Tuning dimensionality, magnetism and conduction in van-der-Waals Mott insulators FeP(S,Se)3

Dr. Matthew Coak (School of physics and astronomy, University of Birmingham).

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:15-12:00

Non-equilibrium effects in superconducting thin films probed by time-domain THz spectroscopy.

Chiara Ciccarelli.

West Hub, South Room.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 11:15-12:00

Topology: a new twist to electrons in quantum materials

Andrew Boothroyd.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Structures, superconductivity, and soft chemistry in anti-cuprate square lattice materials

Nicola Kelly.

West Hub, South Room.

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Exploring the ordered states of the multi-phase superconductor CeRh2As2

Dr. Konstantin Semeniuk, MPI-CPfS Dresden/Germany.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 03 June 2024, 11:15-12:30

Superconductivity in Thin-film Infinite-layer Nickelates

Professor Danfeng Li, Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 11:15-12:30

The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research

Prof. Greg Boebinger.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 11:15-12:30

New insights at ultra-low temperatures: superconductivity and nuclear-electronic quantum criticality

Prof. Alix McCollam, School of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 11:15-12:30

Upper bounds on superfluid stiffness and superconducting critical temperature - applications to flat bands, FeSe/STO, cold atoms and connections to quantum geometry

Dr. Tamaghna Hazra, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:15-12:30

Mysteries in the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4

Dr. Clifford Hicks, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 11:15-12:30

Saxena Group List

Exploring Superconductivity under High Pressure

Prof Katsuya Shimizu, Osaka University.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 20 November 2023, 16:00-17:30

Saxena Group List

Seminar on Superconductivity enhancement in polar metals

Isao H. Inoue from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:15-15:30

Moving in a dynamically changing free energy landscape: strain, heterostructure and optical control of the correlation-driven metal-insulator transition

Prof. Andrew Millis, Columbia University; co-Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, The Flatiron Institute.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:15-12:30

Saxena Group List

Quantum materials in and beyond equilibrium

Prof Christian Rüegg, Director, Paul Scherrer Institute.

Small Lecture Theatre (Bragg Building), Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 June 2023, 10:30-12:00

Magneto-optical probes shed light on the unconventional transport and magnetism of Eu – based semi-metals

Dr. Veronika Sunko, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 11:15-12:30

Magnetotransport of pyrochlore spin ice Sm2Ir2O7 across the pressure-induced quantum-critical phase boundary

Dr. Matthew Coak, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 11:15-12:30

Orbital-dependent scattering in Sr2RuO4 and FeSe probed by uniaxial stress

Dr. Clifford Hicks, University of Birmingham, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:15-12:30

High-temperature Superconductivity in Hydrides at High Pressures

Dr. Sven Friedemann.

Mott Seminar Room.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 11:15-12:30

Exploring the vortex melting transition in cuprate superconductor YBCO

Alexander Hickey.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:15-12:30

FeSb2: a riddle, inside an insulator, wrapped in a metal Electric and magnetic properties of the unconventional insulator iron diantimonide

Alex Eaton.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocOCrrzsvGtHekrkuOl2nTRs9zeAjSZT1.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 10:00-11:00

Giant suppression of thermal Hall effect in SrTiO3 by isotopic substitution

Register in advance at https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocOCrrzsvGtHekrkuOl2nTRs9zeAjSZT1

Sangwoo Sim, Seoul National University .

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocOCrrzsvGtHekrkuOl2nTRs9zeAjSZT1.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 10:00-11:00

Unconventional superconductivity and quadrupolar-density- wave phases in the locally noncentrosymmetric compound CeRh2As2

Dr. Manuel Brando, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden/Germany.

Zoom at https://trin-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96360088902?pwd=UmNWZ0JkNGE3elM2dXJCS2ZRVEc1dz09. Limited seating in Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 11:15-12:15

Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electronic State in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 11:15-12:15

The unusual phase boundary of the magnetic-field-tuned valence transition in CeOs4Sb12

Dr Kathrin Götze, Department of Physics, University of Warwick.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 11:15-12:15

Visualizing Landau Orbits, Quantum Hall Nematics, and Topological Edge Modes

Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 11:15-12:15

Charge-Density-Wave: Fermi-surface Reconstruction and Competing Orders

Dr. Sven Friedemann.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 11:15-12:15

A Square-Lattice Spin Liquid Candidate

Dr Otto Mustonen from Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Sheffield.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 28 August 2019, 11:15-12:15

The enigmatic pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors

Louis Taillefer - Institut Quantique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 18 June 2019, 11:00-12:30

Mini Colloquium on Itinerant Electron Ferromagnetic Superconductors and Related Materials - Chair and Discussion Lead: Malte Grosche

Speaker to be confirmed.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE.

