Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Journal Club

Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR

Held on Mondays, at 2:45 PM in the Theory Physics Seminar room(A304).

2008
Feb. 18	Vikram Tripathi
Feb. 11	Kabir Ramola	Critical Scaling in Standard Biased Random Walks
Feb. 4	Arnab Sen	Theory of Deconfined Critical Points
2007
Dec. 12	Argha Banerjee	Super-Solid phase in 4He
Nov.19	Shamik Gupta	Asymmetric Exclusion process: a paradigm to study nonequilibrium dynamics.
Nov. 5	Kusum Dhochak	Continuous spin systems, especially, 2d XY model and Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition
Oct. 29	Rajeev Kapri	Generating Function Technique and its application to DNA unzipping.
Oct. 22	Malay Bandyopadhyay	Statistical Mechanics of a Nonlinear Model for DNA Denaturation
Oct. 15	Tridib Sadhu	"From time-symmetric microscopic dynamics to time-asymmetric macroscopic behaviour: An Overview" by J.L. Lebowitz
Oct. 8	Deepak Dhar	"Anyons in an exactly solved model and beyond" by Alexei Kitaev.
Oct. 1	Samarth Chandra	Kastelyn's exact solution to the dimer problem on a 2D planar lattice and its recent application to Kagome lattice.
Oct. 25	Mustansir Barma	Giant number fluctuations in a granular nematic