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Status of the Search for Majorana Fermions in Semiconductor Nanowires
Speaker: Sergey Frolov, University of Pittsburgh
Date & Time: Thu, 2018-03-15 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL 311
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Strong disorder Wegner flow and 1d localization transitions
Speaker: Gil Refael, Taylor W. Lawrence Professor of Theoretical Physics; Executive Officer for Physics, California Institute of Technology
Date & Time: Thu, 2018-03-01 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience:
Exploring Novel Quantum States and Manipulating Different Quantum Degrees of Freedom in Two-Dimensional Crystals, Heterostructures and Nano-Metamaterials
Speaker: Nai-Chang Yeh, Department of Physics and Kavli Nanoscience Institute California Institute of Technology
Date & Time: Thu, 2018-02-15 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL 311
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Entanglement Entropy and Topological Order in Quantum Spin Liquids
Speaker: Julia Wildeboer, University of Kentucky
Date & Time: Thu, 2018-02-08 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience: Graduate
Mapping Atomic Motions with Ultrabright Electrons: Realization of the Chemists’ Gedanken Experiment
Speaker: R. J. Dwayne Miller, The Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany and, Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto
Date & Time: Thu, 2018-01-18 14:00 - 15:00
Location: CHEM C126
Local Contact: Josh Folk, Ian Affleck
Intended Audience:
Quantum magnetism on a chip
Speaker: Richard G. Harris, Principal Scientist, D-Wave Systems Inc.
Date & Time: Thu, 2018-01-11 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Josh Folk
Intended Audience:
Quantum simulations of dynamical response functions for strongly correlated quasi-one dimensional materials
Speaker: Alberto Nocera, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee,
Date & Time: Thursday, 2018-01-25 14:00 - 15:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience:
Using Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering to study quasiparticle fractionalization in quasi-one-dimensional cuprates
Speaker: Steve Johnston, University of Tennessee
Date & Time: Fri, 2018-01-05 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Mona Berciu
Intended Audience:
Ultrafast Quantum Control of Matter
Speaker: see program
Date & Time: December 11-15, 2017 (see website for exact times)
Location: Sage East, 6331 Crescent Road, University Centre, UBC
Local Contact: Michelle Ng
Intended Audience: Master, PhD students and researchers with experience in condensed matter physics and/or photonics.
Quantum supremacy: checking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer
Speaker: John Martinis, University of California at Santa Barbara
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-11-30 14:00 - 15:00
Location: HENNINGS #211
Local Contact: Josh Folk
Intended Audience: Graduate
Medipix3 hybrid pixel detectors – gaining momentum in the field of electron microscopy
Speaker: Dr. Olivia Sleator
Date & Time: Friday, November 17, 2017 at 2:00 pm
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Alan Maigne
Intended Audience:
Nanoengineering materials: a bottom-up approach towards understanding long outstanding challenges in condensed materials science
Speaker: Al-Amin Dhirani, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Date & Time: Fri, 2017-11-10 15:00 - 16:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Josh Folk
Intended Audience:
Computational phases of quantum matter
Speaker: Robert Raussendorf, SBQMI / PHAS, UBC
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-11-09 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Robert Raussendorf
Intended Audience: Graduate
Soft, smart multiresponsive materials: Complex matter where simplicity matters
Speaker: Debashish Mukherji, Max-Planck Institut für Polymerforschung
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 25th, 2:30 PM
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Joerg Rottler
Intended Audience:
Frustrated magnetism in metals
Speaker: Eundeok Mun, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University Event Date and Time: Thu, 2017-11-16 14:00 - 15:00
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-11-16 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Josh Folk
Intended Audience:
Electronic properties of strongly correlated materials, and their link to physical properties
Speaker: See program
Date & Time: December 4 - 6, 2017
Location: Point Grey Campus, University of British Columbia
Local Contact: Mona Berciu
Intended Audience:
Non-fermi liquids, fixed point collisions, and tensorial order in grey tin and in some popular field theories
Speaker: Igor Herbut, Simon Fraser University
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-10-26 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Ian Affleck
Intended Audience: Graduate
Nanophotonic spin-optomechanics
Speaker: Paul Barclay, University of Calgary
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-11-02 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Josh Folk
Intended Audience: Graduate
Probing the electronic structure of manganese complexes with X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy using an X-ray free-electron laser
Speaker: Thomas Fransson, Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Date & Time: Mon, 2017-10-23 11:00 - 12:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience:
Complex tensor order and quantum criticality in half-Heusler superconductors
Speaker:
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-11-23 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Josh Folk
Intended Audience:
Collapse of high-Tc superconductivity via ultrafast quenching of the phase coherence
Speaker: Fabio Boschini, SBQMI, UBC
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-10-19 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Andrea Damascelli
Intended Audience: Graduate
Probing the properties of nanoscale materials using first-principles modeling
Speaker: Hartwin Peelaers, Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5050
Date & Time: October 16th, 2:00 PM
Location: AMPEL 311
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Managing (High) Tension: Atomic Resolution (S)TEM from 30 kV to 300 kV
Speaker: Thomas C. Isabell, JEOL USA, Inc.
