Spring2008

=Rutgers Condensed Matter Graduate Students' Journal Club.= Welcome to the Journal Club wikipage! The schedule for Spring 2008 is as follows:

Venue: Serin 112** NMR experiment ||  ||  || organic single crystal - rubrene ||  || Nature Materials paper: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v7/n1/pdf/nmat2059.pdf || Kasturi Sung po Ji-Hoon Hyowon || Special discussion: Fe-pnictides ||  || [|News link to Fe based superconductor] See new page: Fe-pnictides for more links ||
 * Time: Wednesdays, 3:15 pm - 4:30 pm
 * **Date** || **Speaker(s)** || **Topic** || **Abstract** || **References** ||
 * Jan 23 ||  || Organizational meeting and speaker line-up ||   ||   ||
 * Jan 30 || Ilya || Overview of Graphene (whatever I can synthesize) ||  || Nature **438**, 197 (2005); Nature **438**, 201 (2005) and Nature Materials **6**, 183 (2007) ||
 * Feb 6 || Rebecca || Experimental techniques: Specific Heat ||  || [[file:Specific Heat.pdf]] ||
 * Feb 13 || Chuck || ARPES and Strontium Ruthenate ||  || ARPES: [|RMP 75, 473 (2003)]; Sr2RuO4: [|Adv. Phys. 52, 639 (2003)]; Slides: [[file:ARPES-CMJC.ppt]] ||
 * Feb 20 || Sungpo || 1D Bosons in a harmonic trap ||  || //[|Nature 440, 900-903 (13 April 2006)][[file:1DBosons.ppt]]// ||
 * Feb 27 || Hyowon || Magnetic susceptibility,
 * Mar 5 ||  || March Meeting practice talks ||   ||   ||
 * Mar 12 ||  || APS March meeting : no JC ||   ||   ||
 * Mar 19 ||  || Stephen Rowley (SrTiO3 low T & high pressure measurements) ||   || **Change in time**!! **11:00** am ||
 * Mar 26 || Chuck || Conductance of Molecular Junctions ||  || Landauer: [|notes]; DFT: [|notes]; Recent work: [|J. Neaton], [|PRB 65, 045402], [|PRL 94, 186810] ||   ||
 * Apr 2 || Sinisa || Is electric polarization well-defined in a Chern insulator? ||  || [|Haldane model] ||
 * Apr 9 || Aleksej || Raman scattering from MgB2 ||  || RMP79 175 (2007), Nature 418 758 (2002). ||
 * Apr 16 || Anindya || Density-functional perturbation theory (DFPT) ||  || RMP **73** 515 (2001), PRB **72** 035105 (2005), [|Talks from the ABINIT school (Queretaro '08)] ||
 * Apr 23 || Senia || Transport effects of self-assembled molecules on
 * Apr 30 || Marianna || High Tc Superconductors ||  ||   ||
 * May 7 || Marianna
 * May 14 || Weida Wu || More pnictides ||  ||   ||
 * May 21 ||  || Last week: Spring semester ||   ||   ||