30
Topological Semimetals
Anton Burkov
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Wednesday, January 25th 2012, 13:00
Joint HEP/CPM Seminar
Entanglement, entropy and quantum error correction
Patrick Hayden
School of Computer Science, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, January 19th 2012, 15:30
Nanowire Growth and Applications
Ray LaPierre
Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University
Abstract
Thursday, January 12th 2012, 15:30
Dissipation in Micro/Nanomechanical Resonators
Srikar Vengallatore
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, January 11th 2012, 13:00
Joint HEP/CPM Seminar
Quantum Gravity and the Ising Model
Alex Maloney
Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, December 1st 2011, 15:30
Single-walled carbon nanotube integrated charge sensor
Xin Zhou
Advanced Device Laboratory, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute
Abstract
Thursday, November 24th 2011, 15:30
The Scientific Battle Field of Dynamic Spintronics
Can-Ming Hu
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manitoba
Abstract
Thursday, November 24th 2011, 11:00
Special CPM Seminar
Carbon nanotubes and semiconductor nanowires for quantum nanodevice applications
Koji Ishibashi
Advanced Devices Laboratory, RIKEN
Abstract
Thursday, November 17th 2011, 15:30
Topological insulators and superconductors classification
Shunji Matsuura
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, November 10th 2011, 15:30
Nanoscale electrical probing for large area organic electronics
Jeff Mativetsky
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University
Abstract
Thursday, November 3rd 2011, 15:30
A Luttinger Liquid Core Inside Helium-4 Filled Nanopores
Adrian Del Maestro
University of Vermont
Abstract
Thursday, October 27th 2011, 15:30
Soft Materials: Dynamic Phospholipid Films on Micro- and Nanostructured Solid Supports
Ilja Czolkos
Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, October 20th 2011, 15:30
Safe Li-ion Batteries for Green Transportation and Energy Storage
Karim Zaghib
Institut de Recherche d'Hydro Québec, Varennes
Abstract
Thursday, October 13th 2011, 15:30
Rapid long range genomic analysis at single molecule level using disposable nanochannel arrays
Han Cao
BioNanomatrix, Inc
Abstract
Friday, October 7th 2011, 13:30
Special CPM Seminar
Emergent granularity and the superconductor-insulator transition: Present Status and Open Questions
Nandini Trivedi
Ohio State University
Abstract
Thursday, October 6th 2011, 15:30
Protein-DNA search and recognition: p53 as a case study
Jason Leith
Program in Biophysics, Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, September 29th 2011, 15:30
The interaction of healthy and cancerous cells with nano- and microtopography: consequences on the cell nucleus
Patricia Davidson
Cornell University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 28th 2011, 13:30
Special CPM Seminar
Magnetic field-induced antiferromagnetism in superconducting CeCoIn5
Ilya Vekhter
Louisiana State University
Abstract
Thursday, September 15th 2011, 15:30
An Excitonic Approach to the Intraband THz Response of Semiconductor Nanostructures
Marc Dignam
Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Queen's University
Abstract
Thursday, September 8th 2011, 15:30
Electronic, magnetic and optical properties of graphene quantum dots
Pawel Hawrylak
NRC Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada
Abstract
Wednesday, September 7th 2011, 11:30
Special CPM Seminar
Building fractional topological insulators
Fiona Burnell
Subdepartment of Theoretical Physics & All Souls College, University of Oxford
Abstract
Tuesday, September 6th 2011, 15:30
Special CPM Seminar
Revisiting quantum Hall transport with graphene
Keyan Bennaceur
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), Saclay
Abstract
Thursday, September 1st 2011, 15:30
Method for cooling nanoelectronic samples to microkelvin temperatures
Kai Schwarzwälder
University of Basel
Abstract
Thursday, May 12th 2011, 15:30
Towards scalable quantum information processing and quantum simulation with trapped ions
Dietrich Leibfried
NIST Boulder/University of Ulm
Abstract
Thursday, May 5th 2011, 15:30
Imaging rapid, irreversible phase transformations with nanosecond time resolved transmission electron microscopy
Thomas Lagrange
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Abstract
Monday, May 2nd 2011, 15:30
Note special day
Quantum motion of electrons and holes in the random puddle landscape of graphene and bilayer graphene
Enrico Rossi
Department of Physics, College of William and Mary
Abstract
Friday, April 29th 2011, 11:00
Note special day and time
Spatially-resolved analysis of edge-channel equilibration in quantum Hall circuits
Stefan Heun
NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR & Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Abstract
Thursday, April 28th 2011, 15:30
Nanoscale Probe of Chiral d-wave Pairing in a Cuprate Superconductor
John Wei
University of Toronto & Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Abstract
Thursday, April 21st 2011, 15:30
In situ tribometry: Third body processes at the buried interface
Richard Chromik
Materials Engineering, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, April 14th 2011, 15:30
Measuring and modeling stochastic behavior of simple organisms: bacterial and worm behavior
William Ryu
Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, April 7th 2011, 15:30
How gas-oil equilibria keep the lights on
Stephan Brauer
Morgan Schaffer
Abstract
Thursday, March 17th 2011, 16:00
Note special time
Microfluidic Biosensors for Single Cell Growth Studies
Michel Godin
Department of Physics, University of Ottawa
Abstract
Thursday, January 13th 2011, 15:30
Numerical approach to the dynamics of integrable models
Alexandre Faribault
Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität
Abstract
Thursday, December 2nd 2010, 15:30
Hydrodynamics and fluctuations on flat and curved membranes with applications to the microrheology of red blood cells
Alex Levine
UCLA
Abstract
Thursday, November 25th 2010, 15:30
Force and current at atomic scale: do we sense the same entity?
Pavel Jelinek
Institute of Physics of the Academy of Science, Czech Republic
Abstract
Thursday, November 18th 2010, 15:30
Measuring transient structure with ultrafast x rays
David Reis
Stanford University & PULSE Institute
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, November 11th 2010, 15:30
Nano-ring and nano-elliptic-ring shaped magnetic tunneling junctions and their applications in MRAM design with spin-polarized current switching
Xiufeng Han
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science
Abstract
Thursday, November 4th 2010, 15:30
Topological superconductivity and Majorana Fermions at semiconductor/superconductor interfaces
Jay Sau
JQI & Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Maryland
Abstract
Thursday, October 28th 2010, 14:30
Note special time
Friction in Full View
Laurence Marks
Department of Materials Science, Northwestern University
Abstract
Thursday, October 21st 2010, 15:30
Engineering non-Abelian topological phases and Majorana fermions in solid state systems
Jason Alicea
University of California, Irvine
Abstract
Monday, October 18th 2010, 12:00
Note special day
Switching with Molecules at Surfaces
T.A. Jung
NCCR Nanoscale Science, Institut für Physik & Laboratory for Micro- & Nanotechnology, Paul Scherrer Institute
Abstract
Thursday, October 14th 2010, 15:30
Current fluctuations in conductors: beyond noise
Bertrand Reulet
Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, September 30th 2010, 15:30
Aquatic Materials
Gilbert Walker
University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, September 23rd 2010, 15:30
From Invention to Reality - Entrepreneurship for Physicists
Helge Seetzen
TandemLaunch Technologies Inc
Abstract
Thursday, September 16th 2010, 15:30
Recent Progress of Diamond Neutron Monochromator Development
Andreas Freund
ILL, Grenoble
Abstract
Tuesday, August 24th 2010, 10:00
Note special day and time
The ORION Helium Ion Microscope - or How the FIM was Exploited to Make a Commercial High Brightness Ion Source
John A. Notte
Carl Zeiss
Monday, August 23rd 2010, 16:00 (Keys Auditorium - room 112)
Note special day and venue
Fabrication of nanotips for ultra high resolution microscopy and nanotechnology
Mohamed Rezeq
Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research
Abstract
Thursday, July 22nd 2010, 16:00
Stick-slip friction from atoms to microscopic structures
Roland Bennewitz
INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials
Abstract
Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 14:30
Note special day and time
Magneto-optical spectroscopy of carbon based materials
Nicolas Ubrig
Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, CNRS
Abstract
Thursday, April 22nd 2010, 16:00
Dilute Ferromagnetic Oxides - Fact or Fantasy?
Michael Coey
Trinity College Dublin
Abstract
Thursday, April 15th 2010, 16:00
Charge Carriers in Graphene viewed through STM and magneto-transport
Eva Andrei
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
Abstract
Thursday, April 8th 2010, 16:00
Electron tunneling as a probe of chemical bonding - a new approach to DNA sequencing
Stuart Lindsay
Arizona State University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 10:30 (McConnell Engineering Building, room 603)
Special CPM-related Seminar hosted by the Faculty of Engineering
Applications of terahertz pulsed technology
Phil Taday
Principal Scientist and Head of the Applications, TeraView Limited, Cambridge
Abstract
Tuesday, March 2nd 2010, 16:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special CPM Seminar
Noise Correlations and Coherent Coupling in Solid State Qubits
David Marcos
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid
Abstract
Tuesday, February 9th 2010, 16:30 (room 326)
Special CPM seminar
Engineering quantum states of nanomechanical resonators
M. J. Woolley
University of Queensland
Abstract
Thursday, December 10th 2009, 16:00
Spin-triplet superconductivity in Co-based Josephson junctions
Norman O. Birge
Department of Physics, Michigan State University
Abstract
Wednesday, December 2nd 2009, 16:00
Note special day
Electrical transport and infinite randomness at the superconductor-metal transition
Adrian Del Maestro
Department of Physics, University of British Columbia
Abstract
Friday, November 27th 2009, 16:00 (Keys Auditorium - room 112)
Note special day and venue
To slide or not to slide: Frictional duality of nanoparticles
Andre Schirmeisen
Center for Nanotechnology (CeNTech), Universität Münster
Abstract
Friday, November 27th 2009, 12:30 (Otto Maass Chemistry Building, room 217)
Special CPM Seminar
Polytetrahedral Frustration of Crystallization: 2, 3, and 4D!
Patrick Charboneau
Duke University
Abstract
Thursday, November 12th 2009, 16:00
Correlation Effects in FeAs-based Compounds Studied by LDA+Gutzwiller Method
Zhong Fang
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Tuesday, November 10th 2009, 16:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special day and venue
Berry Phase Effects on Electronic Properties
Qian Niu
Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
Abstract
Thursday, November 5th 2009, 16:00
Silicon metal oxide semiconductor nanostructures for solid-state quantum computing
Malcolm Carroll
Sandia National Labs
Abstract
Thursday, October 29th 2009, 16:00
Single-molecule biophysics with solid-state nanopores
Vincent Tabard-Cossa
Genome Technology Center, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University
Abstract
Thursday, October 15th 2009, 16:00
Oxide nanoelectronics for non-volatile memories
Andreas Rüdiger
Laboratory of ferroelectric nanoelectronics, INRS-EMT
Abstract
Thursday, October 8th 2009, 16:00
State-Resolved Exciton Dynamics in Quantum dots
Pat Kambhampati
Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, October 1st 2009, 16:00
Coherently-controlled two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy
Valentyn Prokhorenko
Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, September 24th 2009, 16:00
Quantum measurement of motion using a microwave interferometer
Konrad Lehnert
JILA - University of Colorado & NIST
Abstract
Thursday, August 6th 2009, 16:00
Simultaneous Charge Ordering and Spin Dimerization: Theory of the spin-SAF Transition
Gennady Y. Chitov
Department of Physics, Laurentian University
Abstract
Tuesday, June 30th 2009, 11:00
Note special day and time
Atomic Force Microscopy of individual water molecules at room temperature
