Seminars

FALL 2025

ICMT THEORY SEMINARS

9/8/25 - Jaewon Kim (Berkeley/UIUC) , "Linear Magnetoresistance from Glassy Orders"
9/15/25 - Jeroen van den Brink (Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW, Dresden), "Topological surface superconductivity in PtBi2"
9/22/25 - Kai Sun (University of Michigan), "Flat Bands, Topology, and Fractionalization: Similarities and Differences Between Fractional States in Flat Chern Bands and Landau Levels"
9/29/25 - Paul Goldbart (Stony Brook U.), "Random proximity measurements in quantum fluids and the hidden organization they induce"
10/6/25 - Zohar Nussinov (WashU), "Inhomogeneous phases and glasses- a many-body perspective"
10/7/25 - Bruno Uchoa (University of Oklahoma), "Quantum geometry in flat bands"
10/13/25 - Yin-Chen He (Stonybrook), "A Fuzzy Sphere Journey: from 3D Ising to Chern-Simons-matter CFT "
10/14/25 - Darius Shi (Stanford)), "Chiral superconductivity from non-Abelian anyon fluids"
10/27/25 - Sukbum Chung (University of Seoul), "Spin transport signature of ferroelectric fluctuation"
11/03/25 - Yves Kwan (Dallas), "Strongly-correlated topological phenomena in graphene multilayers"
11/04/25 - Eytan Grosfeld (Ben Gurion University, Israel), "Shining Light on Bose-Hubbard Models: From Equilibrium Theory to Exotic Steady States"
11/17/25 - Tyler Ellison (Purdue), "Universal quantum computation with group surface codes"
12/1/25 - Maxim Khodas (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Argonne National Laboratory), "Anomalous Hall effect and piezomagnetism in altermagnets"
12/8/25 - Seth Musser (University of Maryland), "Minimal order, maximal insight"

CONDENSED MATTER SEMINARS

SPRING 2025

ICMT THEORY SEMINARS

2/3/25 - Daniel Agterberg (University of Wisconsin), "Microscopic models for non-relativistic spin-splitting"
2/24/25 - Jaewon Kim (Berkeley), "Strongly Coupled Dirac Quantum Criticality"
3/3/25 - Nadav Shnerb (Bar Ilan University), "Avalanche Dynamics in Interdependent Networks and Beyond"
3/10/25 - Minjae Cho (University of Chicago), "Bootstrapping Thermal Equilibrium"
3/24/25 - Ben Wieder (IPhT Saclay), "Topological Superconductor Hierarchies from Superconducting Space Groups and Charge-Resolved Topology"
3/25/25 - Wei Ku (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), "Universal Low-Temperature Fluctuation of Unconventional Superconductors Revealed"
3/31/25 - Yueqing Chang (Rutgers), "Ab-Initio Downfolding for Strongly Correlated Systems: Benchmarks and Applications"
4/4/25 - Shivaji Sondhi (Oxford), "Towards a Theory of Quantum Games"
4/7/25 - Eun-Ah Kim (Cornell), "Non-Abelian Anyons on Synthetic Platforms"
4/14/25 - Trithep Devakul (Stanford), "Emergent Phases of Interacting Electrons in Dispersive Bands with Berry Curvature"
4/21/25 - Gil Refael (CalTech), "Self-correcting GKP qubit and gates in a driven-dissipative circuit"
4/29/25 - Subroto Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), "Electron hydrodynamics: 'Strong Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law and Vortical Effects'"

CONDENSED MATTER SEMINARS

1/24/25 - Lucas Wagner (UIUC), "When details matter: learning coarse-grained physics from first principles"
1/31/25 - Pat Clancy (McMaster University), "Exploring Spin-Orbit-Driven Physics in Ru-based Quantum Magnets"
2/7/25 - Adam Aczel (Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), "Neutron Scattering as a Probe of Magnetic Quantum Materials"
2/14/25 - Ben Feldman (Stanford University), "Intertwined magnetism, correlations and topology in semiconductor moiré lattices"
2/17/25 - Naren Manjunath (Perimeter Institute), "What's inside a parameterized family?"
2/21/25 - Daniel Haskel (Argonne National Laboratory), "Magnetic Scattering and Spectroscopy at High Pressures at APS and APS-U"
2/28/25 - Stephen Wilson (UC Santa Barbara), "Searching for materials with dual structural and magnetic frustration"
3/7/25 - Nathan Keim (Pennsylvania State University), "Memory and Plasticity in Amorphous Solids"
3/14/25 - Erica Carlson (Purdue University), "Universal Features of Emergent Electronic Fractals in Quantum Materials"
3/28/25 - Hae-Young Kee (University of Toronto), "Kitaev spin model, disguised Ising chain, and beyond"
4/4/25 - Daniel Shoemaker (UIUC), "Discovery and Defects in Optical and Chiral Quantum Materials"
4/11/25 - Edoardo Baldini (University of Texas, Austin), "Nonlinear Coupled Magnonics"
4/25/25 - Nandini Trivedi, (Ohio State University), "Detection of anyon braiding through pump-probe spectroscopy"
4/28/25 - Zhanybek Alpichshev (IST Austria), "Tracing light: on Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Polaritonics in Quantum Paraelectrics"
5/2/25 - Despina Louca (University of Virginia), "Bonds and Bands"
5/7/25 - Roman Lutchyn (Microsoft Quantum), "Quantum Computation using Majorana-Based Topological Qubits"
5/9/25 - Michael Manley (Oak Ridge), "Phason Dominated Thermal Conductivity in an Incommensurate Crystal"

