Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

University of Alberta

Organizer: Igor Boettcher

Seminar

  • Tuesday 12:30-13:30
  • Room L1-047
  • Each seminar will feature a 30 min talk by a member of the CMP group about their research and a subsequent informal discussion. This is a fantastic opportunity to get to know your fellow CMP colleagues and start collaborations. Occasionally we also host invited speakers.

Schedule Fall 2024

  • Dec 10, 2024
    Akila Bandara (Charlebois Group)
     
  • Dec 3, 2024
    Ronny Thomale (University of Wuerzburg)
    "The New Frontier of Topological Phases - Collective Phenomena in Synthetic Matter "
    Joint with TPI seminar
     
  • Nov 26, 2024
     
  • Nov 12, 2024
    no seminar (reading week)
     
  • Nov 5, 2024
    Marvin Hirschel (Davis Group)
    "Listening to the sound of dark matter with superfluid helium"
     
  • Oct 29, 2024
    Kiril Max Kolevski (Boninsegni Group)
    "Superfluidity of quasi-2D He-4 droplets on graphite"
     
  • Oct 22, 2024
    Charles Jensen (Hegmann Group)
    "Terahertz spectroscopy of semiconductor nanomaterials"
     
  • Oct 15, 2024
    Nils Refvik (Hegmann Group)
    "Probing semiconductor photoconductivity with terahertz spectroscopy"
     
  • Oct 8, 2024
    Special TPI Seminar: Eric Woolgar (University of Alberta) 

Schedule Winter 2024

  • May 29, 2024
    Pramodh Senarath Yapa (University of Innsbruck)
    "How solid is a dipolar supersolid?"
     
  • April 30, 2024
    Furkan Altincicek (Wolkow Group)
    "Silicon Dimers on the Hydrogenated Surface"
     
  • April 23, 2024
    Arina Tashchilina (LeBlanc Group)
    "Quantum computation and simulation with neutral atoms"
     
  • April 16, 2024
    Daniiar Zhaguparov (Woodside Group)
    "Mechanical stability of exoribonuclease-resistant RNA (xrRNA) from Zika virus"
     
  • April 9, 2024
    Pablo Basteiro (University of Wuerzburg)
    "Entanglement in interacting Majorana chains and transitions of von Neumann algebras"
    Joint with TPI seminar
     
  • April 2, 2024
    Albion Arifi (Boettcher Group)
    "Topological Semimetals: Unraveling their Unconventional Electromagnetic Response"
     
  • March 26, 2024
    Max Yuan (Wolkow Group)
    "Silicon dangling bond wires and the path towards atomic electronics"
     
  • March 19, 2024:
    Sam Yu (Boninsegni Group)
    "Possible superfluid phase of helium on graphene: Quantum Monte Carlo study"
     
  • March 12, 2024
    Eran Ginossar (University of Surrey)
    "Protection of quantum information in a chain of Josephson junctions: the Magenium qubit"
     
  • March 5, 2024
    no seminar (March Meeting)
     
  • February 27, 2024
    no seminar
     
  • February 20, 2024
    no seminar (reading week)
     
  • February 13, 2024
    James Maldaner (LeBlanc/Porat Group)
    "Feasibility Analysis of a Proposed Test of Quantum Gravity via Novel Optical Magnetometry in Xenon"
     
  • February 6, 2024
    Rohith Vedhthaanth Sekar (Woodside Group)
    "The role of computational biophysics in COVID-19 drug discovery (..at the Woodside lab)"
     
  • January 30, 2024
    Katryna Fast (Freeman Group)
    "Einstein-de Haas torque as a discrete spectroscopic probe allows nanomechanical measurement of a magnetic resonance"
     
  • January 23, 2024
    Igor Boettcher
    "Holography on a chip"
     

Past Schedule

  • April 13, 2023 online
    David Moser (Technical University Dresden)
    "Quasiuniversality from all-in-all-out Weyl quantum criticality in pyrochlore iridates"
     
  • March 23, 2023
    Santanu Dey (Maciejko group)
    "Field-driven transition from quantum spin liquid to symmetry-breaking order in triangular-lattice antiferromagnets"
     
  • March 16, 2023
    Frank Marsiglio
    What some of my undergraduate students did in the summer (circa 2015-2016)*
     
  • March 9, 2023
    Michael Buchhold (University of Cologne)
    "Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions of Fermions: Phenomenology, Effective Theory and Strategies to Reveal Them"
     
  • Feburary 23, 2023
    No seminar (reading week)
     
  • Feburary 9, 2023
    Igor Herbut (Simon Fraser University)
    "Multiband superconductivity and breaking of time-reversal symmetry: theory of Bogoliubov-Fermi surfaces"
     
  • Feburary 2, 2023
    Javad Shabani (New York University)
    "Towards realization of protected qubits using topological superconductivity"
     
    Robert Wolkow
    "An Introduction to Atom-Defined Silicon Quantum Devices and Ultra-Fast, Ultra-Low Power Classical Circuits"
     
  • November 17, 2022
    Howe Simpson (Hegmann Group)
    "Measuring Ultrafast Dynamics on the Nanoscale: The Terahertz Scanning Tunneling Microscope"
     
  • November 10, 2022
    no seminar (reading week)
     
  • November 3, 2022
    Shankar Ganesh (Maciejko Group)
    "Describing transitions between topological and conventional symmetry-broken phases"
     
  • October 27, 2022
    Alexander Shook (Davis Group)
    "Novel Properties of Superfluid 3He Under Nanoscale Confinement"
     
  • October 20, 2022
    Michael Dunsmore (Freeman Group)
    "Three Axis Torque Investigation of Interfacial Exchange Coupling in a NiFe/CoO Bilayer Magnetic Disk"
     
  • October 13, 2022
    no seminar
     
  • October 6, 2022
    Canon Sun (Maciejko/Boettcher Group)
    "SO(2) theory of confined superfluid He-3"
     
  • September 29, 2022
    Phong Nguyen (Boninsegni Group)
    "Dimensional Crossovers in 2D superfluids"
     
  • September 22, 2022
    Santanu Dey (Maciejko Group)
    "Quantum-critical electrodynamics of Luttinger fermions"
     
  • December 9, 2021
    Aaron Lyons (Woodside Group)
    "Characterisation of Non-Productive Attempts at Structural Assembly in Single Biomolecules"
     
  • November 18, 2021
    Logan Cooke (LeBlanc Group)
    "Holonomic Quantum Computing in Ultracold Neutral Atoms via Floquet Engineering"
     
  • November 4, 2021
    Pramodh Senarath Yapa (Marsiglio/Maciejko Group)
    "Creating a Superfluid Crystal in Helium-3"
     
  • October 28, 2021
    Clinton Potts (Davis Group)
    "Dynamical Backaction Magnomechanics"
     
  • October 21, 2021
    Mason Protter (Marsiglio/Maciejko Group)
    "Non-Abelian gauge structure in driven quantum gasses"
     
  • October 14, 2021
    Max Yuan (Wolkow Group)
    "Towards the atomic scale readout of acceptor states in p-doped Si"