June 30 - July 18, 2008: Strongly Correlated Materials
Scientific Coordinators:
Colin Broholm (The Johns Hopkins University), Piers Coleman (Rutgers University), Allan MacDonald (University of Texas, Austin), Ashvin Vishwanath (University of California, Berkeley)
Site Coordinator: Leo Radzihovsky
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Darya Aleinikava College of Staten Island, CUNY Advisor: Anatoly Kuklov |
I am a theorist. My research interests are quantum phase transitions and Monte-Carlo simulations. |  aleinikava [at] mail.csi.cuny.edu |
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Arturo Arguelles Hanover University Advisor: Prof. Dr. Luis Santos |
I am a theorist who is interested in numerical experiments (MPS) on one-dimensional optical lattices, spin chains and laddes, BEC, spinor fermions for both dynamical and ground-state analisys. | arturo [at] itp.uni-hannover.de |
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N. Peter Armitage, Lecturer The Johns Hopkins University |
I am a condensed matter experimentalist who uses specialized low frequency optical techniques to study correlated electronic states of matter. |  npa [at] pha.jhu.edu |
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Claude Bourbonnais, Lecturer Université de Sherbrooke |
As a theorist I work on the physics of low dimensional organic conductors and superconductors and to the development and applications of renormalisation group methods to low dimensional correlated systems. |  cbourbon [at] physique.usherbrooke.ca |
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Collin Broholm, Scientific Coordinator Johns Hopkins University |
I am an experimental condensed matter physicist interested in strongly correlated electron systems, quantum magnets, and superconductivity in materials close to magnetic instabilities. |  broholm [at] jhu.edu |
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Ingrid Bausmerth Universita di Trento Advisor: Prof. Sandro Stringari |
I am a theorist. I am interested in the physics of ultracold trapped atomic gases (fermionic and bosonic). |  ingrid [at] bausmerth.net |
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Erez Berg Stanford University Advisor: Steve Kivelson |
I am a theorist. My research interests are one dimensional quantum physics, superconductivity, numerical methods in many body physics, many body effects in cold atom systems. | berez [at] stanford.edu |
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Doron L. Bergman Yale University Advisor: Leon Balents |
I am a condensed matter theorist interested in various frustrated magnetic (and other) systems (quantum and classical), topological effects in various phases (superconductors and insulators), dynamics in central spin systems, and multiferroics. |  doron.bergman [at] yale.edu |
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Lucas S. Bilbro Johns Hopkins University Advisor: Peter Armitage |
I am an experimentalist. I am interested in new experimental methods of detecting and predicting phase transitions and emergent behavior. | lsbilbro [at] pha.jhu.edu
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Noah Bray-Ali University of Southern California Advisor: Joel E. Moore |
I am a theorist. I am interested in materials and devices with nanoscale inhomogeneity, and the novel states of condensed matter that arise in them. |  nbrayali [at] gmail.com |
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Fiona Burnell Princeton University Advisor: Shivaji Sondhi |
I am a theorist. My research interest is magnetism. | fburnell [at] princeton.edu
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Paul Canfield, Lecturer Ames Laboratory |
I am an experimental condensed matter physicist who tries to design, discover, grow and characterize materials with novel and correlated electron ground states. |  canfield [at] ameslab.gov |
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Sophie Charpentier Université de Sherbrooke Advisor: Patrick Fournier |
I am an experimentalist. I study Josephson junctions made with thin films (deposited by PLD) of electron doped cuprates, in order to better understand their phase diagram, in particular, the pseudo-gap phase. | sophie.charpentier [at] usherbrooke.ca
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Gang Chen University of California, Santa Barbara Advisor: Leon Balents |
I am a theorist. My research interests are frustrated Quantum magnetism and spintronics. |  chggst [at] physics.ucsb.edu
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Songxue Chi University of Tennessee, Knoxville Advisor: Pengcheng Dai |
I am an experimentalist. I am interested in strongly correlated materials where magnetism and symmetry play important roles. | schi2 [at] utk.edu
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Bryan K. Clark University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Advisor: David Ceperley |
