Condensed Matter (CM) Seminar Schedule
Spring 2026
The seminars are held every Tuesday at 1:30 pm via Zoom and/or 330W - except where noted.
Seminar Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/96390053523?pwd=8FAIQaDdhRHzgWYGh0u2Hy8EaAdYE6.1
Meeting ID: 963 9005 3523
Password: 036562
| Day | Location | Title | Speaker | Host | Recordings / Slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 20 | No Seminar | ||||
| January 27 | No Seminar | ||||
| February 3 | 330W / Zoom | Dynamics and energy relaxation in strange metals | Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University | Seongshik Oh | Recording |
| February 10 | 330W / Zoom |
Which Material is worth Studying? (from the viewpoint of quantum materials) |
Leslie Schoop, Princeton University | Sang-Wook Cheong | Recording |
| February 17 | No Seminar | ||||
| February 24 | CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER | ||||
| March 3 | 330W / Zoom | Ilya Vilkoviskiy, Princeton University | Natan Andrei | Recording | |
| March 10 | 330W / Zoom | Deterministic domain switching and magnetically switchable quantum geometric photocurrents in a Van der Waals antiferromagnet | Liang Wu, U Penn | Sang-Wook Cheong | None |
| March 17 | No Seminar | ||||
| March 24 | 330W / Zoom | Non-analytic behaviour of order parameter correlation lengths in the quantum Ising spin chain | Marton Kormos, TU Budapest | Jedediah Pixley | Recording |
| March 31 | No Seminar | ||||
| April 7 | 330W / Zoom |
Investigations of Spin, Orbital, and Charge Degrees of Freedom in Cubic and Hexagonal Perovskites |
Patrick Woodward, The Ohio State University | Sang-Wook Cheong | Recording |
| April 14 | 330W / Zoom | Cui-Zu Chang, Penn State U | Weida Wu | None | |
| April 21 | 330W / Zoom | SU(2) gauge theory for intertwined orders and hole pockets in the cuprates | Subir Sachdev, Harvard U | Emil Yuzbashyan | Recording |
| April 28 | 330W / Zoom | Next Generation Moiré Quantum Matter | Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT | Piers Coleman | Recording |
| May 5 | 330W / Zoom | Quantum complexity in simple materials | Xavier Roy, Columbia U | Sang-Wook Cheong | None |
| May 12 | No Seminar | ||||
| May 19 | No Seminar | ||||
| May 26 | No Seminar | ||||
| Thursday, May 28 | 385E / Zoom | Entanglement and information dynamics in dual-unitary circuits with impurities | Shachar Fraenkel, Technical University of Munich | Jed Pixley | None |
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