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.
Provisional Schedule
Talks: 50 minutes + 30 minutes discussion
Short Talks: 20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion (speakers to be announced following selection)
Location: UCL Roberts Engineering Building, Torrington Place
Week 1
Wednesday 15 July
| 09:50 |
Piers Coleman – Opening Remarks |
| 10:00 |
Seamus Davis (1) – KAGOME SUPERCONDUCTIVE DIODE EFFECT |
| 11:20 |
Break |
| 11:40 |
Elena Hassinger (KIT Karlsruhe) – Two-phase superconductivity and dipolar-quadrupolar order in locally non-centrosymmetric CeRh2As2 |
| 13:00–14:30 |
Lunch break |
| 14:30 |
Nigel Hussey (Bristol) – New insights into the cuprate strange metal |
| 15:50 |
Break |
| 16:10 |
Ehud Altman (UC Berkeley) |
| 17:30 |
Jack Horner on the Corner |
Thursday 16 July
| 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 |
Seamus Davis (2) – KAGOME SUPERCONDUCTIVE DIODE EFFECT |
| 13:00–14:30 |
Lunch break |
| 14:30 |
Nigel Cooper |
| 15:50 |
Break |
| 16:10 |
Sylvain Ravets (1) (Saclay) |
| 17:30 |
Jack Horner on the Corner |
Friday 17 July
| 10:00 |
Sylvain Ravets (2) (Saclay) |
| 11:20 |
Break |
| 11:40 |
Marzena Szymanska (UCL) |
| 13:00–14:30 |
Lunch break |
| 14:30 |
Andrea Cavalleri – “Non-equilibrium emergent phenomena in driven quantum materials” |
| 15:50 |
Break |
| 15:10 |
Peter Armitage (2) (JHU) – “Energy relaxation and dynamics in correlated metals” |
| 17:30 |
Jack Horner on the Corner |
Week 2
Monday 20 July
| 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 |
TBA |
| 13:00–14:30 |
Lunch break |
| 14:30 |
Two 30 min talks |
| 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
| 10:00 |
Zhida Song (1) (Beijing) – Pairing and Pseudogap in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene |
| 11:20 |
Break |
| 11:40 |
Premi Chandra (Rutgers) |
| 13:00–14:30 |
Lunch break |
| 14:30 |
Two 30 min talks |
| 15:30 |
Break |
| 15:50 |
Gerard Milburn
|
| 18:00 |
Posters, Drinks and Reception |
Wednesday 22 July
| 10:00 |
TBA |
| 11:20 |
Break |
| 11:40 |
Jim Sauls (1) (LSU) |
| 13:00–14:30 |
Lunch break |
| 14:30 |
Two 30 min talks |
| 15:30 |
Break |
| 15:50 |
Fabian Essler (Oxford U) |
| 19:00 |
Gerard Milburn: Public Lecture – “QUANTUM LEARNING QUANTUM: Quantum Computers and Artificial Intelligence” |
Location: IOP HQ London or Blackett Laboratory LT1, Imperial College London
Thursday 23 July
| 10:00 |
Jim Sauls (2) (LSU) |
| 11:20 |
Break |
| 11:40 |
Paola Ruggiero (Kings) |
| 13:00–14:30 |
Lunch break |
| 14:30 |
Two 30 min talks |
| 15:30 |
Break |
| 15:50 |
Gregoire Ithier (RHUL) |
| 17:10 |
Jack Horner on the Corner |
Friday 24 July
| 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 |
Two 30 min talks |
| 15:30 |
Break |
| 15:50 |
Zhida Song (2) (Beijing) – Pairing and Pseudogap in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene |
| 17:10 |
Jack Horner on the Corner |