I am a theorist. I am interested in quantum monte carlo simulations of strongly correlated systems. | bkclark [at] uiuc.edu |
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Piers Coleman, Scientific Coordinator Rutgers University |
I am a theorist. My research is concerned with the fundamentally new classes of collective condensed matter behavior that emerge in complex materials. |  coleman [at] physics.rutgers.edu |
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Wenxin Ding Florida State University & NHMFL Advisor: Kun Yang |
I am a theorist. My research interests are QHE, FQHE, quantum phase transition, graphene, entanglement entropy, mostly analytic calculation. |  wd06 [at] fsu.edu |
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Amir Farahani Simon Fraser University Advisor: Dr. John Steven Dodge |
I am an experimentalist. My research interests are phase transition in correlated electron systems. | Amird [at] sfu.ca
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Rafael M. Fernandes State University of Campinas - Unicamp Advisor: Harry Westfahl Jr. |
I am a theorist. My research interests are critical phenomena and transport properties in systems with competing interactions. |  rafaelmf [at] ifi.unicamp.br |
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Rebecca A. Flint Rutgers University Advisor: Piers Coleman |
I am a theorist. My research interests are frustrated magnetism, heavy fermions and high Tc superconductivity. |  flint [at] physics.rutgers.edu |
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Liang Fu University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Charles Kane |
I am a theorist. I am interested in topological aspects of band theory and electronic transport. | liangfu [at] sas.upenn.edu
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Shunsuke Furukawa RIKEN Advisor: Masaki Oshikawa |
I am a theorist who is interested in theory of low-dimensional quantum magnetism; development of numerical methods for many-body systems. | sfurukawa [at] riken.jp |
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Ion Garate University of Texas at Austin Advisor: Allan MacDonald |
I am a theorist. My research interests are Magnetism and Superconductivity. | garate [at] physics.utexas.edu
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Pouyan Ghaemi Mohammadi Massachusetts Institute of Technology Advisor: Prof. Senthil Todadri |
I am a theorist. My research interests are strongly correlated electron systems, high temperature superconductivity, heavy fermions and frustrated magnets. |  pouyan [at] mit.edu |
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Glen L. Goodvin University of British Columbia Advisor: Dr. Mona Berciu |
I am a theorist. My research interests are in theoretical condensed matter physics, particularly electron-phonon coupling. |  goodving [at] phas.ubc.ca |
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Lilach Goren Weizmann Institute of Science Advisor: Ehud Altman |
I am a theorist. My research interests are numerical and analytical studies of High Tc superconductivity. | lilach.goren [at] weizmann.ac.il
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Tarun Grover Massachusetts Institute of Technology Advisor: Senthil Todadri |
I am a theorist who is interested in various strongly correlated phases and phase transitions involving them. |  tarung [at] mit.edu |
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Elena Hassinger CEA Grenoble Advisor: Jacques Flouquet |
I am an experimentalist currently working on some heavy fermion systems close to a quantum critical point show a very rich phase diagram with competing phases. | elena.hassinger [at] cea.fr
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Ryan J. Heary SUNY at Buffalo Advisor: Jong E. Han |
I am a theorist interested in strongly correlated non-equilibrium transport through quantum dots and applications to Dynamical Mean-field Theory. |  rjheary [at] buffalo.edu |
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Layla Hormozi Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and University of Maryland Advisor: Nicholas E. Bonesteel |
I am a theorist. I am broadly interested in the study of emergent phenomena in strongly correlated many-body systems, in particular topologically-ordered phases. | lhormozi [at] gmail.com
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Jose A. Hoyos Neto Duke University Advisor: Harold Baranger |
I am a theorist currently working on classical and quantum phase transitions, disordered and/or strongly correlated systems. |  jh146 [at] phy.duke.edu |
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Taylor Hughes Stanford University Advisor: Shou-Cheng Zhang |
I am a theorist. My research interests are topological transport in insulators and superconductors, semiconductor spintronics, high-energy physics. |
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Yejin Huh Harvard University Advisor: Subir Sachdev |
