QMSI Special Seminars
2025
Dr. Vishakha Kaushik, Northeastern Univeristy, USA – Engineering charge transport and superconductivity in van der Waal materials: From scalable synthesis to devices (3/10/2025)
Dr. Shuang Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA – Topological flat bands and mass renormalization in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (3/4/2025)
Prof. Diana Y. Qiu, Department of Materials Science, Yale University, USA – Many-body effects on exciton dynamics and nonlinear optics in low-dimensional materials (2/28/2025)
Prof. Stephen Hill, Department of Physics, Florida State University, USA – Molecular quantum spin science (2/21/2025)
Prof. Caren Billings & Prof. Dave Billings, Witwatersrand University, South Africa – Structure-property studies of solid oxide electrolytes (2/13/2025)
Prof. Mingda Li, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA – AI-enabled quantum materials research (2/7/2025)
Dr. Jian-Xin Zhu, Sandia National Laboratories, USA – High harmonic generation in heavy fermion systems (2/3/2025)
Prof. Arindam Ghosh, Department of Physics, IISc Bangalore, India – Designing emergence with 2D atomic layers – From devices to black holes (1/28/2025)
2024
Dr. Brendan Faeth, Cornell University, USA / Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany / Epiray GmbH, Germany – Thermal laser epitaxy for ultraclean heterostructures (12/6/2024)
Dr. Grace Pan, University of California, Berkeley, USA – Atomic-scale design and construction of new superconducting materials (12/4/2024)
Prof. Darius Torchinsky, Department of Physics, Temple University, USA – A hidden quantum interference in a Weyl semimetal system (11/22/2024)
Prof. Luqiao Lui, Department of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA – Nonlinear spin dynamics in magnon/nitrogen vacancy hybrid system (11/15/2024)
Prof. Shenqiang Ren, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park – Strongly correlated molecular solids towards multiferroicity (11/15/2024)
Prof. Jiadong Zhang, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Hampshire, USA – Topological Hall effects in chiral magnets (11/8/2024)
Dr. Justin Brown, University of Southern California, USA – Quantum sensors for inertial navigation and geophysical measurements (10/17/2024)
Prof. Liang Wu, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, USA – Novel nonlinear optical response in 2D antiferromagnets (10/4/2024)
Prof. Andrew D. Kent, Department of Physics, New York University, USA – Stochastic actuated perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions for random number generation and modeling (9/20/2024)
Dr. Andrew Cupo, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, USA – Ultrafast control of quantum materials: Floquet band engineering and beyond (9/13/2024)
Prof. Yayoi Takamura, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis, USA – Tailoring magnetic spin textures in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3-based micromagnets (8/26/2024)
Dr. Tiffany C. Kaspar, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA – Atomically precise and machine-learning-enabled deposition of oxide thin films (8/26/2024)
Prof. Badhi A. Assaf, Physics and Astronomy, University of Notre Dame, USA – The anomalous Hall effect in unconventional antiferromagnets (7/24/2024)
Prof. Caterina Soldano, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University, Finland – Is the field-effect key for next-generation (organic) light-emitting devices? (7/22/2024)
Prof. Chandra Tiwary, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, India – Engineering materials at the atomic scale for the development of 3D-printed complex architectures for sustainable energy and Environmental Applications (7/10/2024)
Prof. Gil-Ho Lee, Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea – Graphene Josephson junctions for microwave sensors, non-equilibrium Floquet states and topological bands (7/10/2024)