Date Speaker Topic January 31 Sedigh Ghamari Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics: RVB, spin liquids, and topological order February 7 Duncan O' Dell Quantum rainbows February 21 Shouvik Sur Slave particles made real: Critical Fermi surface at a Mott transition in Bose-Fermi mixtures February 28 Travis Williams Physics of the Riemann Hypothesis March 7 Dr. Manu Paranjape (Université de Montréal) Macroscopic, interacting, spin tunnelling and the ground state of an easy axis system with an exchange interaction March 14 Mischa Thesberg Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics: Computational Topology for Configuration Spaces of Hard Disks April 11 Andreas Deschner Absence of a Spin Liquid Phase in the Hubbard Model on the Honeycomb Lattice