Presentations, 2022-2023
Term 1: 26 September-16 December, 2022, on Wednesdays at 11:00am (UK Time)
- Week 1 – 30/09/22 Note exceptional day – Friday 2pm – Dr Christopher R Winterowd, Universität Frankfurt: “Dihedral Lattice Gauge Theories on a Quantum Annealer”
- Week 2 – 5/10/22 – Introduction to the group, mutual introductions and welcome for new members
- Week 3 – 12/10/22 Prof. Ian McCulloch, University of Queensland
- Week 4 – 19/10/22 Dr Bernhard Frank, TU Dresden – “Kondo heterostructures: Antiferromagnetism, Kondo screening and marginal Fermi liquid state”
- Week 5 – 26/10/22 Jorge Quintanilla – “A new theorem on spin correlators”
- Week 6 – 2/11/22 Dr Felix Werner, ENS Paris – “High-order diagrammatic expansion around BCS Hamiltonians: polarized superfluid phase of the attractive Hubbard model”
- Week 7 – 9/11/22 Dr Xavier Waintal, CNRS Grenoble – “Learning Feynman Diagrams with Tensor Trains”
- Week 8- 16/11/22 Dr Werner Krauth, ENS Paris – “Two-dimensional phase transition: New algorithms, new concepts”
- Week 9 – 23/11/22 Dr Benoît Douçot, LPTHE Jussieu, Paris – “Skyrmion crystals in quantum Hall ferromagnets”
- Week 10 – 30/11/22 – UCU Strike Day.
- Week 11 – 7/12/22 – TBD
- Week 12 – 14/12/22 Dr Evgeny Kozik, King’s College London.
Term 2: 16 January-17 April, 2023, on Wednesdays at 11:00am (UK Time)
- 08/02/23: Dr Sam Carr (Kent, Physics & Astronomy), Winding numbers of topological insulators in 1D
- 15/02/23: Dr Carlos Perez-Delgado (Kent, School of Computing), Towards a Physical Fundamental Computational Complexity Theory
- 22/02/23: Dr Sam Carr (Kent, Physics & Astronomy), Ohm’s law: what aren’t they telling you?
- 01/03/23: Cancelled
- 08/03/23: No seminar – week of the Stephen Gray Lecture
- 15/03/23: Professor Seyed Akbar Jafari (Sharif University of Technology), Superconducting phenomenology from breaking the gauge symmetry
- 22/03/23: Dr Felipe Fantuzzi (Kent, Chemistry & Forensic Science), Boron-Based Molecules and Materials: Advances in Structure, Bonding, and Reactivity
- 29/03/23: Holly McPhillips (Kent, Physics & Astronomy), Characterisation of cation order in A-site doped polar hexagonal multiferroic MnAMo3O8 (A2+ = Fe, Co, Zn)
Term 3: 8 May-18 June, 2023, on Wednesdays at 11:00am (UK Time)
- 10/05/23: No seminar
- 17/05/23: No seminar
- 24/05/23: Joe Paddison (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), “Understanding Quantum Magnets Using Neutron Scattering”
- 31/05/23: No seminar
- 07/06/23: Jorge Quintanilla (Kent, Physics & Astronomy) – Whiteboard talk: “A new mechanism for time-reversal symmetry breaking in non-symmorphic superconductors, revealed through a caculation for elemental Rhenium”
- 14/06/23: Piotr Mironowicz (Gdansk University of Technology), “Coordinated actions supported by quantum entanglement”
- 21/06/23: Johnathan Martin (Kent, Physics & Astronomy) – title TBA