FALL 2024

ICMT THEORY SEMINARS

8/26/24 - Jong Yeon Lee (UIUC), "Spontaneous Breaking of Continuous Symmetry in One Dimension"
9/9/24 - Philip Phillips (UIUC), "Solving the Mott Problem"
9/30/24 - Dr. Viktor Könye (University of Amsterdam), "Stability of Weyl node merging processes under symmetry constraints"
10/7/24 - Yoonseok Hwang (UIUC), "Extending Topological Classification: Real-Space Invariants for Electronic and Photonic Bands"
10/14/24 - Oskar Vafek (Florida State University), "Interactions and topology within the narrow bands of twisted bilayer graphene"
10/21/24 - Dominic Else (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario), "Topological phases of many-body localized systems and quantum cellular automata"
10/28/24 - Bowen Shi (UIUC), "The entanglement bootstrap view of conformal symmetry"
10/31/24 - David Lin,(UC San Diego), "Quantum LDPC codes with transversal gates"
11/4/24 - Aris Alexandradinata, (UC Santa Cruz), "Topo-photovoltaics"
11/11/24 - Yuxuan Wang (University of Florida), "Quantum Oscillations from Bosonization"
11/14/24 - Erez Berg (Weizmann Institute of Science), "Theory of Coulomb driven nematicity in a multi-valley two-dimensional electron gas"
11/18/24 - Eslam Khalaf (Harvard), "Implications of band topology on strongly correlated phases: nonlocal moments and Mott semimetals"
12/2/24 - Andrey Chubukov (University of Minnesota), "Unconventional discontinuous transitions in a 2D system with spin and valley degrees of freedom"
12/4/24 - Zhengyan (Darius) Shi (MIT), "Doping a fractional quantum anomalous Hall insulator"
12/5/24 - Nisarga Paul (MIT), "Interaction-induced topological electronic crystals: theory and phenomenology"
12/9/24 - Xie Chen (California Institute of Technology), "Quantum circuit as a lens into quantum phases and phase transitions"
12/10/24 - Avi Klein (Ariel University, Israel), "Criticality in quantum ferroelectric metals"

CONDENSED MATTER SEMINARS

8/30/24 - Alexandre Zimmers (ESPCI Paris - PSL University / Sorbonne University), "Manipulating Metal-Insulator Patterns in VO2 for Neuromorphic Computing"
9/6/24 - Peter Abbamonte (UIUC), "Conformally invariant charge fluctuations in a strange metal"
9/13/24 - Lazar Kish (Brookhaven National Laboratory), "Quantum coherence of quasiparticles in Yb rare-earth magnets"
9/20/24 - Michael Rübhausen (Institute of Nanostructure and Solid State Physics and Center for Free Electron Laser Science, Universität Hamburg, Germany), "Quest to reveal the Higgs Excitation in Superconductors by NEARS"
9/27/24 - Roland Winkler (Northern Illinois University), "Standard model of electromagnetism and chirality in crystals"
10/4/24 - Ilya Esterlis (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Quantum mechanics of 2D electron crystals"
10/11/24 - Gang Cao (University of Colorado, Boulder), "Control of chiral orbital currents in quantum materials"
10/18/24 - Linda Ye (California Institute of Technology), "Exploring piezomagnetic coupling in quantum materials"
10/25/24 - Seongshik Oh (Rutgers University), "Interface-Engineered Topological Quantum Matter"
11/1/24 - Elizabeth Goldschmidt (UIUC), "Quantum photonics with rare-earth materials"
11/8/24 - Joel Moore (Berkeley), "Spin dynamics with materials, atoms, and quantum computers: from Heisenberg chains at infinite temperature to triangular lattice antiferromagnets at 20 mK"
11/15/24 - Ian Fisher (Stanford), "Feeling the strain: longitudinal and transverse fields for electric quadrupole order"
11/22/24 - Kemp Plumb (Brown University), "Journeys in quantum magnets, from nodal lines to chiral stripes"
12/6/24 - Martin Mourigal (Georgia Institute of Technology), "Quantum or Not? Decoding Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Insulators"