Prerequisites: gradu- ate standing; consent of instructor

Description: Discusses current topics of research, including properties of materials and nanostructures with strong electronic correlations. Covers theoretical approaches to the study of effects of interaction and disorder in quantum many-body systems and the additional effects of surfaces, inter- faces, and constrained geometry in nanoscale sys- tems. Students who present a seminar or submit a term paper receive a letter grade; other students receive a Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grade. Course is repeatable. Tsai