Hideki Kawakatsu
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
Abstract
Thursday, June 18th 2009, 16:00
Synthetic Molecular Motors: Concepts and Numerical Simulations
Martin Zuckermann
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Thursday, May 7th 2009, 16:00
Quantum transport in graphene nanodevices
Didier Mayou
CNRS Grenoble
Abstract
Thursday, April 30th 2009, 16:00
Novel Quantum Criticality and Emergent Particles in Trapped Cold Atom Systems
Kun Yang
National High Magnetic Field Lab & Florida State University
Abstract
Thursday, April 23rd 2009, 16:00
Multi-particle decoherence free subspaces and incoherently generated coherences
Raisa Karasik
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Abstract
Thursday, March 26th 2009, 16:00
Universal detector efficiency of a mesoscopic capacitor
Simon Nigg
University of Geneva
Abstract
Thursday, December 18th 2008, 16:00
Bridging the material gap in surface science: A theoretical perspective
Jean-Sabin McEwen
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Abstract
Monday, December 8th 2008, 16:00 (Board Room - room 105)
Note special day and venue
Nanoelectromechanical Resonators: Novel Fabrication Techniques and Applications to Proteomic Analysis
S. Evoy
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & National Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Alberta
Abstract
Thursday, November 27th 2008, 16:00
Electronic transport in nanowires: from injection-limited to space-charge-limited behavior
François Léonard
Materials Physics Department, Sandia National Laboratories
Abstract
Thursday, November 13th 2008, 16:00
Hyperfine-coupling-programming of current through coupled vertical quantum dots with multiple-sweep bias voltage waveforms (“nuclear spin flash memory”)
Guy Austing
National Research Council, Ottawa
Abstract
Thursday, November 6th 2008, 16:00
Bilayer quantum Hall excitons: evidence for a finite temperature phase transition
Alexandre Champagne
Department of Physics, Concordia University
Abstract
Thursday, October 30th 2008, 16:00
What is magnetic about superconductivity: An example of why “more is different”
Andrea Bianchi
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, October 24th 2008, 10:00
Note special day and time
Iridium thin films as Transition Edge Sensors
Daniela F. Bogorin
Physics Department, University of Miami
Abstract
Thursday, October 23rd 2008, 16:00
Molecular memory circuits on a nanoscale scaffold
Amy Blum
Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, October 16th 2008, 16:00
Computational Materials Design for Aluminum Dry Machining and Quick Plastic Forming
Yue Qi
General Motors R&D, Detroit, Michigan
Abstract
Thursday, October 9th 2008, 16:00
Fast Spectral Methods for Scientific and Engineering Computation
Jie Shen
Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
Abstract
Thursday, October 2nd 2008, 16:00
The Dynamic TEM (DTEM): Ultrafast In Situ Studies of Microstructural Evolution in Various Materials
Mitra Taheri
Department of Material Science & Engineering, Drexel University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 17th 2008, 16:00
Note special day
Simulating Real Materials for Our Energy Future
Shengbai Zhang
Department of Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Abstract
Thursday, September 11th 2008, 16:00
State-Resolved Exciton Dynamics in Quantum dots
Pat Kambhampati
Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, September 4th 2008, 16:00
Micromagnetic investigations of current and field-induced vortex core reversal
Sebastian Gliga
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Abstract
Monday, July 28th 2008, 16:00
Note special day
High-resolution Investigations of Molecular Systems in Various Environments by FM-AFM
Kei Kobayashi, Hirofumi Yamada
Department of Electronic Science & Engineering, Kyoto University
Abstract
Tuesday, July 15th 2008, 11:00
Note special time and day
From single molecule magnetism to long range ferromagnetism in a giant spin molecular magnet
O. Moze
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Abstract
Friday, June 13th 2008, 11:30
Note special day and time
Optical Spectroscopy in Highly Enriched 28Si: from Isotopic Fingerprints of (Supposedly) Well Known Defects to Applications in Quantum Information
Mike Thewalt
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Thursday, June 12th 2008, 16:00
“Really Good” Cholesterol's Role in Membrane Organization
Jenifer Thewalt
Departments of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry and Physics, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Thursday, June 5th 2008, 16:00
Phase problem and iterative algorithms
Pierre Thibault
Paul Scherrer Institut
Abstract
Monday, June 2nd 2008, 11:00
Note special day and time
Quantum Zeno Effect in the Quantum Non-Demolition Detection of Itinerant Photons
Ferdinand Helmer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Abstract
Thursday, May 22nd 2008, 16:00 (Keys Auditorium - room 112)
Note special venue
Ohm's law on the nanoscale
Rolf Möller
Department of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen
Abstract
Wednesday, April 30th 2008, 14:00
Note special day and time
Solvation and Squeeze-out Mechanism of Confined Molecular Liquids
Nitya Nand Gosvami
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore
Abstract
Thursday, April 24th 2008, 16:00
Taking an invention commercial - a basic intro to Intellectual Property and the commercialization process
Erica Besso
Research Innovation Office, McGill University
Abstract
Monday, April 14th 2008, 16:00
Note special day
The Role of Obstacles in Diffusive Transport and Defect Mobility
Jeff Rickman
LeHigh University
Abstract
Thursday, April 10th 2008, 16:00
Shedding Light on Surface Reactions: Real Time Imaging and Control of Pattern Formation during Catalysis
Harm Hinrich Rotermund
Department of of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University
Abstract
Thursday, March 27th 2008, 16:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Universal Gelation of Particles with Short-ranged Attraction
Peter Lu
Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, March 20th 2008, 16:00
Universal Scaling in the Fan of Deconfined Quantum Criticality
Roger Melco
Department of Physics, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Thursday, March 6th 2008, 16:00
Charge Detection and Transport Through a Ring of Few Electron Quantum Dots
Andy Sachrajda
Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada
Abstract
Thursday, February 14th 2008, 16:00
Gas adsorption effects in nanotribology and vapor phase lubrication of MEMS
Seong H. Kim
Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Abstract
Thursday, February 7th 2008, 16:00
Time-Resolved X-ray Studies of Pulsed Laser Deposition
Joel Brock
Department of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Abstract
Monday, January 28th 2008, 14:30
How frog embryos replicate their DNA quickly and reliably
John Bechhoefer
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Thursday, January 24th 2008, 16:00
Microwave and rf spectroscopy of two-dimensional electron solids and stripes
Lloyd Engel
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee
Abstract
Thursday, January 17th 2008, 15:00
Note special time
Slow, non-diffusive dynamics in glassy soft matter
Robert Leheny
Department of Physics, Johns Hopkins University
Abstract
Thursday, January 10th 2008, 16:00
Spin-Polarized Tunneling Microscopy and the Kondo Effect
Kelly Patton
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg
Abstract
Thursday, December 6th 2007, 16:00
Electrons and Ions: The Future of Nanoscale Electronics
Duncan Stewart
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Abstract
Thursday, November 29th 2007, 15:00
Note special time
The force-length relationship and the cellular mechanisms of muscle contraction
Dilson Rassier
Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, November 22nd 2007, 16:00
High Performance Quantum Dot Lasers on GaAs and Si
Zetian Mi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, November 15th 2007, 16:00
Patterns in Turbulence
Laurette Tuckerman
Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, ESPCI Paris
Abstract
Thursday, November 1st 2007, 16:00
Graphene: QED and MOSFET on a Pencil Tip
Sankar Das Sarma
University of Maryland
Abstract
Monday, October 22nd 2007, 16:00
Note special day
The Kondo screening cloud: what it is and how to measure it in a gated semi-conductor device
Ian Affleck
Department of Physics, University of British Columbia
Abstract
Thursday, October 18th 2007, 16:00
Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect (MOKE) Studies of Spin Drift and Diffusion in n:GaAs Epilayers and Spin-Transport Devices
Madalina Furis
University of Vermont
Abstract
Thursday, October 11th 2007, 16:00
The physics of hydrogen clusters: superfluidity and quantum melting
Massimo Boninsegni
Department of Physics, University of Alberta
Abstract
Thursday, October 4th 2007, 16:00
Strong dispersive coupling between an optical cavity and a micromechanical membrane
Jack Harris
Department of Physics, Yale University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 26th 2007, 16:00
Note special day
Molecular Recognition in Biological Systems. What can simulations tell us?
Giorgio Colombo
CNR Istituto di Chimica del Riconoscimento Molecolare, Milan
Abstract
Thursday, September 20th 2007, 16:00
Computational evolution of biological networks and application to patterning
Paul François
Center for studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University
Abstract
Thursday, September 13th 2007, 16:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special room
First-principles studies of single-molecule conductance
Jeffrey Neaton
The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract
Thursday, September 6th 2007, 16:00
How to build a quantum computer that might actually work
Austin Fowler
Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Thursday, June 21st 2007, 16:00
Nanotechnology opportunities in Japan
Katsuko Kuroiwa
Trade Commissioner for the Embassy of Canada in Tokyo
Thursday, June 14th 2007, 10:30
Site-selective adsorption and appearance of aromatic donor and acceptor molecules in STM
Alexis Baratoff
University of Basel
Thursday, May 10th 2007, 16:00
Biophysics: slimy and broken
Kalle Gehring
McGill Biochemistry
Abstract
Thursday, April 26th 2007, 16:00
Putting SQUIDs to Work
Jan Kycia
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Abstract
Thursday, April 19th 2007, 16:00
Measuring Electronic Effects in Reduced Dimensions: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Atomic Chains and Sheets
Jason Crain
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Abstract
Thursday, April 12th 2007, 16:00
Femtosecond X-ray measurements of Photo-control in Complex Solids
Andrea Cavalleri
Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
Abstract
Thursday, April 5th 2007, 16:00
Current Flow in Microwave-Induced Zero-Resistance States
Rui-Rui Du
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University
Abstract
Thursday, March 29th 2007, 16:00
From obstacle-induced obstructed diffusion to hop diffusion across polymeric fences: Membrane organization and fluidity of polymer-tethered phospholipid bilayers
Christoph A. Naumann
Department of Chemistry, Indiana Univerisity-Purdue University Indianapolis
Abstract
Thursday, March 22nd 2007, 16:00
Graphene: A Romance of Two Dimensions
Allan MacDonald
Department of Physics, University of Texas
Abstract
Tuesday, March 20th 2007, 16:00 (Board Room - room 105)
Energy Dissipation by organic molecular crystals and by functional groups of organic molecules
Markus Fendrich
University of Duisburg-Essen
Abstract
Thursday, March 15th 2007, 16:00
Quantum gas on a chip
Joseph Thywissen
Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, February 8th 2007, 16:00
Nano carbon: from molecular transistors to atomic drumheads
Paul McEuen
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University
Abstract
Thursday, February 1st 2007, 16:00
Quenched Disorder in Superfluids
Bill Halperin
Northwestern University
Abstract
Thursday, January 18th 2007, 15:30
Mesoscopic Spin-Hall Effect
Hong Guo
McGill University
Abstract
Monday, January 15th 2007, 10:00
Note special day and time
Quantum Hall ferromagnet at high filling factors: A magnetic field induced Stoner transition
B.A. Piot
Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, CNRS
Abstract
Thursday, January 11th 2007, 15:30
Physics of paper: Fundamental Questions on Ubiquitous Material
Tetsu Uesaka
