Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-conservation of the valley density and its implications for the observation of the valley Hall effect

Alessandro Principi, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bosonic Quantum Solvation Enabled by Machine Learning

Dominik Marx (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology in lattices of semiconductor microcavities

Jacqueline Bloch (Université Paris-Saclay & CNRS).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Field control of many-body phases in frustrated moiré bilayers

Laura Classen, MPI Stuttgart.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

State engineering of a mesoscopic spin system (in a quantum dot)

Dorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermodynamic Integration, fermion sign problem, and real-space renormalization

Werner Krauth, ENS Paris, Oxford .

Mott Seminar Room (531).

Thursday 01 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The statistical properties of eigenstates in chaotic many-body quantum systems

John Chalker (Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Atomic scale modelling of magnetic materials

Joseph Barker (Leeds).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

“IT FROM BIT” How does information shape the structures in the universe?

Saeid Davatolhagh (Shiraz University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Deep learning, Monte Carlo and Quantum Mechanics

Alex Matthews, DeepMind.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-boundary correspondence in quantum chains

Nick Jones, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum reaction-diffusion dynamics

Gabriele Perfetto, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 17 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Melting of Spin 'Solids' in 2D

Andriy Nevidomskyy (Rice University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kinetic magnetism of fermions in triangular lattices

Eugene Demler, ETH Zurich.

Mott Seminar Room (531).

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Diversity, tolerance, and maturation of the adaptive immune response

Please note a different venue than the usual

Mehran Kardar (MIT).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonlinear breathers with crystalline symmetries

Frank Schindler, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Moving in a dynamically changing free energy landscape: strain, heterostructure and optical control of the correlation-driven metal-insulator transition

Prof. Andrew Millis, Columbia University; co-Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, The Flatiron Institute.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:15-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical minimum

David Khmelnitskii.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Waves topology in geophysical flows

Antoine Venaille (ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Schrödinger in Oxford (and Cambridge)

Professor Sir David Clary FRS (Oxford & Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-reciprocal active matter across the scales

Ramin Golestanian (MPI & Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Eigenstate thermalization, quantum designs and free probability

Jorge Kurchan (Ecole Normale Superieure, lpens, Paris, France).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Searching for Quantum Spin Liquids in Cerium-based Pyrochlores

Benedikt Placke, Max Planck Institute.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 07 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-interface correspondence from quantum distance in flat band systems

Chang-geun Oh (University of Tokyo).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 23 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Imparting the generalised Toric Code with hopping dynamics

Siddarth Vadnerkar (UC Davis).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 17 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The quantum Mpemba effect

Pasquale Calabrese (SISSA).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 (a joint Winton seminar)

Prof Yuanbo Zhang (Fudan University).

Small Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical magneto-optical spectroscopy for solid state defect quantum bits

Adam Gali (Wigner Research Centre for Physics & Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Strong Correlation and Unconventional Superconductivity in Bulk and Trilayer Alkali-Doped Fullerides

Changming Yue (University of Fribourg).

Zoom.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetic excitations from TDDFT: the case of the CrI3 2D magnet

Tommaso Gorni (CINECA).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum computers challenged by many-body chaos

Alexander Altland (University of Cologne).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Pseudo-Goldstone modes and order-by-disorder

Jeffrey G. Rau (University of Windsor).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

A novel framework for electron and phonon transport predictions from first-principles

Jenny Coulter (Harvard).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Planckian dissipation in metals

Sean Hartnoll (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Cavity Magnonics

Silvia Viola Kusminskiy (RWTH Aachen/MPL Erlangen).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Liouville conformal blocks and Stokes Phenomena

Babak Haghighat (Tsinghua University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Reinforcement learning to manipulate many-body quantum systems

Marin Bukov (PKS Dresden).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Molecular simulations of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells

Paramvir Ahlawat (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Solving Continuum Physics Equations with OpenFOAM

Hrvoje Jasak (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermalization bounds and a universal collapse of the viscosities of glass forming liquids

Zohar Nussinov (Oxford, Sorbonne, Washington U).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Understanding Metallic Bonding

Volker Heine.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

Recording now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kZjee3EwGU

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum thermodynamics in open quantum systems

Géraldine Haack (Université de Genève).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:15-12:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

A constructive approach to dualities in quantum spin systems

Frank Verstraete (DAMTP and Ghent University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ferroelectricity and topological polarization in twisted bilayers

Danny Bennett (University of Liège).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Active Matter: a new approach to mechanobiology?

Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum measurement protocol for many-body systems through projective measurements on ancillary sites

Elmer Doggen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

A Spiral Twist to the "Normal" State of Magic-Angle Bilayer Graphene

Siddharth Parameswaran (University of Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Measurement-induced transitions with symmetries

Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Penn State University .

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Toward discovering novel physics with a NISQ processor

Pedram Roushan (Google).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 21 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological skyrmion phases of matter

Ashley Cook (MPI PKS Dresden).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Photon-Instanton Collider Implemented by a Superconducting Circuit: Splitting a Single Photon

Moshe Goldstein (Tel Aviv University).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theories of Cross phenomena and Zentropy

Zi-Kui Liu (Penn State).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Symmetry breaking and entanglement transitions in driven-dissipative systems

Rosario Fazio, ICTP.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Novel Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Quantum Fluids of Light

Marzena Szymanska, UCL.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 28 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kagome metals

Ronny Thomale, University of Würzburg.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Path integral molecular dynamics for indistinguishable particles

Barak Hirshberg, Tel Aviv University.

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The inevitable emergence of density-dependent diffusion in expanding phage populations

Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 17 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Three-dimensional uniform electron gas by Quantum Monte Carlo

Sam Azadi, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-Hermitian topological phenomena: Exceptional points, symmetry and breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence

Flore Kunst, MPL Erlangen.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Order by disorder and phase transitions

Laura Messio, LPTMC Paris.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 20 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

POSTPONED

Flore Kunst, MPL Erlangen.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 02 December 2021, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magneto-enhancement of superconductivity in composite D-wave superconductors

Boris Spivak (University of Washington).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

Magneto-enhancement of superconductivity in composite D-wave superconductors

Boris Z. Spivak, University of Washington.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

From hyperbolic drum towards hyperbolic topological insulators

Tomáš Bzdušek (Paul Scherrer Institute).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

New understanding of liquid thermodynamics, viscosity and its lower bounds

Kostya Trachenko ( Queen Mary, University of London).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Water flows in carbon nanochannels: from quantum friction to carbon memories

Lyderic Bocquet, Ecole Normale Superieure.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Detecting fractional chern insulators of few-bosons

Cécile Repellin (CNRS Grenoble).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Systematic study of magnetotransport responses with Berry-Boltzmann equations and Wannier functions

Stepan Tsirkin (University of Zurich).