Friday 29 March 2019, 14:00-17:00

Chemical Control of Correlated Metals as Transparent Conductors

Dr. Jonathan Alaria, University of Liverpool.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 11:15-12:30

Delafossite oxides: natural, ultra-pure metal-insulator heterostructures

Veronika Sunko, University of St Andrews and MPI-CPfS Dresden.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 11:15-12:30

High pressure Fermiology studies of YBCO

Audrey Grockowiak, NHMFL Tallahassee.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 21 December 2018, 11:15-12:30

Ballistic electrons on the hexagonal Fermi surface of PdCoO2

Maja Bachmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 11:15-12:30

Topological Kondo semimetals

Prof. Huiqiu Yuan: Center for correlated Matter and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 28 September 2018, 11:15-12:30

Computational and experimental force multipliers for the discovery of new thermoelectric and photovoltaic materials

Prof Eric Toberer: Physics Dept., Colorado School of Mines.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 25 September 2018, 16:00-17:00

High temperature superconductors from fundamental science to hybrid electric aircraft

Prof. Jeff Tallon, Victoria University of Wellington.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:30

FINDING BETTER MATERIALS FASTER: THE EXAMPLE OF MAGNETOCALORICS

Prof. Ram Seshadri, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 22 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Wave propagation in complex media: Branching, chimeras and machine learning predictions

Professor G. P. Tsironis - Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 11:00-12:30

A TALE OF TWO METALS: CONTRASTING CRITICALITIES IN THE CUPRATES AND PNICTIDES

Prof. Nigel Hussey, Director of the Nijmegen High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 21 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Magnetic-field Induced Pair Density Wave State in the Cuprate Vortex Halo

Dr. Stephen Edkins, Stanford.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 11:00-12:30

What is really extraordinary in superconducting cuprates?

Professor Ivan Bozovic, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Applied Physics Department, Yale University.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 13 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Dirac and Weyl Semimetals: Synthesis and Characterization

Ivan Kokanović: Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia .

TCM Seminar Room (530), Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

Inelastic neutron scattering and µSR investigations of an anisotropic hybridization gap in the Kondo insulators: CeT2Al10 (T=Fe, Ru and Os)

Dr. Adroja Devashibhai, ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 11:15-12:30

Crystal growth, structure and magnetic frustration in rare earth pyrochlore oxides

Monica Ciomaga Hatnean, University of Warwick.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 11:15-12:30

Magnetic van der Waals Materials: Potentials and Applications

Professor Je-Geun Park: Center for Correlated Electron Systems, Institute for Basic Science, Seoul & Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul .

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 11:15-12:30

Thermal Conductivity in Quantum Materials Research

Prof. Robert Hill, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 11:15-12:30

Emergent quantum coherent state on the border of ferroelectricity

Dr Matt Coak: Institute for Basic Sciences , Center for Correlated Electron Systems Department of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University, Korea.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 December 2017, 11:15-12:30

Advanced neutron diffraction for functional materials

Pascal Manuel: Isis Neutron and Muon Source.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 11:15-12:30

Thermodynamics of high-Tc superconductors as related to other spectroscopies – the legacy of John Loram

Professor Jeff Tallon Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 11:15-12:30

Superfluid density, universal scaling of critical current and the quest for room-temperature superconductivity

Jeffery Tallon, Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology, New Zealand..