Date & Time: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 3:00 PM
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Alan Maigne
Intended Audience:
Quantum High Performance Computing for Chemistry and Material
Speaker: Matthias Troyer, Quantum Architectures and Computation Group, Microsoft Research
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-10-12 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
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Optical Excitation of Semiconducting Field Emission Cathodes
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Purcell, Senior Researcher, Centre National de Recherche Scientifque (CNRS), France.
Date & Time: Fri, 2017-10-06 11:00 - 12:00
Location: Room 311
Local Contact: Dr. Alireza Nojeh
Intended Audience:
Combined dynamic Electron Microscope and optical microscope: An ideal tool to study optical properties of quantum materials
Speaker: Samuel Sonderegger, Ph.D., Attolight AG, Lausanne, Switzerland
Date & Time: Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:00 PM
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Alan Maigne
Intended Audience:
Signatures of the chiral anomaly in phonon dynamics
Speaker: Pedro Lopes, Universite de Sherbrooke
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-09-28 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Ian Affleck
Intended Audience:
Exploring the wave physics of mesoscopic materials with ultrasound: from bubble metamaterials to mesoglasses
Speaker: John H. Page, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-09-21 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Alireza Nojeh
Intended Audience:
Interacting Majorana fermions in two dimensions
Speaker: Ian Affleck
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-09-14 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL 311
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Exact zero modes in frustrated spin chains
Speaker: Natalia Chepiga, University of California at Irvine
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-10-05 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Ian Affleck
Intended Audience:
Probing Emergent Phenomena Through Large-Scale Atom Manipulation
Speaker: Sander Otte, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
Date & Time: Tue, 2017-09-05 10:00 - 11:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Sarah Burke
Intended Audience:
Progress in the Fabrication and Imaging of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Patterned Dopant Nanostructures in Silicon
Speaker: Taylor Stock, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, UK
Date & Time: Fri, 2017-08-25 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Sarah Burke
Intended Audience: Graduate
Spectroscopic-Imaging and Spin-Polarized STM Studies of Superconductivity, Nematicity and Magnetism in 11-Iron Chalcogenide Superconductors
Speaker: Dr. Udai Raj Singh, Institute for Nanostructure and Solid State Physics, University of Hamburg
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-09-07 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: Doug Bonn
Intended Audience: Graduate
From manipulating oxide surface to thin film fabrications by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Speaker: Fengmiao Li, UBC
Date & Time: Friday, 2017-08-04 13:00 - 14:00
Location: AMPEL #311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience:
Atomic construction of two-dimensional materials
Speaker: Bruce A. Davidson, Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA; Oxide MBE Lab, CNR–IOM/TASC
Date & Time: Thursday, 2017-08-03 10:00 - 11:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Doug Bonn
Intended Audience: Graduate
Low-temperature dynamics in non-linear Luttinger liquids
Speaker: Jesko Sirker
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-07-20 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Ian Affleck
Intended Audience: Graduate
Strong covalency and ligand holes, or how to make magnetic gold?
