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=Rutgers Condensed Matter Graduate Students' Journal Club.= Welcome to the Journal Club wikipage!

Please add topics you'd like to discuss in the Possible Topics '09 page. It is possible that you get hints to other possible topics from the older possible topics page.

Venue: Serin 112**
 * Time: Mondays 5-6pm

What are Landau levels? || Fazekas, Ch 12: Good introduction, but misses some physics || [|Girvin]: More focus on FQHE and associated topology and excitations ||
 * **Date** || **Speaker(s)** || **Topic** || **Description** || **References** ||
 * Oct 19 || N/A || Organizational meeting ||  ||   ||
 * Oct 26 || Chuck || Landau Levels || What is the classical Hall effect?
 * Nov 2 || Chuck || IQHE || Why is the Hall conductivity quantized to multiples of the conductance quantum? || [|Goerbig]: Excellent description of IQHE (Les Houches 2009)
 * Nov 9 || Rebecca || Superconductivity || A basic overview of superconducting phenomenology and a survey of experimental classes of superconductors. || [|Coleman]:Chapter 13 discusses Ginzburg-Landau phenomenological description; chapter 15 discusses microscopics. ||
 * Nov 16 || Sinisa ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Nov 23 || Thanksgiving ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Nov 30 || Chuck || DMFT || What is DMFT, why is it needed, and what systems/physics does it describe well? ||  ||
 * Dec 7 || Tahir ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Dec 14 || Aleksej || Fano resonances ||  ||   ||
 * Dec 21 || Winter break ||  ||   ||   ||