Past group meetings
Since the schedules were sometimes rearranged at short notice, this
list is not definitive.
Lent Term 2006
| 8th May | Dima Khmelnitskii, "Super Arrhenius Relaxation" |
| 15th May | Siddartha Lal |
| 22nd May | Ben Simons |
| 5th June | Stavros Komineas |
| 12th June | Charlie Tahan |
Easter Term 2006
| 23rd Jan | Dima Khmelnitskii, "Part III Projects" |
| 29th Jan | Jacek Kasprszak |
| 13th Feb | Santiago Grigera |
| 20th Feb | Meera Parish |
| 6th Mar | Pinaki Majumdar |
Michaelmas Term 2005
| 10th Oct | Peter Littlewood, "Electronic ferroelectrics and the 2Delta/Tc problem for charge density waves |
| 24th Oct | Simon Kos |
| 7th Nov | Vikram Tripathi |
| 21st Nov | Francesca Marchetti, "A temperature survey of Raman Scattering in NbSe2: a probe for collective excitations?" |
| 5th Dec | Paul Eastham |
Easter Term 2005
| 2nd May | Ted Janssen, "Phononic and electronic friction on aperiodic surfaces" |
| 9th May | Andrei Mourachkine, "Nature of Quasiparticles in Systems with Strongly Correlated Electrons from Tunneling Spectroscopy" |
| May 16th | Martin Veillette, "Cs2CuCl4: an unusual 2-D Triangular Antiferromagnet" |
| May 23rd | Giorgio Savona |
| May 30th | Francesca Marchetti |
| Jun 6th | Matthew Tunney |
| Jun 13th | J.C. Phillips |
Lent Term 2005
| 24th January | - |
| 31st January | Yen Lee Loh |
| 7th February | Sebastian Ahnert |
| 14th February | Stavros Komineas |
| 21st February | Geoff Milward |
| 28th February | Eran Ginosser (Weizmann Institute) |
| 7th March | Matthew Tunney |
| 14th March | Francesca Marchetti |
Michaelmas Term 2004
| 11th October | Janne Ruostekoski - Engineering ultra-cold atomic gases in optical lattices |
| 18th October | Simon Kos - Auger effect in Cuprous Oxide |
| 25th October | Vikram Tripathi - Tunnelling under a weakly disordered barrier |
| 1st November | Dima Khmelnitskii |
| 8th November | |
| 15th November | |
| 22nd November | Anson Cheung |
| 29th November | Andrey Bychkov - quantum information processing with excitons |
Easter Term 2004
| 26th April | Condensation of Cavity Polaritons in a Disordered Environment (Francesca Marchetti) |
| 10th May | Theory of excitons in conjugated polymers (William Barford) |
Lent Term 2004
| 2nd February | Slow dynamics in a model with no disorder (Malcolm Kennett) |
| 9th February | No meeting |
| 16th February | The effect of a long-range coupling term on Ginzburg-Landau models of phase transitions (Geoff Milward) |
| 23rd February | No meeting |
| 1st March | The Interplay of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity in Disordered
Metals (James Acton) |
| 8th March | No meeting |
Michaelmas Term 2003
| 20th October | Bose condensates in periodic potentials: nonlinear effects and
instabilities (SEMINAR) (Oliver Morsch) |
| 27th October | Classical (and quantum) corrections to
resistance (Malcolm Kennett) |
| 3rd November | Polariton condensation with a continuum of
photon modes (Jonathan Keeling) |
| 10th November | Population dynamics in the Penna model - dynamic behaviour within a model of evolutionary ageing (Jonathan Coe) |
| 17th November | Time dependent density functional theory (Peter Haynes) |
| 24th November | Why do glasses exist? (Ludovic Berthier, Oxford) |
| 1st December | Summer Impressions (David Khmelnitskii) |
Easter Term 2003
| 28th April | Inhomogeneous condensates in weakly disordered superconducting thin films (Francesca Marchetti) |
| 5th May | Alex Altland |
| 16th May | *** NB Unusual time and day FRIDAY, 2pm, SEMINAR *** Frustrated quantum Ising and dimer models, Roderich Moessner |
| 19th May | The origin of excess
low-frequency vibrational modes in glasses: the Boson peak, Prof. Stephen Elliott, Dept. of Chemistry |
| 26th May | Parametric evolution of random matrices and statistics of
fermionic world lines, Igor Smolyarenko |
| 2nd June | Vikram Tripathi |
Lent Term 2003
| 27th January | Local Effects of Correlation (Roger Haydock) |
| 3rd February | Dissipationless Transport in 2d Electron Gas OR Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors (Malcolm Kennett) |
