Some aspects in many-body quantum dynamics: from multi-channel Kondo impurities to entanglement transition in SU(1,1) periodically driven systems

Po-Yao Chang, National Tsing Hua University.

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:00

Non-conservation of the valley density and its implications for the observation of the valley Hall effect

Alessandro Principi, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bosonic Quantum Solvation Enabled by Machine Learning

Dominik Marx (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Topology in lattices of semiconductor microcavities

Jacqueline Bloch (Université Paris-Saclay & CNRS).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Field control of many-body phases in frustrated moiré bilayers

Laura Classen, MPI Stuttgart.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

State engineering of a mesoscopic spin system (in a quantum dot)

Dorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Thermodynamic Integration, fermion sign problem, and real-space renormalization

Werner Krauth, ENS Paris, Oxford .

Mott Seminar Room (531).

Thursday 01 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

The statistical properties of eigenstates in chaotic many-body quantum systems

John Chalker (Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Atomic scale modelling of magnetic materials

Joseph Barker (Leeds).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

“IT FROM BIT” How does information shape the structures in the universe?

Saeid Davatolhagh (Shiraz University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 11:00-12:00

Deep learning, Monte Carlo and Quantum Mechanics

Alex Matthews, DeepMind.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Bulk-boundary correspondence in quantum chains

Nick Jones, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Quantum reaction-diffusion dynamics

Gabriele Perfetto, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 17 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Melting of Spin 'Solids' in 2D

Andriy Nevidomskyy (Rice University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Kinetic magnetism of fermions in triangular lattices

Eugene Demler, ETH Zurich.

Mott Seminar Room (531).

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Diversity, tolerance, and maturation of the adaptive immune response

Please note a different venue than the usual

Mehran Kardar (MIT).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Nonlinear breathers with crystalline symmetries

Frank Schindler, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Moving in a dynamically changing free energy landscape: strain, heterostructure and optical control of the correlation-driven metal-insulator transition

Prof. Andrew Millis, Columbia University; co-Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, The Flatiron Institute.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:15-12:30

Theoretical minimum

David Khmelnitskii.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Waves topology in geophysical flows

Antoine Venaille (ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Schrödinger in Oxford (and Cambridge)

Professor Sir David Clary FRS (Oxford & Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Non-reciprocal active matter across the scales

Ramin Golestanian (MPI & Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Eigenstate thermalization, quantum designs and free probability

Jorge Kurchan (Ecole Normale Superieure, lpens, Paris, France).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Searching for Quantum Spin Liquids in Cerium-based Pyrochlores

Benedikt Placke, Max Planck Institute.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 07 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Bulk-interface correspondence from quantum distance in flat band systems

Chang-geun Oh (University of Tokyo).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 23 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Imparting the generalised Toric Code with hopping dynamics

Siddarth Vadnerkar (UC Davis).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 17 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

The quantum Mpemba effect

Pasquale Calabrese (SISSA).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Quantum anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 (a joint Winton seminar)

Prof Yuanbo Zhang (Fudan University).

Small Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical magneto-optical spectroscopy for solid state defect quantum bits

Adam Gali (Wigner Research Centre for Physics & Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Strong Correlation and Unconventional Superconductivity in Bulk and Trilayer Alkali-Doped Fullerides

Changming Yue (University of Fribourg).

Zoom.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Magnetic excitations from TDDFT: the case of the CrI3 2D magnet

Tommaso Gorni (CINECA).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Quantum computers challenged by many-body chaos

Alexander Altland (University of Cologne).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Pseudo-Goldstone modes and order-by-disorder

Jeffrey G. Rau (University of Windsor).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

A novel framework for electron and phonon transport predictions from first-principles

Jenny Coulter (Harvard).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Planckian dissipation in metals

Sean Hartnoll (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavity Magnonics

Silvia Viola Kusminskiy (RWTH Aachen/MPL Erlangen).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Liouville conformal blocks and Stokes Phenomena

Babak Haghighat (Tsinghua University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Reinforcement learning to manipulate many-body quantum systems

Marin Bukov (PKS Dresden).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Molecular simulations of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells

Paramvir Ahlawat (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Solving Continuum Physics Equations with OpenFOAM

Hrvoje Jasak (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Thermalization bounds and a universal collapse of the viscosities of glass forming liquids

Zohar Nussinov (Oxford, Sorbonne, Washington U).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Understanding Metallic Bonding

Volker Heine.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

Recording now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kZjee3EwGU

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Quantum thermodynamics in open quantum systems

Géraldine Haack (Université de Genève).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:15-12:15

A constructive approach to dualities in quantum spin systems

Frank Verstraete (DAMTP and Ghent University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Ferroelectricity and topological polarization in twisted bilayers

Danny Bennett (University of Liège).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Active Matter: a new approach to mechanobiology?

Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Quantum measurement protocol for many-body systems through projective measurements on ancillary sites

Elmer Doggen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

A Spiral Twist to the "Normal" State of Magic-Angle Bilayer Graphene

Siddharth Parameswaran (University of Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Measurement-induced transitions with symmetries

Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Penn State University .

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Toward discovering novel physics with a NISQ processor

Pedram Roushan (Google).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 21 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Topological skyrmion phases of matter

Ashley Cook (MPI PKS Dresden).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Photon-Instanton Collider Implemented by a Superconducting Circuit: Splitting a Single Photon

Moshe Goldstein (Tel Aviv University).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theories of Cross phenomena and Zentropy

Zi-Kui Liu (Penn State).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Symmetry breaking and entanglement transitions in driven-dissipative systems

Rosario Fazio, ICTP.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 10:00-11:00

Novel Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Quantum Fluids of Light

Marzena Szymanska, UCL.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 28 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Kagome metals

Ronny Thomale, University of Würzburg.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Path integral molecular dynamics for indistinguishable particles

Barak Hirshberg, Tel Aviv University.