Small Lecture Theatre (Bragg Building), Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 11:15-12:15

Strain-tuning of the magnetic compounds Sr3Ru2O7, CeAuSb2, and PdCrO2

Clifford Hicks. Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Scattering, Fermi surface reconstruction and the gap above Tc in cuprate superconductors

James G. Storey. Robinson Research Institute & MacDiarmid Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 11:15-12:15

High pressure synthesis of novel perovskite-type oxides with unusually high valence Co(IV) and Cu(III) ions

Shintaro Ishiwata, University of Tokyo..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 11:15-12:15

Hidden fluctuations close to a quantum bicritical point

Corenting Morice, CEA, University of Paris-Saclay..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 11:15-12:15

Engineering Approach to Instrumentation Development for High-Pressure Research

Prof. Konstantin Kamenev, University of Edinburgh, Schl of Engineering & Electronics and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 11:15-12:15

The pervasive influence of strain coupling and dynamic strain relaxation associated with ferroic, multiferroic and superconducting phase transitions.

Prof. Michael Carpenter, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Earth Sciences.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 11:15-12:15

Coordination Frameworks: New routes to multiferroics and low dimensional magnetism

Paul Saines, School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 11:15-12:15

Quantum criticality and Fermi surface instabilities in the ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe

Gael Bastien, 1. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France. 2.INAC/SPSMS, CEA-Grenoble, France..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 11:45-12:45

Phase diagram and spin dynamics of the frustrated pyrochlore magnet Yb2Ti2O7 in applied field

Paul McClarty, Wadham College, University of Oxford. Science & Technology Facilities Council..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 11:15-12:15

Spin orbit coupling and magnetism in low dimensions for room temperature applications

Christos Panagopoulos. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Criticality, Strange Metals and High Temperature Superconductors

Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside.

TCM Seminar Room (530), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

The next generation of Dirac materials, from discovery to new physical phenomena realized in the solid state

Leslie Schoop, Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 11:15-12:15

Large non-saturating magnetoresistance in a novel superconductor Ca3.2Co4Sn12.8

Dr. Monika Gamza, University of Central Lancashire.

Small Lecture Theatre, Room 133, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 11:15-12:15

The magnetic structure and dynamics of the MPS3 family (M=Mn, Fe, Co, Ni)

Dr Andrew Wildes - Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble..

Small Lecture Theatre, Room 133, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 11:15-12:15

Multiferroic hexagonal RMnO3: a model system for 2D triangular lattice antiferromagnets

Prof. Je-Geun Park. 1-Center for Correlated Electron Systems, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul. 2-Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul .

TCM Seminar Room (530), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 15:00-16:00

Complexity at High Pressure From Pure Elements to Thermoelectrics

Dr. Ingo Loa, CSEC Edinburgh..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 11:15-12:15

Ionitronic Effects in Strongly Correlated Oxide Thin Films

Professor Judith Driscoll, Dept. Materials Science, University of Cambridge..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 11:15-12:15

Effects of interactions on Lifshitz transition: taking sodium cobaltate as a possible example.

Dr. Jospeh Betouras, Dept. of Physics, Loughborough University..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 11:15-12:15

Emergence of the nematic state in FeSe

Dr. Amalia Coldea, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 11:15-12:15

Complexity and self-organization in superconducting metamaterials.

Prof Giorgos Tsironis, University of Crete and Nazarbaev University.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 11:15-12:15

Emergent phenomena from topological magnets

Professor Yoshinori Tokura, RIKEN and University of Tokyo.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 30 September 2015, 10:00-11:00

Can the Fermi surface reconstruction in YBCO at high fields be explained by the observed Charge Density Wave (CDW) structure?

Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room (530), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 17 September 2015, 14:00-16:00

Imaging techniques - Some spectroscopy techniques

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 15:30-16:30

Magnetic Structure Solution of Frustrated Spin Systems

Joe Paddison, University of Oxford and STFC-ISIS Facility, UK..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 11:15-12:15

X-ray Spectroscopy: Photoemission and magnetic dichroism

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 18 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

X-ray spectroscopic methods to measure energy response function (absorption techniques)

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 11 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Resonant x-ray diffraction techniques to probe magnetic and electronic properties

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 27 April 2015, 15:30-16:30

Spin and Orbital Order in the vanadium spinels

Elisa Wheeler, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 March 2015, 11:15-12:15

X-ray diffraction techniques to obtain structural information (powder and single crystal)

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 09 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Synchrotron radiation and beamlines at 3rd generation synchrotrons

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 02 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Charge, spin and vacancy ordering in perovskites obtained from high pressure and reductive chemistry.