Department of Natural Sciences & Fibre Science and Communication Network, Mid Sweden University
Abstract
Thursday, January 4th 2007, 15:30
Do we live in Quantum World?
Dwayne Miller
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Abstract
Friday, December 15th 2006, 15:30
Note special day
Flipping magnetic vortices on the picosecond time scale
Sebastian Gliga
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Abstract
Thursday, November 30th 2006, 15:30
Nanoscale Spectroscopy with Optical Antennas
Lukas Novotny
Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
Abstract
Thursday, November 23rd 2006, 15:30
Quantum information with semiconductor electron spins
Thomas Szkopek
Department of Electrical Engineering, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, November 16th 2006, 15:30
Atomic Structure of Nanotubes and Nano-Clusters
Jim Zuo
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract
Monday, November 13th 2006, 10:00
Special CPM seminar
Note special day and time
Inter Landau level spectroscopy of thin graphite layers
Marek Potemski
Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, CNRS
Abstract
Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 15:30
Tunneling into fractional quantum Hall edge states
Smitha Vishveshwara
Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract
Thursday, October 26th 2006, 15:30
Metastable decay via quantum activation, scaling, and quantum measurements
Mark Dykman
Michigan State University
Abstract
Thursday, October 19th 2006, 15:30
Hard Superconductivity in Soft Quantum Films
Hanno Weitering
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee
Abstract
Thursday, October 12th 2006, 15:30
Diffusion and deformation in biopolymer networks
Jeffrey Urbach
Department of Physics, Georgetown University
Abstract
Thursday, September 28th 2006, 16:00 (Keys Auditorium - room 112)
Note special time and venue
Correlations in point processes, implications for signal processing.
Maurice Chacron
Department of Physiology, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, September 14th 2006, 15:30
Relative size matters: Isoelectronic impurities and alloys
Sébastien Francoeur
École Polytechnique Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, September 7th 2006, 15:30
Slow-light solitons
Ilya Vadeiko
Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, May 11th 2006, 15:30 (Keys Auditorium - room 112)
Note special venue
Inverse Design of Metallic and Magnetic Nanostructures via Multiscale Modeling
Zhenyu Zhang
Oak Ridge National Lab & University of Tennessee
Abstract
Thursday, April 27th 2006, 15:30
Nanomechanical Systems: Toward single-molecule and single-quantum measurements
Michael Roukes
Kavli Nanoscience Institute, California Institute of Technology
Abstract
Friday, April 21st 2006, 15:30
Note unusual day
Self assembly of nanophases: stability, nonlinear dynamics, and defect control
Zhi-Feng Huang
MIAM & Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, April 6th 2006, 16:00 (Keys Auditorium - room 112
Note special time and venue
NanoQuebec's upcoming infrastructures funding program, and a founding nanotechnology initiative
Jocelyn Lauzon
NanoQuébec
Abstract
Monday, April 3rd 2006, 15:30
Note special day
DLS and XPCS in Thermosensitive Gels
Erik Geissler
Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, Université J. Fourier de Grenoble
Abstract
Monday, April 3rd 2006, 14:00
Note special day and time
A tunable carbon nanotube resonator
Vera Sazonova
Department of Physics, Cornell University
Abstract
Thursday, March 30th 2006, 11:00
Note special time
The IBM Nanostencil: instrument design and results
Percy Zahl
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Abstract
Thursday, March 23rd 2006, 15:30
Hierarchies of critical phenomena in marine ecologies
Frédéric Guichard
Department of Biology, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, March 2nd 2006, 15:30
DNA and RNA translocation and unzipping using nanopore force spectroscopy
Amit Meller
Rowland Institute, Harvard University
Abstract
Friday, February 24th 2006, 10:00
Note special day and time
Magnetization Dependent Transport in Nanomagnets
Shaffique Adam
Cornell University
Abstract
Thursday, February 23rd 2006, 15:30
Probing Materials under Extreme Conditions Using Synchrotron Radiation
Serge Desgreniers
Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Physics, University of Ottawa
Abstract
POSTPONED to Friday, February 17th 2006, 15:30
Note special day
Quantum optics and quantum information processing with superconducting circuits
Alexandre Blais
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Monday, February 13th 2006, 15:30
High-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy: gaining insights by comparing experiment and theory
Werner A. Hofer
University of Liverpool
Abstract
Thursday, February 9th 2006, 15:45
Note special time
Nonlinear regimes of current-induced domain wall motion
Yaroslaw Bazaliy
IBM Almaden Research Center
Abstract
Thursday, February 2nd 2006, 15:30
Atom Manipulation and Measurement of Atom Motion in Atomically Engineered Molecular Nanostructures
Joseph Stroscio
NIST Gaithersburg
Abstract
Thursday, January 19th 2006, 15:30
Mapping Protein Diffusion, Velocity Vectors, and Interactions in Living Cells by Spatio-Temporal Image Correlation Spectroscopy
Paul Wiseman
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, January 12th 2006, 14:00
Note special time
The Materials Machine: Nanostructure Growth from the Vapor Phase
Daniel Gall
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Abstract
Thursday, January 5th 2006, 15:30
Exploring interactions and coherent transport with transport and tunneling in 1D systems
Mike Lilly
Sandia National Labs
Abstract
Thursday, December 8th 2005, 15:30 (Keys Auditorium - room 112)
Note special room
Combining magnetic and semiconductor properties in nanoscale engineered diluted magnetic semiconductors
Jacek Kossut
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Monday, December 5th 2005, 11:00
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy studies of model catalysts
Peter Thostrup
Department of Physics and Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), University of Aarhus
Abstract
Thursday, December 1st 2005, 15:30
Charge Transferred Doping and Electrically-induced IR Emission in Carbon Nanotube Transistors
Jia Chen
IBM Watson Research Center
Abstract
Thursday, November 24th 2005, 15:30
New Materials based on Interface Engineering
George Sawatzky
Advanced materials and process engineering Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of British Columbia
Abstract
Thursday, January 12th 2005, 15:30
Daniel Gall
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thursday, November 10th 2005, 15:30
Domain switching and its applications in ferroelectric perovskites
Kaushik Bhattacharya
Caltech
Abstract
Friday, November 4th 2005, 11:00
Extraordinary CPM seminar
Microcantilever Sensors for Liquid Hydrocarbons
Alan Schilowitz
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co.
Abstract
Thursday, November 3rd 2005, 15:30
Bad Superconductors
Danny Shahar
Weizmann Institute of Science
Abstract
Thursday, October 27th 2005, 15:30
Statistical Physics and Biological Coevolution
Per Arne Rikvold
Florida State University
Abstract
Friday, October 21st 2005, 15:30
Note the special day
Ehrenfest-time dependence of weak localization in open quantum dots
Piet Brouwer
Cornell University
Abstract
Thursday, October 13th 2005, 15:30
Barrierless electron-hole recombination and exciton regeneration at semiconductor polymer heterojunctions
Carlos Silva
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, October 6th 2005, 15:30
Using X-ray Intensity Fluctuation Spectroscopy to Test Dynamical Scaling
Mark Sutton
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, September 29th 2005, 15:30
Understanding the Tribological Chemistry of Chlorine- and Sulfur- and Phosphorus-containing Additives
Wilfred Tysoe
Dept. of Chemistry and Laboratory for Surface Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Abstract
Thursday, September 22nd 2005, 15:30
Thermal Transport in Metallic Nanostructures
Venkat Chandrasekhar
Northwestern University
Abstract
Thursday, September 15th 2005, 15:30
Theoretical developments towards the dynamic and magnetic properties of nanostructures in surfaces and low dimensional systems
Antoine Khater
Laboratoire de Physique de l'État Condensé, Université du Maine
Abstract
Friday, September 9th 2005, 11:30 (room 326)
Special CPM seminar
Note special day, time and room
Microscopic mechanisms of wear in automotive engines
Martin Dienwiebel
IAVF Antriebstechnik AG, Karlruhe
Abstract
Thursday, September 8th 2005, 15:30
Probing the electronic order of a high-Tc superconductor with low temperature STM
Christian Lupien
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Tuesday, July 26th 2005, 10:00
Electrons in Flatlands: Surprises never stop
Mansour Shayegan
Princeton University
Abstract
Monday, June 13th 2005, 15:00
FMR spectrum of an individual spin-valve device measured by FMRFM
Grégoire de Loubens
Service de Physique de l'État Condensé, CEA Saclay
Abstract
Tuesday, May 17th 2005, 15:30 (Room 118)
Laser Photoelectron Spectroscopy of an Organic Polymer Semiconductor
J. Todd Stuckless
Chemistry Department, UBC
Abstract
Monday, May 9th 2005, 13:30
Note special time
Theoretical analysis of the transmission phase shift of a quantum dot in presence of Kondo correlations
P. Vitushinsky
CEA Grenoble
Abstract
Thursday, May 5th 2005, 15:30
The role of MBE in low dimensional physics
Loren Pfeiffer
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Inc.
Abstract
Wednesday, April 20th 2005, 15:30
Special CPM seminar
Electron Dynamics in the Quantum Limit
Michael Hilke
Physics Department, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, March 31st 2005, 15:30
Spatio-Temporal Chaos and Defects in Pattern-Forming Systems
Hermann Riecke
Northwestern University
Abstract
Thursday, March 17th 2005, 15:30
Biofunctionalization and detection of magnetic nanoparticles
Glenn Held
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Abstract
Thursday, March 10th 2005, 15:30
Quantum Circuits
Charles Marcus
Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, March 3rd 2005, 15:30
Metal/organic interface formation in organic thin-film transistors
Ian Hill
Dalhousie
Abstract
Thursday, February 24th 2005, 15:30
Inducing controlled atomic dynamics with an electron current
Nicolas Lorente
Laboratoire Collisions, Agrégats, Réactivité, IRSAMC, Université Paul Sabatier
Friday, February 4th 2005, 14:00
Note special day and time
Ground states of a spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnet in a magnetic field
Martin Veillette
Oxford
Abstract
Thursday, February 3rd 2005, 15:30 (ERP room 305)
Note special room
Melting and metallization of dense hydrogen
Stanimir Bonev
Dalhousie
Abstract
Thursday, January 27th 2005, 15:30
Measurements of non-Gaussian shot noise in mesoscopic samples
Betrand Reulet
Yale University
Abstract
Thursday, January 27th 2005, 15:30
Measurements of non-Gaussian shot noise in mesoscopic samples
Betrand Reulet
Yale University
Abstract
Thursday, January 13th 2005, 15:30
Strategies for Investigating Biomolecular Self-Assembly At Interfaces
Christopher Yip
University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, January 6th 2005, 15:30
Growth and Deformation of Colloidal Crystals and Glasses
Peter Schall
Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, December 16th 2004, 14:00
Note special time
Kondo Effect in Bare Electromigrated Break Junctions
Joshua Folk
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, December 9th 2004, 15:30
Conforming Surfaces: Some Mechanics of the Nanoimprint Forming Process
Graham L. W. Cross
SFI Trinity Nanoscience Laboratory, Trinity College
Abstract
Thursday, December 2nd 2004, 15:30
Integrated Mechanics and Electronics at the Nanoscale
Rob Knobel
Department of Physics, Queen's University
Abstract
Thursday, November 18th 2004, 15:30
Quantum delocalization of hydrogen atoms and dissociative hydrogen adsorption on palladium
Seong-Gon Kim
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University
Abstract
Monday, September 20th 2004, 15:30
Direct Imaging of Atomic Arrangement and Potential Profile on Semiconductor Surfaces by Atomic Force Microscopy
Toyoaki Eguchi
The Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
Abstract
Thursday, September 9th 2004, 15:30 (room 305)
Note special room
Toward Hybrid Silicon-Organic Molecular Devices
Bob Wolkow
Department of Physics, University of Alberta & National Institute for Nanotechnology
Abstract