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

The inevitable emergence of density-dependent diffusion in expanding phage populations

Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 17 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Non-Hermitian topological phenomena: Exceptional points, symmetry and breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence

Flore Kunst, MPL Erlangen.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Order by disorder and phase transitions

Laura Messio, LPTMC Paris.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 20 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

POSTPONED

Flore Kunst, MPL Erlangen.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 02 December 2021, 13:00-14:00

Magneto-enhancement of superconductivity in composite D-wave superconductors

Boris Spivak (University of Washington).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

From hyperbolic drum towards hyperbolic topological insulators

Tomáš Bzdušek (Paul Scherrer Institute).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

New understanding of liquid thermodynamics, viscosity and its lower bounds

Kostya Trachenko ( Queen Mary, University of London).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Water flows in carbon nanochannels: from quantum friction to carbon memories

Lyderic Bocquet, Ecole Normale Superieure.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Detecting fractional chern insulators of few-bosons

Cécile Repellin (CNRS Grenoble).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Symmetric Jordan-Wigner transformation on the square lattice

Adrian Po (MIT).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 10 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Non-conservative forces in nanoscale conductors

Tchavdar Todorov, Queen's University Belfast.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 03 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Low-temperature quantum bounds in simple models

Jorge Kurchan, ENS Paris.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Thwarting long-lived dark states to speed up dynamic polarization

Anushya Chandran (Boston University).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Thermodynamics in the presence of coherences and strong coupling corrections

Janet Anders (University of Exeter).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 06 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Topology vs. interaction in fragile bands

Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 29 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Exploring the Mysteries of Collective Quantum Dynamics

Michael Knap, TU Munich.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Nonlinear topological photonics

Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 04 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine-learning interatomic potentials as computational technology

Alexander Shapeev, Skoltech.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Irradiation-induced defect engineering in two-dimensional materials

Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf .

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 11 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine-learning interatomic potentials as computational technology

Alexander Shapeev, Skoltech.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 28 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

The challenge to deliver high accuracy for material science on large computer simulations

Andrea Zen, UCL.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Measurable signatures of quantum chaos and patterns of volume-law entanglement in quantum dynamics

Sagar Vijay, UC Santa Barbara.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 03 December 2020, 17:00-18:00

Open Markovian Quantum Many-Body Systems

Marco Schiro', CNRS, Institut de Physique, College de France & IPhT-CEA Saclay.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Topology, Molecular Simulation, and Machine Learning as Routes to Exploring Structure and Phase Behavior in Molecular and Atomic Crystals

Mark Tuckerman, NYU.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Order within disorder: approaching phase boundaries in high-entropy systems

Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 05 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

A Supramolecular Approach to Templating Hybrid Perovskites

Jovana Milic, University of Fribourg.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 29 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Topological Proximity Effects

Karyn Le Hur, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

High-fidelity description of spectral functions in correlated materials

Mark van Schilfgaarde, King's College London.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Solving the Many-Electron Schrödinger Equation with Deep Neural Networks

Matthew Foulkes (Imperial College).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 10 September 2020, 14:00-15:00

Emergent topological phenomena in strained pyrochlore iridate thin films

Bohm Jung Yang (Seoul National University).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 06 August 2020, 11:00-12:00

Hall Viscosity in Quantum Systems with Discrete Symmetry

Barry Bradlyn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 25 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cascaded quantum systems - strongly correlated transport and remote interactions

Prof. Klemens Hammerer, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 04 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Chemical equilibrium in the Earth's core

Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Simulating Disordered Supramolecular Materials for Organic Electronics using Linear Scaling Density Functional Theory

Dr Laura Ratcliff, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Assessment of Approximate Methods for Anharmonic Free Energies

Venkat Kapil, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 17 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Topology by non-unitary quantum dynamics

Prof. Dr. Jan Carl Budich, TU Dresden .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Emergent Black Hole Dynamics in Critical Floquet Systems

Prof. Dr. Titus Neupert, University of Zurich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Moiré superlattices in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

Prof. Vladimir Fal'ko, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Quantized optical responses in chiral insulators and metals

Dr Adolfo G. Grushin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Topology and scale invariance in atomic Flatland

Prof. Jean Dalibard, Collège de France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Stochastic Approach to Quantum Spin Dynamics

Dr Joe Bhaseen, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:15-15:15

Sub-ballistic growth of Rényi entanglement in quantum systems with diffusive transport

Dr. Curt von Keyserlingk, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Comprehensive modeling of materials for solar applications from first principles

Prof. Julia Wiktor, Chalmers University of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Introducing Topological Quantum Chemistry and Topological Materials Data Base

Dr Maia Vergniory, Donostia International Physics Center.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Axial anomalies in Weyl semimetals

Prof. Jens Bardarson, KTH Royal Technical Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Spin Transport in 2D Materials and Topological Matter

Prof. Stephan Roche, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Photonic topological anomalies

Prof. Henning Schomerus, Lancaster University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Towards the design of molecular materials

Dr Gerit Brandenburg, Heidelberg University and UCL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 16 September 2019, 14:15-15:15

Accelerating Materials Science through High-throughput First Principles Computations and Machine Learning

Prof. Shyue Ping Ong, UCSD.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 August 2019, 14:15-15:15

Vestigial order in quantum materials

Prof. Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Nonequilibrium Materials Engineering

Dr. Michael Sentef, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Ab initio thermodynamics with the help of machine learning

Dr. Bingqing Cheng, Trinity College, the University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 03 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Dissipative "time crystals"

Dr. Achilleas Lazarides, Loughborough University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Many-electron quantum simulation of matter: insight from exact time-dependent real-space model systems

Prof. Rex Godby, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Computational modelling of itinerant electrons and fluctuating local moments in magnetic materials - permanent magnets, caloric effects and spintronics

Prof. Julie Staunton, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Flexoelectricity from first principles

Prof. Cyrus E. Dreyer, Stony Brook University and Flatiron Institute.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 13 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Screening materials from high-throughput ab initio calculations

Prof. Gian-Marco Rignanese, UCLouvain.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Non-Hermitian symmetry-protected topological band theory

Simon Lieu, Imperial College London .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Spontaneous non-equilibrium magnetism via "Berryogenesis" in driven electronic systems

