Condensed Matter Seminars 2025-2026 Scheduling

Date Host Speaker Affiliation Topic
2025-09-03
2025-09-10
2025-09-17
2025-09-24
2025-10-01 Ivan Schuller Charles Reichardt LANL Complex Dynamics, Commensuration, and Frustration Effects for Wigner Crystals, Skyrmions, and Active Matter Systems on Ordered Substrates
2025-10-08 Ivan Schuller Joel-Yuen Zhou UCSD Molecular platforms for polaritonics and quantum sensing
2025-10-15 Ivan Schuller Misha Fogler UCSD Machine Learning Across Scales: From Optical Nanoscopy to Field-Theoretic Renormalization
2025-10-22 Ivan Schuller Eric Fullerton UCSD Spin-orbit torque phenomena in complex oxide heterostructures
2025-10-29 Dan Parker Aaron Sharpe Stanford A Broad and Fine-Grained Exploration of the Quantum Electronic Phases in Twisted Trilayer Graphene
2025-11-05 Alex Frano Santiago Blanco DIPC
2025-11-12 Ivan Schuller Rick Averitt UCSD Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Metamaterials and Plasmonics
2025-11-19 Ivan Schuller Jing Shi UCR Antiferromagnetic Spintronics: Harnessing Order without Magnetization
2025-12-03 Ivan Schulle Maple UCSD Competition between superconductivity and magnetism
2025-12-10
2025-12-17
2025-12-24 No seminar - winter break N/A N/A
2025-12-31 No seminar - winter break N/A N/A
2026-01-07
2026-01-14 Monica Allen Yi-Zhuang You UCSD The Accuracy Cliff: Why AI Loses Its Mind (and How Physics Can Fix It)
2026-01-21 Ivan Schuller/Andres Hofer Andres Santander-Syro Université Paris-Saclay Imaging the itinerant-to-localized transmutation of electrons across the metal-to-insulator transition
2026-01-28 Monica Allen Tarun Grover UCSD Non-equilibrium physics from an information-theoretic perspective
2026-02-04 Monica Allen Shaowei Li UCSD TBD
2026-02-11 Monica Allen / Ivan Schuller Francesco Paesani UCSD TBD
2026-02-18 Monica Allen Sanfeng Wu Princeton TBD
2026-02-25 Monica Allen Dmitri Basov Columbia Cavity-altered superconductivity
2026-03-04 Monica Allen Jason Alicea Caltech TBD
2026-03-11 Monica Allen / Nigel Goldenfeld Doug Durian University of Pennsylvania Note: APS practice talks for graduate students will take place this week, but they will be held at a different time than the seminar
2026-03-18 No seminar - March Meeting N/A N/A
2026-03-25
2026-04-01
2026-04-08 Dan Parker Trithep Devakul Stanford TBD
2026-04-15
2026-04-22
2026-04-29 Max Di Ventra Marco Bernardi Caltech TBD
2026-05-06
2026-05-13 Monica Allen / Nigel Goldenfeld Jeremy Levy University of Pittsburgh Correlated Nanoelectronics and Programmable Quantum Matter: Platforms for the Second Quantum Revolution (in-person seminar)
2026-05-20 Leonid Butov Feng Wang Berkeley TBD
2026-05-27
2026-06-03
2026-06-10 Yi-Zhuang You Leo Zhou