I am a theorist. I am especially interested in quantum phase transitions and superconductivity. | yejinhuh [at] fas.harvard.edu
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Wendell Huttema Simon Fraser University Advisor: David Broun |
I am an experimentalist. My research interests are microwave spectroscopy of cuprate, heavy-fermion and other exotic superconductors. | wah [at] sfu.ca |
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Wing-Ho Ko Massachusetts Institute of Technology Advisor: Patrick A. Lee |
I am a theorist. My research interests are Quantum Magnets, Doped Mott Insulators, Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems, and High Tc Superconductivity. | wingho [at] mit.edu
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Kam Tuen Law Brown University Advisor: Dima Feldman |
I am a theorist. My research interests are low dimensional strongly correlated systems. | Kam_Tuen_Law [at] Brown.edu
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Karyn Le Hur, Lecturer Yale University |
I am a theorist. My research interests are condensed matter, strongly correlated electron systems, nanosystems, cold atomic systems, quantum information theory. |
karyn.lehur [at] yale.edu |
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SungBin Lee University of California, Santa Barbara Advisor: Leon Balents |
I am interested in Condensed matter theory. My current project is the spin-orbit effects and lock-in in A-site spinel magnets. |  sungbin [at] physics.ucsb.edu |
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Wei-Cheng Lee The University of Texas at Austin Advisor: Prof. Allan H. MacDonald |
I am a theorist. My research interests are novel phases in the strongly correlated systems, interfacial states near the transition metal oxide heterojunctions, and superconductivity due to non-phonon pairing mechanism |
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Renyuan Liao Kent State University Advisor: Khandker Quader |
I am a theorist. My areas of physics interest are ultracold atoms, optical lattice, strong correlated systems, superconductivity and superfluidity. |  rliao [at] kent.edu |
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Albert Shi-Hsin Lin University of Notre Dame Advisor: Boldizsar Janko |
I am a theorist working on semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems. |  slin2 [at] nd.edu |
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Roman M. Lutchyn University of Maryland Advisors: L. Glazman/A. Larkin |
I am a theorist. My research interests are unconventional and mesoscopic superconductivity. | lutchyn [at] umd.edu
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Allan H. MacDonald, Scientific Coordinator University of Texas, Austin |
I am a theoriest interested in electronic Properties of Condensed Matter. |
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Marianna Maltseva Rutgers University Advisor: Piers Coleman |
I am a theorist. I am interested in the novel forms of collective behavior emerging in strongly correlated electronic systems, in particular, in the phenomena of quantum phase transitions, unconventional superconductivity and magnetism. | maltseva [at] physics.rutgers.edu |
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Max Metlitski Harvard University Advisor: Subir Sachdev |
I am a theorist. My research interests are Quantum Critical Phenomena. | mmetlits [at] fas.harvard.edu
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Andrew Millis, Lecturer Columbia University |
I am a theorist. My research interests are correlated electron physics: high temperature superconductivity, magnetism, quantum critical phenomena, optical conductivity; nonequilibrium phenomena; numerical methods. |  millis [at] phys.columbia.edu |
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Hongki Min University of Texas, Austin Advisor: Allan H. MacDonald |
I am a theorist. My research interests are condensed matter theory, Many-body physics, Graphene, Spintronics, Strongly correlated system. | hongki [at] physics.utexas.edu
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Vesna Mitrovic, Lecturer Brown University |
I am a condensed matter experimentalist who uses NMR spectroscopy to study quantum phenomena arising in strongly correlated electron systems at low temperatures and high magnetic fields. |  vemi [at] brown.edu |
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Anamitra Mukherjee Harish Chandra Research Institute Advisor: Pinaki Majumdar |
I am a theorist. I am interested in disordered and strongly correlated electron systems; mesoscopic systems. |  anam [at] mri.ernet.in |
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Eundeok Mun Iowa State University Advisor: Paul C. Canfield |
I am an experimentalist. I am interested in the experimental study of quantum phase transitions, especially field-tuned quantum criticallity of heavy Fermion compounds. | edmun [at] iastate.edu
