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2022-23 Seminars

September 1:
Alexander Demkov, UT Austin
Ferroelectric thin films for integrated Si photonics
Host: Linda Reichl
September 8: (presentation type: Hybrid)
Jon Lafuente, UT Austin
Ab initio theory of polarons at all couplings: from band structure renormalization to self-trapping
Host: Feliciano Giustino
September 13: TUESDAY (presentation type: Hybrid)
Qian Niu, Retired UT Physics Professor
Geodynamics in meta spacetime
Host: Ken Shih
September 15: (presentation type: Zoom)
Richard Averitt, University of California-San Diego
Dynamics and control in quantum materials using multi-terahertz spectroscopy
Host: Edoardo Baldini
September 22: (presentation type: Hybrid)
Tongcang Li, Purdue University
Optically addressable spin qubits in 2D materials
Host: Mark Raizen
September 29: (presentation type: Zoom only)
Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
Energy relaxation and dynamics in strongly correlated materials
Host: Edoardo Baldini
October 6: (presentation type: Zoom)
Mehmet Dogan, UT Austin
Developments in High Temperature Superconductivity in Solid Hydrogen and Hydrides
Host: James Chelikowski
October 13: (presentation type: Zoom)
Michael Foss-Feig, Quantinuum
Mid-circuit measurements as a tool for many-body physics
Host: Paul Kunz
October 20: (presentation type: Hybrid)
Joe Checkelsky, MIT
Flat Bands and Correlated Metallic States in Kagome Metals
Host: Allan MacDonald
October 27: (presentation type: Hybrid)
Matthew Fisher, UC Santa Barbara
Monitoring Quantum Dynamics
Host: Allan MacDonald
November 3: (presentation type: Hybrid)
Wei-Cheng Lee, SUNY Binghamton
Smart Oxides for Neuromorphic Computing
Host: Allan MacDonald
November 10: (presentation type: Hybrid)
Qimin Yan, Northeastern University
Machine learning in the quantum regime through physical-principle-informed representations
Host: Elaine Li
December 1: (presentation type: Zoom)
Victoria Xu, MIT
Expanding our gravitational view of the Universe with quantum interferometry
Host: Paul Kunz
SPRING 2023
January 12:
The Prigogine Lectures on dissipative structures: 
As presented to a Plan II class in the 1990s. (Zoom only)
Host: Linda Reichl
January 19:
Chih-Kang Shih, Professor, University of Texas
Tailoring and Probing Electronic Structures of 2D Heterostructures
Host: Elaine Li
January 26:
Andy Zangwill, Georgia Tech
A Mind Over Matter: The Life and Science of Philip W. Anderson
Host: Pablo Laguna
February 9:
Eli Yablonovitch, UC Berkeley
Physics Does Optimization (for Free); A New Approach Toward Computation
(presentation type: Hybrid)
Host: Mark Raizen
February 16:
Mark Raizen, University of Texas at Austin
New Tests of Quantum Mechanics with Atoms
Host: Keji Lai
February 23:
A. Douglas Stone, Yale University
The Renaissance of Mesoscopic Transport Physics in Optics
Host: Mark Raizen
March 2: APS March meeting: Student presentations practice
Bo Zou: Quantum Hall Bilayer Electron-hole Fluids
Jingtian Shi: Probing Doped α-RuCl3 with Graphene
Andrew Murphy: High Quality Synthesis of Sulfur-Based TMD’s via Molecular Beam Epitaxy
March 23:
Andrew Geraci, Northwestern University
Searching for Axions with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Host: Mark Raizen
March 30:
Eslam Khalaf, University of Texas at Austin
Doping a Chern ferromagnet: charge excitations in graphene moire heterostructures
Host: Keji Lai
April 4:
Jonathan Sobota, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Influence of Local Symmetry on Lattice Dynamics and Spin Texture of Surface States
Host: Edoardo Baldini
April 6:
Sivan Refaely-Abramson, Weizmann Institute of Science
Excited-state phenomena in functional materials: a first-principles perspective
Host: Feliciano Giustino
April 11:
Ken Burch, Boston College
PostPandemic Tool for Quantum Materials and vice-versa
Host: Edoardo Baldini
April 13:
James Chelikowsky, University of Texas at Austin
The discovery and design of materials:  Magnets
Host: Linda Reichl
April 20:
Alex Khajetoorians, Radboud University, The Netherlands
A quantum simulator using artificial atoms on the surface of a semiconductor
Host: Chih-Kang Shih
April 24: (MONDAY 11:30-12:30)
Valerio Peri, Postdoc at Caltech
Superconductivity in materials with flat bands: Insights from the quantum geometry
Host: Tobias Wolf
April 25:
Luiz Orozco, University of Maryland
Optical nanofibers: Some experiments in optomechanics
Host: Mark Raizen