Zoom.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Symmetric Jordan-Wigner transformation on the square lattice

Adrian Po (MIT).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 10 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

First principles simulations of electrolyte materials with a view toward all solid state battery technology

Natalie Holzwarth (Wake Forest Uni.).

Zoom.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-conservative forces in nanoscale conductors

Tchavdar Todorov, Queen's University Belfast.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 03 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Non-Abelian braiding of phonons in layered silicates

Bo Peng.

Zoom.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Machine learning as a solution to the electronic structure problem

Beatriz G. del Rio (Georgia Tech).

Zoom.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Low-temperature quantum bounds in simple models

Jorge Kurchan, ENS Paris.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thwarting long-lived dark states to speed up dynamic polarization

Anushya Chandran (Boston University).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electrically tunable stacking domains and ferroelectricity in Moiré superlattices

Danny Bennett.

Zoom.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermodynamics in the presence of coherences and strong coupling corrections

Janet Anders (University of Exeter).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 06 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electronic properties and structural relaxation of twisted bilayer graphene: insights from large-scale first principles calculations

Giovanni Cantele.

Zoom.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology vs. interaction in fragile bands

Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 29 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Charges and Dipoles in Periodic Systems: Here Be Dragons

Michael Rutter.

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exploring the Mysteries of Collective Quantum Dynamics

Michael Knap, TU Munich.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Space projected electrical conductivity and spectral properties of the conduction matrix

Dave Drabold (Ohio University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonlinear topological photonics

Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 04 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The challenge to deliver high accuracy for material science on large computer simulations

Andrea Zen.

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

A sound idea: engineering phonons to convert heat into electricity

Phil Hasnip (York).

Zoom.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Machine-learning interatomic potentials as computational technology

Alexander Shapeev, Skoltech.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Periodic Trends in Adsorption Energies around the Single-Atom Alloy Active Site

Julia Schumann.

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Irradiation-induced defect engineering in two-dimensional materials

Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf .

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 11 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

First-Principles Search for Battery Electrodes

Ziheng Lu.

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

How to be a solid yet more fluid than a fluid?

Chang Woo Myung.

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Machine-learning interatomic potentials as computational technology

Alexander Shapeev, Skoltech.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 28 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

A chemical perspective on electron correlation in transition metal complexes

James Shee (UC Berkeley).

Zoom.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The challenge to deliver high accuracy for material science on large computer simulations

Andrea Zen, UCL.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Measurable signatures of quantum chaos and patterns of volume-law entanglement in quantum dynamics

Sagar Vijay, UC Santa Barbara.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 03 December 2020, 17:00-18:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exploring the vibrational properties of anharmonic crystals

Mark Johnson (Theory of Condensed Matter).

Zoom.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Tunable photostriction of halide perovskites controlled by light: Light-induced lattice expansion or light-induced lattice contraction?

Bo Peng, Materials Theory Group and Theory of Condensed Matter Group.

Zoom.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Open Markovian Quantum Many-Body Systems

Marco Schiro', CNRS, Institut de Physique, College de France & IPhT-CEA Saclay.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Amphipathic Nature of Graphene Flakes

Karolina Milowska.

Zoom.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology, Molecular Simulation, and Machine Learning as Routes to Exploring Structure and Phase Behavior in Molecular and Atomic Crystals

Mark Tuckerman, NYU.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Understanding the Peculiarities of Metallic Bonding

Prof. Volker Heine FRS.

Zoom.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Order within disorder: approaching phase boundaries in high-entropy systems

Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 05 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Letting the machines vote: Committee neural network potentials control generalization errors and enable active learning

Christoph Schran (UCL).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

A Supramolecular Approach to Templating Hybrid Perovskites

Jovana Milic, University of Fribourg.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 29 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Discovery of a weak topological insulating state and van Hove singularity in triclinic RhBi2

Gunnar Lange.

Zoom.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological Proximity Effects

Karyn Le Hur, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Systematic improvement of molecular excited state calculations by inclusion of nuclear quantum motion

Antonios Alvertis.

Zoom.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

High-fidelity description of spectral functions in correlated materials

Mark van Schilfgaarde, King's College London.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Bypassing the energy functional in density functional theory: Direct calculation of electronic energies from conditional probability densities

Ryan McCarty (UC Irvine).

Zoom.

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Solving the Many-Electron Schrödinger Equation with Deep Neural Networks

Matthew Foulkes (Imperial College).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 10 September 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Emergent topological phenomena in strained pyrochlore iridate thin films

Bohm Jung Yang (Seoul National University).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 06 August 2020, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Hall Viscosity in Quantum Systems with Discrete Symmetry

Barry Bradlyn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 25 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Universal exfoliation of 2D materials

Bo Peng .

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Cascaded quantum systems - strongly correlated transport and remote interactions

Prof. Klemens Hammerer, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 04 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

How to compute spectral properties of operators on Hilbert spaces with error control

Matthew Colbrook -- DAMTP.