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James Murray Johns Hopkins University |
I'm a theorist, and my main interests are superconductors and phase transitions. |  murray [at] pha.jhu.edu |
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Hyowon Park Rutgers University Advisor: Kristjan Haule |
I am a theorist and I am interested in theoretical study of strongly correlated systems using computational tools (such as DMFT). |  hwpark73 [at] gmail.com |
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Aleksandra Petkovic University of Cologne Advisor: Thomas Nattermann |
I am a theorist. My research interests are random elastic systems; disordered Luttinger liquids. | ap [at] thp.uni-koeln.de
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Yang Qi Harvard University Advisor: Subir Sachdev |
I am a theorist. I do theoretical research in strongly correlated electron system and Mott physics; currently working on t-J model on triangular lattice. | yangqi [at] physics.harvard.edu
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Leo Radzihovsky, Director University of Colorado |
I am a theorist, interested in soft condensed matter physics, nonequilibrium phenomena, physics of quantum-Hall and related systems, with a theme unifying these diverse subjects being importance of fluctuations, nonlinearities and/or local material heterogeneities. |
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Srinivas Raghu Stanford University Advisor: F.D.M. Haldane |
I am a theorist. I am currently interested in new quantum states of matter: ranging from topological insulators to unconventional superconductors. | sraghu [at] stanford.edu
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Ying Ran University of California, Berkeley Advisors: Prof. Dung-Hai Lee, Prof. Joel Moore and Prof. Ashvin Vishwanath |
I am a theorist. I am working on (interested in) frustrated magnets, spin liquids, exotic phase transitions, High-Tc superconductivity and topological insulators. |  ranying [at] berkeley.edu |
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Judit Romhanyi Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungary Advisor: Karlo Penc |
I am a theorist. My research interests are frustrated electronic and magnetic systems, magnetic and multipolar ordering. | romhanyi [at] szfki.hu
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Bahman Roostaei Case Western Reserve University Advisor: Kieran Mullen |
I am a theorist. My research interests are novel phenomena in low dimensional correlated material. | bxr90 [at] case.edu |
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Juan Salafranca Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC) Advisors: J.A. Verges and L. Brey |
I am a theorist. My research interests are Strongly Correlated Materials, Manganites and other transition metal oxides. Properties of heterostructures and low dimensional materials, and electronic transport in mesoscopic systems. | jsl [at] icmm.csic.es |
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Saeed Saremi MIT Advisor: Patrick A Lee |
I am a theorist. I am currently interested in exotic quantum phases and quantum phase transitions motivated by the physics of the quantum critical point in heavy fermions. |  saeed [at] mit.edu |
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Alexander A. Schafgans University of California, San Diego Advisor: Dimitri Basov |
I am an experimentalist currently interested in magneto-optics of high Tc superconductors, as well as optical properties of novel electronic and magentic materials. |  aschafgans [at] physics.ucsd.edu |
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Auditya Sharma University of California, Santa Cruz Advisor: Sriram Shastry |
I am a theorist. My research interests are strongly correlated systems. | sharma [at] physics.ucsc.edu
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Jonathan R. Skuza College of William & Mary Advisor: Rosa Alejandra Lukaszew |
I am an experimentalist interested in structure-property correlations of metallic/magnetic thin films and nanosturctures (e.g. FePt/Pd). |  jrskuza [at] wm.edu |
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Jianmin Sun University of Utah Advisor: Oleg A. Starykh |
I am a theorist. My research focuses on theoretical condensed matter physics, especially on spin-orbit interaction in the interacting low dimensional quantum systems. | jmsun [at] physics.utah.edu
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Barbara Theiler ETH Zurich Advisor: Gianni Blatter |
I am a theorist, currently working on geometry-induced phase transitions in dipolar systems. |  btheiler [at] phys.ethz.ch |
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Lara Thompson University of British Columbia Advisor: Philip Stamp |
I am a theorist. I work on vortex/soliton dynamics, and, more recently, on the dynamics of quantum phase transitions. | thompson [at] physics.ubc.ca