Prof. Mark Spencer Rudner, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

Enhancing materials design using microscopy and modelling

Dr Rebecca Nicholls, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in One Dimension

Dr Johannes Bausch, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Non-linear response of two dimensional crystals and layered materials

Dr Claudio Attaccalite, CNRS.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Minimal models for chaotic quantum dynamics in spatially extended many-body systems

Prof. John Chalker, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

50 years on. Recollections of a former young theoretical physicist

Prof. David Khmelnitskii, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

3D quantum Hall effects in Dirac loops

Prof. Bruno Uchoa, The University of Oklahoma.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Phonon assisted luminescence in hexagonal Boron Nitride

Dr Elena Cannuccia, University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Quantum many-body scars

Dr. Zlatko Papić, University of Leeds.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Dissipative transition in synthetic matter

Prof. Rosario Fazio, ICTP.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of photon- and electron-stimulated surface chemistry

Dr Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Dynamical quantum phase transitions

Dr Markus Heyl, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Second-Principles DFT methods and current applications

Dr Pablo García Fernández, University of Cantabria.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Uni-axial Negative Thermal Expansion in Layered Perovskites

Prof. Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

Predicting the atomic structure of interfaces and extended defects using Ab Initio Random Structure Searching

Dr Georg Schusteritsch, University of Cambridge .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

An overview of topological crystalline phases, defect physics and novel Floquet systems

Dr Robert-Jan Slager, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 July 2018, 14:15-15:15

New tools to simulate strongly correlated systems

Dr Norman Tubman, UC Berkeley.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 July 2018, 14:15-15:15

Bridging the gap between atomistic and macroscopic models of homogeneous nucleation

Bingqing Cheng, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

Nonextensivity in classical inertial XY and Heisenberg models

Dr Antonio Rodríguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

Effective Edge State Dynamics in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Prof. Steve Simon, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

Computationally Driven Design of New and Improved Transparent Conducting Oxides

Dr David Scanlon, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Fractons

Prof. Rahul Nandkishore, Boulder.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 14 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Magnetism and topology in strongly correlated metals

Prof. Qimiao Si, Rice University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Thermalization Dynamics

Prof. Dr. Frank Pollmann, Technische Universität München.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Semimetals Unlimited: Unbounded electrical and thermal transport properties in three-dimensional nodal semimetals

Dr Brian Skinner, MIT.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Multi-scale dynamic disorder in halide perovskite solar cells

Prof. Aron Walsh, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Quantum modelling of the interiors of rocky and icy planets

Dr Andreas Hermann, The University of Edinburgh.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

Dirac and Weyl Semimetals: Synthesis and Characterization

Dr Ivan Kokanovic, University of Zagreb.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

Delocalised atoms and electrons in quasi-periodic lattices, their edge modes and interactions with heavy impurities

Dr Manuel Valiente, Heriot-Watt University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

Ergodicity, dissipation, and large-deviation theory in non-equilibrium systems

Dr Robert Jack, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Topological Materials with liquid electrons

Prof. Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Using molecular orbital arguments to explain acene-based chromophore spectra

Dr Tim Hele, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

TCM Dragon's Den

TCM first year students.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Metastability in open quantum dynamics

Dr Katarzyna Macieszczak, University of Nottingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

Coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism at the nanoscale

Prof. Alexandre Buzdin, University of Bordeaux.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Incorporating Meaning into Fundamental Physics

Lecture given at the Frontiers of Fundamental Physics 15 Conference: video, with slides included, available at link below.

Brian Josephson, Physics Department, University of Cambridge.

view on your computer via webcast, link below.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 10:00-11:00

Unconventional Order in some Framework Materials

Prof. Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Exploring Chemical Space with Random Matrix Theory

Dr Alpha Lee, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Anharmonic and quantum effects in (bio)organic systems with first-principles accuracy

Dr Mariana Rossi, Fritz Haber Institut.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Entanglement and thermodynamics in out-of-equilibrium systems

Vincenzo Alba.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Surprises from 'simple' metals -- a case study of layered delafossites

Prof. Andrew Mackenzie, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Scaling laws for spreading the quantum information

Dr Adam Nahum, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Topological electronic properties of silicon

Prof. Claudio Chamon, Boston University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Magnetic moments in superconductors: From Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states, to topological superconductors and frustrated magnetism

Prof. Jens Paaske, University of Copenhagen.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

On signatures of Majorana fermions

Dr Benjamin Béri (University of Birmingham) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

Correlated electronic structure: What can physicists and chemists learn from each other?

Dr George Booth.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Magnetic Moment Fragmentation in Spin Ice and Artificial Spin Ice

Prof. Peter Holdsworth, ENS Lyon.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Transformation optics, surface plasmons, and metasurfaces

Professor Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Emergent phenomena in classical spin liquids

Ludovic Jaubert, University of Bordeaux.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Prof. Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

Unravelling the Mysteries of the Water-Solid Interface with Statistical Mechanics and Ab Initio Simulations

Angelos Michaelides, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

Curl forces and beyond

Professor Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

Counting the Uncountable

Prof. Daan Frenkel.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 14:15-15:15

TCM Dragons' Den

First year PhD students.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:15-15:15

The intimate relation between mechanics and geometry

Prof. Mark Warner, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical Physics in the Cavendish Laboratory: from the Beginning to 1962

Prof. Malcolm Longair, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Combined TCM Seminars and TCM blackboard seminar listing

Title to be confirmed

Prof Michael J Hartmann.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Upside Down and Inside Out: The Biomechanics of Cell Sheet Folding

Prof. Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Criticality, Strange Metals and High Temperature Superconductors

Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

Current trends in cold atom physics

Prof. Nigel Cooper, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

Liquid-crystalline states of ultracold atomic systems

Sarang Gopalakrishnan.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

Frustration and Correlations in Stacked Triangular Lattice Ising Antiferromagnets

John Chalker (Theoretical Physics, Oxford University).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 June 2016, 11:15-12:15

Non-local density functional theory

Prof. Stewart Clark, Durham University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