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Topological phonons in ferroelectrics switched by light

Bo Peng.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Chemical equilibrium in the Earth's core

Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Thermal transport beyond Fourier, and beyond Boltzmann

Michele Simoncelli, Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Simulating Disordered Supramolecular Materials for Organic Electronics using Linear Scaling Density Functional Theory

Dr Laura Ratcliff, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quasi-1D Lithium-ion dynamics in high-rate complex oxide battery electrodes

Can Kocer.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Assessment of Approximate Methods for Anharmonic Free Energies

Venkat Kapil, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 17 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology by non-unitary quantum dynamics

Prof. Dr. Jan Carl Budich, TU Dresden .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

An ab initio approach for exciton-photon interactions in molecular crystals

Antonis Alvertis, TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Emergent Black Hole Dynamics in Critical Floquet Systems

Prof. Dr. Titus Neupert, University of Zurich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exploring chemical space for computational drug discovery

Alex Wade, TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Moiré superlattices in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

Prof. Vladimir Fal'ko, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Forces in TDDFT with a moving basis set

Jessica Halliday.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantized optical responses in chiral insulators and metals

Dr Adolfo G. Grushin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Structure searching and longitudinal-transverse mode coupling in sulfur

Jack Whaley-Baldwin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology and scale invariance in atomic Flatland

Prof. Jean Dalibard, Collège de France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Optical excitations in layered semiconductors - the case of BiI3

Ivona Bravić.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Stochastic Approach to Quantum Spin Dynamics

Dr Joe Bhaseen, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Sub-ballistic growth of Rényi entanglement in quantum systems with diffusive transport

Dr. Curt von Keyserlingk, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

First-principles Investigation of Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Batteries (ASSBs)

Bora Karasulu, TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Comprehensive modeling of materials for solar applications from first principles

Prof. Julia Wiktor, Chalmers University of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Approaches to modelling organic/inorganic interfaces, with an example of a Tetracene/Metal halide perovskite interface

Alan Bowman.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Introducing Topological Quantum Chemistry and Topological Materials Data Base

Dr Maia Vergniory, Donostia International Physics Center.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

An analytic model of surface waveguide discontinuities using the Wiener-Hopf method

Tobias Schaich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Axial anomalies in Weyl semimetals

Prof. Jens Bardarson, KTH Royal Technical Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exchange-diffusion Monte Carlo

Michael Hutcheon.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spin Transport in 2D Materials and Topological Matter

Prof. Stephan Roche, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

First order insulator-metal transition at the LaAlO3 / SrTiO3 interface

Danny Bennett.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Photonic topological anomalies

Prof. Henning Schomerus, Lancaster University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Amorphous Al2O3 from Atomic Layer Deposition

Angela Harper, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Towards the design of molecular materials

Dr Gerit Brandenburg, Heidelberg University and UCL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 16 September 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Machine learning clustering technique applied to X-ray diffraction patterns to distinguish alloy substitutions

Ryo Maezono , JAIST, Ishikawa, Japan.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 September 2019, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Towards automated self-correction of approximate DFT using first-principles Hubbard U and Hund's J parameters

David O’Regan, School of Physics, CRANN and AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 September 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Recent progress in the first-principles quantum Monte Carlo: New algorithms in the all-electron calculations and a workflow system for QMC optimizations

Kosuke Nakano.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 September 2019, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Accelerating Materials Science through High-throughput First Principles Computations and Machine Learning

Prof. Shyue Ping Ong, UCSD.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 August 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Vestigial order in quantum materials

Prof. Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonequilibrium Materials Engineering

Dr. Michael Sentef, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ab initio thermodynamics with the help of machine learning

Dr. Bingqing Cheng, Trinity College, the University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 03 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dissipative "time crystals"

Dr. Achilleas Lazarides, Loughborough University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Many-electron quantum simulation of matter: insight from exact time-dependent real-space model systems

Prof. Rex Godby, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Computational modelling of itinerant electrons and fluctuating local moments in magnetic materials - permanent magnets, caloric effects and spintronics

Prof. Julie Staunton, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quantum Machine Learning in Chemical Space

Felix Faber, University of Basel .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Flexoelectricity from first principles

Prof. Cyrus E. Dreyer, Stony Brook University and Flatiron Institute.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 13 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Screening materials from high-throughput ab initio calculations

Prof. Gian-Marco Rignanese, UCLouvain.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-Hermitian symmetry-protected topological band theory

Simon Lieu, Imperial College London .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spontaneous non-equilibrium magnetism via "Berryogenesis" in driven electronic systems

Prof. Mark Spencer Rudner, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Enhancing materials design using microscopy and modelling

Dr Rebecca Nicholls, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in One Dimension

Dr Johannes Bausch, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-linear response of two dimensional crystals and layered materials

Dr Claudio Attaccalite, CNRS.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exact exchange-correlation kernels for optical spectra

Mike Entwistle, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 12:00-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Minimal models for chaotic quantum dynamics in spatially extended many-body systems

Prof. John Chalker, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Colour prediction of organic molecules in solution: pH indicators

Joseph Prentice.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 12:00-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

50 years on. Recollections of a former young theoretical physicist

Prof. David Khmelnitskii, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

A data-derived approach to initialise densities in DFT

Andrew Fowler.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 12:00-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

3D quantum Hall effects in Dirac loops

Prof. Bruno Uchoa, The University of Oklahoma.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Phonon assisted luminescence in hexagonal Boron Nitride

Dr Elena Cannuccia, University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum many-body scars

Dr. Zlatko Papić, University of Leeds.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dissipative transition in synthetic matter

Prof. Rosario Fazio, ICTP.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Emergence of topological phases in lithium under pressure

Stephanie Mack, University of California, Berkeley.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theory of photon- and electron-stimulated surface chemistry

Dr Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamical quantum phase transitions

Dr Markus Heyl, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Chemical-physics properties, complexity and chirality measures for the amino acids of the isoleucine series from Antarctic meteorites

Fabiana Da Pieve.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Crystal structure prediction for low cost battery anodes

Angela Harper (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Second-Principles DFT methods and current applications

Dr Pablo García Fernández, University of Cantabria.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Uni-axial Negative Thermal Expansion in Layered Perovskites

Prof. Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Analyzing the electronic structure of molecules using Continuous Symmetry Measures

Speaker to be confirmed.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Introducing Caesar: an attempt to calculate the properties of crystals at finite temperatures using self-consistent anharmonic phonons without running out of computing time

Speaker to be confirmed.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Predicting the atomic structure of interfaces and extended defects using Ab Initio Random Structure Searching

Dr Georg Schusteritsch, University of Cambridge .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Superconducting DFT

Speaker to be confirmed.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electronic Structure of Niobium Pentoxide-derived Crystallographic Shear Phases

Speaker to be confirmed.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electronic Structure of Niobium Pentoxide-derived Crystallographic Shear Phases

Speaker to be confirmed.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Wibbles and wobbles of the Coulomb crystal

Gareth Conduit (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

BEEF: Bayesian Error Estimate Functionals

Matthew Evans (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Lieb's "Density Functionals for Coulomb Systems"

Nick Woods (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The role of spin-orbit coupling in superconducting In5Bi3