Dr Angel Arevalo Lopez, CSEC, University of Edinburgh.

TCM Seminar room (530), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 20 February 2015, 11:30-12:30

Interaction of x-rays with matter

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 09 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

From x-ray tubes to storage rings and beyond

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 02 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Quantum criticality in iron-based superconductors

Antony Carrington, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 11 December 2014, 11:15-12:15

High-pressure studies into the thermal properties of MnSi

Dr Anna Kusmartseva, Dept. of Physics, University of Loughborough..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 11:15-12:15

The heavy-fermion compound CeRhIn5: d-wave superconductivity and density waves

Dr Philip Moll, Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zurich..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 11:15-12:15

'Surface states and topology in Kondo insulating SmB6 and superconducting Tl5Te3'

Tyrel McQueen, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 11 July 2014, 02:15-03:15

Thermodynamics and critical current density in HTS superconductors and beyond

Jeff Tallon, Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University, New Zealand..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 11:15-12:15

Intermetallic compound for demagnetisation refrigeration just below 0.2K

Thomas Gruner, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 11:15-12:15

Exploring quantum magnetism using molecules, magnetic fields and pressure.

Paul Goddard, University of Warwick..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 11:15-12:15

Spin-orbit coupled quantum magnets

Giniyat Khaliullin, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 11:15-12:15

How supersolids melt: vortices near a high-symmetry phase coexistence point.

Chris Hooley - Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), University of St Andrews.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 11:15-12:15

Critical dopings and superconducting domes in doped SrTiO3

Kamran Behnia, ESPCI, Paris..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 11:15-12:15

The New Superconducting Quantum Devices

Phil Meeson, Royal Holloway, University of London..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 09 October 2013, 11:15-12:15

Materials design and functionality in oxide heterostructures

Christos Panagopoulos, Division of Physics and Applied Physics, Nanyang Technological,University, Singapore.

TCM Seminar Room (530), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 19 September 2013, 14:00-15:00

Universal behaviour in critical current density in HTS conductors

Dr Jeffery Tallon - CallaghanInnovation and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials& Nanotechnology Wellington, New Zealand.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 11 September 2013, 11:15-12:15

Insulators, metals, pseudogaps and cuprate superconductivity

Andre-Marie Tremblay, University of Sherbrooke, Canada..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 11:15-12:15

Disorder driven superconductor-insulator transition: Do Cooper pairs still exist in the insulator?

Nandini Trivedi, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, USA..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 11:15-12:15

Superconductivity and magnetism in doped graphene

Andrey Chubukov, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 11:15-12:15

Fermi surface determination using positron annihilation

Stephen Dugdale, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 11:15-12:15

Magnetic Properties of the Spin Chain Antiferromagnet Ca3Co2O6

Martin Lees, University of Warwick.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 11:15-12:15

Fictitious spin waves in a frustrated classical antiferromagnet

Stefan Schnabel, University of Leipzig.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 11:15-12:15

Terahertz radiation from Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 interlayer Josephson junctions: Progress and future strategies.

Tim Benseman, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.A..

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 11:15-12:15

Lawlessness in low dimensions: Violations of laws, limits and symmetries in quasi-one-dimensional Li0.9Mo6O17

Nigel Hussey, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 12:15-13:15

Spin-resolved momentum densities: What we can learn from magnetic Compton scattering.

Jonathan Duffy, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 11:15-12:15

Heavy quasiparticles in Yb compounds: The Renormalized Band approach

Gertud Zwicknagl, University of Braunschweig.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure of LuRh2Si2: ”Small“ Fermi Surface Reference of YbRh2Si2

Sven Friedemann, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 11:15-12:15

Fluctuation-induced pair density wave in itinerant ferromagnets

Gareth Conduit, Research Fellow, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Visualization of Novel Electronic Structures in Topological Quantum Matter

Yulin Chen, Physics Department, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 11:15-12:15

Fermi surface and superconductivity in URhGe and other nonsymmorphic crystals

Ed Yelland, University of Edinburgh and University of St Andrews.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 11:15-12:15

