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2023-24 Seminars

August 3:
Kanu Sinha, Arizona State University
Title: Atom-Field interactions in Nanoscale Quantum Optical Systems
Host: Mark Raizen
August 31:
Maxim Tsoi, University of Texas at Austin
Electric-field-driven structural distortions in transition metal oxides
Host: Linda Reichl
September 7:
Feliciano Giustino, Dept. of Physics and Oden Institute, UT Austin
Polarons in two-dimensional materials
Host: Linda Reichl
September 14:
Pengcheng Dai, Rice University
Competing itinerant and local spin interactions in kagome metal FeGe
Host: Elaine Li
September 21:
Nicolás Morales Duran, University of Texas at Austin
Fractional Chern Insulators in moiré TMDs
Host: Allan MacDonald
September 26:
Jesper Levinsen, Monash University
Fermi polarons in doped two-dimensional semiconductors
Host: Elaine Li
October 5:
Elbio Rubén Dagotto, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Surprises in electronic correlated systems: block and spiral spin states, Majoranas, and pairing
Host: Elaine Li
October 10:
Daniele Fausti, University of Trieste and FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Quantum spectroscopies for quantum materials
Host: Edoardo Baldini
October 12:
Zhenglu Li, University of Southern California
Correlation-enhanced electron-phonon interaction in oxide superconductors from
first-principles GW perturbation theory
Host: Feliciano Giustino
October 19:
Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford University
Surprises and Insights from Electron Doped Cuprates – the neglected little brother
Host: Keji Lai
October 26:
Young-Woo Son, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Roles of interactions in stacked two dimensional crystals
Host: Feliciano Giustino
November 2:
Fei Xue, University of Alabama
Novel spin-orbit torque in two-dimensional magnets without local inversion symmetry
Host: Allan MacDonald
November 7: 
Christoph Nägerl, Universität Innsbruck
The wonder-full world of one-dimensional bosons
Host: Mark Raizen
November 9:
Shuyun Zhou, Tsinghua University
Manipulation of two-dimensional materials by time-periodic light field
Host: Elaine Li
November 16:
James Rondinelli, Northwestern University
Towards active exploration of novel electronic materials
Host: Edoardo Baldini
November 28:
Linran Fan, University of Texas at Austin
Hybrid nonlinear integrated photonics for quantum information processing
Host: Elaine Li
November 30: (presentation to be held in EER 3.646)
Jia Leo Li, Brown University
Electrons in a flatland: a world with less symmetry
Host: Elaine Li
February 22: APS March Meeting Practice Presentations
Frank Gao: Emergence of 2D-XY antiferromagnetism in monolayer NiPS3
Xuening Zhou: Incorporation of collagen into bacterial biofilms impedes phagocytosis by neutrophils
Kyoungpyo Lee: Imaging Dynamic Evolution of Ferroelectric Domains in Twisted Hexagonal Boron Nitride layers
February 29: APS March Meeting Practice Presentations
Jingtian Shi: Adiabatic Approximation and Aharonov-Casher Bands in Twisted Homobilayer TMDs
Zhida Liu: Exciton Localization in Dodecagonal Quasi-crystal WSe2
Francisco Estrella: Thermalization of composite superconducting nanowires
Host: Linda Reichl
March 21: Peter Schwindt, Sandia National Lab
Measuring the Human Brain with Optically Pumped Atomic Magnetometers
Host: Paul Kunz
March 28: Hanyu Zhu, Rice University
Chiral phonons and their coupling with spins
Host: Keji Lai
April 4: Dana Anderson, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics and Dept. of Physics, UC Boulder And Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Infleqtion Corp., Boulder, CO.
Properties of and Sensing with Maxwell Matter Waves And an Introduction to Oqtant
Host: Daniel Heinzen
April 11: Peter Schauss, University of Virginia
Quantum many-body physics with ultracold atoms on the single-atom level
Host: Paul Kunz
April 18: Yu He, Yale University
Electronic pseudogap from fluctuations in low dimensional materials
Host: Edoardo Baldini
April 25: Mark Dean, Brookhaven National Lab
Exploring many body excitons with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
Host: Edoardo Baldini
May 2: Pablo Bianucci, Université Concordia in Montréal
Condensed-matter inspired photonics
Host: Ken Shih
May 14: TUESDAY – Erez Berg, Weizmann Institute of Science
Nematic metal in a multi-valley electron gas
Host: Allan MacDonald
May 23: Yongxin Zeng, Columbia University
Quantum anomalous Hall physics at superlattice scales
Host: Allan MacDonald