A week of intense discussions and scientific exchanges - scientific and social highlights of a successful meeting
Condensed matter physics in the City 2024 has once more proven the power of bringing joining junior researchers and their older peers to discuss and listen to the latest results in the field, from expert speakers and junior contributions alike.
Highlights included the latest STM microscopy on twisted dichalcogenides multilayers out of Prof Ali Yazdani’s Princeton laboratory, and we should especially thank Ali for also delivering an informative and well-attended public talk on this topic (drawing an audience of over 150). Much discussion was generated by Philip Phillips thought-provoking talk on alternative theory approaches to the Hubbard model. Roderich Moessner demonstrated the fractal nature of the movement of monopoles in spin ice, building further on our very own Bruno Thomasello’s ground-laying work in understanding the dynamics of spins surrounding these magnetic monopole excitations.
This year’s conference attracted over 100 live participants and speakers, and additional online participants. Others have since caught up via the youtube recordings where some talks have already attracted over 200 views.
Roughly half of our audience were PhD students, and 6 undergraduates also joined the meeting. We counted 30 senior academics and the remainder were spread across postdoctoral and research fellow positions.
The junior participants were not just present, but also fully engaged in often lively discussions, so we would like to thank all for coming and for their enthusiastic contributions.
If you did miss out on attending in person, you can catching up in your own time following the links in our schedule page or by navigating to our Hubbard Theory Consortium Youtube channel.
We hope that there will be a next edition to look forward to in 2024, and are looking forward to welcoming you again in a year’s time!