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" 

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"