How to describe inhomogeneous quantum systems in one dimension with (conformal) field theory: lessons from non-interacting Fermi gases

Jerome Dubail, CNRS, Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 June 2016, 14:15-15:45

Many-body interaction effects in Dirac-Weyl semimetals

Edwin Barnes, Virginia Tech.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

Fermionic spinon and holon statistics in the pyrochlore quantum spin liquid

Bruce Normand, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

New understanding of liquid thermodynamics and supercritical state

Kostya Trachenko, Queen Mary, University of London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

Stripe Phases in Quantum Dipolar Gases

Prof. Jordi Boronat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

First-Principles Study of Frequency-Dependent Resonant Raman Scattering

Yannick Gillet, Université catholique de Louvain.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 11:00-12:00

Frustration meets topology: from C>1 fractional Chern insulators to tilted Weyl semimetals

Emil Bergholtz, Freie Universität Berlin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

Computational Designs for Homogeneous Catalysts for Chemo-, Regio- and Stereoselectivity

Prof. Robert Paton, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Directed Assembly of Active Colloidal Devices

Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP).

Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Ultracold dipolar gases with quantum Monte Carlo

Stefano Giorgini, Università degli Studi di Trento.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Geometric responses of Quantum Hall systems. Bulk and boundary.

Alexander Abanov, Stony Brook University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Orbital Angular Momentum and Spectral Flow in Two Dimensional Chiral Superfluids

CPDG meeting

Masaki Oshikawa, ISSP Tokyo.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Application of CFT to spin chains and the Fractional quantum Hall wave functions on the lattice.

German Sierra, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 January 2016, 14:15-15:15

Spectral statistics of chaotic many-body systems

Please note unusual time

Sebastian Müller, University of Bristol.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Coupling Spin and Charge Transport in Complex Materials

Dr Martin Gradhand, University of Bristol.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 14:15-15:15

Dragons' Den

Various members of TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Recent progress in linear scaling DFT: Molecular dynamics, basis sets and applications

Prof. David Bowler, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Powerful and deceptive Feynman diagrammatic series

Evgeny Kozik, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Tensor Network Representation of Strongly Correlated States of Matter

Note unusual time / day

Didier Poilblanc, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, IRSAMC, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Dynamical constraints, metastability and many-body localisation

Juan P Garrahan, University of Nottingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Experiments with the iterated stockholder atoms procedure in intermolecular interaction models

Alston Misquitta, Queen Mary University, London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms

Dr Hannah Price, Universita di Trento.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Can the Fermi surface reconstruction in YBCO at high fields be explained by the observed Charge Density Wave (CDW) structure?

Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 September 2015, 14:15-15:15

Thermalization vs localization in a solvable circuit model

Anushya Chandran, Perimeter Institute.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 August 2015, 14:00-15:00

Superconducting states in time reversal invariant Landau levels

Prof. Bruno Uchoa, Oklahoma.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 August 2015, 14:15-15:15

Z4 parafermions in time-reversal invariant topological insulators

Prof. Thomas Schmidt, University of Luxembourg.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

Trions and Biexcitons in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors

Dr Neil Drummond, Lancaster University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

Phase transitions in non-Abelian string nets

Note Early Starting Time

Julien Vidal, CNRS, LPTMC Paris.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 13:45-14:45

Wavefunctions of symmetry protected topological phases and conformal field theories

Zohar Ringel, Oxford University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

Graphene: the good, the bad, and the beauty

Prof. Christiane Morais Smith, University of Utrecht.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 14:15-15:45

Phase diagram of the interacting Majorana chain model

Prof Ian Affleck.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

Exploiting locality: large-scale first-principles simulations of nanostructures

Dr Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 14:15-15:15

Non-equilibrium steady states in many-body quantum systems

Benjamin Doyon, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 14:15-15:45

Modelling DNA organisation by DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution

Davide Marenduzzo, University of Edinburgh.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Combined TCM Seminars and TCM blackboard seminar listing

Topological order from parafermions

Paul Fendley, Oxford University, All Souls College.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

TCM's "Dragon's Den"

multiple internal speakers - see abstract.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Two-dimensional Valence Bond Solid (AKLT) states from t2g electrons

Maciej Koch-Janusz, Weizmann Institute.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope

Prof. Dr. Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zürich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Non-Fermi-liquid behaviour in nearly ferromagnetic metals: a new fixed point

Dr Chris Hooley, University of St Andrews .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

The winding road to topological insulators

Note unusual location

Eugene Mele, University of Pennsylvania.

Cavendish Laboratory, Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 14:15-15:15

Making quantum chemistry work for metals

James Shepherd, Rice University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 11:00-11:40

Long-time behaviour of periodically driven many-body quantum systems

Achilleas Lazarides, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Fermions in two dimensions

Meera Parish, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Majorana metals and quantum spin liquids

Maria Hermanns, University Köln.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Non-equilibrium processes from an ab-initio perspective: generalized Hedin's equations and ultra-fast processes in paradigmatic materials

Andrea Marini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Strong-coupling ansatz for the one-dimensional Fermi gas in a harmonic potential

Jesper F. Levinsen, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Spectroscopic signatures of collective modes in superconductors

Lara Benfatto, University of Rome, La Sapienza.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

One-dimensional boson flow between weakly couple reservoirs

Professor Igor Lerner, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

CALYPSO: A Useful Tool for Discovering Novel Structures and Properties of Materials at Extreme Conditions

Yanming Ma, Jilin University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 September 2014, 15:30-16:30

Spin Hall Effect

Guang-Yu Guo, National Taiwan University,.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 July 2014, 14:15-15:15

The density is not enough

Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 July 2014, 14:15-15:15

Critical Casimir Forces in a Magnetic System: An Experimental Protocol

Prof. Peter Holdsworth, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 July 2014, 14:15-15:15

First-principles Materials Applications and Design to Nonlinear Optical Crystals

Prof. Zheshuai Lin, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Many-body state preparation and quantum simulation with cold atoms

Prof. Andrew Daley, University of Strathclyde.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Calculation of NMR parameters in the solid-state: the importance of special relativity

Dr Jonathan Yates, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Probing many-body physics with cold atoms: The Higgs boson and quantum hexatic order.

