Schedule for Condensed Matter Physics in the City, 15–24 July 2026
“Quantum Materials in and out of Equilibrium”
All times given as UK Summer Time (BST)
Programme for talks delivered live and additionally broadcast online.
Programme Schedule
(final checks awaited)
Talks: 50 minutes + 30 minutes discussion
Contributed talks: 30 or 40 minutes (see programme)
Main Venue: UCL Roberts Engineering Building, Torrington Place
Week 1
Wednesday 15 July
Location: UCL Roberts Engineering Building, Room 508
| 09:50 | Piers Coleman – Opening Remarks |
| 10:00 | Elena Hassinger (KIT Karlsruhe) – “Two-phase superconductivity and dipolar-quadrupolar order in locally non-centrosymmetric CeRh₂As₂” (orinially schedule as: Seamus Davis (1) – “KAGOME SUPERCONDUCTIVE DIODE EFFECT”) |
| 11:20 | Break |
| 11:40 | Piers Coleman – Credits past and present: On the 100th Anniversary of the Schrödinger Equation and their connection to Axionic Systems |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 | Marzena Szymanska (UCL) – “Driven-dissipative superfluids: a compact Kardar-Parisi-Zhang dynamics of the phase” |
| 15:50 | Break |
| 16:10 | Sylvain Ravets (1) (Saclay) – Probing non-abelian topology in exciton-polariton lattices |
| 17:30 | Jack Horner on the Corner |
Thursday 16 July
Location: UCL Roberts Engineering Building, Room 508
| 10:00 | Peter Armitage (1) (JHU) – “The Anna Karenina principle and the strange metal: all strange metals are strange in their own way” |
| 11:20 | Break |
| 11:40 | Andrea Cavalleri (1) – “Controlling ferroic phases with light” [Originally scheduled as: Seamus Davis (2) – “KAGOME SUPERCONDUCTIVE DIODE EFFECT”] |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 | Nigel Cooper – “Measuring Quantum Many-Body Systems in Phase Space” |
| 15:50 | Break |
| 16:10 | Ehud Altman (UC Berkeley) – “Quantum memory in Fractional Quantum Hall states under decoherence” |
| 17:30 | Jack Horner on the Corner |
Friday 17 July
Location: UCL Roberts Engineering Building, Room 508
| 10:00 | Sylvain Ravets (2) (Saclay) – Exploring the universal behaviors of driven-dissipative condensates |
| 11:20 | Break |
| 11:40 | Nigel Hussey (University of Bristol) – “New insights into the cuprate strange metal” |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 | Andrea Cavalleri (2) – “Non-equilibrium emergent phenomena in driven quantum materials” |
| 15:50 | Break |
| 16:10 | Peter Armitage (2) (JHU) – “Energy relaxation and dynamics in correlated metals” |
| 17:30 | Jack Horner on the Corner |
Week 2
Monday 20 July
Location: UCL Roberts Engineering Building, Room 508
| 10:00 | Aash Clerk (Chicago) – “Exact insights into dissipative many-body dynamics: from non-equilibrium phase transitions to decohered criticality” |
| 11:20 | Break |
| 11:40 | Satyajit Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) – “Correlated Surface Transport in SmB₆: Evidence for a Low-Temperature Two-Fluid State” |
| 12:20 | Daniel Kaplan (Rutgers) – “Shining light on quantum geometry with nonlinear response” |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 | Yoonseok Hwang (Imperial College London) – “Stable Wave-Function Zeros Indicate Exciton Topology” |
| 15:00 | Konstantinos Vasiliou (University of Oxford) – “M-point moiré materials: Mixed dimensionality, correlated insulators, and hidden antiferromagnetism via Quantum Monte Carlo methods” |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 15:50 | Nicola Marzari (1) (EPFL/Cambridge U) – “Excitations and correlations from functional theories” |
| 17:10 | Jack Horner on the Corner |
Tuesday 21 July
Location: Central House, Room 225
| 10:00 | Premala Chandra (Rutgers) – “Optically Induced Faraday Waves” |
| 11:20 | Break |
| 11:40 | Didier Poilblanc (CNRS Toulouse) – “Chiral spin liquids and Floquet engineering” |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 | Wojciech Jankowski (University of Cambridge) – “Nonlinear responses from multigap topologies” |
| 15:00 | Rebecca Peake (QMUL) – “Engineering Topological Bands in Strained Covalent Organic Frameworks” |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 15:50 | Gerard Milburn (NQCC) – “Stochastic quantum thermodynamics for nanoelectronics” [slides] |
| 18:00 | Posters, Drinks and Reception — Stewart House Room 2 & 3 (entry from Senate House) |
N.B. For the poster session, be aware that you cannot enter Stewart House directly. Enter Senate House, then ask at reception.