2003/04

Wednesday, August 4th 2004, 14:00
Coherent and Dissipative Transport in Aperiodic Media
Jean Bellissard
Georgia Institute of Technology & Institut Universitaire de France
Abstract
Thursday, May 20th 2004, 15:30 (Key Auditorium - room 112)
Discrete Optical Solitons
Roberto Morandotti
INRS-EMT
Abstract
Thursday, May 13th 2004, 15:30
Engineering Molecules-Surfaces interactions for Molecular Electronics
J.P. Bourgoin
Laboratoire d'Electronique Moléculaire, CEA Saclay
Abstract
Thursday, May 6th 2004, 15:30
Twisting, bundling and collapsing biopolymers: The role of counterions in polyelectrolyte solutions
Erik Luijten
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract
Thursday, November 27th 2003, 15:30
Supramolecular self-assembly of organic molecules on bare and patterned metal surfaces
Giovanni Costantini
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung
Abstract
Monday, November 3rd 2003, 15:30
Spatio-temporal Oscillations within Bacteria
Andrew Rutenberg
Physics Department, Dalhousie University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 22nd 2003, 15:30
Impact craters in granular media
John de Bruyn
Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Abstract
Thursday, October 9th 2003, 15:30
Stochastic gene expression in single cells
Peter Swain
Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, McGill
Abstract
Thursday, September 25th 2003, 15:30
How to `entangle' Spin and Charge qubits through the Kondo effect?
Karyn Le Hur
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract

2002/03

Monday, July 14th 2003, 14:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Molecular dynamics study of void growth in dynamic fracture in metals
Eira Seppala
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Thursday, July 3rd 2003, 15:30
Homogeneous and heterogeneous molecular assemblies investigated with STM
Meike Stöhr
University of Basel
Abstract
Thursday, June 5th 2003, 15:30
Electron-electron interactions mediated by magnetic impurities
Anne Anthore
Quantronics group, CEA Saclay
Abstract
Friday, May 9th 2003, 15:30
Measuring the Quantum Hall effect without contacts
Martin Elliott
Cardiff University
Abstract
Thursday, May 1st 2003, 15:30
Combined STM and Photoemission studies of Adsorbed Phases of Subphtalocyanine and C60 on Ag(111) and their interpretation
Alexis Baratoff
Institute of Physics and NCCR, University of Basel
Tuesday, April 29th 2003, 15:30
Kondo effect in artificial nanostructures
Pascal Simon
LPM2C, Université Joseph Fourier & CNRS Grenoble
Abstract
Thursday, April 10th 2003, 15:30
Exploiting nanoscale structure: from tuning single electron effects to driving insulator-metal transitions
Al-Amin Dhirani
University of Toronto
Abstract
Monday, March 24th 2003, 16:00
Organic Molecules on a Metal Surface: Fundamentals and Applications
Federico Rosei
INRS-EMT Energie, Université du Québec
Abstract
Thursday, February 6th 2003, 15:30
Advances and problems in bridging the time- and length-scale gap in soft matter modeling
Mikko Karttunen
Biophysics & Statistical Mechanics Group, Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology
Abstract
Thursday, January 16th 2003, 15:30
Do You Know How to Build a Quantum Computer?
C.S. Lam
Physics Department, McGill Universty
Abstract
Thursday, December 12th 2002, 15:30
Organic Molecules at Surfaces studied by High Resolution Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Federico Rosei
INRS-EMT, Université du Québec
Abstract
Thursday, November 28th 2002, 15:30
Direct measurement of forces between single atoms
Regina Hoffmann
Physics Department, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, November 21st 2002, 15:30
Mechanics of extraterrestrial cells
David Boal
Physics Department, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Thursday, November 14th 2002, 15:30
Laser and Molecular Beam Studies of the Dissociative Adsorption of Simple Molecules on Ru(0001)
Henrik Mortensen
Physics Department, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, October 31st 2002, 15:30
Spin Electronics and Spin Computation
Sankar Das Sarma
University of Maryland
Abstract
Thurday, October 24th 2002, 15:30
Disordered Bosonic Systems
Erik Sorensen
Department Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University
Abstract
Thursday, October 3rd 2002, 15:30
X-ray Studies of Lattice Dynamics
Martin Holt
Physics Department, University of Illinois
Abstract
Thursday, September 26th 2002, 15:30
Phospholipid Membranes with Embedded Inclusions
Daniel Kandel
Weizman Institute
Abstract
Thursday, September 12th 2002, 15:30
Simulations of network-forming materials
Gerard Barkema
Universiteit Utrecht
Abstract

2001/02

Thursday, June 6th 2002, 15:00 (Boardroom - room 104)
Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Electrode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries
Luc Beaulieu
Department of Physics, Dalhousie University
Abstract
Thursday, April 25th 2002, 14:30 (Boardroom - room 104)
The interplay between electron currents and atomic motions at the nanoscale
Andrew Fisher
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London
Monday, April 22nd 2002, 11:00 (Boardroom - room 104)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Materials
Bruce Balcom
Dept. of Physics, University of New Brunswick
Abstract
Wednesday, April 17th 2002, 16:00 (Boardroom - room 104)
High Strain Rate Behavior of Several Engineering Materials
James Nemes
Mechanical Engineering, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, April 11th 2002, 16:00
3D Modeling of Nonisothermal Filling
Jean-François Hétu
Industrial Materials Institute, National Research Council of Canada
Abstract
Thursday, April 4th 2002, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 104)
Artificial atoms, molecules and impurities
Guy Austing
Institute of Microstructural Science, NRC
Thursday, March 28th 2002, 16:00
Numerical Methods in Micromagnetics
Nilima Nigam
Math Department, McGill University
Abstract
Monday, March 4th 2002, 15:00 (Boardroom - room 104)
Molecular Electronics: the H-P Way
Duncan Stewart
HP Labs, Palo Alto
Abstract
Thursday, February 28th 2002, 16:00
Spectral properties of strongly correlated electrons
David Sénéchal
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, February 28th 2002, 9:00
CIAR Student Winterschool in Nanoelectronics
Atomic Manipulation and other Tricks
Don Eigler
IBM Almaden Research Center
Wednesday, February 27th 2002, 16:00
Spintronic logic devices
Russell Cowburn
Department of Physics, University of Durham
Thursday, February 7th 2002, 16:00
Some advances in our understanding of amorphous semiconductors
Normand Mousseau
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, December 6th 2001, 15:30
Transition Matrix Monte Carlo Method
Jian-Sheng Wang
Department of Computational Science, National University of Singapore and Physics Department, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, November 15th 2001, 16:00
Indirect-exchange interaction among localized spins in doped semiconductors
Norberto Majlis
Centre for the Physics of Materials, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, November 8th 2001, 16:00
Indirect-exchange interaction among localized spins in doped semiconductors
Norberto Majlis
Centre for the Physics of Materials, McGill University
Thursday, November 1st 2001, 15:30
On the Effect of Misfit Strain on the Thermodynamics of the Solid-State Phase Transitions
Michael Fradkin
Leon Brillouin Laboratory, CEA Saclay
Abstract
Wednesday, October 31st 2001, 16:00
Electron Scrambling in Ballistic and Diffusive Quantum Dots
Philippe Jacquod
Leiden University
Abstract
Monday, October 22nd 2001, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 104)
(Note special time and room)
Approaches to the Simulation of Polymer Collapse Dynamics
James Polson
Physics Department, UPEI
Abstract

2000/01

Thursday, August 23rd 2001, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 104)
The Ion Beam Sculpting of Molecular-Scale Devices
D. Stein
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, August 9th 2001, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 104)
(Note special room)
Ab initio theory of the STM
W. Hofer
Imperial College
Abstract
Thursday, August 2nd 2001, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 104)
(Note special room)
CVD grown carbon nanotubes tips for Scanning Force Microscopy
Viola Barwich
Institute of Physics, University of Basel
Abstract
Thursday, June 21st 2001, 15:00 (Boardroom - room 104)
(Note special time and room)
Biological single molecule applications using optical tweezers and scanning probe microscopy (SPM)
M. Hegner
Institute of Physics, University of Basel
Abstract
Monday, April 23rd 2001, 15:30 (Board Room)
Note special room
Force and Dissipation Measurements on the Atomic Scale
Roland Bennewitz
Institute of Physics, University of Basel
Abstract
Wednesday, March 28th 2001, 13:30
Note special time
MXT: The challenges of a start-up
John Strom-Olsen
Physics Department, McGill University and MTX Inc
Abstract
Wednesday, March 7th 2001, 15:30
Nanostructured Thin Film Materials
Kevin Robbie
Queen's University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 28th 2001, 15:30
Coherently Driven Bloch Oscillations in the Excitonic Wannier-Stark Ladder
Marc Dignam
Department of Physics, Queen's University
Abstract
Friday, February 16th 2001, 15:30
Theoretical Investigations of Carbon Nanotubes: Growth, Defects and Devices
Chris Roland
Physics Department, North Carolina State University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 14th 2001, 15:30
Towards realistic simulations of biophysical molecules
Celeste Sagui
Physics Department, North Carolina State University
Abstract
Thursday, February 8th 2001, 15:30
Determination of the characteristic lengths of superconductors by means of magnetic force microscopy
Antonio Badía
Dpto. Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Zaragoza
Abstract
Wednesday, January 24th 2001, 15:30
The quantum Hall stripe phase
René Côté
Departement de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Wednesday, January 17th 2001, 15:30
Exotic Charge and Spin Correlations in Transition Metal Oxides
Bruce Gaulin
McMaster University
Abstract
Thursday, December 14th 2000, 15:30 (Board Room)
Note special room
Stretching macromolecules: a first principles theory
H. Juergen Kreuzer
Department of Physics, Dalhousie University
Abstract
Tuesday, December 12th 2000, 15:00 (Board Room)
Note special time and room
Growth, structure, electronic and magnetic properties of MgO/Fe(100)bilayers and Fe/MgO/Fe(001) tunneling junctions.
B. Heinrich
Physics Department, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Thursday, November 16th 2000, 15:30 (Board Room)
Note special room
Periodic nano-arrays: superconducting, magnetic and hybrid
V. Metlushko
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
Abstract
Tuesday, November 14th 2000, 15:30
Quantum Computation
Raymond Laflamme
LANL
Abstract
Wednesday, January 17th 2000, 15:30
Exotic Magnetic Ground States
Bruce Gaulin
McMaster University
Thursday, November 2nd 2000, 15:30
Cantilever sensors in gaseous and liquid environment
Marco Ballert
IBM Zurich
Abstract
Thursday, October 5th 2000, 15:30
Managing Complex Self-Assembly in Block Copolymers
Francois Drolet
Hyperdigm Research
Abstract
Thursday, September 28th 2000, 15:30
Chemical analysis of surfaces: ab initio simulations as a guide to interpretation
Werner A. Hofer
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University College London
Abstract
Wednesday, September 27th 2000, 15:30
Elastic Properties of Double-Stranded DNA
P.Y. Lai
Dept. of Physics, National Central Unversity, Taiwan