Bartomeu Monserrat (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

An overview of topological crystalline phases, defect physics and novel Floquet systems

Dr Robert-Jan Slager, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 July 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

New tools to simulate strongly correlated systems

Dr Norman Tubman, UC Berkeley.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 July 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bridging the gap between atomistic and macroscopic models of homogeneous nucleation

Bingqing Cheng, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonextensivity in classical inertial XY and Heisenberg models

Dr Antonio Rodríguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Effective Edge State Dynamics in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Prof. Steve Simon, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Computationally Driven Design of New and Improved Transparent Conducting Oxides

Dr David Scanlon, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Fractons

Prof. Rahul Nandkishore, Boulder.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 14 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetism and topology in strongly correlated metals

Prof. Qimiao Si, Rice University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Thermalization Dynamics

Prof. Dr. Frank Pollmann, Technische Universität München.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Semimetals Unlimited: Unbounded electrical and thermal transport properties in three-dimensional nodal semimetals

Dr Brian Skinner, MIT.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Multi-scale dynamic disorder in halide perovskite solar cells

Prof. Aron Walsh, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum modelling of the interiors of rocky and icy planets

Dr Andreas Hermann, The University of Edinburgh.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dirac and Weyl Semimetals: Synthesis and Characterization

Dr Ivan Kokanovic, University of Zagreb.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Delocalised atoms and electrons in quasi-periodic lattices, their edge modes and interactions with heavy impurities

Dr Manuel Valiente, Heriot-Watt University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ergodicity, dissipation, and large-deviation theory in non-equilibrium systems

Dr Robert Jack, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological Materials with liquid electrons

Prof. Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Using molecular orbital arguments to explain acene-based chromophore spectra

Dr Tim Hele, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

TCM Dragon's Den

TCM first year students.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Metastability in open quantum dynamics

Dr Katarzyna Macieszczak, University of Nottingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism at the nanoscale

Prof. Alexandre Buzdin, University of Bordeaux.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Systematic development of small molecules against Aβ aggregation

Michele Vendruscolo ( Dept. of Chemistry).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 07 December 2017, 12:00-13:00

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Incorporating Meaning into Fundamental Physics

Lecture given at the Frontiers of Fundamental Physics 15 Conference: video, with slides included, available at link below.

Brian Josephson, Physics Department, University of Cambridge.

view on your computer via webcast, link below.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Unconventional Order in some Framework Materials

Prof. Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exploring Chemical Space with Random Matrix Theory

Dr Alpha Lee, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

What is adaptation, and how should it be measured?

Dr Joel Peck ( Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge ).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Anharmonic and quantum effects in (bio)organic systems with first-principles accuracy

Dr Mariana Rossi, Fritz Haber Institut.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Survival strategies in spatial public goods games

Marianne Bauer (TCM).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Entanglement and thermodynamics in out-of-equilibrium systems

Vincenzo Alba.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Surprises from 'simple' metals -- a case study of layered delafossites

Prof. Andrew Mackenzie, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Scaling laws for spreading the quantum information

Dr Adam Nahum, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological electronic properties of silicon

Prof. Claudio Chamon, Boston University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electron doping of samarium nickelate from first principles

Michele Kotiuga (Rutgers University).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 22 August 2017, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetic moments in superconductors: From Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states, to topological superconductors and frustrated magnetism

Prof. Jens Paaske, University of Copenhagen.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Multiscale Modelling of Chromatin Nanostructure and its Epigenetic Regulation

Rosana Collepardo (Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

On signatures of Majorana fermions

Dr Benjamin Béri (University of Birmingham) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Hunting for viral packaging signals

Dr Julia Gog (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Correlated electronic structure: What can physicists and chemists learn from each other?

Dr George Booth.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetic Moment Fragmentation in Spin Ice and Artificial Spin Ice

Prof. Peter Holdsworth, ENS Lyon.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Transformation optics, surface plasmons, and metasurfaces

Professor Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Emergent phenomena in classical spin liquids

Ludovic Jaubert, University of Bordeaux.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Computational methods for analysis of single-cell RNA-seq and cancer mutability

Martin Hemberg (Sanger Institute).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 23 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Atomistic modelling of excited states and luminescence in sodium silicate glass

Dr Konstantinos Konstantinou, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Structure and Function of Water In Biomolecular Systems

David Huggins (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Prof. Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Determining and approaching the physical limits of electron cryomicroscopy in biology

Dr. Christopher J. Russo ( MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology, U.K.).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Car and Parrinello meet Green and Kubo: simulating atomic heat transport from equilibrium ab initio molecular dynamics

Prof. Stefano Baroni (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Unravelling the Mysteries of the Water-Solid Interface with Statistical Mechanics and Ab Initio Simulations

Angelos Michaelides, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Dielectrophoresis of Biomolecules & Elasticity of Cells

Dr. Richard Clarke (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Curl forces and beyond

Professor Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Counting the Uncountable

Prof. Daan Frenkel.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

TCM Dragons' Den

First year PhD students.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Combined first principles and experimental NMR of paramagnetic materials - application to LiTi(x)Mn(2-x)O4 cathode material

Roberta Pigliapochi (Chemistry).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 11:00-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Spin-orbit coupling, photoemission and light absorption from first-principles calculations

Cheol-Hwan Park (Seoul National University).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

From zeolite nets to (meta-) stable ice structures: a theoretical study

Edgar Engel (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 11:30-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

First-principles anharmonic calculations and the dynamic Jahn-Teller effect

Joseph Prentice (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 11:00-11:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Nature of the Metalization Transition in Solid Hydrogen

Sam Azadi (Imperial College London).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The intimate relation between mechanics and geometry

Prof. Mark Warner, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical Physics in the Cavendish Laboratory: from the Beginning to 1962

Prof. Malcolm Longair, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Title to be confirmed

Prof Michael J Hartmann.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

First-principles non-equilibrium transport simulation to nano-electronics devices: Topological super-lattice PCM and HfOx ReRAM cells

Hisao Nakamura (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Upside Down and Inside Out: The Biomechanics of Cell Sheet Folding

Prof. Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Criticality, Strange Metals and High Temperature Superconductors

Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Doping-dependent screening of adatoms in graphene from first-principles multiscale simulations

Fabiano Corsetti (Imperial College London).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Current trends in cold atom physics

Prof. Nigel Cooper, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

A model for controlled force transmission in the cytoskeleton

Raphael Blumenfeld.