Initial New Domain Structures: Statics and Dynamics

Prof. J. M. Gregg, Queens University, Belfast.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 11:15-12:15

Application of the Focused Ion Beam to Transport Measurements under High Pressure

Jakob Kanter, ETH Zurich.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 11:15-12:15

Title to be confirmed

Jason Lashley, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 11:15-12:15

Magnetic versus dielectric pairing in cuprate superconductors

Jeff Tallon,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 15 August 2012, 11:15-12:15

Expanding the topological insulator horizon

Nicholas P. Butch, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 18 July 2012, 11:15-12:15

Emergent chirality in charge ordered materials

Jasper van Wezel, Argonne.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 11:15-12:15

Magnetothermopower in heavy fermion metamagnets CeRu2Si2 and YbRh2Si2

Ramzy Daou.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 11:15-12:15

Superconductors, multiferroic and magnetic materials

Geetha Balakrishnan.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 11:15-12:15

Superconducting phase and pseudogap in the high-temperature cuprate superconductors.

Patrick Rourke, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 11:15-12:15

Hole Doping and Dimensionality in Geometrically Frustrated Magnets

Siân Dutton, QM Group, Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 11:15-12:15

Magnetic resonance in low dimensional organic conductors near the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition

Andras Janossy, Technical University of Budapest.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 11:15-12:15

Magnetic resonance in low dimensional organic conductors near the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition

Andras Janossy, Technical University of Budapest.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 11:15-12:15

Common behaviors of unconventional superconductors indicating non-BCS condensation and spin-mediated resonant pairing

Yasutomo J. Uemura, Columbia University, New York, USA.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 22 September 2010, 11:15-12:15

Quantum criticality and dynamical scaling in YbRh2Si2

Sven Friedemann, QM group.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 11:15-12:15

Quantum phase transitions and novel phases.

Philipp Gegenwart, University of Goettingen.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Nanodomains in Ferroelectrics and Magnetoelectrics

J. F. Scott, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 21 April 2010, 11:15-12:15

Probing the normal and superconducting state electronic structure of iron-pnictide superconductors

Tony Carrington, University of Bristol.

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 14 April 2010, 11:15-12:15

Using Disorder to Detect Local Order: Noise and Nonequilibrium Effects in Disordered Electron Nematics

Joint TCM/QM seminar - note non-standard time.

Prof. Erica Carlson, Purdue University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 06 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Crystal structures from nothing - new materials from random numbers

Chris J Pickard.

Mott Seminar Room.

Friday 19 March 2010, 11:15-12:15

From vacuum tunnelling to quantum transport: Recent developments and new opportunities in Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy

Stefan Tautz, Forschungszentrum Juelich.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 17 March 2010, 11:15-12:15

Uniaxial pressure effects on the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4

Haruka Taniguchi, Kyoto University.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 11:45-12:15

Interference between an s-wave superconductor and Sr2RuO4

Taketomo Nakamura, Kyoto University.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 11:15-11:45

Possible field-induced superconductivity in the quasi-1D purple bronze Li0.9Mo6O17

Alimamy Bangura, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 11:00-12:00

The long-standing puzzle of missing inelastic neutron scattering intensity in the cuprates

** Note non-standard date and location **

Andrew C. Walters, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 15 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

Neutron scattering studies of ferromagnetic superconductor UGe2 under pressure

Dmitri Sokolov, University of Edinburgh.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 11:15-12:15

Emergence of local broken symmetries with hole-doping in Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2

Dr. Yuki Kohsaka, Magnetic Materials Laboratory, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 30 November 2009, 11:15-12:15

Evidence for Unusual Magnetic Order in Cubic FeGe beyond its Quantum Phase Transition

Heribert Wilhelm, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Diamond Light Source.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 11:15-12:15

Low temperature transport in an electron-hole bilayer: search for excitonic phases and collective modes.