1999/2000

Tuesday, August 22nd 2000, 14:30
Self-organized criticality in sandpile models and interface depinning
Mikko Alava
Helsinki University of Technology
Abstract
Friday, May 19th 2000, 15:30
Slow combustion fronts in paper: Theory, simulations, and experiments
Tapio Ala-Nissila
Helsinki Institute of Physics and Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology
Abstract
Thursday, May 18th 2000, 15:30
Tunneling and Spontaneous Interlayer Phase Coherence in 3, 2, and 1 Dimensions
Prof. Steven M. Girvin
Department of Physics, Indiana University
Abstract
Wednesday, May 10th 2000, 15:30
Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Thin Films: Assembly, Questions, and Applications
Christopher Barrett
Centre for the Physics of Materials and Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Abstract
Friday, April 14th 2000, 15:30
Frontiers in Magnetic Recording
Andreas Moser
IBM Almaden Research Center
Abstract
Thursday, April 6th 2000, 15:30
Study and Design of New Materials: Boron Nitride Polymers and Electronic Mobility in Organic Semiconductors
Michel Côté
Cambridge
Abstract
Wednesday, March 29th 2000, 15:30
Pattern formation and chaos in Faraday waves
Jorge Viñals
Florida State University
Abstract
Monday, March 27th 2000, 15:30
Electron Roundup at the Quantum Corral and other Tales of the Atomic Landscape
Michael F. Crommie
University of California, Berkeley
Abstract
Thursday, March 16th 2000, 16:00 (room 118)
Note special room
Undercooling of metallic melts
Dirk Holland-Moritz
Institut für Raumsimulation and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Abstract
Friday, March 10th 2000, 15:30
Perturbation of the Singlet Ground State in a Two Leg Ladder System: Muon Spin Measurements of Zn-doped SrCu2O3
M.I. Larkin
Columbia University
Abstract
Thursday, February 17th 2000, 15:30
Atomic Structure of Amorphous Silicon
Sjoerd Roorda
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Wednesday, January 19th 2000, 15:00
(Note special time)
Magnetic ordering of the Fe sub-lattice in the RFe6Ge6 and RFe6Sn6 compounds (R=rare-earth)
J. M. Cadogan
School of Physics, The University of New South Wales
Abstract
Friday, December 17th 1999, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 104)
Low Temperature Scanning Force Microscopy of the Si(111) 7x7 Surface
Dr. Mark Lantz
Institute of Physics, University of Basel
Abstract
Thursday, November 11th 1999, 15:30
Berry's Phase and Millikelvin Force Microscopy
Geoff Nunes
Dartmouth College
Abstract
Monday, November 8th 1999, 15:30
Cantilever array based nose and biosensor
Dr. Jürgen Fritz
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory & University of Basel
Abstract
Wednesday, October 13th 1999, 15:30
Elastic interactions on a surface: From biology to MBE growth
Dr. Philippe Peyla
Université Joseph Fourier
Abstract
Thursday, October 7th 1999, 15:30 (Board room)
Please note the special room
Haptic human-computer interaction
Vincent Hayward
Center for Intelligent Machines, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, September 23rd 1999, 15:30
Electrons in self assembled nanowires
Prof. Alastair McLean
Department of Physics, Queen's University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 15th 1999, 15:30
Nanoscale Physics and the Universal Quantum of Heat Flow
Prof. George Kirczenow
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Abstract

1998/99

Monday, August 16th 1999, 15:30
Microfabrication of Tools for Nanoscience
Urs Staufer
Institute of Microtechnology, University of Neuchâtel
Abstract
Monday, July 26th 1999, 15:30
The Physics of linear, circular and knotted DNA
Giovanni Dietler
Condensed Matter Physics Department, University of Lausanne
Abstract
Thursday, May 27th 1999, 15:30
Atom-by-atom Fabrication of Silicon Nanostructures
Prof. Shi-Yu Wu
Department of Physics, University of Louisville
Abstract
Thursday, May 13th 1999, 15:30
Single-wall carbon nanotubes: Structure and transport below 1 micron
Prof. Alan T. Johnson
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvenia
Abstract
Tuesday, May 11th 1999, 14:30
Experimental test of a fluctuation-induced first-order phase transition
John Bechhoefer
Physics Department, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Monday, May 10th 1999, 15:30
Charge transfer in complex alloys. A simple model to study the electronic contribution to the stability
Dr. G. Abramovici
Université de Paris-Sud
Thursday, May 6th 1999, 15:30
Monte Carlo and Mean Field Study of Polymers in Solution
Marc Pépin
University of Ottawa
Abstract
Wednesday, April 28th 1999, 15:30
Particle-Stabilized Defect Gel in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Martin Zapotocky
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Wednesday, April 21st 1999, 15:30
Dynamics of Granular Materials
Prof. Daniel C. Hong
Department of Physics, Lehigh University
Abstract
Wednesday, April 7th 1999, 15:30
Quantum phase transitions and strong quenched randomness
David A. Huse
Princeton University
Monday, March 29th 1999, 14:30 (room 115)
Please note special time and room
About Physical Phenomena in Clays
Jon Otto Fossum
NTNU Physics Department, Gloeshaugen, Norway
Abstract
Thursday, March 25th 1999, 15:30
A new angle on scanning force microscopy
Timothy Stowe
Stanford University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 3rd 1999, 15:30
Special CPM seminar
Modeling solidification structures using phase-field models on an adaptive grid
Nick Provatas
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract
Wednesday, January 20th 1999, 15:30
Thermal Instabilities in Thin Polymer Films: From Pattern Formation to Rupture
John R. Dutcher
Department of Physics, University of Guelph
Abstract
Thursday January 7th 1999, 13:00
Electrolyte Criticality: a Puzzle, Some Pieces, and a Prognosis
Ben Vollmayr-Lee
Bucknell University
Abstract
Wednesday, December 9th 1998, 15:30
A Finnish view of a Swedish Arrhenius form: Some aspects of how to interpret the Arrhenius parameters in the context of surface diffusion
Dr. Ilpo Vattulainen
Membrane and Statistical Physics Group (MEMPHYS), The Technical Univ. of Denmark
Abstract
Wednesday, December 2nd 1998, 15:30
Statistical mechanics of biomaterials
Erwin Frey
Harvard University
Abstract
Friday, November 27th 1998, 10:30
Please note the special time and room
Hydrogenation and Thermal Stability of Zr-Based Metallic Glasses and Quasicrystals
Uwe Köster
Department of Chemical Engineering, Dortmund University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 24th 1998, 14:30 (board room - 104)
Please note the special time and room
High Speed Magnetic Imaging
Mark Freeman
Department of Physics, University of Alberta
Abstract
Wednesday, November 18th 1998, 15:30
XY Spin and Gauge Glasses: A Controversy Resolved?
Mike Kosterlitz
Brown University
Abstract
Monday, November 16th 1998, 15:30
Special Colloquium
Treffpunkt: The Point of Contact
Nancy Burnham
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract
Thursday, November 12th 1998, 12:30
(Very) Informal Lunch Seminar
Density Functional Theory
Jeremy Taylor
Physics Department, McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 11th 1998, 15:30
Phase Field Modeling of Grain Boundaries
Jim Warren
NIST
Abstract
Friday, November 6th 1998, 12:30
(Very) Informal Lunch Seminar
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Mikko Haataja
Physics Department, McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 4th 1998, 15:30
In-situ Neutron Reflectometry - a New Capability
Zin Tun
NRC/Chalk River Laboratories
Abstract
Thursday, October 29th 1998, 15:30
Exact results for diffusion-limited coalescense, A+A <-> A
Dani Ben Avraham
Physics Department, Clarkson University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 28th 1998, 15:30
Self-organized Nanoscale Quantum Structures in Strained Thin Films
Dr. Feng Liu
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract
Monday, October 26th 1998, 15:30
Micromechanical Thermogravimetry on Single Zeolite Crystals
Jan-Henning Fabian
Paul-Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Abstract
Thursday, October 22nd 1998, 15:30
Absorption of solar radiation by hydrogen-bonded complexes
W. Geldart
Abstract
Thursday, October 15th 1998, 16:00
Statistical Mechanics of Protein Folding
Dr. Hao Li
Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University
Abstract
Thursday, October 8th 1998, 16:00
Muon Spin Relaxation Studies of Unconventional Superconductors
Graeme Luke
McMaster University
Abstract
Monday, October 5th 1998, 15:30
Real-Time X-ray Scattering Studies of GaN during MOCVD Growth
Anneli Munkholm
Material Science Department, Argonnne National Laboratory
Abstract
Wednesday, September 9th 1998, 15:30
A New Liquid Phase and Metal-Insulator Transition in 2D Electron Systems
Prof. X.C. Xie
Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University
Abstract