Wednesday 22 July
Location: Central House, Room 225
| 10:00 | Dmytro Pesin (University of Virginia) – “Magnetochiral anisotropy on a quantum spin Hall edge” |
| 10:40 | Anirudha Menon (NCTS, Hsinchu / Nayanta University, Pune) – “Hyperfine Coupling and Two-Stage Ordering Near Quantum Criticality in TmVO₄” |
| 11:20 | Break |
| 11:40 | Zhi-Da Song (1) (Beijing) – “Pairing and Pseudogap in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene” |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 | Indra Gankhuyag (Rutgers) – “Mixed Parity superconductor CeRh2As2” |
| 15:00 | Kyle Netherwood (Cardiff University) – “Excitation of vortex states in Weyl semimetals with spatially varying perturbations” |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 15:50 | Fabian Essler (Oxford University) [finishing 17:10] |
| … | Walk / pulic transport to Imperial College directions |
| from 18.15 | Refreshments served prior to public lecture at Blackett Lecture Theatre, Imperial college |
| 19:00 | Gerard Milburn (NQCC): Public Lecture – “QUANTUM LEARNING QUANTUM: Quantum Computers and Artificial Intelligence” Note Different LOCATION: Blackett Lecture Theatre, Imperial College London – see the eventbrite listing. [video] |
Thursday 23 July
Location: UCL Roberts Engineering Building, Room 508
| 10:00 | Andreas Gleis – “Giant and Broadband Circular Dichroism from Particle-Hole Symmetry Breaking in Weyl Semimetals” |
| 10:40 | Michael Sonner (UC Berkeley) – “Multi-bath Semigroup Influence Matrices for Universal Nonequilibrium Scaling” |
| 11:20 | Break |
| 11:40 | Paola Ruggiero (King’s College London) |
| 12:50–14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 | Anna Efimova (University of Geneva) – “Universal relation between residual resistivity and A coefficient in correlated metals” |
| 15:00 | Koushik Swaminathan (Aalto University) – “Parity-dependent double degeneracy and spectral statistics in a flat-band lattice model” |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 15:50 | Gregoire Ithier (Royal Holloway, University of London) |
| 17:10 | Jack Horner on the Corner |
Friday 24 July
Location: UCL Roberts Engineering Building, Room 508
| 10:00 | Nicola Marzari (2) (EPFL/Cambridge U) – “Charting the electronic-structure of known inorganics” |
| 11:20 | Break |
| 11:40 | Natalia Chepiga (Oxford) |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 | Daniel Spasic-Mlacak (University of Cambridge) – “Unravelling the Li-Haldane Conjecture with the Projected Ensemble” |
| 15:00 | POSTER PRIZEWINNER TALK: Fabio Méndez-Córdoba (Universität Hamburg) – “Ground state magnetization of superstable frustrated lattices in the Hubbard model” |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 15:50 | Zhi-Da Song (2) (Beijing) – “Pairing and Pseudogap in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene” |
| 17:10 | Jack Horner on the Corner |