Kanti Das Gupta, SP group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 11:15-12:15

Ultrafast measurements of the nonequilibrium charge-transfer state of Sr2CuCl2O2

Jesse Petersen, University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 11:15-12:15

Exotic or conventional - the physics of High-Tc Superconductors

Professor Jeffery Tallon, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 15 July 2009, 11:15-12:15

Theory of the Phase Diagarm of the Cuprates

Chandra Varma, University of California Riverside.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 May 2009, 11:15-12:15

Natural Optical Activity of Metals

Vladimir Mineev, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Grenoble, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 11:15-12:15

de Haas-van Alphen studies of the YbRh2Si2 Fermi surface: Lifshitz transition at H0 ~ 10 T

Patrick Rourke, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 29 April 2009, 11:15-12:15

Electric Field Tuning of Manganites and Cuprates

Anoop Singh Dhoot, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 11:15-12:15

Spin-Excitation Spectroscopy: Probing Magnetic Nanostructures at the Atomic Scale

Cyrus Hirjibehedin, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 11:15-12:15

Skyrmion lattice in chiral magnets

Christian Pfliederer, Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Germany.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 04 February 2009, 11:15-12:15

Larmor diffraction from antiferromagnetic and hidden order in URu2Si2

Philipp Niklowitz, Royal Holloway.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 11:15-12:15

Heavy fermion states and quantum criticality

Prof. Yoshichika Onuki, Osaka University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 11:15-12:15

Unconventional superconductivity originating from disconnected Fermi surfaces in the iron-based compounds

Hideo Aoki (Dept of Physics, University of Tokyo):.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 31 October 2008, 11:15-12:15

Interactions and the dHvA Effect

P.C.E. Stamp , University of British Columbia; Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 11:15-12:15

Quantum oscillations in an iron-based superconductor

Amalia Coldea, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 22 October 2008, 11:15-12:15

Brian Pippard and non-local response in normal metals and superconductors

David Khmelnitskii, TCM, Cavendish Laboratory.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 08 October 2008, 11:15-12:15

Ferromagnetic insulating state of manganites: Is it an electron glass?

Prof. Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 11:15-12:15

Novel quantum phases on Kondo lattices due to quantum criticality and geometrical frustraton

Satoru Nakatsuji, ISSP Tokyo.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 15 September 2008, 11:15-12:15

Orbital Physics in Spinel Oxides

Takuro Katsufuji, Dept. Phys., Waseda Univ.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 05 August 2008, 11:15-12:15

THE FLUCTUATING BOND MODEL – A WAY TO UNDERSTAND CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTORS?

Dennis Newns, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 June 2008, 11:15-12:15

"Room-Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensates of Magnons in Yttrium Iron Garnet

Philip Stamp, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 20 June 2008, 15:00-16:00

Emergent Behaviour in Heavy Electron Materials

David Pines, ICAM, UC Davis.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Recent Progress on the Phase Diagram of High Temperature Superconductors

Doug Bonn, University of British Columbia.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 04 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Andreev reflection spectroscopy in CeCoIn5

Laura Greene, UIUC.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 27 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Probing the electronic structure of layered 4d transition metal oxides by ARPES

Felix Baumberger, Univeristy of St. Andrews.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 11:15-12:15

Spin Correlations in the Paramagnetic Phase of Quantum Magnets

Jon Goff, Department of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 11:15-12:15

Quantum criticality in slightly Ir- and Co-doped YbRh2Si2

Manuel Brando, University of Dresden.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:15-12:15

Phase analysis of quantum oscillations in graphite

Igor Luk'yanchuk, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France and L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 03 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Magnetism under Pressure with Synchrotron Radiation

Note non-standard date and time

Dr. Matteo d'Astuto IMPMC, CNRS, PARIS.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Competition between antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in low-dimensional magnets

Chris Stock, ISIS.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 11:15-12:15

Peer Review and Citation Analysis in Physical Review Letters: An Editor's Perspective

Note: Non-standard day and place

Manolis Antonoyiannakis, Assistant Editor Physical Review Letters.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 21 January 2008, 11:15-12:15

Superconductivity and the dark side of magnetism

Andrew Huxley, University of Edinburgh.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 07 December 2007, 11:15-12:15

Heavy fermion superconductivity of a new transuranium compound NpPd5Al2

Dai Aoki, Grenoble.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 05 December 2007, 11:15-12:15

Structure-dependent ferromagnetism in Au4V: Investigations into magnetic gold

Damon D Jackson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 28 November 2007, 11:15-12:15

Measuring correlations at the critical temperature of a dilute Bose gas

Michael Kohl, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 11:15-12:15

Quantum phase transitions and quantum criticality in two-dimensional helium

John Saunders*, Royal Holloway University of London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 11:15-12:15

A Ginzburg Landau Approach to Superconductivity in the Cuprates

Professor T.V. RAMAKRISHNAN, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 11:15-12:15

Transport and Thermodynamic Properties of High-Tc Superconductors Calculated from the Energy-Momentum Dispersion.

