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
Locations:
– UCL Roberts Engineering Building, Torrington Place (all days, except Wednesday – rooms see below)
– UCL Drayton House (Wednesday sessions)
– RHUL Stewart House, access via Senate House from Malet Street (Tue evening – Poster Session)
– Institute of Physics Lecture Theatre (Wed evening – public talk)
Monday 16 June
Venue: Roberts Building, rm. 508
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 Tom G Saunderson (University of Halle): “Triplet superconductivity by the orbital Rashba effect at surfaces of elemental superconductors”
15:00 Zheyu Wu (University of Cambridge): “Discovery of an extended line of quantum criticality at intensely high fields in UTe2”
15.30 Break
15:30 Malte Grosche: “Field-resilient superconductivity in CeSb2 and UTe2”
17:10 Jack Horner on the Corner
Tuesday 17 June
Venue: Roberts Building, rm. 508
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 Break
18:00-20:00 Poster Session (Note separate venue: Stewart House, Room 1, University of, 32 Russell Sq, London WC1B 5DN) – See CMPCity25_Poster_Abstracts for further information and detailed directions.
You will access the venue through Senate House, as follows: Start from Malet Street, Go to Senate House main entrance, turn right for the South block which has the Reception (which you will see on the right soon after you enter), and if needed ask them for further directions. Take the grand central staircase, at the top (first floor) turn left, go through the double doors and go straight to the end, you should see some newly refurbished rooms with RHUL logo etc. A basic map of Senate House can be found here: https://hartleytaylor-registration.co.uk/docs/UKM2venue.pdf
Wednesday 18 June
Venue: B20 Jevons LT, Drayton House (near and opposite the London Centre for Nanotechnology, towards Euston Road)
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 Rajah Nutakki (Ecole Polytechnique): “Design principles of deep translationally-symmetric neural quantum states for frustrated magnets”
15:00 Elizabeth Chipperfield (University of Kent): “Quantum computer assisted state tomography from neutron scattering of molecular magnets”
15.30 Break
15:50 Vedika Khemani: “Topological Quantum Spin Glass Order”
17.10 Break
19:00 Prof J.C. Séamus Davis – Public lecture (Institute of Physics, Caledonian road – separate registration required): “Quantum Entangled Beasts: How and Where to Find Them”
Thursday 19 June
Venue: Roberts Building, rm. 421
10:00 Paul Canfield: “Negotiations with Nature — What happens when a Physicist tries to be a Chemist.”
11:20 Break
11:40 Silke Paschen: “Topological semimetals in heavy fermion compounds”
13:00 – 14:30 —Lunch break—
14.30 Polina Matveeva (Bar-Ilan University): “One-dimensional interacting topological phases: a bosonization approach”
15:00 Harry Tomlins (Kings College London): “Universal transport at Lifshitz metal-insulator transitions in two dimensions”
15.30 Break
15:50 Andriy Nevidomskyy: “Quantum Spin Supersolids and Liquids in Frustrated Magnets”
17:10 Jack Horner on the Corner
Friday 20 June
Venue: Roberts Building, rm. 508
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 Dumitru Călugăru (University of Oxford): “Moiré materials based on M-point twisting”
15:00 Julia Hannukainen (University of Cambridge): “Local Topological Markers for Amorphous and Interacting Quantum Matter in Odd Dimensions”
15.30 Break
15:50 Takeshi Mizushima: “Towards detecting fingerprints of topological surface states in the superconductor UTe2 and superfluid 3He?”
17:10 Jack Horner on the Corner