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Fröhlich electron-phonon coupling from first principles: theory and applications

Carla Verdi (University of Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 11:00-11:40

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Two theoretical approaches to nanostructured interfaces

Georgios Tritsaris.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 July 2016, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Liquid-crystalline states of ultracold atomic systems

Sarang Gopalakrishnan.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Frustration and Correlations in Stacked Triangular Lattice Ising Antiferromagnets

John Chalker (Theoretical Physics, Oxford University).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 June 2016, 11:15-12:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-local density functional theory

Prof. Stewart Clark, Durham University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 June 2016, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Extracting Hidden Hierarchies in Complex Spatial Biological and Physical Networks

Dr Carl D Modes (Rockefeller University, New York).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 09 June 2016, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

How to describe inhomogeneous quantum systems in one dimension with (conformal) field theory: lessons from non-interacting Fermi gases

Jerome Dubail, CNRS, Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 June 2016, 14:15-15:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

Many-body interaction effects in Dirac-Weyl semimetals

Edwin Barnes, Virginia Tech.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Lattice dynamics and vibrational excitations in random networks and disordered crystals

Alessio Zaccone (Cavendish Laboratory, BSS).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Encapsulation of 1D crystals inside carbon nanotubes

Dr Paulo V C Medeiros (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 11:00-11:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

Fermionic spinon and holon statistics in the pyrochlore quantum spin liquid

Bruce Normand, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Cell crawling, cell swimming and cell tumbling

Elsen Tjhung (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

New understanding of liquid thermodynamics and supercritical state

Kostya Trachenko, Queen Mary, University of London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Applied CAMD in Development of Adsorbents for Extraction of Uranium from Seawater

Sinisa Vukovic ( University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Activity induced phase separation

Prof Jean-Francois Joanny (Institut Curie).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Friday 06 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Stripe Phases in Quantum Dipolar Gases

Prof. Jordi Boronat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Universality in the clonal dynamics in developing tissues

Dr. Steffen Rulands (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

First-Principles Study of Frequency-Dependent Resonant Raman Scattering

Yannick Gillet, Université catholique de Louvain.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 11:00-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Thermal expansion of graphene beyond the quasiharmonic approximation

Jonathan Lloyd-Williams (TCM, Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 April 2016, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Control variate method for vibrational corrections in DFT

Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 April 2016, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Frustration meets topology: from C>1 fractional Chern insulators to tilted Weyl semimetals

Emil Bergholtz, Freie Universität Berlin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Incorporating prior information into global search for improved structure prediction

Saki Shinoda (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 12:00-12:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The v Jastrow factor

Thomas Whitehead (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electronic Structure Aided Drug Discovery

Daniel Cole (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 11:00-11:40

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

The statistical physics of swimming algae

Otti Croze (Cavendish Laboratory (Physics), University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Computational Designs for Homogeneous Catalysts for Chemo-, Regio- and Stereoselectivity

Prof. Robert Paton, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Directed Assembly of Active Colloidal Devices

Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP).

Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ultracold dipolar gases with quantum Monte Carlo

Stefano Giorgini, Università degli Studi di Trento.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Many-body effects on electron-phonon coupling

Bartomeu Monserrat (TCM, University of Cambridge and Rutgers University).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Geometric responses of Quantum Hall systems. Bulk and boundary.

Alexander Abanov, Stony Brook University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Tissue renewal by stochastic stem cell fate dynamics

Philip Greulich (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

High-throughput calculation of phase diagrams with nested sampling

Livia Bartók-Pártay (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 11:30-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Nested sampling with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Robert Baldock (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 11:00-11:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Orbital Angular Momentum and Spectral Flow in Two Dimensional Chiral Superfluids

CPDG meeting

Masaki Oshikawa, ISSP Tokyo.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Application of CFT to spin chains and the Fractional quantum Hall wave functions on the lattice.

German Sierra, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 January 2016, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Improving anharmonic vibrational calculations from first principles

Joseph Prentice (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Ice surfaces – Surface energies and proton-ordering

Edgar Engel (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spectral statistics of chaotic many-body systems

Please note unusual time

Sebastian Müller, University of Bristol.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Free energy methods for computer-aided drug design

Daniel Cole (TCM).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Investigating Defective Anatase Surfaces Using Linear Scaling Density Functional Theory

Edward Tait (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Computing solvent effects on electronic excitations with linear-scaling TDDFT

Tim Zuehlsdorff (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Coupling Spin and Charge Transport in Complex Materials

Dr Martin Gradhand, University of Bristol.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The exact functional of density functional theory

Dr Aron Cohen, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dragons' Den

Various members of TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Physical views of bacterial cells: size regulation in E.Coli

Dr Pietro Cicuta.

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

High pressure structure searching: calcium oxides under mantle conditions

Joseph Nelson (TCM Group, University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The generation of free charges in efficient organic solar cells

Samuel Smith (TCM Group, University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Recent progress in linear scaling DFT: Molecular dynamics, basis sets and applications

Prof. David Bowler, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Powerful and deceptive Feynman diagrammatic series

Evgeny Kozik, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Analysis of stochastic polymer models and reconstruction of chromatin organization in cell nucleus

Prof David Holcman ( IBENS Ecole Normale Superieure).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Tensor Network Representation of Strongly Correlated States of Matter

Note unusual time / day

Didier Poilblanc, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, IRSAMC, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Multi-purpose Black-Phosphorus/hBN heterostructures

Gabriel Constantinescu, TCM Group, Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 11:00-11:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamical constraints, metastability and many-body localisation

Juan P Garrahan, University of Nottingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Wave Phenomena during Embryonic Patterning

David Jörg.

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Self-organized pseudo-graphene on grain boundaries in topological band insulators

Dr Ville Lahtinen, Berlin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Experiments with the iterated stockholder atoms procedure in intermolecular interaction models

Alston Misquitta, Queen Mary University, London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms

Dr Hannah Price, Universita di Trento.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Evolution, classification and dynamics of protein complexes

Sarah Teichmann.

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Can the Fermi surface reconstruction in YBCO at high fields be explained by the observed Charge Density Wave (CDW) structure?

Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 September 2015, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermalization vs localization in a solvable circuit model

Anushya Chandran, Perimeter Institute.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 August 2015, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Superconducting states in time reversal invariant Landau levels

Prof. Bruno Uchoa, Oklahoma.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 August 2015, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Physics Without Borders

Greg Benesh (Baylor University).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

SST / TCM at Sixty

TCM Group.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 10 July 2015, 13:30-19:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Excited-state calculations in FCIQMC

Nicholas Blunt (Chemistry).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 01 July 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Excited state calculations and theoretical spectroscopy of complex nanomaterials using Linear-Scaling Density Functional Theory

Dr Nick Hine (University of Warwick).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 01 July 2015, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Z4 parafermions in time-reversal invariant topological insulators

Prof. Thomas Schmidt, University of Luxembourg.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Real space calculation of response functions using non-diagonal supercells

Jonathan Lloyd-Williams (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 17 June 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Understanding interacting many-particle systems: accurate theories for liquids and electronic excitations in solids

Johannes Lischner (Imperial).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 17 June 2015, 11:00-11:40

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Materials beyond the periodic table: a high-throughput structure prediction study

Martin Uhrin (EPFL).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 16 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Dirac cones in two-dimensional borane?

Miguel Martinez-Canales (Edinburgh).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Dirac cones in two-dimensional borane?

Miguel Martinez-Canales (Edinburgh).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Trions and Biexcitons in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors

Dr Neil Drummond, Lancaster University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

“Powers of two (flagella)"

Kirsty Wan (DAMTP).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Phase transitions in non-Abelian string nets

Note Early Starting Time

Julien Vidal, CNRS, LPTMC Paris.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 13:45-14:45

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Interfacial materials and interface structure prediction: an ab initio random structure searching approach

Georg Schusteritsch (UCL).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Wavefunctions of symmetry protected topological phases and conformal field theories

Zohar Ringel, Oxford University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

A tractable genotype-phenotype map for biological self-assembly

Dr Sebastian Ahnert ( TCM, Cavendish Laboratory).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Graphene: the good, the bad, and the beauty

Prof. Christiane Morais Smith, University of Utrecht.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 14:15-15:45

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Singlet fission in pentacene dimers

David Turban (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Correcting the heavy-tailed local energy distribution in QMC

Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Phase diagram of the interacting Majorana chain model

Prof Ian Affleck.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Introduction to the Modelling of Forces in Biological Tissues

Dr Edouard Hannezo (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exploiting locality: large-scale first-principles simulations of nanostructures

Dr Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Time-dependent density functional theory: past and future

Yutian Wu (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 12:00-12:20

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

First-principles investigation into surfaces of lithium-ion battery silicon anodes

Darren Valentine (Chem).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Prediction of NMR J-coupling in condensed matter

Tim Green (Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 11:00-11:40

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Xenon oxides under pressure

Nicholas Worth, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 April 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quantum methods in bioluminescence imaging and analysis

Shane Lawrence, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 April 2015, 11:00-11:40

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Pseudopotentials for a dipolar ultracold atomic gas

Thomas Whitehead (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electronic structure and computational design of hybrid lead-iodide perovskites

Marina Filip (Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-equilibrium steady states in many-body quantum systems

Benjamin Doyon, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 14:15-15:45

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Linear scaling DFT for the investigation of defective oxide nanomaterials

Edward Tait (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Computing optical properties of large systems: linear-scaling time-dependent density functional theory (LS-TDDFT) in ONETEP

Tim Zuehlsdorff (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 11:00-11:40

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Algal-bacterial interactions at a distance

Francois Peaudecerf (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Anharmonic vibrations and the neutral vacancy in diamond and silicon

Joseph Prentice (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Superconductivity in high-pressure phases of hydrogen sulfides

Joseph Nelson (TCM Group, University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Modelling DNA organisation by DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution

Davide Marenduzzo, University of Edinburgh.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Ligand-mediated interactions between lipid vesicle: tuneable porosity and negative thermal expansion in lipid-DNA phases.

Lorenzo Di Michele.

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Topological order from parafermions

Paul Fendley, Oxford University, All Souls College.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Emergent phenomena in the BiS2 family of superconductors from first principles

Corentin Morice (TCM) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Classical statistical mechanics with nested sampling

Robert Baldock (TCM) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

TCM's "Dragon's Den"

multiple internal speakers - see abstract.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

"Rotary molecular motors"

Professor Eugene Terentjev ( Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Two-dimensional Valence Bond Solid (AKLT) states from t2g electrons

Maciej Koch-Janusz, Weizmann Institute.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Ab initio study of phosphorus anode for lithium and sodium-ion batteries

Martin Mayo (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Towards time-dependent current density functional theory in real time

José María Escartín Esteban (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope

Prof. Dr. Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zürich.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

An energy landscape study highlights the well engineered thermodynamics of collagen.

Chris Forman (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-Fermi-liquid behaviour in nearly ferromagnetic metals: a new fixed point

Dr Chris Hooley, University of St Andrews .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electron-phonon coupling and the vibrational averaging over proton-orderings in ice

Edgar Engel (TCM) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The role of van der Waals interactions and nuclear quantum effects in soft layered materials

Gabriella Graziano (Cambridge Graphene Centre).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 11:00-11:40

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Neurotransduction mechanism via GPCRs: alpha helix, the smallest spring in nature?”

Sinisa Vukovic ( University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 11 December 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The winding road to topological insulators

Note unusual location

Eugene Mele, University of Pennsylvania.

Cavendish Laboratory, Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Energy landscape and band-structure tuning in realistic MoS2/MoSe2 heterostructures

Gabriel Constantinescu (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 11:40-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Making quantum chemistry work for metals

James Shepherd, Rice University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 11:00-11:40

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Making quantum chemistry work for metals

James Shepherd (Rice University).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Long-time behaviour of periodically driven many-body quantum systems

Achilleas Lazarides, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Fermions in two dimensions

Meera Parish, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Noncollinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling

Dan Jones (Oxford/TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Theory and simulation of electronic and optical properties of thin film BaxSr1-xTiO3

Jawad Al-Saei (Imperial College London).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Majorana metals and quantum spin liquids

Maria Hermanns, University Köln.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Comparing site occupancy calculations with experimental observations

Robbie Bennett.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quantum Monte Carlo study of the phase diagram of solid molecular hydrogen at extreme pressures

Jonathan Lloyd-Williams (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 11:00-11:40

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

What the Bees Know and What They Don’t Know. Meanders on Shape, Packing and Self-Assembly in Nature

Pablo F. Damasceno ( University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Tracing potential energy surfaces of electronic excitations via their transition origins: application to oxirane

Jian-Hao Li, TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

2D molecular self assembly - quantifying electrostatic interactions in monolayers of charged molecules with CDFT

Valerie Vaissier, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-equilibrium processes from an ab-initio perspective: generalized Hedin's equations and ultra-fast processes in paradigmatic materials

Andrea Marini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Strong-coupling ansatz for the one-dimensional Fermi gas in a harmonic potential

Jesper F. Levinsen, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

The 'richness' of brain organisation: What a large-scale human brain functional network has in common with the C. elegans neuronal connectome and beginning to describe brain disorders in terms of disordered networks

Emma Towlson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Thermal effects in NMR

Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez, TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quantum many body effects in transition metal molecules?

