Locations: TERM 1: Chipperfield Extension, Seminar Room 1 (CHXSR1); TERM 2: Chipperfield Building, Seminar Room 5 (CHSR5). TERM 3: Ingram 110 (Weeks 25-28) and Ingram 108 (Weeks 29-30).
27 Sep 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Tutorial: Second Quantisation, the Language of Many-Body Theory (part 1) [lecture notes]
4 Oct 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Tutorial: Second Quantisation, the Language of Many-Body Theory (part 2) [lecture notes]
11 Oct 2018: Catherine Pepin – (post-colloquium discussion)
18 October 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Tutorial: Second Quantisation, the Language of Many-Body Theory (part 3) [lecture notes]
25 October 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Tutorial: Second Quantisation, the Unstable Fermi Liquid (part 4) [lecture notes]
1 November 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Tutorial: Second Quantisation, the Unstable Fermi Liquid (part 5) [lecture notes]
8 Nov 2018: Felix Flicker (Oxford) – Time Quasi-crystals
15 November 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Tutorial: Second Quantisation, the Unstable Fermi Liquid (part 6) [lecture notes]
22 November 2018: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – (impromptu) What makes BCS theory so great, and how can we raise to the challenge?
29 November 2018: Brief introductions of Members of the Group
6 December 2018: Brief introductions of Members of the Group
13 December 2018: Chris Hooley (St Andrews) – Conformal Bootstrap
(Winter break)
17 January 2019: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – (impromptu) Introduction to quantum computing with the IBM Quantum Experience
24 January 2019: Gunnar Möller (Kent) – Topological order: new states and new probes
31 January 2019: Gunnar Möller (Kent) – Topological order: new states and new probes (cont’d)
7 February 2019: Abolfazl Bayat (UCL) – Measurement quench in many-body systems [abstract]
14 February 2019: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Complex superconducting order
21 February 2019: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Complex superconducting order (cont’d)
28 February 2019: No Discussion Group this week
7 March 2019: Sam T. Carr (Kent) – Emergent topological properties in one-dimensional metals
14 March 2019: No Discussion Group this week – note however the Stephen Gray Lecture at 3pm in Grimond Lecture Theatre 2
21 March 2019: No Discussion Group this week – FMG Working Group Meeting
28 March 2019: Leon Schoonderwoerd (Kent) – Interaction-driven Quantum Hall plateau transition in the Hofstadter model
4 April 2019: Adam Baskerville (Sussex) – The quantum mechanical three-particle problem: Where Physics meets Chemistry
(spring break)
9 May 2019: Gunnar Möller (impromptu) – Introduction to Composite Fermion Theory
16 May 2019: Nikitas Gidopoulos (Durham) – (post-colloquium discussion)
23 May: Sam T. Carr and Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) – Ferromagnetism, triplet pairing and Hund’s rules
30 May: No discussion group
6 June: Johannes Hofmann (Cambridge) – TBC
13 June: TBA