Speaker: Daniel Khomskii - Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet zu Koeln, Germany
Date & Time: Thursday, July 13, 2017 @ 2:00pm
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience:
Edge states and exact zero modes in topological 1D quantum magnets
Speaker: Frédéric Mila, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-07-06 14:00 - 15:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Ian Affleck
Intended Audience: Graduate
Nonlinear and ultrafast optical investigations of correlated materials
Speaker: Hao Chu
Date & Time: Tuesday July 4, 2017 @ 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: David Jones
Intended Audience:
Investigating Local Moments in Graphene in the Low Temperature Limit
Speaker: Dr. Silvia Luescher Folk
Date & Time: Tuesday June 27, 2017 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Jeff Young, George Sawatzky, Doug Bonn
Intended Audience:
What’s Cooking?
Speaker: John Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory
Date & Time: Monday June 5, 2017 at 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Andrea Damascelli
Intended Audience:
Determining a topological index from Landau level spectroscopy and magnetotransport in the quantum limit
Speaker: Badih A. Assaf, Department of Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL, CNRS
Date & Time: Thursday June 8, 2017 at 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Josh Folk
Intended Audience:
Non-Fermi-liquid scattering rates, anomalous band dispersions, and Hund’s metal behavior in iron-based superconductors – an ARPES study
Speaker: Jorg Fink, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden Institute of Solid State Physics, Dresden University of Technology
Date & Time: Thursday, May 25 at 4:00 PM
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience:
Magneto-structural phase transitions in epitaxial FeRh films: Insights from structural and magnetic microscopy
Speaker: David Keavney, Argonne National Laboratory
Date & Time: Wednesday May 24 at 11:00 AM
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Andrea Damascelli
Intended Audience:
Probing and modifying the chemical and magnetic properties of single atoms and molecules
Speaker: Zsolt Majzik, IBM Research-Zurich, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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Dopants and Charge Carriers in Colloidal Quantum Dots
Speaker: Daniel R. Gamelin, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-05-18 14:00 - 15:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Curtis Berlinguette
Intended Audience: Graduate
New Frontiers In Nonlinear Optics: Harnessing Photon-Phonon Interactions In Nanoscale Integrated Circuits
Speaker: Prof. Benjamin Eggleton, ARC Laureate Fellow, School of Physics, University of Sydney / Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS)
Date & Time: Thursday April 20, 2017 @ 2:00 pm
Location: Brimacombe, AMPEL Room 311
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Hidden phases in quantum materials revealed at a surface
Speaker: Dr. Jisun Kim, Louisiana State University
Date & Time: Wednesday April 12th, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Doug Bonn/Sarah Burke
Intended Audience:
Investigating the Role of Disorder, Electron Concentration, and Lattice Compression in Uranium-based Heavy Fermion Systems
Speaker: Eteri Svanidze, McMaster University
Date & Time: Thu, 2017-05-25 14:00 - 15:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Ian Affleck
Intended Audience: Graduate
Harnessing structural complexity to engineer new multifunctional oxides
Speaker: Beth Nowadnick
Date & Time: Friday April 7th, 2017 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience:
Is LiNiO2 a mixed-valent system?