Cedric Weber, Kings College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spectroscopic signatures of collective modes in superconductors

Lara Benfatto, University of Rome, La Sapienza.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

One-dimensional boson flow between weakly couple reservoirs

Professor Igor Lerner, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

"Mechanical instabilities of epithelial tissues”

Dr Edouard Hannezo (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 09 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Comparing site occupancy calculations with experimental observations

Robbie Bennett (Mat).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 October 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Molecular excited states and QMC

Mike Towler.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 October 2014, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

CALYPSO: A Useful Tool for Discovering Novel Structures and Properties of Materials at Extreme Conditions

Yanming Ma, Jilin University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 September 2014, 15:30-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spin Hall Effect

Guang-Yu Guo, National Taiwan University,.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 July 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

The density is not enough

Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 July 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Critical Casimir Forces in a Magnetic System: An Experimental Protocol

Prof. Peter Holdsworth, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 July 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

First-principles Materials Applications and Design to Nonlinear Optical Crystals

Prof. Zheshuai Lin, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Many-body state preparation and quantum simulation with cold atoms

Prof. Andrew Daley, University of Strathclyde.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Bacterial migration in porous media and the new biological statistical physics that describes it

Otti Croze.

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Graphene electronics and optoelectronics

Antonio Lombardo.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Molecular dynamics with linear scaling density functional theory: the CONQUEST code

David Bowler (UCL).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 11:00-11:40

TCM Blackboard Series

Unitary Fermi gas, unitary Bose gas: theory and experiments

Note unusual day of week

Felix Werner, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS Paris.

TCM Seminar Room (530), Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 June 2014, 14:15-15:45

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

The synchronised state of actively beating cilia: collective dynamical patterns emerge out of noise.

Dr Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Calculation of NMR parameters in the solid-state: the importance of special relativity

Dr Jonathan Yates, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Probing many-body physics with cold atoms: The Higgs boson and quantum hexatic order.

Georg Bruun, Aarhus University.

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Pseudoψence

Gareth Conduit (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 11:00-11:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

Active nematics and topological defects

Prof. Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

IS GREEN TEA GOOD FOR YOU? INSIGHTS FROM ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS

Carla Molteni, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG) 15/05/2014

Breanndan S.B. O-Conchuir & Tine Curk.

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Core loss spectroscopy of graphene oxide

Gleb Shiroki (Cavendish).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 12:00-12:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Short range order in liquid metals

Martin Mayo, TCM.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 11:45-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exotic physical properties of matter studied by simulation

Martin Dove, Queen Mary University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 11:00-11:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological order from strong correlations in two-dimensional lattice models

Note time changed back to usual schedule at short notice.

Stefanos Kourtis, IFW Dresden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Odd Times for Triplet Pairing

Prof. James Annett, University of Bristol.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

The Mechanical Basis of Morphogenesis

Dr John Biggins .

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological Kondo Insulators and SmB6: magnetism meets topology.

Piers Coleman, Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Algorithmic differentiation of diffusion Monte Carlo

Tom Poole (Imperial).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 March 2014, 11:00-11:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

Paradigms of the interaction effects in Fermi surface topological reconstruction

Dr Joseph Betouras, Loughborough University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quantum Monte Carlo at the research frontier: useful calculations for big, complicated systems

Mike Towler (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exploring Thermal Transport via Gauge-Gravity Duality and Hydrodynamics

M. Joe Bhaseen, King's College, London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Towards first-principles biomimetic catalyst design

Greg Lever (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The method of entropy calculations for biochemical bonds

Shane Lawrence (Earth Sciences).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

The nature of the quantum spin-liquid state in Herbertsmithite

Matthias Punk, Universität Innsbruck.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

What’s the point of linear-scaling electronic structure methods?

Prof. Peter Haynes, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Slicing a system for optimization in QMC

Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

GAP potential for tungsten

Wojciech Szlachta (Eng).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Pairing symmetry and dominant band in Sr2RuO4

Thomas Scaffidi, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The 2-particle density matrix and the exchange-correlation holes

Jian Wang (Huzhou University).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

First-principles dynamics applied to energy materials

Keith Refson, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Stationary Behaviour of Observables after a Quantum Quench

Maurizio Fagotti, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electronic structure and impact

Mike Payne (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Pseudopotentials reach for the stars

Gareth Conduit (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nucleation pathways in partially disordered lattice models

David Quigley, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Transport theory of pyrochlore conductors

Masafumi Udagawa, University of Tokyo.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 December 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Adiabatic reaction forces in mesoscopic systems

Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, Freie Universität Berlin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 December 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

A new extension of QM/MM methods: the adaptive buffered-force QM/MM method

Letif Mones (Eng).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamics in one dimension: from fractional excitations to new out-of-equilibrium states of matter

Jean-Sébastien Caux, University of Amsterdam.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 November 2013, 14:15-15:45

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Pseudopotentials in cold atoms

Pascal Bugnion (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Momentum-resonant tunnelling in carbon nanotube networks

Rob Bell (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Accurate Effective Hamiltonians via Unitary Flow in Floquet space

Florian Mintert, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Part is Greater than the Sum of the Wholes: How to Spin Light Into Anyons

Eliot Kapit, Oxford University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Intra- and intermolecular potential energy surfaces derived from ab initio data by machine learning

Alan Nichol (Eng) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Pressure-induced structural transformations in nanomaterials: a linear-scaling DFT investigation

