Ars Scientia: An artist and a physicist walked into a glassblowing studio …

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The UBC Ars Scientia collaboration brings together artists and scientists to identify fruitful areas for interdisciplinary work. I'll describe how it plunged this theoretical physicist into a messy (and fun!) glassblowing studio, why it saw me capturing explosions at 100,000 frames per second at the hospital, and how some serendipitous physics observations have taken me […]

Fazel Tafti: A New Paradigm for Colossal Magnetoresistance and Nonlinear Hall Effect

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https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68470173961?pwd=RTZEak9Pd01WajVOZHN5SW5YZHcyQT09 Meeting ID: 684 7017 3961 Passcode: 113399 Speaker: Fazel Tafti, Boston College Abstract Materials with strong magneto resistive responses are the backbone of spintronic technology, magnetic sensors, and hard drives. Among them, manganese oxides with a mixed valence and a cubic perovskite structure stand out due to their colossal magnetoresistance (CMR). A double exchange […]

Christian Schneider: Exciton-Polaritons and their condensates in microcavities loaded with atomically thin crystals

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https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68470173961?pwd=RTZEak9Pd01WajVOZHN5SW5YZHcyQT09 Meeting ID: 684 7017 3961 Passcode: 113399 Speaker: Christian Schneider, Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) have emerged as a new platform for studies of tightly bound excitons and many-body excitations in ultimately thin materials. Their giant dipole coupling to optical fields makes them very appealing for implementing novel […]

Eliška Greplová: Quantum Matter Meets Artificial Intelligence

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https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68470173961?pwd=RTZEak9Pd01WajVOZHN5SW5YZHcyQT09 Meeting ID: 684 7017 3961 Passcode: 113399   Speaker: Eliska Greplova, Assistant professor at the Department of Quantum Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology   Abstract: The fields of condensed matter, artificial intelligence and quantum computing have independently experienced a number of breakthroughs in the last decade. In this talk, I am going provide an […]

Christoph Renner: Electronic Vortex Core Structure of a d-Wave High Temperature Superconductor

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https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68470173961?pwd=RTZEak9Pd01WajVOZHN5SW5YZHcyQT09 Meeting ID: 684 7017 3961 Passcode: 113399   Speaker Christoph Renner, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Science at University of Geneva   Abstract: High temperature superconductivity (HTS) in copper oxides keeps challenging our understanding. Among the outstanding puzzles is the electronic structure of the Abrikosov vortex cores. The fundamental excitations bound to magnetic vortices in type-II […]

Claire Donnelly: Three-dimensional nanomagnetism: from textures in the bulk to 3D magnetic nanostructures

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https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68470173961?pwd=RTZEak9Pd01WajVOZHN5SW5YZHcyQT09 Meeting ID: 684 7017 3961 Passcode: 113399   Speaker: Claire Donnelly, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids   Abstract: Three dimensional magnetic systems promise significant opportunities for applications, for example providing higher density devices and new functionalities associated with complex topology and greater degrees of freedom .   With the recent development […]

Ben Breitung: Exploring High-Entropy Materials for Electrochemical Applications

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https://ubc.zoom.us/j/66879995529?pwd=dHpQb25LSGVZK3ozY243em5tenRWQT09 Meeting ID: 668 7999 5529 Passcode: 113399   Speaker: Ben Breitung, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology   Title: Exploring High-Entropy Materials for Electrochemical Applications   Abstract: High-entropy ceramics are a novel materials class with rapidly increasing significance since their discovery in 2015. Their unique crystal structure and the enormous compositional freedom allows tailoring these compounds […]

Sinéad Griffin: Searching for New Matter

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Title: Searching for New Matter Speaker: Sinéad Griffin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   Abstract: The past decade has seen a huge surge of interest in matter that cannot be described by our standard theories such as Landau-Ginzburg theory or the Standard Model. For example, the theoretical proposal and subsequent experimental realization of topological phases in […]

Cory R. Dean: Towards realizing twistronics on demand

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Title: Towards realizing twistronics on demand Speaker: Cory R. Dean, Department of Physics, Columbia University Abstract: The ability to isolate atomically thin crystals, such as graphene, boron nitride, and the transition metal dichalcogenides, and then mechanically layer them to form new heterostructures has driven a recent revolution in materials design. These layered structures are held […]