Conference schedule:
all times given as UK summer time (BST)
Conference Schedule: Condensed Matter Physics in the City 2025
“Unconventional, Topological and Dynamical Order in Quantum Materials”
Programme for talks delivered live and additionally broadcast online.
16–20th June 2025
Talks: 50 minutes + 30 minutes discussion
Short Talks: 20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion
Location: UCL Roberts Engineering Building, Torrington Place.
Monday 16 June
09:50 Piers Coleman: “Opening Remarks”
10:00 Johnpierre Paglione: “Elucidating the superconducting phases of UTe2”
11:20 Break
11:40 Laura Greene: “Planar Tunnel Spectroscopy of CeCoIn5: Investigation of local-moment pairing.”
13:00 – 14:30 —Lunch break—
14.30 Two 30 min talks
15.30 Break
15:30 Malte Grosche: “Field-resilient superconductivity in CeSb2 and UTe2”
17:10 Jack Horner on the Corner
Tuesday 17 June
10:00 Amir Yacoby: “Local probes of spin excitations in quantum matter”
11:20 Break
11:40 Andrei Bernevig: “DMFT and Hubbard 1 Approximations on the Heavy Fermion For Twisted Bilayer Systems”
13:00 – 14:30 —Lunch break—
14.30 Sian Dutton: “Jahn-Teller Distortions in NaNiO₂ and NaxNiO₂”
15:50 Break
16:10 Andrea Cavalleri: “Driven quantum materials”
17:30 Jack Horner on the Corner
Wednesday 18 June
10:00 J.C. Séamus Davis: “Detection of Spinon Mediated Witness Spin Dynamics in the Quantum Spin Liquid State of Herbert-Smithite”
11:20 Break
11:40 Peng Cheng Dai: “Anomalous Hall Effect and spin excitations in kagome YbFe₆Ge₆ and tetragonal YbMnBi₂”
13:00 – 14:30 —Lunch break—
14.30 Two 30 min talks
15.30 Break
15:50 Andrei Nevidomskyy: “Quantum Spin Supersolids and Liquids in Frustrated Magnets”
17:10 Jack Horner on the Corner
19:00 Prof J.C. Séamus Davis – Public lecture (Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley Building, Imperial College): “Quantum Entangled Beasts: How and Where to Find Them”
Thursday 19 June
10:00 Paul Canfield: “Collapsed tetragonal phase transitions as canaries for diverse and interesting physics and properties”
11:20 Break
11:40 Silke Paschen: “Topological semimetals in heavy fermion compounds”
13:00 – 14:30 —Lunch break—
14.30 Two 30 min talks
15.30 Break
15:50 Vedika Khemani: “TTBA”
17:10 Jack Horner on the Corner
Friday 20 June
10:00 Kin Fei Mak: “Simulating high-temperature superconductivity in a triangular moiré lattice”
11:20 Break
11:40 Eva Andrei: “Moiré Crystals, Quasicrystals and Intercrystals”
13:00 – 14:30 —Lunch break—
14.30 Two 30 min talks
15.30 Break
15:50 Takeshi Mizushima: “Toward the detection of topological states in superfluid ³He and unconventional superconductors: Where we stand and what do we need?”
17:10 Jack Horner on the Corner