Niccolo Corsini (Imperial).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 11:00-11:40

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Failures of density functional theory for strongly correlated systems using density-matrix renormalization group

Kieron Burke (University of California, Irvine).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 11:00-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bosons in Synthetic Gauge Fields

Ryan Barnett, Imperial College.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 November 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Towards ab initio optical spectroscopy of a bacterial light-harvesting complex

Danny Cole (Yale).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Wavefunction expansions in the solid state: New approaches to reach the thermodynamic limit

George Booth (Chemistry, Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis II

Elisabet Romero, VU University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 15:45-16:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis

Prof. R. van Grondelle, VU University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Steve Simon.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The molecular vacancy in hexagonal ice from a random structure searching point of view

Edgar Engel (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Linking the continuous and the discrete -- coupling molecular dynamics to continuum fluid mechanics

Edward Smith (Imperial College).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-equilibrium dynamics of open quantum system

Dr Igor Lesanovsky, University of Nottingham.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 October 2013, 14:15-15:45

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The search for the optimal supercell

Jonathan Lloyd-Williams (TCM) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 October 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Forces for electronic excited states: An implementation of TD-DFT in CASTEP

Dominik Jochym (Rutherford Appleton Lab).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 October 2013, 11:00-11:40

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Nested sampling for bulk systems

Robert Baldock (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 July 2013, 11:00-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The bulk photovoltaic effect in polar oxides for robust and efficient solar energy harvesting

Andrew M. Rappe (University of Pennsylvania).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 26 June 2013, 11:00-12:00

Irregular seminars in TCM

Towards a general theory for pyrochlores: dimensional reduction, ground-state selection and new emergent electromagnetism

Ludovic Jaubert.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 June 2013, 15:00-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Charge and exciton dynamics in organic devices

Alessandro Troisi, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bad metals

Prof. Alexei Tsvelik.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 14:15-15:45

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

White dwarf cooling: electron-phonon coupling and the metallization of solid helium

Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Linear-scaling time-dependent density-functional theory in the linear-response formalism: An implementation in the ONETEP code

Tim Zuehlsdorff (Imperial College).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Stable and unstable equilibrium points in the quantum Gaudin model

Dr Benoit Doucot, CNRS / LPTHE Jussieu, France.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Correlated electrons on the nanoscale: models, issues, reality.

Prof. David Logan, Oxford University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Anharmonic phonon properties: electron-phonon coupling and stress

Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exploring the binary Lennard-Jones system with high throughput structure prediction and speeding up time to ground state

Martin Uhrin (UCL).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands

Prof. R. Shankar, Yale University .

Mott Seminar Room 531, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 14:15-15:45

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

GPU-accelerated Quantum ESPRESSO: between performance, correctness and sustainability

Filippo Spiga (HPCS, Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Lattice modulation of a two-dimensional superfluid: could it be…the Higgs particle?

Prof. Lode Pollet, LMU München.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermopower in the Quantum Hall Regime

Dr Nicholas d'Ambrumenil, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 14:15-15:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

Vortices and the BKT transition in regions of competing order

Dr Sam Carr, Kent University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 14:15-15:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

Towards a quantitative analysis of core-level and valence photoemission spectra of dye-sensitized solar cell interfaces

Dr Feliciano Giustino (University of Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Anharmonicity in periodic systems

Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 11:40-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Is the theory of neutral evolution right?

Thomas Fink, CNRS / LIMS.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Helical correlations and unbroken symmetry in FCC-stacked triangular Ising antiferromagnets

Dr Fiona Burnell (All Souls, Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

How can energies be aligned in ab initio electronic transport calculations?

Robert Bell (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 11:40-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Entanglement spectra: A novel spectroscopic tool to investigate quantum many body wave functions

Prof. Andreas Läuchli, Universität Innsbruck.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Heavy quasiparticles in Yb compounds: The Renormalized Band approach

Dr Gertrud Zwicknagl, TU Braunschweig.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Charge transfer in carbon nanotubes?

Robert Bell.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:10-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Nonequilibrium dynamics in the Hubbard model

Michael Moeckel (Chem).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 11:30-12:10

Theory of Condensed Matter

Statistical Topological Insulators

Dr Jonathan Edge, Leiden University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 14:15-15:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum limited transport in ultracold atomic gases

Tilman Enss, TU München.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Machine learning for predictive condensed-phase quantum chemistry: clusters, ice and liquid water

Gabor Csanyi (Engineering).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exact Density-Functional Potentials for Time-Dependent Quasiparticles

Rex Godby, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quantum chemistry and cold atoms: insights into magnetism

Pascal Bugnion (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Orbital dependent backflow transformations

Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Monte Carlo Modeling of π-bonded Transition-metal Organometallics

Prof Ivan Stich,Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

TCM Blackboard Series

Fluctuation-induced pair density wave in itinerant ferromagnets

Prof Andrew Green, UCL.

TCM Seminar Room (530), Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 14:15-15:45

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Some ideas about QMC and molecular dynamics

Mike Towler (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Bayesian reconstruction of free energy profiles from umbrella samples

Thomas Stecher (Engineering).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Polarons: from models to materials to quantum simulation

Vladimir M. Stojanovic, University of Basel.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

TCM Blackboard Series

Random-matrix theory of topological states of matter

Prof Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 14:15-15:45

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Van der waals interactions in acenes and C60

Alston Misquitta (Queen Mary).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Redox active species in liquid water compared to charged defects in solid oxides

Michiel Sprik (Chemistry).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

Multicomponent Skyrmion lattices and their excitations

Dr Dimitry Kovrizhin, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Irregular seminars in TCM

Instantaneous Mapping of Excitonic Transport in Biomimetic Systems by Multi-dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy

Prof. Elad Harel, Department of Chemistry: Northwestern University (USA)..

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:15-17:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The challenge of nanotechnology

Mike Payne (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 11:40-11:50

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Cold atoms unspun

Gareth Conduit (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 11:00-11:40

Theory of Condensed Matter

From Topological Insulators to Majorana Fermions

Prof. Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

The many structures of foams

Denis Weaire FRS, Trinity College Dublin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

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Codesign in action: the hardware and software architecture of Blue Gene/Q and its impact on scientific applications

Dr Jeff Hammond (Argonne National Laboratory).

TCM Seminar Room.

Monday 03 September 2012, 11:00-12:00