Fall Semester 2018
In the Fall Semester 2018 all seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 3:30 pm in Swain West 214, unless otherwise noted.
Please contact the CEEM at (812) 855-5466 or bl-ceem-offuse@exchange.indiana.edu to obtain information contained in the PDFs below in an accessible format.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
| August 20 | FALL SEMESTER COMMENCES | ||
| August 22 | Open | ||
| August 29 | Babak Seradjeh, IU Physics | "Floquet Topology: Fast, Slow and Across" | |
| September 5 | Taylor Hughes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | "Higher Order Topological Phases: Quadrupoles, Meta-materials, and Beyond" | Babak Seradjeh |
| September 12 | Michael Manfra, Purdue University | "Towards Topological Qubits in Superconductor/Semiconductor Hybrid System" | Gerardo Ortiz |
| September 19 | Yi Gu, Washington State University | "Phase-Defined Van der Waals Metal-Semiconductor Junction” | Shixiong Zhang |
| September 26 | Adrian Del Maestro, University of Vermont | "Entanglement area law in superfluid 4He" | Paul Sokol |
| October 3 | Marissa D'Onofrio, IU Physics | Candidacy Seminar - "A Trapped Ion Quantum Simulator for Two-Dimensional Spin Systems" | Phil Richerme |
| October 4-7 | FALL BREAK | ||
| October 10 | Erik Henriksen, Washington University in St. Louis | "Two topics in graphene: infrared spectroscopy and charge-doping a Mott insulator" | Herb Fertig |
| October 17 | Jinlyu Cao, IU Physics | "RKKY Interactions in Graphene Landau Levels" | Herb Fertig |
| October 24 | Jeff Ou, IUPUI | "Beating Quantum Mechanics with Quantum Mechanics" | Phil Richerme |
| October 31 | Thomas H. Heaton, Caltech | "Implications of Strong-Rate-Weakening Friction for the Length-Scale Dependence of the Strength of the Crust; Why Earthquakes are so Gentle" | Dave Baxter |
| November 7 | Abhishek Kumar, IU Physics | Candidacy Seminar - "Floquet optical conductivity and higher order Floquet topological insulators" | Babak Seradjeh |
| November 14 | Emilio Cobanera, SUNY Polytechnic Institute | "Quantum Brownian Motion in a Landau Level" | Gerardo Ortiz |
| November 17-25 | THANKSGIVING BREAK | ||
| November 28 | Yuanheng Xie, IU Physics | Candidacy Seminar: "Building a 2D quantum simulator with trapped ions" | Phil Richerme |
| December 5 | Vladimir Hutanu, University of Aachen and Jülich Centre for Neutron Science | "New single crystal diffractometer with polarized neutrons POLI at MLZ as a versatile tool for the detailed investigation of magnetic structures” | Mike Snow |
| December 10-14 | FINALS WEEK |
