June 30 - July 18, 2008: Strongly Correlated Materials
Collin Broholm (Johns Hopkins University), Piers Coleman (Rutgers University), Allan MacDonald (University of Texas, Austin), Ashvin Vishwanath (University of California, Berkeley)
Site Coordinator: Leo Radzihovsky
The 2008 Boulder school presents a leading team of experimental and
theoretical condensed matter physicists to lecture on diverse aspects of this
burgeoning field of research. The school will focus primarily on pedagogy,
seeking to provide students with a firm foundation in the key theoretical and
experimental methods, with extensive opportunities for informal and detailed
discussion. Topics to be covered include fundamentals of Fermi liquid theory,
magnetism and low dimensional materials, organic, oxide and heavy electron
materials, diverse methods of spectroscopy and transport measurements
and the link with strongly correlated physics of atom traps.
Schedule * Lecturers * Reading Material * Lecture Notes
Poster Schedule * School Photo * Candid Photos
Boulder Survival FAQ * School Roster * Public Lectures
For information about applications, travel, student support, facilities, and general background of the Boulder school, please see the Boulder School general site. When the School has started, lecture notes will also be archived at the general site.
This page contains information specific to the 2008 Boulder School.
E-mail with questions about the scientific program can be sent to the organizers at Boulder Organizers.
Email with questions about local organization logistics, housing, etc. can be sent to the Site Coordinator. First however, PLEASE READ the information available on the web page Boulder Survival FAQ.
List of 2008 expected lecturers and seminar speakers:
P. Armitage – Johns Hopkins University
L. Balents – U.C.S.B.
C. Bourbonnais – University of Sherbrooke
P. Canfield - Ames Laboratory
P. Coleman – Rutgers University
D. Dessau – University of Colorado
D. Jin - University of Colorado and JILA
B. Keimer – MPI-FKF Stuttgart
G. Kotliar – Rutgers
K. LeHur – Yale University
A. Millis – Columbia University
V. Mitrovic – Brown University
M. Mostovoy – Groningen University
L. Radzihovsky - University of Colorado
T. Senthil – M.I.T.
R. Shankar - Yale University
P. Ong – Princeton Universtiy
A. Yazdani – Princeton University
Topics Include:
The 2008 Boulder School in condensed matter physics will be devoted to the
behavior of strongly correlated materials. The hunt for new forms of
collective behavior in materials, in the form of new phases, the quest for
higher Tc superconductors, the study of liquid Helium and ultra-cold atomic
gases, and the discovery of new quantum critical states of matter, is a major
frontier field of condensed matter and materials physics today.
| The Boulder Summer School in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics has been established to provide education for advanced graduate students and postdocs working in condensed matter physics, materials science and related fields. The goal is to enable students to work at the frontiers of science and technology by providing expert training not easily available within the traditional system of graduate education and postdoctoral apprenticeship. The School is supported by the National Science Foundation, with additional funding provided by the University of Colorado, and meets annually during July in Boulder, Colorado. |
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