Talks

Invited talks and Seminars

The fractional quantum Hall effect at filling factor 5/2: finite thickness, topological degeneracy, particle-hole symmetry, and bilayers
October 12, 2009
Condensed Matter Seminar, Virginia Tech University

Quantum Hall phase diagram of second Landau-level half-filled bilayers: Abelian versus non-Abelian states
September 30, 2009
Condensed Matter Theory Center Symposium, University of Maryland

The fractional quantum Hall effect at 5/2: finite thickness, topological degeneracy, & particle-hole symmetry

June 25, 2009
Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Hall Systems 3 Workshop, Capannori, Italy

Finite-Layer Thickness Stablizes the Pfaffian State for the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Wave function overlap
and Topological Degeneracy
March 19, 2009
Invited Talk, APS March Meeting Pittsburgh, PA

Reality of the topological non-Abelian Pfaffian description of the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling factor 5/2

          January 23, 2009
          Physics Seminar, George Mason University

          Correlated d-Mott State in Fermionic Cold Atoms
          October 15, 2008
          Condensed Matter Theory Center Symposium, University of Maryland

Thermoelectric effects in a strongly correlated model for Sodium Cobalt Oxide (Na_xCoO₂)

September 28, 2007
Condensed Matter Theory Center Symposium on "Quantum Phenomena", University of Maryland

Fractional quantum Hall effect and composite fermions [slides]

February 12, 2007
Quantum Computing Seminar, UC Berkeley

Strong electron correlations and sodium cobalt oxide Na_xCoO₂ [slides]
February 9, 2007
Condensed Matter Seminar, UC Santa Cruz

Exotic Excitations of Composite Fermions [slides]
March 15, 2006
Invited Talk, APS March Meeting Baltimore, MD

Two-Dimensional Electrons in a High Magnetic Field: Composite Fermions and the
fractional quantum Hall effect [slides]
November 4, 2005
Condensed Matter Seminar, UC Santa Cruz

Contributed talks at APS March Meetings

Realizing the Strongly Correlated d-Wave Mott-Insulator State in a Fermionic Cold-Atom Optical Lattice
March 19, 2009
Pittsburgh, PA

Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Higher Landau Levels [slides]
March 10, 2008
New Orleans, LA

Thermal response functions for 1D strongly correlated electron systems [slides]
March 8, 2007
Denver, CO

Thermoelectric properties of Na_0.68CoO₂ on a 2D triangular lattice
March 13, 2006
Baltimore, MD

Re-emergence of the electron in a fractional quantum Hall fluid
March 24, 2005
Los Angeles, CA

Excitations of Composite Fermions and the Stability of the Liquid State
March 26, 2004
Montreal, CN

Competition Between Wigner Crystal and Composite Fermion Liquid
March 3, 2003
Austin, TX