Georg Bruun, Aarhus University.

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Active nematics and topological defects

Prof. Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

IS GREEN TEA GOOD FOR YOU? INSIGHTS FROM ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS

Carla Molteni, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Topological order from strong correlations in two-dimensional lattice models

Note time changed back to usual schedule at short notice.

Stefanos Kourtis, IFW Dresden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Odd Times for Triplet Pairing

Prof. James Annett, University of Bristol.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Topological Kondo Insulators and SmB6: magnetism meets topology.

Piers Coleman, Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 14:15-15:15

Paradigms of the interaction effects in Fermi surface topological reconstruction

Dr Joseph Betouras, Loughborough University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 14:15-15:15

Exploring Thermal Transport via Gauge-Gravity Duality and Hydrodynamics

M. Joe Bhaseen, King's College, London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

The nature of the quantum spin-liquid state in Herbertsmithite

Matthias Punk, Universität Innsbruck.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

What’s the point of linear-scaling electronic structure methods?

Prof. Peter Haynes, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

Pairing symmetry and dominant band in Sr2RuO4

Thomas Scaffidi, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

First-principles dynamics applied to energy materials

Keith Refson, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Stationary Behaviour of Observables after a Quantum Quench

Maurizio Fagotti, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Nucleation pathways in partially disordered lattice models

David Quigley, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Transport theory of pyrochlore conductors

Masafumi Udagawa, University of Tokyo.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 December 2013, 14:15-15:15

Adiabatic reaction forces in mesoscopic systems

Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, Freie Universität Berlin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 December 2013, 14:15-15:15

Dynamics in one dimension: from fractional excitations to new out-of-equilibrium states of matter

Jean-Sébastien Caux, University of Amsterdam.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 November 2013, 14:15-15:45

Accurate Effective Hamiltonians via Unitary Flow in Floquet space

Florian Mintert, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

The Part is Greater than the Sum of the Wholes: How to Spin Light Into Anyons

Eliot Kapit, Oxford University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Bosons in Synthetic Gauge Fields

Ryan Barnett, Imperial College.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis II

Elisabet Romero, VU University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 15:45-16:45

The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis

Prof. R. van Grondelle, VU University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 14:15-15:15

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Steve Simon.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Non-equilibrium dynamics of open quantum system

Dr Igor Lesanovsky, University of Nottingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 October 2013, 14:15-15:45

Irregular seminars in TCM

Towards a general theory for pyrochlores: dimensional reduction, ground-state selection and new emergent electromagnetism

Ludovic Jaubert.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 June 2013, 15:00-16:30

Charge and exciton dynamics in organic devices

Alessandro Troisi, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

Bad metals

Prof. Alexei Tsvelik.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 14:15-15:45

Stable and unstable equilibrium points in the quantum Gaudin model

Dr Benoit Doucot, CNRS / LPTHE Jussieu, France.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Correlated electrons on the nanoscale: models, issues, reality.

Prof. David Logan, Oxford University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands

Prof. R. Shankar, Yale University .

Mott Seminar Room 531, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 14:15-15:45

Lattice modulation of a two-dimensional superfluid: could it be…the Higgs particle?

Prof. Lode Pollet, LMU München.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Thermopower in the Quantum Hall Regime

Dr Nicholas d'Ambrumenil, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 14:15-15:45

Vortices and the BKT transition in regions of competing order

Dr Sam Carr, Kent University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 14:15-15:45

Towards a quantitative analysis of core-level and valence photoemission spectra of dye-sensitized solar cell interfaces

Dr Feliciano Giustino (University of Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

Is the theory of neutral evolution right?

Thomas Fink, CNRS / LIMS.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

Helical correlations and unbroken symmetry in FCC-stacked triangular Ising antiferromagnets

Dr Fiona Burnell (All Souls, Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Entanglement spectra: A novel spectroscopic tool to investigate quantum many body wave functions

Prof. Andreas Läuchli, Universität Innsbruck.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Heavy quasiparticles in Yb compounds: The Renormalized Band approach

Dr Gertrud Zwicknagl, TU Braunschweig.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Statistical Topological Insulators

Dr Jonathan Edge, Leiden University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 14:15-15:45

Quantum limited transport in ultracold atomic gases

Tilman Enss, TU München.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Exact Density-Functional Potentials for Time-Dependent Quasiparticles

Rex Godby, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Monte Carlo Modeling of π-bonded Transition-metal Organometallics

Prof Ivan Stich,Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Polarons: from models to materials to quantum simulation

Vladimir M. Stojanovic, University of Basel.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Multicomponent Skyrmion lattices and their excitations

Dr Dimitry Kovrizhin, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Instantaneous Mapping of Excitonic Transport in Biomimetic Systems by Multi-dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy

Prof. Elad Harel, Department of Chemistry: Northwestern University (USA)..

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:15-17:15

From Topological Insulators to Majorana Fermions

Prof. Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

The many structures of foams

Denis Weaire FRS, Trinity College Dublin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

gc121's list

Codesign in action: the hardware and software architecture of Blue Gene/Q and its impact on scientific applications

Dr Jeff Hammond (Argonne National Laboratory).

TCM Seminar Room.

Monday 03 September 2012, 11:00-12:00

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Creative Mind and Physical Reality

Video now available at http://youtu.be/6FdLOIc6bvM

Prof. Brian Josephson, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Old Combination Room, Trinity College.

Friday 22 June 2012, 17:30-18:30

Irregular seminars in TCM

Scattering theory of topological insulators and superconductors

Anton Akhmerov, University of Leiden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 18 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

Status and Outlook of Quantum Hall Interferometry Experiments: Evidence of Nonabelions?

