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 |