James Storey, Victoria University, New Zealand.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 17 October 2007, 11:15-12:15

Simulating the solid state with ultracold atom gases

Chris Hooley (University of St Andrews).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 16 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Unconventional Kondo lattice systems: Eu-compounds and ferromagnetic Ce-systems

Christoph Geibel, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 03 October 2007, 11:15-12:15

High pressure synthesis, structural and physical properties of the new A-site ordered double perovskite oxides CaCu3Fe4O12 and (Ca,Y)Cu3Co4O12

Ikuya Yamada, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 05 September 2007, 11:15-12:15

Novel Experiments in Superfluid Helium-3 at Ultralow Temperatures

Richard Haley, Lancaster University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 11:15-12:15

Exploring metallization and superconductivity in elements and simple molecular systems at megabar pressures

Mikhail I. Eremets, Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 June 2007, 11:15-12:15

Magnetic order in the pseudogap phase of the high-T_c superconductor YBCO

Benoît Fauqué; , Laboratoire Léon Brillouin CEA/Saclay, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 30 May 2007, 11:15-12:15

NaxCoO2 and Related Oxides from the Perspective of their Electronic Structures

David Singh, Oak Ridge National Lab.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 11:15-12:15

Interlayer tunneling in Bi-2212: Evidence for strong-coupling features and impurity effects

Tim Benseman, QM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 April 2007, 11:15-12:15

Metal to metal transitions (Joint TCM/QM seminar)

Prof. Andy Schofield.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 08 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

Phonon anomalies in superconductors studied by Inelastic X-ray Scattering

*** Note non-standard date ***

Matteo d'Astuto (Université Pierre et Marie Curie).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 23 January 2007, 11:15-12:15

Some Controversial Issues in High Tc Superconductivity - a Specific Heat Perpective

Dr. John Loram (University of Cambridge).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 17 January 2007, 11:15-12:15

High pressure study of a quasi one dimensional two band conductor

Neven Barisic, Stanford University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 December 2006, 11:15-12:15

From solitons to magnons via transverse field in an Ising magnet

Radu Coldea, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 29 November 2006, 11:15-12:15

Understanding superconductivity in spin ladders: new tools and a hard climb!

Daniel Braithwaite, CEA Grenoble.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 11:15-12:15

Search for Stripes in Lightly Hole Doped YBa2Cu3O6 by ESR and IR Transmission

András Jánossy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 08 November 2006, 11:15-12:15

Magnetic frustration and ferroelectricity

Maxim Mostovoy (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory (**Note non-standard location**).

Wednesday 01 November 2006, 11:15-12:15

Giant sharp magnetoelectric switching in multiferroic epitaxial La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 on BaTiO3

Neil Mathur, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 04 October 2006, 11:15-12:15

Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy of the Pure and Cd-doped Heavy Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn5: Detecting Order Parameter Symmetry and Competing Phases

Laura H. Greene, Department of Physics and the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 20 September 2006, 11:15-12:15

Doing low temperature physics six decades ago

B.S. Chandrasekhar.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 19 September 2006, 16:15-17:15

Competing orders in low-dimensional doped quantum spin systems

Dr Girsh Blumberg, Bell Labs.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 19 June 2006, 11:00-12:00

Unconventional Superconductivity and Quantum Criticality in CeCoIn5

Dr Cigdem Capan (Louisiana State University).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 19 June 2006, 10:00-11:00

Metamagnetism and Quantum Criticality in Sr3Ru2O7

Dr Santiago Grigera (Physics Department, University of St. Andrews).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 14 June 2006, 11:15-12:15

The Dual Nature of Electrons

Dr Filip Ronning (Los Alamos National Laboratory).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 12 June 2006, 11:15-12:15