Steven H Simon, Oxford University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Order-by-Disorder Near Criticality and the Secret of the Partially Ordered Phase of MnSi

Frank Kruger, University of St Andrews.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Field-induced p-wave Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Systems

Prof Fuchun Zhang, Zhou Guangzhao Professor in Natural Sciences at Hong Kong University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Quasiparticle Self-consistent GW Approximation as a Universal Framework for Electronic Structure

Prof Mark v. Schilfgaarde, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 14:15-15:15

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

On origins

Brian Josephson, Trinity College.

Seminar Room, Wolfson College.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 18:00-19:00

Observing holographic superconductivity in the laboratory

Jan Zaanen, Institute Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Metastability and Coherence of Repulsive Polarons in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Mixture

Dr. Pietro Massignan, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 December 2011, 14:15-15:15

Fluctuation-driven first order transition in the chiral magnet MnSi

Markus Garst, University of Cologne.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Order-disorder in trajectory space and the glass transition

Prof. David Chandler, Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Quantum mechanical perspective on dynamical glass transitions

Dr Claudio Castelnovo, Royal Holloway University of London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Numerical approach to structure, folding and aggregation of proteins

Prof. Chin-Kun Hu, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 31 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Crystallography on curved surfaces

David Nelson, Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 24 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Structure and dynamics of water-solid interfaces

Prof. Angelos Michaelides, London Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Plasma Analogy and non-Abelian Braiding Statistics in Ising-type Quantum Hall States

Parsa Bonderson, Microsoft Station Q, Santa Barbara.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Interplay of disorder and interactions in 1d cold fermi gases

Prof. Masaki Tezuka, Kyoto University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 September 2011, 15:30-16:30

Geometrical Description of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Prof F D M Haldane, Princeton University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 27 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

The topology of smectics

Prof. Randy Kamien, Physics Department, University of Pennsylvania.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 14 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Modelling non-classical mechanisms of crystal nucleation and growth

David Quigley, Warwick University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Topological phases in 1D: An entanglement point of view

Frank Pollmann, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Superconductivity in nanograins: smaller is different

Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Bulk-boundary correspondence of topological insulators

Prof. Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado at Boulder.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Ultracold atoms and fermionic simulations

Prof. Matthias Troyer, ETH Zürich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 14:15-15:15

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Fusion Power: Sometime/Never, or This Year/Next Year?

Brian Josephson.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 March 2011, 15:00-16:00

Magnetic field-induced anisotropy in specific heat and transport properties of unconventional superconductors.

Ilya Vekhter, Louisiana State University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

Superconductor proximity effects in half-metallic ferromagnets

Prof Piet Brouwer, FU Berlin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Atom-dimer and dimer-dimer scattering in fermionic mixtures near a narrow Feshbach resonance

Jesper Levinsen, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Ice

Dr Nic Shannon, University of Bristol.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

The Evolution of Telepathy (Perrott-Warrick Lecture)

Recording now available at http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1097239

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (Perrott-Warrick Scholar in Psychical Research, 2005-2010).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Quantum Monte Carlo approach to the full configuration interaction problem

Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Groebli solution for three magnetic vortices

Stavros Komineas, University of Crete, Heraklion.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 14:15-15:15

Towards realistic calculations of molecular adsorption and desorption on surfaces

Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Domain wall in a chiral p-wave superconductor: Majorana fermions and their transport properties

Dr Benjamin Beri, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Layered Systems of Cold Polar Molecules

Nikolaj Zinner, University of Aarhus.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Dynamics and critical behaviour of the spin-boson model

Andreas Alvermann, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

The Dicke quantum phase transition with a superfluid gas in an optical cavity

Kristian Baumann, ETH Zurich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Force generation in the lamellipod of crawling cells

Tom Duke, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Possibility of Hot Superconductivity in Charged Graphene

G Baskaran, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

The Supramolecular Chemistry of the Homeopathic Remedy

John Benneth.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 October 2010, 15:30-16:30

Irregular seminars in TCM

Marginal Fermi liquid behaviour and competing orders with topological characteristics in bilayer graphene.

Rahul Nandkishore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 July 2010, 15:30-16:30

Theoretic Study of Unitary Fermi Gas

Note unusual day

Dr. Matthew Wingate, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 June 2010, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Critical parameters from generalised multifractal analysis at the Anderson transition

Dr Alberto Rodriguez (Warwick).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Modelling protrusion phenotypes and the force velocity relation to motile cells

This talk is jointly organised with TCM

Dr. Martin Falcke, Mathematical Cell Physiology, Max-Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin.

Seminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

Dirac Lecture

Phase Transitions: Scaling, Universality and Renormalization

Professor Leo P. Kadanoff University of Chicago and Perimeter Institute.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 14:45-16:00

How a non-Fermi liquid can emerge at a metal-insulator transition

Prof. Gabriel Aeppli, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Life, extended mind, and physical reality

Device Materials Group (Materials Science) Special Seminar

Prof. Brian Josephson, Mind-Matter Unification Project, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 17:30-18:30

TCM Informal Seminar Series

Talk Cancelled

Canceled

Prof. Pawel Hawrylak, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

The Local Approach to Electronic Structure and Band Gaps

Roger Haydock (TCM and University of Oregon ).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Using Disorder to Detect Local Order: Noise and Nonequilibrium Effects in Disordered Electron Nematics

Joint TCM/QM seminar - note non-standard time.

Prof. Erica Carlson, Purdue University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 06 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Influence of Thermal Order Parameter Fluctuations on the Spectral Function of 2D Superconductors

Prof. Alexei Tsvelik, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

From ultracold atoms to ultracold molecules. Prospects for novel physics

Prof. Gora Shlyapnikov, University of Amsterdam and LPTMS Paris.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Exciton condensation in quantum Hall bilayers: disorder and transport

Paul Eastham, Trinity College, Dublin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Quantum transport beyond the independent-electron approximation

Prof. Rex Godby, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Quantum Optics Experiments with Multiple Qubits and Multiple Photons in Superconducting Electronic Circuits

Johannes Fink (ETH, Zurich).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 December 2009, 14:30-15:30

Theory of exchange splittings of bands in diluted magnetic semiconductors

Prof. Dr. Thomas Dietl, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Institute of Physics, University of Warsaw.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Amplified stochastic oscillations

Prof. Alan McKane (Univeristy of Manchester).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Superconductivity in underdoped cuprates from attraction between spin vortices

Prof. Lu Yu (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 October 2009, 14:30-15:30

Polarised Fermi Gases.

