Principles of Quantum Matter — A Symposium to Celebrate Charles Kane’s 60th Birthday

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Aug 9, 2023 - Aug 11, 2023 at - Glandt Forum
Singh Center for Nanotechnology
3205 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104



Thesis Defense: "Dwarf Galaxy Stellar Streams in Cosmological Baryonic Simulations of Milky Way-mass Galaxies"

Nondh Panithanpaisal, University of Pennsylvania
- DRL 3C6



Thesis Defense: "New gravitational interactions in cosmology --- from effective field theory to observation"

Qiuyue Liang, University of Pennsylvania
- DRL 4C8



Thesis Defense: "Topological Aspects of Gapped and Gapless Quantum Matter"

Pok Man Tam (University of Pennsylvania)
- DRLB 2C6



Thesis Defense: "CHARACTERIZATION OF SOLID STATE DEFECT SYSTEMS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING, COMMUNICATION, AND SENSING"

Stanley "Alex" Breitweiser (University of Pennsylvania)
- Towne 319



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Self-propelled particles"

Hartmut Löwen (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Ordinary materials are "passive" in the sense that their constituents are typically made by inert particles which are subjected to thermal fluctuations, internal interactions and external fields but do…



Thesis Defense: “Nonlinear Optical Studies on Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnets and Topological Materials”

Zhuoliang Ni (University of Pennsylvania)
- TBA



Franklin Institute Award lecture: "Stacking van der Waals Atomic Layers: Quest for New Quantum Materials"

Philip Kim (Harvard University)
- Glandt Forum in the Singh Center for Nanotechnology (also Live via Zoom)

Modern electronics rely heavily on technology that confines electrons in the interface layers of semiconductors. In recent years, scientists have discovered that they can isolate various atomically thin van der Waals…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Unique transport signatures in magnetic materials: Connecting semiclassics and quantum perturbation theory at nonlinear order"

Tobias Holder (Weizmann Institute of Science)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

In the last few years, nonlinear responses have become increasingly important for the study and characterization of quantum materials, with the nonlinear anomalous Hall conductivity and…