Speaker: Kateryna Foyevtsova
Date & Time: Monday April 10th, 2017 - 11:15 AM
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience:
From the density functional theory to the model Hamiltonian studies on the magnetic skyrmion in MnSi and MnGe
Speaker: Hongchul Choi
Date & Time: Friday April 7th, 2017 - 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience:
Probing and modifying the chemical and magnetic properties of single atoms and molecules
Speaker: Zsolt Majzik, IBM Research-Zurich Switzerland
Date & Time: Wednesday April 5th, 2017, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Sarah Burke/Doug Bonn
Intended Audience:
Observing a Scale Anomaly in Graphene : a Universal Quantum Phase Transition
Speaker: Eric Akkerman, The Technion, Israel
Date & Time: Thursday, 2017-08-03 14:00 - 15:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Ian Affleck
Intended Audience: Graduate
Field induced phase transition in one dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet model studed using density matrix renormalization group
Speaker: Peter Gustainis, Affleck group, UBC
Date & Time: Fri, 2017-03-31 13:00 - 14:00
Location: Hennings 309
Local Contact: Ian Affleck
Intended Audience:
Constrained Path Monte Carlo: recent development and application
Speaker: Mingpu Qin
Date & Time: Thursday March 23, 2017 at 2:00 pm
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience: Graduate
New tools to simulate strongly correlated systems
Speaker: Norman Tubman
Date & Time: Friday March 3rd, 2017 - 3:00 PM
Location: Hennings 304
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience: Graduate
Orbital and magnetic excitations in the spin-chain compound TiPO4
Speaker: Jochen Geck
Date & Time: Thursday March 2, 2017 - 2:00 PM
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Quantum simulation with superconducting circuits
Speaker: Dr. Oleksandr Kyriienko, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Date & Time: Monday February 20th, 2017, 1:30 pm
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact:
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Mott Insulator versus Bose glass in nanostructured Josephson junction chains
Speaker: Timothy Duty, EQuS - ARC Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems and School of Physics, University of New South Wales
Date & Time: Thursday February 16, 2017 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Doug Bonn
Intended Audience: Graduate
Dopants and Charge Carriers in Colloidal Quantum Dots
Speaker: Daniel R. Gamelin, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
Date & Time: Thursday February 9, 2017 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Curtis Berlinguette
Intended Audience: Graduate
What can defect bound states tell us? A case study of superconducting LiFeAs
Speaker: Shun Chi, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UBC
Date & Time: February 6, 2017 1:00 - 2:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Doug Bonn
Intended Audience: Graduate
Electronic Structure of Metal Halide Perovskite Surfaces and Interfaces
Speaker: Antoine Kahn, Princeton University
Date & Time: January 19, 2017 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Sarah Burke
Intended Audience: Graduate
Sliced Basis Set Approach to Quantum Chemistry with DMRG
Speaker: Miles Stoudenmire, UC Irvine
Date & Time: January 26, 2017 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Ian Affleck
Intended Audience: Graduate
Chiral spin liquids in SU(N) fermionic Mott insulators with artifical gauge fields
Speaker: Miklos Lajko, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Date & Time: January 20, 2017 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennigns 309
Local Contact: Ian Affleck
Intended Audience: Graduate
Exploratory Synthesis and Property Investigation of Novel Functional and Superconducting Materials
Speaker: Nikolai Zhigadlo, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern
Date & Time: January 16, 2017 2:00 - 3:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Doug Bonn
Intended Audience: Graduate
Ultrafast Optical Control of Complex Quantum Materials
Speaker: Stefan Kaiser, 4th Physics Institute, University of Stuttgart and Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Date & Time: January 12, 2017 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Sarah Burke
Intended Audience: Graduate
Symmetries in Anyon Systems
Speaker: Fiona Burnell, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
Date & Time: January 5, 2017 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience: Graduate
Competition of Topological and Nematic Phases in the Two-dimensional Electron Gas
Speaker: Gábor Csáthy, Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
Date & Time: December 1, 2016 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Josh Folk
Intended Audience: Graduate
Josephson Currents Induced by the Witten Effect
Speaker: Jeroen van den Brink, Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden
Date & Time: November 24, 2016 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Mona Berciu
Intended Audience: Graduate
Superfluid density and microwave conductivity of FeSe superconductor
