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2021-22 Seminars

August 26:
Mark Raizen, Professor, UT-Austin
Zooming in on Brownian Motion with Einstein’s Speed Demon
Host: Linda Reichl
September 2:
Logan Hillberry, GRA, UT-Austin
Entangled quantum cellular automata, physical complexity, and Goldilocks rules
Host: Mark Raizen
September 9:
Carlos A. R. Sá de Melo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Density induced BCS-Bose evolution in gated two-dimensional superconductors: The role of the interaction range in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
Host: Allan MacDonald
September 16:
Hae-Young Kee, University of Toronto
Kitaev Materials and Perspective
Host: Allan MacDonald
September 23:
Rui Huang, Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, UT-Austin
Mechanical Interactions between 2D Materials: Adhesion, Friction and Moiré
Host: Allan MacDonald
September 30:
Carlos A. R. Sá de Melo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Density induced BCS-Bose evolution in gated two-dimensional superconductors: The role of the interaction range in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
Host: Allan MacDonald
October 7:
Roxana Margine, Binghamton University SUNY
Ab initio theory of superconductivity
Host: Feliciano Giustino
October 14:
Jia Leo Li, Brown University
Engineering graphene moiré structures using proximity effect
Host: Allan MacDonald
October 21: Fengcheng Wu, Wuhan University
Prediction and realization of topological phases in transition metal dichalcogenide moiré bilayers
Host: Allan MacDonald
October 28:
Benjamin Lev, Stanford University
Topological pumping into strongly correlated prethermal states
Host: Mark Raizen
November 2: Tuesday, 9:30 am
Qian Niu, Retired Professor, Department of Physics, UT-Austin
Phonon magnetic moment and chirality: electronic geometrical phase effect
Host: Linda Reichl
November 4:
Bruno Uchoa, University of Oklahoma
Violation of the viscosity-to-entropy ratio bound in nodal-line semimetals
Host: Allan MacDonald
November 11:
Jeff Thompson, Princeton University
Quantum computing with neutral Yb atoms
Host: Paul Kunz
November 18:
Mo Li, University of Washington, Seattle
Shake it up: Using sound waves to modulate light-matter interaction on chip
Host: Keji Lai
December 2:
Dmitri Basov, Columbia University
Live from New York: Programmable Quantum Materials
Host: Edoardo Baldini
January 20:
Jose Lado, Aalto University
Design and realization of heavy-fermion quantum matter in van der Waals materials
Host: Allan MacDonald
January 27:
Xianglin Ke, Michigan State University
Probing Novel Magnetic Excitations in Low-Dimensional Magnets
Host: Elaine Li
February 3:
Mengxing Ye, UC Santa Barbara
Understanding emergent quantum phenomena in the real world
Host: Allan MacDonald
February 10:
Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia University, Brookhaven National Lab
Collective phases in thin van der Waals materials
Host: Allan MacDonald
February 17:
Alexander Burgers, Princeton University
Advancing Quantum Science with Ytterbium Atom Arrays
Host: Allan MacDonald
February 24:
Tobias Wolf, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
Topology, flat bands and interactions in graphene-based van der Waals materials
Host: Allan MacDonald
March 3:
Aaron Lindenberg, Stanford University
Exciton-driven dynamic symmetry changes and concerted lattice distortions in perovskite quantum dots 
Host: Edoardo Baldini
March 10:
Felix Schupp, IBM Research, Zürich Switzerland
Hole spin-qubits in triangular-fin MOS
Host: Alex Demkov
March 24:
Jun Hee Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
Ultimate-density atomic semiconductor via flat phonon bands
Host: Keji Lai
March 31:
Leslie Schoop, Princeton University
The Chemistry of Quantum Materials
Host: Edoardo Baldini
April 7:
Fan Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas
Higher-Order Topological Matter
Host: Keji Lai
April 14:
Brad Ramshaw, Cornell University
The Planckian Bound: A Fundamental Limit on Electron Collisions
Host: Allan MacDonald
April 21:
Keji Lai, UT Austin
Microwave Microscopy of Topological Acoustics
Host: Linda Reichl
April 28:
Kanu Sinha, Princeton University
Fluctuation Phenomena in Nanoscale Quantum Optical Systems
Host: Mark Raizen
May 5:
Na-Hyun Jo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Discovering, understanding, and manipulating correlated topological materials
Host: Elaine Li