Our seminar takes place on Tuesdays at 2:30pm in our seminar room (Elings Hall 2250), unless otherwise noted below.

Spring 2013 schedule

• 01/07 - 03/28: KITP Workshop Control of Complex Quantum Systems
  For the current schedule, refer to the KITP weekly schedule
• 02/19: Joe Polchinski, KITP
  Black Holes: Complementarity of Firewalls
• 04/02 (2:00pm): Alexey Soluyanov, ETH Zurich
  Wannier functions and topological invariants
• 05/02: Ali Yazdani, Princeton
  Majorana Fermions in Chains of Magnetic Atoms on a Superconductor
• 05/03: Lucy Zhang, Perimeter Institute/University of Toronto
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Fall 2012 schedule

• 09/18: Zhengcheng Gu, Caltech
  Duality between symmetry protected topological order and intrinsic
  topological order
• 09/25: Guifre Vidal, Perimeter Institute
  Characterizing topological order by studying the ground statesof an infinite cylinder
• 10/04: Jonathan Ruhman, Weizmann
  Tunable magnetism and strong correlations in the STO/LAO interface
• 10/16: Xiao-Gang Wen, Perimeter Institute
  Symmetry protected topological/"trivial" (SPT) phases
• 10/19: Andrew Potter, MIT
  Coexistence of Ferromagnetism and Superconductivity at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interfaces
• 10/30 (10:30am): Paul Bruillard, Texas A&M
  Topological Quantum Computation – Classification of Premodular Categories and Wang’s Conjecture
• 10/31: Liza Huijse, Harvard
  A multi-critical point of strongly interacting itinerant fermions with supersymmetry
• 11/01: Zlatko Papic, Princeton
  Aspects of tunability of the interactions in the quantum Hall effect: probing the interplay of topology, quantum geometry and symmetry breaking
• 11/05: Maissam Barkeshli, Stanford
  Synthetic Topological Qubits in Conventional Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems
• 11/06 (10:30am): Miles Stoudenmire, UC Irvine
  Exact Calculations in the 1D Continuum for DFT and Beyond
• 11/06: Wei Pan, Sandia National Lab
  Spin transition in the nu=8/3 fractional quantum Hall effect
• 11/27 (2:00pm): Jeongwan Haah, Caltech
  An exotic spin model and topological phase in 3D
• 11/28: Adam Nahum, Oxford
  Loop models, vortex lines, and SU(n) magnets