Speaker: David Broun, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Date & Time: November 17, 2016 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Doug Bonn
Intended Audience: Graduate
Macroscopic character of composite high temperature superconducting wires and enhancement of superconductivity by magnetic field
Speaker: Boris Spivak
Date & Time: November 10, 2016 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Philip Stamp
Intended Audience: Graduate
Driven Dirac Materials
Speaker: Sasha Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date & Time: November 4, 2016 12:00 - 1:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Marcel Franz/Ian Affleck
Intended Audience: Graduate
Magnetism meets topology: Quantum anomalous Hall effect and Chiral spin liquids
Speaker: Arun Paramekanti
Date & Time: October 20, 2016 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Ian Affleck
Intended Audience: Graduate
Frequency Domain Nonlinear Optics
Speaker: François Légaré
Date & Time: September 1, 2016 11:00 - 12:15
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Andrea Damascelli
Intended Audience: Graduate
Design and Manipulation of Functional Molecular Nanosystems
Speaker: Johannes Barth, Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich
Date & Time: August 10, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Sarah Burke
Intended Audience: Graduate
Towards Realizing Topological Superconductivity in Quantum Wires
Speaker: Vincent Mourik, University of New South Wales
Date & Time: June 23, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Dmitry Pikulin
Intended Audience: Graduate
Cross-Interface Electron-Photon Interactions in FeSe Films on Oxide Substrates
Speaker: Steve Johnston, University of Tennessee
Date & Time: June 2, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Mona Berciu
Intended Audience: Graduate
Discovery of an Electronic Goldstone mode in the (Putative) Exitonic Insulator, 1T-TiSe2
Speaker: Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois
Date & Time: May 27, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Aspects of Ising-Nematic Quantum Critical Point
Speaker: Ipsita Mandal
Date & Time: May25, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 304
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience: Graduate
Design Principles of Shift Current Photovoltaics
Speaker: Ashley Cook (U Toronto)
Date & Time: May 26, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 304
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience: Graduate
Fluctuating Charge Order in the Optimally-Doped High Temperature Superconductor, Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x
Speaker: Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois
Date & Time: May 26, 2016, 11:00 - 12:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Transform & Diagonalize (T&D) Approaches to Electronic Structure with Applications to Molecular Spectroscopy
Speaker: Marcel Nooijen, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo
Date & Time: May 13, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: John Sous
Intended Audience: Graduate
Quantum Criticality in Heavy Fermion Metals
Speaker: Emilian Marius Nica, Department of Physics and Astronomy & Rice Center for Quantum Materials, Rice University
Date & Time: May 12, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience: Graduate
Transient Dynamics of d-Wave Superconductors After a Sudden Excitation
Speaker: Francesco Peronaci, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)
Date & Time: April 21, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Ilya Elfimov
Intended Audience: Graduate
Relaxation and Thermalization in Many-Body Systems Coupled to Different Bosonic Degrees of Freedom
Speaker: J. Bonča, University of Ljubljana
Date & Time: April 7, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Mona Berciu
Intended Audience: Graduate
Tunable Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Rare-Earth Nickelate Heterostructures
Speaker: Matthias Hepting, MPI-FKF Stuttgart
Date & Time: April 5, 2016, 1:30 - 2:30
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Hacking the Superconducting Nanowire: Detecting Single Photons, Resurrecting the Cryotron, and Pushing Current Around Corners
Speaker: Karl Berggren, MIT
Date & Time: March 31, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Sarah Burke
Intended Audience: Graduate
Entropy-Stabilized Oxides
Speaker: Jon-Paul Maria, North Carolina State University
Date & Time: March 24, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Anomalous Dimensions and Unparticles in the Cuprate Superconductors
Speaker: Philip Phillips
Date & Time: March 10, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Green Function for the Nonlinear Luttinger Liquid from Nonlinear Steepest Descent
Speaker: Tom Price (Cambridge University, UK)
Date & Time: March 8, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
In-Situ Investigation of Growth and Superconductivity of Single-Layer FeSe Films on SrTiO3
