Program for the Nordita Meeting on Quantum Fluids

Week August 16 - 18
Week August 20 - 24
Week August 27 - 31
Week September 3 - 7
Week September 10 - 14
Week September 17 - 21
Week September 24 - 28



***** Week August 16 - 18 ******
August 16, 14.00
J. Jain (Penn State)
"Testing the pfaffian model for even denominator fractional quantum Hall effect"


***** Week August 20 - 24 ******
August 20,  14.00
J. Moore (Berkley)
"Topological defects and superfluidity in spinor condensates"
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August 21 14.00
J. Hietarinta (Turku)
"Knots in the Faddeev-Skyrme models"
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August 22, 11.00
B. Svistunov (UMass Amherst):
"Supersolid State of Matter" place: FA32 (OBS)

14.00
Ernst Helmut Brandt (Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart)
"Vortex Lattices in Superconducting Bulk and Films with and without Pinning"
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August 23, 14.00
Emil Lundh (Umeå)
"Transition from a two-dimensional superfluid to a one-dimensional  Mott insulator"
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August 24 14.00
E. Sonin (Jerusalem)
"Orbital magnetic dynamics in chiral p-wave superconductors"
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***** Week August 27 - 31 ******
August 27, 10.30
J.M. Speight  (Leeds)
"Instantons and the strong coupling limit of the Faddeev-Hopf model"

14.00
Ashvin Vishwanath (Berkley)
"Fluctuating Quantum Spirals and non-Fermi liquid physics in the metallic
helimagnet MnSi"

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August 28, 10.30
J.M. Speight  (Leeds)
Manton's geometric vortex dynamics

14.00
S. Das Sarma (Maryland)
"Bizarre transport properties of a quintessential Fermi Liquid:
The story of the jellium 2D electron liquid"
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August 29, 11.00, FA31
Shankar Das Sarma (Maryland)
"Topological quantum computing"

14.00
B. Svistunov (UMass Amherst)
"Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for the problem of BCS-BEC crossover"
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August 30, 14.00
V. Cheianov (Lancaster)
"Dynamics of spin waves in a one-dimensional itinerant ferromagnet"
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August 31, 14.00
L. Balents (UCSB)
“Spin liquid and solid in pyrochlore antiferromagnets”


***** Week September 3 - 7 ******
September 3 14.00
TBA
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September 4, 14.00
L. Balents (UCSB)
"Quasi 1d Antiferromagnets",
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September 5, 11.00 place: FA31
Soucheng Zhang (Stanford)
"Quantum spin Hall effect"

14.00
E. Babaev
"Metallic hydrogen: projected novel quantum fluid?"
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September 6 15.15, AlbaNova colloquum
Shoucheng Zhang
Quantum spin Hall Effect
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September 7, 14.00 place: FB42
Frank Wilczek (MIT)
"QCD Meets BCS"



***** Week September 10 - 14 ******
Monday September 10, 14.00
Zlatko Tesanovic (John Hopkins)
"Duality in Superconductors and Superfluids - a general introduction"
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Tuesday September 11, 14.00
K. Machida
"Quantum vortices in various superfluids"
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Wednsday September 12, 11:00, place: FA31
Z. Tesanovich (John Hopkins):
"d-wave Duality, Gauge Theories and thePhysics of High Temperature Superconductors" 
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Thursday September 13, 14.00
E. Ardonne (CalTech)
"Non-abelian statistics in the interference noise of the Moore-Read quantum Hall state"
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Friday September 14
Emil Bergholtz (Stockholm Univ.)
"The Quantum Hall system: solvable limit and beyond"
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***** Week August 17 - 21 ******

Monday September 17
No talk scheduled.
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Tuesday September 18, 14.00
No talk scheduled.
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Wednesday September 19 14:00
T. H. Hansson (Stockhom Univ.)
"Fractional statistics of QH quasiholes and quasielectrons" 
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Thursday September 20, 14.00
J. Lidmar (KTH)
"Quantum phase slips in Josephson junction arrays "
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Friday September 14
No talk scheduled.
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***** Week August 24 - 28 ******

Monday September 24, 11.00
Carsten Hutter (Stockholm Univ.)
"Coupling of superconducting qubits: an introduction"
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Tuesday September 25, 14.00
Mats Wallin (KTH)
"Quantum phases of helium"
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Wednesday September 26, 11.00 place: FA31
Stephanie Reimann (Lund Univ.)
Vortices in quantum dots and Bose condensates

14.00
Frank Wilczek (MIT) place: FB54
"Near-Zero Modes in Superconducting Graphene"
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Thursday September 27, 14.00
Jani-Petri Martikainen (Helsinki)
"Three-component mixture of ultra-cold fermions and interband pairing in optical lattices"
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