1997/98

Tuesday, August 4th 1998, 15:00
Synthesis and characterization of filled carbon nanotubes
Olivier Klein
Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Abstract
Thursday, May 7th 1998, 15:30
The Vapour Pressure Paradox: Fact or Fiction
Dr. John Katsaras
Neutron Program for Materials Research, Chalk River, Ontario
Abstract
Wednesday, April 15th 1998, 15:30
Why your cells are stable: the statistical mechanics of holes
Professor David Boal
Physics Department, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Thursday, April 9th 1998, 13:15
Ubiquitous Non-Exponential Decay-Disorder, Interaction, or What?
E.D. Dahlberg
Magnetic Microscopy Center, University of Minnesota
Abstract
Thursday, March 26th 1998, 13:15
Note: originally scheduled for January 15th
Effects of External Environments on the Tunneling Properties of Magnetic Domain Walls
Martin Dube
University of Helsinki
Abstract
Thursday, March 12th 1998, 13:15
Observation of the Polarization of domains in Ferroelectric thin Films using X-Ray Interference
Carol Thompson
Dept of Physics, Northern Illinois University
and Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Abstract
Tuesday, March 10th 1998, 13:15
Atomic Force Microscopy in Life Sciences: A Mechanical Approach to Study Biomolecules
Jürgen Fritz
Novartis Scientific Services, Physics, Basel, Switzerland
Physics Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland
Abstract
Thursday, February 19th 1998, 13:15
Using the Polarization Knob in X-ray Physics
Ken Finkelstein
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source
Abstract
Tuesday, February 17th 1998, 13:15
Surface forces measurements: long range forces and adhesion
A few case studies relevant to the glass industry
Etienne Barthel
Unité Mixte CNRS/Saint Gobain
Abstract
Thursday, January 29th 1998, 13:15
"Effective temperature" of a Flowing Foam
Steve Langer
NIST Gaithersburg
Abstract
Location: Boardroom (room 105), Ernest Rutherford Physics Building
Please note special time
Tuesday, January 27th 1998, 13:15
Molecular Origins of Friction
Professor Mark Robbins
Johns Hopkins University
Abstract
Location: Boardroom (room 105), Ernest Rutherford Physics Building
Please note special time
Thursday, January 22nd 1998, 15:30
Imaging unconventional superconductors with the scanning SQUID microscope
John Kirtley
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights
Abstract
Monday, December 15th 1997, 15:30
Interaction-induced Delocalization of Quasiparticles Pairs in the Anderson Insulator
Phillippe Jacquod
Applied Physics Department
Yale University
Abstract
Thursday, December 11th 1997, 15:30
Current Research Issues for the Electron-Doped Cuprates
P. Fournier
Center for Superconductivity Research and Department of Physics
University of Maryland, College Park
Abstract
Thursday, December 4th 1997, 15:30
Polymorphic phase transitions in liquids and glasses
Prof. Peter H. Poole
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Western Ontario
Abstract
Thrusday, November 20th 1997, 15:30
Fabrication and characterization of quantum effect devices
Jacques Beauvais
Départment de génie électrique et de génie informatique
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, November 13th 1997, 15:30
Characterizing Organic Surfaces by Adhesion Force Measurement using Pulsed Force Mode SFM
Dr. Sabine Hild
Experimentelle Physik
Universitaet Ulm
Abstract
Thursday, November 6th 1997, 15:30
Nematic ordering of DNA on positively charged bilayers
Jie Yang
Physics Department
University of Vermont
Abstract
Tuesday, November 4th 1997, 15:30
Biased Diffusion of Two Species: American Football, Barber Poles and Clouds
Prof. B. Schmittmann
Center for Stochastic Processes in Science and Engineering and Department of Physics
Virginia Tech
Abstract
Wednesday, October 29th 1997, 15:30
Tip-surface interactions in air, liquid and ultra high vacuum
Dr. Suzi P. Jarvis
Joint Research Center for Atom Technology
National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Japan
Abstract
Thursday, October 23rd 1997, 15:30
Experimental Tests of the SO(5) Theory of High Temperature Superconductivity
John Berlinsky
McMaster University
Abstract
Thursday, October 9th 1997, 15:30
Atomic-level Processes Underlying Persistence, Poisoning, and Autocorrelations in Dilute Coarsening Systems with T<T_c.
Andrew Rutenberg
Department of Physics
McGill University
Abstract

Past RQMP Research Seminars

Thursday, July 14th 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Odd-frequency superconducting pairing induced by magnetic impurities
Marcello Civelli
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Saclay CNRS
Abstract
Thursday, April 14th 2022, 10:30
Density changes in amorphous silicon provoked by swift heavy ions
Sjoerd Roorda
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, April 7th 2022, 10:30
The Ruination of a University: The Sad Tale of the Laurentian University Fiasco
Eduardo Galiano-Riveros
Laurentian University (Emeritus) & McMaster University
Abstract
Thursday, March 31st 2022, 10:30
Watching Phase Transformations with a Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscope
Kenneth Beyerlein
Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Abstract
Thursday, March 24th 2022, 10:30
Non-conventional orders, modulation, and disentanglement in low-dimensional quantum systems
Gennady Chitov
Institut quantique & Département de physique, Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, March 10th 2022, 10:30
Cornering the universal shape of fluctuations
William Witczak-Krempa
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, February 24th 2022, 10:30
Sun in bottles: photocatalytic plasmonic materials
Jérôme Claverie
Département de chimie, Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, February 17th 2022, 10:30
Jérome Claverie
Université de Sherbrooke
Thursday, February 10th 2022, 10:30
Superconductivity in ultra-quantum matter, Part II: optimizing Tc
André-Marie Tremblay
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, February 3rd 2022, 10:30
Renormalization-Group-Inspired Neural Networks for Computing Topological Invariants
Omri Lesser
Weizmann Institute of Science
Abstract
Thursday, January 27th 2022, 10:30
A theoretical outlook on the properties of spin ice and other pyrochlore thin films
Michel Gingras
University of Waterloo
Abstract
Thursday, December 9th 2021, 11:30
The way to a new, clean, safe and nearly unlimited energy
Kristel Crombe
Universiteit Gent
Abstract
Thursday, December 2nd 2021, 10:30
New experimental signatures of the pseudogap phase in cuprates
Louis Taillefer
Département de physique, Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, November 25th 2021, 10:30
Phase Field Crystal Modelling of Orientation Gradients in Rapidly Solidified Aluminum
Nik Provatas
Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 23rd 2021, 11:00 (Boardroom - room 105/Zoom
Special RQMP Seminar
Phase transitions and critical states of monitored quantum systems
Ehud Altman
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Thursday, November 18th 2021, 11:30
Fermi Polarons in 2D semiconductors
Francesca Marchetti
Universidad Autómona de Madrid
Abstract
Thursday, November 11th 2021, 10:30
Topology in heritage: influence of the electronic Berry phase in lattice vibrations
Ion Garate
Département de physique, Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, November 4th 2021, 10:30 ( R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Zoom)
Nanofluidic Devices for Single-Molecule Analysis, Manipulation and Control
Walter Reisner
Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, October 28th 2021, 10:30
Topological physics with light and matter: new horizons
Phillippe St-Jean
Département de physique, Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, October 21st 2021, 10:30
Instrumentation of large-scale noble liquid experiments in astroparticle physics
Serge Charlebois
Département de génie électrique et de génie informatique, Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, October 14th 2021, 10:30
Elucidating the different regimes of phonon transport
Samuel Huberman
Chemical Engineering, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, October 7th 2021, 11:30
Limits and Optimality in Photonic Design
Sean Molesky
Département de génie physique, Polytechnique Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, September 30th 2021, 10:30
Superconductivity in ultra-quantum matter: Part I
André-Marie Tremblay
Département de Physique Institut quantique & RQMP, Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, September 16th 2021, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 013/Zoom)
Are we there yet? The need for speed!
Peter Grütter
Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, September 9th 2021, 10:30
Quantum Materials at the atomic scale
Adina Luican-Mayer
University of Ottawa
Abstract
Thursday, June 3rd 2021, 10:30
Amorphous oxides for interference coatings of ultrastable optical cavities
Carmen S. Menoni
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chemistry and School of Advanced Materials Discovery, Colorado State University
Abstract
Thursday, May 27th 2021, 10:30
What Role for Unconventional Electrolytes in the Development of Energy Storage Devices?
Dominic Rochefort
Département de Chimie, Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, May 13th 2021, 10:30
From Nonlinear Hall Effect to Topological Optoelectronics
Liang Fu
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, May 6th 2021, 10:30
Quantum-information optoelectronics
Mackillo Kira
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Abstract
Thursday, April 29th 2021, 10:30
Nonequilibrium dynamics of crystal lattices
Fabio Caruso
Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Abstract
Thursday, April 22nd 2021, 10:30
Three stories of defects and disorder in 2D crystals
Shawna Hollen
Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire
Abstract
Thursday, April 8th 2021, 10:30
Learning Quantum Hamiltonians: Local Inverse Problems in Condensed Matter
Netanel Lindner
Technion (Israel Institute of Technology)
Abstract
Thursday, March 25th 2021, 10:30
Quantum materials design: challenges and opportunities
Roser Valenti
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, March 11th 2021, 10:30
Learning Quantum Hamiltonians: Local Inverse Problems in Condensed Matter
Netanel Lindner
Technion (Israel Institute of Technology)
Abstract
Thursday, March 4th 2021, 10:30
Cavity QED quantum materials engineering
Angel Rubio
Max Planck / Flatiron Institute / Universidad del País Vasco
Abstract
Thursday, February 25th 2021, 10:30
How good does a Li-ion battery need to be for EV and grid applications and how good can it be?
Jeff Dahn
Dalhousie University
Abstract
Thursday, February 18th 2021, 10:30
Novel Measures of Quantum Correlations Using Nonlinear THz Response
Peter Armitage
Johns Hopkins University
Abstract
Thursday, February 11th 2021, 10:30
Live from New York: Programmable Quantum Materials
Dmitri Basov
Department of Physics, Columbia University
Abstract
Thursday, February 4th 2021, 10:30
Femtosecond laser micromachining of materials to engineer functional surfaces
Anne-Marie Kietzig
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, January 28th 2021, 10:30
Recovery of value from e-waste
Maria Holuszko
The Urban Mining Innovation Centre, Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, University of British Columbia
Abstract
Thursday, January 21st 2021, 10:30
Pushing the Size of the Quantum Cluster Numerical Simulations
Maxime Charlebois
Université du Quebec, Trois-Rivières
Abstract
Thursday, December 10th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Partial dislocations in higher order topological insulators
Raquel Queiroz
Weizmann Institute
Abstract
Thursday, December 3rd 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
New routes to probe the two-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model
Michael Knap
Department of Physics, Technical University Munich
Abstract
Thursday, November 26th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Spontaneous non-equilibrium magnetism via “Berryogenesis” in driven electronic systems
Mark Rudner
Niels Bohr Institute
Abstract
Thursday, November 19th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Single-, few-, and many-photon physics in mesoscopic atomic chains
Ana Asenjo Garcia
Columbia Univeristy
Abstract
Thursday, November 12th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Predictive theoretical modeling of electro-thermal transport
Jesse Maassen
epartment of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University
Abstract
Thursday, November 5th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Using Synthesis as a Characterization Strategy in Strongly Correlated Materials
Zac Ward
Quantum Heterostructures Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Abstract
Thursday, October 29th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Beyond Topological Quantum Chemistry
Maia G. Vergniory
Donostia International Physics Center & Ikerbasque
Abstract
Thursday, October 22nd 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Reconstructing quantum states with generative models
Roger Melko
University of Waterloo
Abstract
Thursday, October 15th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Quantum coding with low-depth random circuits and targeted measurements
Michael Gullans
Princeton
Abstract
Thursday, October 8th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Imaging nematic quantum Hall states and their interacting boundary modes
Mallika Randeria
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, October 1st 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Magnesium Nanoparticles: Nanoplasmonics spanning the UV, Visible, and Near-IR
Émilie Ringe
Department of Earth Sciences & Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
Abstract
Thursday, September 24th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Atomic quantum memory and manipulation in the Autler-Townes Regime
Lindsay LeBlanc
University of Alberta
Abstract
Thursday, September 17th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Opportunities created by Spin-Orbit Interactions
Gang Cao
University of Colorado Boulder
Abstract
Thursday, September 10th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Exciton polarons in two-dimensional hybrid metal-halide perovskites
Carlos Silva
Georgia Tech
Abstract
Thursday, September 3rd 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Symmetry and topology of quasiparticles and their bound states in correlated insulators
Siddharth Parameswaran
University of Oxford
Abstract
Thursday, July 30th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Quantum impurity models using superpositions of fermionic Gaussian states: Practical methods and applications
Samuel Boutin
Microsoft Station Q (UC Santa Barbara)
Abstract
Thursday, July 23rd 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Higher-order topological insulators under strong magnetic fields
Benjamin A. Levitan
Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, July 16th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Fractionalized conductivity at topological phase transitions
William Witczak-Krempa
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, July 9th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
New signatures of the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors
Louis Taillefer
Institut Quantique, Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Thursday, July 2nd 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Understanding the link between the structure of the energy surface at the atomic level and the kinetic properties of complex materials at the macroscopic level
Normand Mousseau
Département de Physique, Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, June 25th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Nanoscale processes investigated from the thermal point of view
François Schiettekatte
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, June 18th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Coupling diamond defect centers to Fabry-Perot microcavities
Lily Childress
Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract

Past CPM Journal Club/RQMP Get-Together

Monday, September 28th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-journal)
La lumière au delà du linéaire
Félix Thouin
Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstract
Monday, September 14th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-journal)
De la guerre chaude à la guerre froide: La course à l’arme nucléaire
David Sénéchal
Département de physique, Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Monday, July 27th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-journal)
Modelling iridates: from multiorbital magnetism towards possible superconductivity
Lena Engström
McGill / Université de Montréal
Abstract
Monday, July 20th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-journal)
The quest for quantum spin liquid in pyrochlore lattices
Avner Fitterman
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Monday, July 13th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-journal)
Level statistics of a critical quantum spin chain
Gabriel Longpré
Département de physique, Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, June 11th 2020, 14:30 (Tele-journal)
A tale of two Kohn's: strongly coupled vs. strongly screened lattice vibrations in layered materials*
Martin Otto
Department of Physics, McGill University
Thursday, June 4th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-journal)
Higher-order topological phases in a spring-mass model on a breathing kagome lattice
Ranjani Seshadri
Department of Physics, McGill University
Thursday, May 28th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-journal)
Peter Grütter
Department of Physics, McGill University
Thursday, May 14th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-journal)
Machine learning assisted screening of energetic materials
Peng Kang
Department of Physics, McGill University
Thursday, May 7th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-journal)
Material Physics for Artificial Photosynthesis
Xiang-Hua Kong
Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, April 30th 2020, 10:30 (Tele-journal)
Extreme Light-Matter Interactions in a Nanotip
Dave Cooke
Department of Physics, McGill University
Thursday, April 23rd 2020, 10:30 (Tele-journal)
Topological transition of a non-Markovian dissipative quantum walk
Bill Coish
Department of Physics, McGill University

Past Lunchtime Seminar Series

Friday, February 6th 2004, 15:00
Watching biomolecules at work: advanced confocal concepts for intracellular studies
Katrin Heinze
University of Technology in Dresden & The Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysical Chemistry
Wednesday, March 28th 2001, 10:00 (room 115)
Mesoscopic Quantum Circuits: a Balance equation approach
Bart Soree
Department of Advanced Semiconductor Processing, Interuniversity Microelectonics Center
Tuesday, June 20th 2000, 15:30
Scanning Probe Microscopy at the University of Manitoba: Quantitative two-dimensional carrier profiling of 180 nm NMOS and PMOS devices by Schottky Scanning Capacitance Microscopy
Derek R. Oliver
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba
Abstract
Tuesday, April 11th 2000, 12:30
Introduction to Parallel Processing at the CPM
Dik Harris, Pawel Pomorski and Mark Bates
Centre for the Physics of Materials
Abstract
Monday, March 13th 2000, 12:30
Phase field model of dislocations in two-dimensional strained heterogeneous media
Mikko Haataja
Centre for the Physics of Materials
Abstract
Monday, March 6th 2000, 12:30
Statistical Mechanical Models with Hydrodynamics
Oleh Baran
McGill University
Abstract
Monday, February 28th 2000, 12:30
Spin-coherent quantum transport in carbon nanotube magnetic tunnel junctions
Hatem Mehrez
Centre for the Physics of Materials, McGill University
Abstract
Monday, February 14th 2000, 12:30
Numerical simulation of electron transport in nanostructures using the time-dependent Schrodinger equation
Pawel Pomorski
Monday, January 17th 2000, 12:30
Interface Dynamics in Imbibition
Martin Dubé
McGill University
Abstract
Monday, April 26 1999, 12:30
Crystal Structure and Cation Distributions in the FeTi2 O5-Fe2 Ti O5 Solid Solution Series
W.Q. Guo
Abstract
Monday, April 19th 1999, 12:30
TBA
Ping Yang
Monday, April 12th 1999, 12:30
Gas Sensing Mechanism in Tin Dioxide - based Gas Sensors
Andrei Fluerasu
Abstract
Wednesday, March 31st 1999, 12:30
Quantum Transport Through Atomic Junctions
Jeremy Taylor
Monday, March 15th 1999, 12:30
Selective Excitation Double Mossbauer Spectroscopy
Johann van Lierop
Monday, March 8th 1999, 12:30
Relaxational dynamics of a random heteropolymer
Christine Villeneuve
Monday, March 1st 1999, 12:30
Off-lattice model of the lipid membrane system
Hong Zhu
Monday, February 22nd 1999, 12:30
Anisotropic Curvature Driven Growth: Drop Shapes, Correlations, and a Mean-Field Model for Thin-film Polycrystallites
Andrew Rutenberg
Monday, February 15th 1999, 12:30
Capacitance Measurements on a Nanometer Scale
Alex Wlasenko
Monday, February 1st 1999, 12:30
The Mysteries of Low Temperature MFM Revealed (Live!)
Mark Roseman
Minday, January 25th 1999, 12:30
Magnetism in Fe/Cu multilayers
Alexander Kuprin
Monday, January 18th 1999, 12:30
Transfer Matrix Study of an Antidot System
Tiago De Jesus
Monday, January 11th 1999, 12:30
Simulation of Solid-Fluid Phase Equilibria for Chain Molecule Systems
James Polson
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