Speaker: Jianfeng Ge (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Date & Time: March 7, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Atomic-Resolution Studies of Materials by Abberation-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Speaker: Ondrej L. Krivanek, Arizona State University
Date & Time: March 3, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Photoemission Electron Microscopy for Ultrafast Nano-Optics: Femtoseconds to Attoseconds
Speaker: Erik Marsell, Lund University
Date & Time: February 26, 2016 2:00 - 3:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Atomic Dynamics via meV-Resolution X-Ray Scattering: New Results on High-Temperature Superconductors
Speaker: Alfred Baron, Materials Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN SPring-8 Center
Date & Time: February 25, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Correlated Electrons from the Bottom Up: Application to High-Tc Cuprates
Speaker: Lucas Wagner, UIUC
Date & Time: February 9, 2016, 1:00 - 2:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: George Sawatzky/Mona Berciu
Intended Audience: Graduate
Cavity Optomechanics in a Millikelvin Environment
Speaker: John Davis, University of Alberta
Date & Time: February 11, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Sarah Burke
Intended Audience: Graduate
Charge Order in NbSe2
Speaker: Felix Flicker, UC Berkeley
Date & Time: February 10, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience: Graduate
The Nature of Fermi-Liquids, an Optical Perspective
Speaker: Damien Stricker, Universite de Geneve
Date & Time: February 4, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Testing the Reality of the Quantum Wavefunction
Speaker: Stephanie Simmons, Simon Fraser University
Date & Time: January 21, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Nanoscale Investigations of High-Tc Superconductivity in Monolayer FeSe/SrTiO3
Speaker: Dennis Huang, Harvard University
Date & Time: January 7, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Jenny Hoffman
Intended Audience: Graduate
Superconductivity, Diamagnetism, Mean Inner Potential and Charge Asymmetry of Condensed Matter
Speaker: Jorge Hirsch
Date & Time: December 3, 2015, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Short Stories in Soft Condensed Matter of How Complex Behavior in Membrane Systems Arises from Minimal Components
Speaker: Sarah Keller, University of Washington
Date & Time: November 26, 2015, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Non-Fermi-Liquid Scattering Rates and Anomalous Band Dispersions in Ironpnictides and Ironchalcogenides – An ARPES Study
Speaker: Jörg Fink, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden
Date & Time: November 16, 2015, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Andrea Damascelli
Intended Audience: Graduate
Crystal Growth and High-Pressure Synthesis of Solid State Materials
Speaker: Nikolai Zhigadlo, Laboratory for Solid State Physics, ETH Zurich
Date & Time: November 12, 2015, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Andrea Damascelli
Intended Audience: Graduate
Engineering Domain Walls and Planar Rumpling to Create a Room-Temperature Multiferroic
Speaker: Julia Mundy, UC Berkeley
Date & Time: November 5, 2015, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Jenny Hoffman
Intended Audience: Graduate
The Photo-Nernst Effect in Graphene
Speaker: David Cobden, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle
Date & Time: October 29, 2015, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Josh Folk
Intended Audience: Graduate
Mapping Optoelectronic Properties at Their Native Length Scale in Lead Halide Perovskites and 2-D MoSe2
Speaker: Alexander Weber-Bargioni, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Date & Time: October 15, 2015, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Sarah Burke
Intended Audience: Graduate
Edge Currents in Chiral Superfluids and Superconductors
Speaker: Wen Huang (McMaster and KITP)
Date & Time: October 13, 2015, 1:00 - 2:00
Location: Hennings 309
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience: Graduate
Organic Solar Cells Based on Diluted Heterojunction
Speaker: Moritz Riede, Oxford University
Date & Time: September 24, 2015, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Sarah Burke
Intended Audience: Graduate
Imaging Molecules: A Journey from Real to Reciprocal Space and Back
Speaker: Stefan Tautz, Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich & Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA)
Date & Time: October 8, 2015, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: Hennings 318
Local Contact: Sarah Burke
Intended Audience: Graduate
Cooper like pairing induced by electron ionic polarizability
Speaker: Yizhak Yacoby
Date & Time: September 22, 2016, 2:00 - 3:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 318
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Solvation, non-uniform polarizability, and local field effects in solids, liquids, life, and devices
Speaker: See Program
Date & Time: April 11-14, 2016
Location: Room 311 - Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, Point Grey Campus, University of British Columbia
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
