USCMC 2026 - Schedule
Urbana-Style Condensed Matter, Condensed (USCMC)
August 28, 2026
A mini-symposium featuring 3-min lightning talks and posters
| Time | Event | Room |
| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Session A talks, 3 min each | ESB 190 |
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Poster session and coffee/snacks | Supercon 2nd floor |
| 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Session B talks, 3 min each | ESB 190 |
| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Poster session and coffee/snacks | Supercon 2nd floor |
| Session A (talks from 1 pm to 2 pm) | |||
| Talk/poster no. | Presenter | PI | Title |
| A1 | Henry Amir | Mahmood | 2e-ARPES to Measure Correlated Electron Pairs in Unconventional Superconductors |
| A2 | Miles Knudtson | Madhavan | Probing the strange-metal phase of Bi2212 using time-resolved STM |
| A3 | Jon Weng | La Nave | Von Neumann algebras and index theory of non-Fermi liquids |
| A4 | Jack Zwettler | Mahmood | Development of 2e-ARPES as a measurement of two-electron correlations |
| A5 | Yuntao Guan | Bradlyn | Microcausality bounds on the local distinguishability of quantum states |
| A6 | Xiangyi Du | Wang | Tailoring Excitonic Excitations in a Strained Quasi-1D Moiré Superlattice |
| A7 | Sonali Joshi | Wagner | Finding the Best 1-band Hubbard Models for the Hydrogen Chain: Fitting Effective Hamiltonians to High-Accuracy Ab Initio Spectra |
| A8 | Lily Guo | Wang | Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of a Monolayer Excitonic Insulator |
| A9 | Irina Shenogina | Wagner | On Moiré phonons in Small-angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene |
| A10 | Emma Pappas | Shoemaker | Control and Characterization of Chiral Domains in Inorganic Materials |
| A11 | Lingyu Xie | Chen | Disorder Driven Electronic Reconstruction in the Van der Waals Superconductor 4Hb-Ta(S1-xSex)2 |
| A12 | Amparo Figueroa | Fernandes | Flexoelectricity-induced topological superconductivity |
| A13 | Randy Owen | Kou | Andreev Spectroscopy in Extended Planar Josephson Junctions |
| A14 | Sounak Sinha | Bradlyn | Electromagnetic and spin response of multiband superconductors |
| A15 | Changjun Lee | Mahmood | Terahertz-driven polar modes, glassy relaxation and Kerr-to-Pockels crossover in Sr1−xCaxTiO3 |
| A16 | Shivjeet Chanan | Colla | "Memory-Based" Phase Transitions in the Relaxor-Ferroelectric PMN-PT |
| Session B (talks from 3 pm to 4 pm) | |||
| Talk/poster no. | Presenter | PI | Title |
| B1 | Shiyu Li | Wang | Probing Unconventional Superconductivity of Monolayer WTe2 |
| B2 | Nick Abboud | Fernandes | Leggett-Garg Inequality Violations Bound Quantum Fisher Information |
| B3 | Younsik Kim | Mahmood | Momentum-resolved Berry curvature of a Floquet-Chern insulator |
| B4 | Amanda Gatto Lamas | Hughes | Higher-form entanglement asymmetry and topological order |
| B5 | Hansol Kim | Wang | Pressure-induced Correlated Insulator in Bilayer Td-WTe2 |
| B6 | Hannah Aguirre | Mahmood | Optimizing MBE-grown Bi2-xSbxTe3 films for intrinsic topological electrodynamics using terahertz and photoemission spectroscopies |
| B7 | Rahim Raja | Huang | PtyRANNOSAUR: phast electron ptychography |
| B8 | Eslam Elbakry | Shoemaker | Using X-ray imaging in the in-situ control and monitoring of crystal growth |
| B9 | W. Joe Meese | Fernandes | Elastic counterpart of the RKKY interaction in insulating altermagnets |
| B10 | Wenjie Chou | Chen | Development of a Thermal Hall Measurement Platform for Altermagnetic Materials |
| B11 | Rui Aquino | Fernandes | Anomalous Hall viscosity of altermagnets |
| B12 | Davis Clarke | Chen | Improved Torque Differential Magnetometry up to MHz Range |
| B13 | Rishi Acharya | Mahmood | Intrinsically driven Floquet states in a compensated metallic antiferromagnet |
| B14 | Kieran Loehr | Clark | Superconductivity in t' Hubbard Model with Neural Network Backflow |
| B15 | Shubhang Goswami | Ceperley | Getting Phase-2-Phase with dense hydrogen |
| B16 | Jenna Freedberg | Mahmood | Origin of ionic transport in the terahertz regime of a glassy solid electrolyte |