Meera Parish (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Hybrid density functionals for accurate semiconductor band gaps

Prof. John Robertson, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Kinetics and Bose-Einstein condensation of parametrically driven magnons at RT.

Prof. Sergej Demokritov, Muenster University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Simplifying the theory of the Invar effect in iron-nickel alloys

Chris Hooley (SUPA, University of St Andrews).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 August 2009, 15:30-16:30

Irregular seminars in TCM

Electronic Correlations and Magnetic Frustration in the Iron Pnictides

Qimiao Si, Rice University, Texas.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

What is the momentum of a photon propagating in a medium?

Prof. Steve Barnett, University of Strathclyde.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Heterogeneities in granular media

Prof. Anita Mehta, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Calcutta.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

TCM Informal Seminar Series

Can the thermal conductivity of semiconductors be controlled by impurities?

Stefan K. Estreicher, Physics Department, Texas Tech University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 June 2009, 15:30-16:30

Quantum Many-Body Phenomena in Coupled Arrays of Cavities

Joint TCM/AMOP seminar

Dr Michael Hartmann, Technische Universitaet Muenchen.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Title to be confirmed

Note time

Prof. Gerald Mahan, Penn State University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

TCM Journal Club

Local density of states of electron-crystal phases in graphene in the quantum Hall regime

Oleksandr Poplavskyy (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 May 2009, 16:00-16:30

Kondo physics in multilevel quantum dots.

Prof. David Logan, Theoretical Chemistry, Oxford University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

TCM Informal Seminar Series

Understanding liquids and glass transition on the basis of elastic interactions

Note changed time

Dr Kostya Trachenko (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Irregular seminars in TCM

Glasses, Jamming and Spin Glasses

Prof. Mike Moore FRS, University of Manchester..

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

TCM Informal Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Bogdan Mihaila, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 May 2009, 15:30-16:30

Fermi-surface and volume-collapse transitions in heavy fermions and pnictide superconductors

Prof. Matthias Vojta, University of Cologne.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

QMC applied to two-component molecular systems

Dr Ryo Maezono, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 14:15-15:15

Ehrenfest Simulations of Radiation Damage in Metals

Prof. Matthew Foulkes, Imperial College.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Superfluidity and other quantum fluid effects of microcavity polaritons

Joint TCM/AMOP/NP seminar

Dr Alberto Amo, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 11:00-12:00

Towards an understanding of how general anaesthetics work

Dr P.-L. Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, Institut Pasteur.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Topological Phases of Matter and Why You Should be Interested

Prof. Steve Simon, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Electron-phonon contribution to the photoemission kink in cuprate superconductors

Dr Feliciano Giustino, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Layered Kondo lattice model for novel quantum critical compound beta-YbAlB4

Dr Andriy Nevidomskyy, Rutgers University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 12 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Quantum Criticality, the Alpha/Delta Puzzle, and Dual Vacua

Joint TCM/QM Seminar

Prof George Chapline, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 November 2008, 11:30-12:30

Irregular seminars in TCM

Patterns of co-existing order parameters and universal escapeway to the magnetic quantum critical point

Prof. Georgios Varelogiannis, National Technical University of Athens.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Freezing of cluster solids and the Gibbs phase rule

Prof. Daan Frenkel FMRS, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Fractal superconductivity near localization threshold

Note unusual time and day

Prof. Mikhail Feigel'man, Landau Institute.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 07 November 2008, 15:30-16:30

Towards density functional theory calculations of defects in crystals

Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Random searching: shining a light on structure space

Dr Chris Pickard, University of St Andrews.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Physics at the kitchen

Note time and location

Prof. Andrey Varlamov, University of Rome.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 29 September 2008, 14:30-15:30

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Nobel Laureate Lectures live, week starting June 30 2008

Lectures start June 30th. They will be available for viewing on the site later.

Miscellaneous Physics Nobel Laureates.

Live webcast from Lindau (Bodensee), Germany.

Thursday 03 July 2008, 08:00-13:00

Irregular seminars in TCM

Dynamics of 1d quantum liquids

Prof. Alex Kamenev.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 01 July 2008, 11:15-12:15

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Nobel Laureate Lectures live, week starting June 30 2008

Lectures continue till July 3rd. They will be available for viewing on the site later.

Miscellaneous Physics Nobel Laureates.

Live webcast from Lindau (Bodensee), Germany.

Monday 30 June 2008, 08:00-13:00

Irregular seminars in TCM

SU(2) gauge theory, the Berry phase and spintronics

Prof. Stewart Barnes, University of Miami.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Long wavelength spin dynamics of ferrromagnetic condensates

Prof. Austen Lamacraft, University of Virginia.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 10 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Quantum Dynamics in the Thermodynamic Limit

Dr Jasper van Wezel.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 09 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Electronic structure in real space: optimised local orbitals for linear scaling, band structure and polarisation

Dr Peter Haynes, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Breaking the Protein Amino Acid Code (aka the Code of Life)

Note unusual time

J. C. Phillips, Rutgers.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 May 2008, 15:30-16:30

Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for resonant fermions.

Prof. Nikolay Prokof'ev, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Complex dynamics in simple models of shear banding.

Dr Suzanne Fielding, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

An analytical approach to a model of spin interactions in quartic wells

Dr Godfrey Akpojotor, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Bound states of 2D electrons induced by the spin-orbit interaction

Prof A.V.Chaplik, Semiconductors Physics Institute, Novosibirsk.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Phase analysis of quantum oscillations in graphite

Igor Luk'yanchuk, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France and L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 03 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Single electron transistors coupled to resonators: from cooling to lasing

Dr Andrew Armour, University of Nottingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

A Critical Point for Science?