| 10th February | ** SEMINAR ** Commensurate-to-Incommensurate Phase Transition in a Layered Antiferromagnet. (N. Papanicolaou, University of Crete.) |
| 17th February | Spin current in a ferromagnetic-metal/non-magnetic semiconductor system (Maria Calderon) |
| 24th February | Universal fermionic world lines (Igor Smolyarenko) |
| 3rd March | ** SEMINAR ** Ferroelectric Mott-Hubbard Phase in Organic Conductors (Serguei Brazovskii, Orsay.) |
| 10th March | Dilute Bose Gas in Two Dimensions (Jonathan Keeling) |
| 17th March | Where do holes dwell in doped manganites ? (Valeria Ferrari) |
Michaelmas Term 2002
- 14th October : Solid-state structures for quantum information processing (David Williams, Hitachi)
- 21st October : A dissipationless regime in 2d electron gasses? (Nigel Cooper)
- 28th October : Superconductivity versus antiferromagnetism (Yen Lee Loh)
- 14th November : Two-level systems in glasses: Phase transitions and the origin of the dipole gap (Paul Eastham)
- 11th November : Stavros Komineas
- 18th November : Anomalous magnetoresistance of the Silver Chalcogenides (Meera Parish)
- 25th November : Universality and two-level systems in glasses (Misha Turlakov)
- 9th December : Superconductivity and antiferromagnetism (Nagulan Saravanamuttu)
Michaelmas Term 2001
- 8th October : Introduction to the meetings (Peter Littlewood) and The microcavity parametric oscillator (Paul Eastham)
- 22nd October : A lattice spin mechanism for colossal magnetoresistance in Manganites (Luis Brey)
- 29th October : The crossover between Bose condensation and lasing (Marzena Szymanska)
- 12th November : Sum rules and high temperature superconductivity (Misha Turlakov)
- 19th November: The mechanism of superfluidity and supercurrents (Mariusz Nagola)
- 26th November : Resistivity and Raman scattering in Europium Hexaboride (Lorenz Wegener)
- 3rd December : Seminar: Excitons, exciton-composites, plasmas, and lasing in highly uniform T quantum wires (Hidefumi Akiyama)
Easter Term 2001
- 14th May : Theory of the electron-hole system (Gavin Brown)
- 21st May : The self-energy of the electron gas (Martin Vogt)
- 11th June : Ferromagnetic superconductivity from Fermi surface geometry (Karl Sandeman)
Lent Term 2001
- 29th January : Berry phase in a dissipative system (Dr. Rob Whitney)
- 5th February : Field theory and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (Dr. Ben Simons)
- 12th February : c-axis transport in the superconducting state of high-Tc oxides (Dr. Tao Xiang)
- 19th February : Superconductivity in very high magnetic fields (Dr. Mariusz Nogala)
- 26th February : Spin polarised electron transport at ferromagnet/semiconductor interfaces (Dr. Tony Bland)
- 5th March : Superconductivity in very high magnetic fields -- continued from 19th Feb (Dr. Mariusz Nogala)
Lent Term 2000
- 27th January : Collective modes in SrRuO superconductors, Yong-Baek Kim
- 3rd February : Calcium Hexaboride, Paul Eastham
- 10th February : No meeting
- 17th February : Mobility in Pentacene Crystals, Michel Côté
- 24th February : The g-factors of discrete levels in nanoparticles, Konstantin Matveev
- 2nd March : No meeting
- 9th March : A new method for digital holographic storage, Bill Wilson (Seminar)
- 16th March : No meeting
- 23rd March : Coulomb gap and classical strongly correlated liquids, David Khmelnitskii
Michaelmas Term 1999
- 14th October : Overview
- 21st October : Overview #2
- 28th October : Nonlinear Schrödinger equations and optical fibres (Peter Littlewood, Lorenz Wegener)
- 4th November : Bose condensation of microcavity polaritons (Paul Eastham, Peter Littlewood)
- 11th November : Dissipation, condensation and microcavity polaritons (Marzena Szymanska, Peter Littlewood)
- 18th November : No meeting
- 25th November : Nonlinear Schrödinger equations (Andrew Green)
- 2nd December : Keldysh Green's functions (Igor Smolyarenko)
- 9th December : No meeting
- 16th December : A very informal discussion on Hexaborides (Peter Littlewood, Lorenz Wegener, Paul Eastham)