Spin-Orbit Coupling & Relativistic Quantum Materials
Speaker: See Program
Date & Time: October 22 - 25, 2015
Location: Point Grey Campus, University of British Columbia
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience: Graduate
Spectroscopy on Novel (Oxide) Heterostructures Workshop
Speaker: See program
Date & Time: May 18 - 20, 2015
Location: Point Grey Campus, University of British Columbia
Local Contact: Andrea Damascelli
Intended Audience: Graduate
Emergent SU(4) Kondo physics in a spin-charge-entangled double quantum dot
Speaker: Andrew Keller, Stanford University
Date & Time: December 5, 2014, 10:00 - 11:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 318
Local Contact: Maria Pylaeva
Intended Audience: Graduate
Ettore Majorana and his strange particles
Speaker: Marcel Franz, University of British Columbia
Date & Time: December 4, 2014 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Optimal control and optimal response in microscopic nonequilibrium systems
Speaker: David Sivak, Simon Fraser University
Date & Time: November 17, 2014, 12:00 - 13:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 318
Local Contact:
Intended Audience: Graduate
Making Comparisons – A Strategy for Teaching Scientific Reasoning in a First Year lab
Speaker: Doug Bonn, University of British Columbia
Date & Time: November 13, 2014, 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Doug Bonn
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Thermal and electrical transport in the heavy fermion compound YbRh2Si2 under magnetic fields
Speaker: Heike Pfau, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
Date & Time: November 13, 2014, 14:00 - 15:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 318
Local Contact: Andrea Damascelli
Intended Audience: Graduate
Optimal control of quantum evolution: quantum state transformation, cooling, and nonadiabatic braiding
Speaker: Armin Rahmani, University of British Columbia
Date & Time: November 10, 2014, 12:00 - 13:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 318
Local Contact: Ian Affleck
Intended Audience: Graduate
Cosmology with the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS)
Speaker: Florian Beutler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Date & Time: November 6, 2014, 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Aaron Boley
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Phase lapses and dephasing in quantum Hall interferometers
Speaker: Yehuda Dinaii, Weizmann Institute
Date & Time: December 4, 2014, 14:00 - 15:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 318
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience: Graduate
Specific heat of underdoped cuprate superconductors in high magnetic fields
Speaker: Jonathon Kemper, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, University of Florida
Date & Time: December 1, 2014, 12:00 - 13:00
Location: UBC, AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Andrea Damascelli
Intended Audience: Graduate
Vignettes from the world of liquid crystals
Speaker: Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University
Date & Time: November 27, 2014, 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Bill Unruh
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
The limits of the nuclear landscape
Speaker: Witold Nazarewicz, Michigan State University/ORNL
Date & Time: November 20, 2014, 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Tom Mattison
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Extraordinary Acoustic Raman (EAR): Listening in on Nanoparticle Vibrations
Speaker: Reuven Gordon, University of Victoria
Date & Time: November 20, 2014, 14:00 - 15:00
Location: UBC, AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Jeff Young
Intended Audience: Graduate
Femtosecond broadband ellipsometry and magneto-optics: disentanglement of spin and charge dynamics
Speaker: Fabio Boschini, Politecnico di Milano
Date & Time: November 6, 2014, 14:00 - 15:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 318
Local Contact: Andrea Damascelli
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
How to get into that “room at the bottom” of DNA analysis
Speaker: Sabrina Leslie, McGill University
Date & Time: October 30, 2014, 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Carl Hansen
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Ubiquity of planets and diversity of planetary systems: Origin and Destiny of multiple super Earths and gas giants
Speaker: Douglas NC Lin, University of California, Santa Cruz
Date & Time: October 23, 2014 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Harvey Richer
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Reinventing Introductory Physics for Life Scientists (IPLS)
Speaker: Edward Redish, University of Maryland
Date & Time: October 16, 2014 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Doug Bonn, Jim Carolan
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Bio-macromolecules and their complexes – An inspiration for statistical physics
Speaker: Leo Golubovitch, University of West Virginia