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David A. Tompsett University of Cambridge Advisor: Gilbert Lonzarich |
I am an experimentalist. My interests are electronic structure calculations of superconductor beta-YbAlB4 . |  dat36 [at] cam.ac.uk |
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Mayra Tovar University of California, Riverside Advisor: Dr. Kirill Shtengel |
I am a theorist. My research interests are Classically and quantum mechanically frustrated systems. |  mtova002 [at] ucr.edu |
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Masafumi Udagawa University of Tokyo Advisor: Dr. Masao Ogata |
I am a theorist. I was working on unconventional superconductivity in graduate school. My current interest is in the exotic behaviors (heavy quasiparticles, mixed phase, M-I transition etc.) of frustrated strongly correlated systems. | udagawa [at] ap.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
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Vincent I. Ugarte University of California, Riverside Advisor: Chandra Varma |
I am a theorist. My research interest is transport theory. | vincent_ugarte [at] yahoo.com
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Victor Vakaryuk University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Advisor: A.J. Leggett |
I am a theorist. My recent research project is about flux quantization in mesoscopic superconductors. |  vakaryuk [at] uiuc.edu |
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Rolando Valdes Aguilar University of Maryland Advisor: Dennis Drew |
I am an experimentalist. I am interested in Magneto-optical and low energy electrodynamics of magnetic and strongly correlated systems. | rvaldes [at] physics.umd.edu
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Marcus van der Vegte Zernike Institute for advanced materials / Theory of condensed matter Advisors: M. Mostovoy / J. Knoester |
I am a theorist. I study theoretical models of frustrated materials and describe low-energy states and mechanisms of ordering in these systems. | m.a.van.der.vegte [at] rug.nl |
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Ashvin Vishwanath, Scientific Coordinator University of California, Berkeley |
Quantum Condensed Matter Theory |
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Fa Wang University of California, Berkeley Advisor: Ashvin Vishwanath |
I am a theorist. My research interest is frustrated quantum magnetism. | wangfa [at] berkeley.edu
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Xin Wang Columbia University Advisor: Andrew J. Millis |
I am a theorist. I am currently studying strongly correlated electron system with quantum Monte Carlo technique. |  xin [at] phys.columbia.edu |
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Conan W. Weeks University of British Columbia Advisor: Marcel Franz |
I am a theorist. I'm interested in exploring fractionalization in strongly correlated systems and its possible application to quantum computing. | cweeks [at] phas.ubc.ca |
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Liu Wei Johns Hopkins University Advisor: Peter Armitage |
I am an experimentalist. I am interested in doing research in strong correlated electron systems. | liuwei [at] pha.jhu.edu
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Jian Wu Washington University in S. Louis Advisor: Stuart Solin |
I am an experimentalist. My research interest is to study quantum phase transitions in Copper Hydroxy Nitrate class materials. |  jianwu [at] physics.wustl.edu |
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Jiansheng Wu University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Advisor: Philip Phillips |
I am a theorist. My research interests are high temperature superconductivity, disorder system, supersolid and cold atom gas. |  wu4 [at] uiuc.edu |
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Seiji J. Yamamoto Rice University Advisor: Qimiao Si |
I am a theorist. My research interests are Magnetism; Heavy Fermions; Spin Liquids; Things with the word "Kondo". |  seiji [at] rice.edu |
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Daoxin Yao Purdue University Advisor: David Campbell |
I am a theorist. I am currently interested in Condensed Matter Theory and Computational Physics: Strongly correlated electronic systems, Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods and applications, High temperature superconductivity, Graphene, etc. |  dyao [at] purdue.edu |
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Qi Zhou The Ohio State University Advisor: Tin-Lun Ho |
I am a theorist. I am interested in cold atom physics and its connection to other condensed matter system. | qzhou [at] mps.ohio-state.edu
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Yue Zou California Institute of Technology Advisor: Gil Refael |
I am a theorist. My research interest is in strongly disordered superconducting thin films. |  zou [at] caltech.edu |