Emergent phases in tuneable quantum materials

Dr Christos Panagopoulos (Physics Department, University of Cambridge).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 June 2006, 11:15-12:15

Electrons on the Magnetic Quantum Roundabout - Measuring Fermi Surfaces and Band Renormalisation in Correlated Materials

Dr Christoph Bergemann (Physics Department, University of Cambridge).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 05 June 2006, 11:15-12:15

The quest for imperfection

Dr Anke Husmann (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, Cambridge).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 31 May 2006, 11:15-12:15

Tunability and self-organisation of quantum matter

Dr Malte Grosche (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 29 May 2006, 11:15-12:15

From quantum critical magnets to superconductivity in graphite intercalates

Dr Montu Saxena (Physics Department, University of Cambridge).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 May 2006, 11:15-12:15

The Generation and Decay of Grid Turbulence in a Dissipationless Fluid--4He at 20 mK

Gary Ihas, University of Florida.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 10 May 2006, 11:15-12:15

High magnetic fields: A tool for studying strongly correlated systems

Cyril Proust, Laboratoire National des Champs Magntiques Pulss.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 26 April 2006, 11:15-12:15

Unconventional noise and aging experiments in manganites and superconductors

Michael Weissman, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 19 April 2006, 11:15-12:15

Transport and thermodynamic properties of cuprate superconductors: E(k) dispersion, pseudogap and isotope effects

James G. Storey, Victoria University of Wellington.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 29 March 2006, 11:15-12:00

Is the "Hidden Electronic Order" in the Cuprates neither Hidden nor Ordered?

J.C. Seamus Davis, Cornell University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 09 March 2006, 02:15-03:15

Superfluid stiffness and defect-assisted pair-breaking: getting a handle on organic superconductors

Stephen Blundell, University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 22 February 2006, 11:15-12:15

New Effects in Vortex Resistivity and Pinning in Optimally Doped YBa2Cu3O6+x

Ben Morgan, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 15 February 2006, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Criticality in Weakly Magnetic Ytterbium Systems

Anna Kusmartseva, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 January 2006, 11:15-12:15

Fatal Attraction: Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment

Patricia Fara, Clare College and History and Philosophy of Science, Univ. Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 30 November 2005, 11:15-12:15

Dispelling Shadows in the Photoemission of Bi-2212

Mark Golden, University of Amsterdam.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 November 2005, 11:15-12:15

Why Can't We Solve the Problem of High Temperature Superconductivity?

Mike Norman.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 10 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Criticality in Weakly Magnetic Ytterbium Systems

Anna Kusmartseva & Emma Pearson, QM, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 02 November 2005, 11:15-12:15

Observation and Non-Observation of Vortex Matter Phase Transitions in Niobium

Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 19 October 2005, 11:15-12:15

Dynamics in Cuprates and Manganites: From Femtoseconds to Minutes

John Hill, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 30 June 2005, 15:00-16:00

Heat Transport in Quantum Materials

Louis Taillefer, Universit de Sherbrooke.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 30 June 2005, 14:00-15:00

Sr2RuO4: Inflating the Fermi Surface

Peter Mann, QM, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 15 June 2005, 11:15-12:15

Tangles in Infinity: The Kagome Spin Glass

Andrew Wills, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 08 June 2005, 11:15-12:15

Crystal Growth, X-Ray and Neutron Scattering - Fun with Complex Oxides

Martin Greven, Stanford University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 May 2005, 11:15-12:15

Alpha-Uranium and Its Superconductivity

George Schmiedeshoff, Occidental College, Los Angeles.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 18 May 2005, 11:15-12:15

Superfluid 3He: The Universal Substance from Cosmology to Hydrodynamics via NMR (and OR)

George Pickett, Lancaster University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 11 May 2005, 11:15-12:15

Microtesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A New Clinical Modality?

John Clarke, UC Berkeley.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 04 May 2005, 11:15-12:15

Negative Thermal Expansion, Phonons, and Neutron Scattering

Andrew Goodwin, Earth Sciences, Univ. Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 April 2005, 11:15-12:15

Intrinsic Inhomogeneities in the Strongly Correlated Electron System CeNi1-xCux

Noelia Marcano Aguado / Gomez Sal, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 20 April 2005, 11:15-12:15