Date & Time: October 9, 2014 16:00 -17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Robert Raussendorf
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Interplay of disorder, nematicity and magnetism in Fe-based Superconductors
Speaker: Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida
Date & Time: October 2, 2014 14:00 - 15:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 318
Local Contact: Doug Bonn
Intended Audience: Graduate
Characterizing the Distribution of Planetary Architectures with Kepler
Speaker: Eric Ford, Penn State University, Center for Exoplanets & Habitable World
Date & Time: September 25, 2014 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Ingrid Stairs and Aaron Boley
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Unifying theory for tuned-critical quake statistics: from nanopillars to earthquakes
Speaker: Karin Dahmen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date & Time: September 18, 2014 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Joerg Rottler
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Antiferromagnetism in the Hubbard Model with Ultracold Atoms
Speaker: Randall Hulet, Rice University Texas, USA
Date & Time: September 11, 2014 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Ian Affleck
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Sensitivity, resolution and speed in detection and tracking of single biomolecules
Speaker: Vahid Sandoghdar, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Date & Time: September 9, 2014 12:00 - 13:00
Location: UBC, AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Jeff Young
Intended Audience: Public
Magnetic domain formation in La1-xSrxMnO3 nanowires studied with resonant soft x-ray scattering
Speaker: Xiaoqian (Michelle) Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date & Time: July 28, 2014 11:00 - 12:00
Location: UBC, AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Andrea Damascelli
Intended Audience: Graduate
Two-dimensional electron gases at oxide interfaces
Speaker: Clayton Jackson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Date & Time: July 17, 2014 11:00 - 12:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 318
Local Contact: Andrea Damascelli
Intended Audience: Graduate
Mesoscopic approaches to probing low-energy electronic excitations in heavy fermion materials
Speaker: Oleksandr Foyevtsov, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Date & Time: April 25, 2014 11:00 - 12:00
Location: UBC, AMPEL 311
Local Contact: George Sawatzky
Intended Audience: Graduate
The Life and Times of a Superfluid Vortex Ring
Speaker: Michael McNeil Forbes, Washington State University
Date & Time: March 31, 2014 12:00 - 13:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 318
Local Contact:
Intended Audience: Graduate
Driving Topology, Hunting Majoranas
Speaker: Tami Pereg-Barnea, McGill University
Date & Time: March 27, 2014 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Marcel Franz
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Accurate variational solution for a hole doped into a CuO2 layer
Speaker: Hadi Ebrahimnejad
Date & Time: March 27, 2014 14:00 - 15:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 318
Local Contact:
Intended Audience: Graduate
A Millisecond Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System
Speaker: Ingrid Stairs, UBC
Date & Time: March 20, 2014 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Robert Raussendorf
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Fractional Solitons on the edge of the Fractional Quantum Hall states: Revealing topology through a non-linear dynamics
Speaker: Paul Wiegmann, Simon's Center, University of Chicago
Date & Time: March 17, 2014 12:00 - 13:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 318
Local Contact:
Intended Audience: Graduate
Not of this Earth: the advent of neutrino astronomy
Speaker: Darren Grant, University of Alberta
Date & Time: March 13, 2014 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Robert Raussendorf
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Seeing is Believing: Direct Observation of the Wavefunction
Speaker: Jeff Lundeen, University of Ottawa
Date & Time: March 13, 2014 12:30 - 14:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Salena Li
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Experimental review on the disordered-driven superconductor to insulator transition
Speaker: Daniel Sherman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Date & Time: March 10, 2014 12:15 - 13:15
Location: UBC, AMPEL 311
Local Contact: Andrea Damascelli
Intended Audience: Graduate
Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies: New Results From the Herschel Space Observatory
Speaker: Christine Wilson, McMaster University
Date & Time: March 6, 2014 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Ingrid Stairs
Intended Audience: Undergraduate
Production, Trapping and Spectroscopy of Antihydrogen – the ALPHA Experiment at CERN
Speaker: Walter Hardy, University of British Columbia
Date & Time: February 27, 2014 16:00 - 17:00
Location: UBC, Hennings 201
Local Contact: Doug Bonn, Robert Raussendorf
Intended Audience: Undergraduate