Prof. Brian Josephson, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 February 2008, 15:30-16:30

Grain boundaries in strontium titanate

Prof. Mike Finnis, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Maximally-localised Wannier functions as building blocks of electronic structure

Dr Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Lev Landau - Life and Physics - 100 years from his birth

Dima Khmelnitskii ( TCM.).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2008, 15:30-16:30

Magnetic monopoles in spin ice

Dr Claudio Castelnovo (University of Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

A Numerical Renormalization Group for Continuum One Dimensional Systems

Robert Konik, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 10 December 2007, 14:15-15:15

Resonant Level Hybridized with Luttinger Liquid

Prof. Igor Lerner, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Phenomena in cold exciton gases

Joint TCM/OE seminar

Leonid Butov, University of California at San Diego.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Shear Banding in Complex Fluids: Wall effects and unstable dynamics

Prof. Peter Olmsted, University of Leeds.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

Electrons in bilayer graphene

Dr Edward McCann, Lancaster University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 October 2007, 14:15-15:15

Are deterministic nanomachines viable? - A simulation study of energy dissipation in carbon nanotube-based devices.

Dr. Paul Tangney, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 October 2007, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

The non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition in microcavity polariton systems

Dr. Iacopo Carusotto, INFM-CNR, Universita di Trento.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 September 2007, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Density-functional perturbation theory goes time dependent: from static properties, to lattice vibrations, up to optical excitations

Prof. Stefano Baroni, DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center Trieste.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 June 2007, 11:30-12:30

Coherent coupling of excitons in quantum dots probed by two-dimensional four-wave mixing

Dr. Wolfgang Langbein, Bio Photonics and Quantum Optoelectronics, Cardiff.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

Record dynamics in spin glasses, superconductors and biological evolution.

Prof. Henrik Jensen, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

Multiscale Simulations of Mechanical Properties: From General Issues to Fracture and Friction

Dr. Noam Bernstein, Naval Research Laboratory, Washingtom and TCM Group, Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 April 2007, 14:15-15:15

Monte Carlo methods in cosmology

Dr Mike Hobson.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

Polariton Bose-Einstein condensation: Theoretical analysis in terms of a two-component weakly-interacting Bose gas

Prof. Vincenzo Savona, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Cold and dense dipolar exciton quantum fluids in two dimensions.

Dr. Ronen Rapaport, Bell Labs.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

Metal to metal transitions

Joint TCM/QM seminar

Prof. Andy Schofield.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

Hydrodynamic interactions and Brownian forces in suspensions: Coarse-graining over time and length-scales

Dr. Ard Louis, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 January 2007, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Na_x Co O_2: What's going on at high doping

Chris Hooley, University of St Andrews.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 04 December 2006, 16:00-17:00

The Energy Crisis on the back of an envelope

Prof. David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

Determination of protein structures using NMR chemical shifts

Dr Michele Vendruscolo, Dept. of Chemistry.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

Electron Spin Injection and Transport in Semiconductors

Joint TCM/OE seminar

Dr Darryl L. Smith, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

Origin of large electromechanical coupling in relaxor ferroelectrics

Prof. Ron E. Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy of the Pure and Cd-doped Heavy Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn5: Detecting Order Parameter Symmetry and Competing Phases

Laura H. Greene, Department of Physics and the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 20 September 2006, 11:15-12:15

Investigating quantum matter with cold atomic gases

Note time - Wednesday, 2.00pm

Michael Koehl (ETH Zurich).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 31 May 2006, 14:00-15:00

New Challenges in the physics of high temperature superconductors

note change of Venue

Prof. Jeff Tallon, University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

Condensates in Flatland - Bose gases in two dimensions

note change of time - 10.00am Friday

Dr Zoran Hadzibabic, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 12 May 2006, 10:00-11:00

Electronic-structure challenges in biomimetic catalysis

Prof Nicola Marzari, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

To be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

Is the Hidden Electronic Order in the Cuprates neither Hidden nor Ordered?

Prof. J. C. Samus Davis, Cornell University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

Spin and charge quantum phase transitions in narrow-band metals

Dr. Malte Grosche, Royal Holloway, University of London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

Carnot and the fields formulation of elementary thermodynamics

Professor John Hannay, Physics Department, University of Bristol.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

Dynamics of network motifs

Dr. Thomas Fink, CNRS/Institut Curie, Paris.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 January 2006, 14:15-15:15

Polymorphism in organic and inorganic solids

Prof. M Parrinello, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 December 2005, 14:15-15:15

Photon Anti-bunching

Prof. E. C. G. Sudarshan, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 November 2005, 15:30-16:30

Local correlation methods for molecular electronic structure calculations

Prof. Martin Head-Gordon, Berkeley.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

Why Can't We Solve the Problem of High Temperature Superconductivity?

Prof. Mike Norman (joint seminar with Quantum Matter Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

Nanomechanical Oscillators: from Thermodynamics to Pattern Formation

Prof. Mike Cross, Physics, Caltech, Pasadena.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

Mapping Phase Diagrams by Atomistic Simulation

Prof. Matt Probert, Physics, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

Evolutionary genetics

Prof Simon Tavar (DAMTP, Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

TBA

TBA.

HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

TBA

TBA.

HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

Non-Equilibrium Fermi Gas as a Riemann Hilbert Problem

Dr Boris Muzykanskii, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 May 2005, 14:15-15:15

Superconducting pairing in small metallic nanoparticles

Dr Vladimir Kresin (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 May 2005, 14:15-14:15

Analogies between superfluid helium Three and the Universe

Prof George Pickett (University of Lancaster).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 May 2005, 11:15-12:15

Squids

Prof John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley).

HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 May 2005, 11:15-12:15

Field theoretic methods in polymer stat mech

Prof Andrea Pelissetto (Rome).

HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 April 2005, 02:15-03:15

"Quantum turbulence"

Prof. WF Vinen, Birmingham.

HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 March 2005, 02:15-03:15

The electronic structure of proteins as obtained by first principles total energy calculations

Prof ME Galvan, Mexico City.

HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 January 2005, 02:15-03:15