TCM Journal Club

This is a biweekly journal club primaily aimed at PhD students and postdocs in the the Theory of Condensed Matter group at the Cavendish Laboratory, but anyone is welcome to attend.

Upcoming Talks

For full details of upcoming talks see the TCM Journal Club list on talks.cam.

Suggested Papers for Review

If you would like to suggest a paper for review, please edit this page and add it to the list below. The paper should be of broad interest to researchers in TCM. Please include a link to the paper, either on a preprint archive or in an online journal.

Strongly Correlated Systems

• J. Zaanen et al., Pacifying the Fermi liquid: battling the devious fermion signs, arXiv:0802.2455v1

Electronic Structure

(No current suggestions)

Biophysics

• A. Liwo, M. Khalili, and H. A. Scheraga, Ab Initio Simulations of Protein-Folding Pathways by Molecular Dynamics with the United-Residue Model of Polypeptide Chains, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences 0408885102 (2004)

Other

• A. Shapere and F. Wilczek, Self-Propulsion at Low Reynolds Number Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2051 (1987)

• A. M. Polyakov, Turbulence without pressure Phys. Rev. E 52, 6183 (1995)

• Y. Couder and E. Fort, Single-Particle Diffraction and Interference at a Macroscopic Scale Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 154101 (2006) and S. Protiére, A. Boudaoud and Y. Couder, Particle–wave association on a fluid interface Journal of Fluid Mechanics 554 85 (2006)

• L. N. Trefethen and L. M. Trefethen, How Many Shuffles to Randomize a Deck of Cards?, Proc. Roy. Soc. 456, 2561 (2000)

• L. Johnson, The Tether Solution, IEEE Spectrum 37, 38 (2000)

• M. Clerc and J. Kennedy, The Particle Swarm -- Explosion, Stability, and Convergence in a Multidimensional Complex Space, IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation 6, 58 (2002)

• D. Hardcastle, Riddle posed by computer (6): The Computer Generation of Cryptic Crossword Clues, PhD thesis, Birbeck, London University (2007)

Past Talks

2007/8

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