Chez Pierre Seminar Series

February 7, 2022 (Virtual Zoom Seminar)

Speaker: Bohm-Jung Yang, Seoul National University
Title: “Wave function geometry and anomalous Landau levels of flat bands”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Bohm-Jung-Yang_Chez-Pierre_announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Riccardo Comin

February 14, 2022 (Virtual Zoom Seminar)

Speaker: Nai Phuan Ong, Princeton University
Title: “Oscillations of thermal conductivity and evidence for the planar thermal Hall conductivity in the Kitaev Magnet alpha-RuCl3″
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/N.-P.-Ong_Pierre_announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Patrick Lee

<br>February 21, 2021<br><br>No Chez Pierre Seminar due to President’s day holiday

February 28, 2022 (Virtual Zoom Seminar)

Speaker: Andrew Pierce, Harvard University
Title: “Fractional Chern insulators in twisted bilayer graphene”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Andrew-Pierce_-Chez-Pierre_announcement-poster.pdf
Hosts: Pablo Herrror-Jarillo & Raymond Ashoori

<br>March 11, 2022 (Friday, Special Chez Pierre Seminar)

Speaker: Michael Horn-von Hoegen, Fakultät für Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Title: “Optically excited structural transition in atomic wires on surfaces at the
quantum limit: a femtosecond electron diffraction study“
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Michael-Horn-von-Hoegen-Chez-Pierre_announcement-poster-3.pptx
Host: Nuh Gedik

<br>March 14, 2022<br><br>No Chez Pierre Seminar due to the March APS meeting

<br>March 21, 2022<br><br>No Chez Pierre Seminar due the MIT Spring Break

<br>March 28, 2022 (Virtual Zoom Seminar)

Speaker: Carlo Beenakker, Lorentz Institute, Leiden, The Netherlands
Title: “Chirality inversion of Majorana edge modes in a Fu-Kane heterostructure”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/CarloBeenakker_announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Leonid Levitov

<br>March 29, 2022 (Tuesday, Special Virtual Zoom seminar)

Speaker: Jian Wang, Peking University
Title: “Charge-4e and charge-6e superconductivity in kagome superconductor CsV₃Sb₅ ”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Jian-Wang_Chez-Pierre_announcement-poster-3-1.pdf
Host: liang Fu

April 4, 2022 (Virtual Zoom Seminar)

Speaker: Justin Song, Nanyang Technological University
Title: Quantum Geometric Collective Modes: “Berryogenesis” and Quantum Metric Plasmons
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Justin-Song_Chez-Pierre_announcement-poster-3.pptx
Host: Leonid Levitov

April 11, 2022

Speaker: Bo Zhen, University of Pennsylvania
Title: “Nonlinear topological photonics”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bo-Zhen_Chez-Pierre_announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Marin Soljacic

April 18, 2022

No Chez Pierre Seminar due to Patriots’ Day holiday

<br>April 20, 2022 (Wednesday, Special Chez Pierre seminar- Hybrid)

Speaker: Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, UCLA
Title: “Integrating quantum impurities with dissipative media: New probes and utilities of quantum materials”.
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Yaroslav-Tserkovnyak_-Pierre_announcement-poster-3.pdf
Host: Leonid Levitov

<br>April 25, 2022 (Hybrid Seminar)

Speaker: Liuyan Zhao, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Title: “Moiré magnetism in twisted double bilayer chromium triiodide”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Liuyan-Zhao-_Chez-Pierre_announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Long Ju

April 26, 2022 (Tuesday, Special Chez Pierre seminar)

Speaker: David Hsieh, Caltech
Title: “Strongly Driven Quantum Materials”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/David-Hsieh_-Chez-Pierre_announcement-poster-3.pdf
Host:  Nuh Gedik

May 2, 2022 (Hybrid seminar)

Speaker: James Analytis, UC Berkeley
Title: “Strange metals and their strange parents”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/James-Analytis_Chez-Pierre_announcement-poster-3.pdf
Host: Senthil Todadri

<br>May 9, 2022 (Virtual Seminar)

Speaker: Ming Yi, Rice University
Title: “Emergent phases in geometrically frustrated lattices”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Ming-Yi_-Chez-Pierre_announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Riccardo Comin

September 13, 2021 (Virtual Zoom seminar)

Mark Rudner – University of Washington
“The Lindblad equation: not just for quantum optics anymore“
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Mark-Rudner_announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Leonid Levitov

September 20, 2021 (<strong>Virtual Zoom seminar</strong>)

Inti Sodemann – Max Planck Institute
“Pseudo-scalar U(1) spin liquids in alpha-RuCl_3”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Inti-Sodemann_announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Liang Fu

September 27, 2021

Joshua Javier “Shua” Sanchez – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Probing the Symmetry-Breaking Phases in Iron-based Superconductors with Combined Strain, Transport and X-ray Techniques”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Joshua-Sanchez_announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Riccardo Comin

October 4, 2021 (<strong>Virtual Zoom seminar</strong>)

Brad Ramshaw – Cornell University
“The Planckian Limit: a Fundamental Bound on Electron Scattering”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Brad-Ramshaw_announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Long Ju

October 11, 2021

No Chez Pierre Seminar due to Indigenous People Day holiday

October 19, 2021 (Tuesday, Special Chez Pierre seminar)

Philip Kim – Harvard University
“Toward realization of novel superconductivity based on twisted van der Waals Josephson junction in cuprates“
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Philip-Kim_announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Leonid Levitov

October 25, 2021

Nurit Avraham – Weizmann Institute
“Visualization of Topological Boundary Modes Manifesting Topological Nodal-Point Superconductivity“
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Nurit-Avraham_announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Greg Fiete

November 1, 2021

Ziqiang Wang – Boston College
“Correlated topological states in a new family of kagome superconductors”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Ziqiang-Wang_announcement-poster-_pdf2.pdf
Host: Patrick Lee

November 8, 2021 (Virtual Zoom Seminar)

Anaelle Legros –  Johns Hopkins University
“Observation of cyclotron resonance and measurement of the cyclotron mass in La2-xSrxCuO4”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Anaelle-Legros_announcement-poster-.pdf
Host: Senthil Todadri

November 15, 2021

Darius Torchinsky – Temple University
“The Nonlinear Electrodynamics of Weyl Semimetals“
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Darius-Torchinsky_-announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Nuh Gedit

November 22, 2021

Silke Buehler-Paschen – Vienna University of Technology, Austria
“Superconductivity in the extreme strange metal YbRh₂Si₂“
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Silke-Buelher-Paschen_announcement-poster.pdf
Host: Joe Checkelsky

November 29, 2021 (Virtual Zoom Seminar)

Xi Ling – Boston University
“Spin-correlation of the light-matter interaction in van der Waals antiferromagnetic NiPS₃ “
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Xi-Ling_announcement-poster-.pdf
Host: Riccardo Comin

December 3, 2021 (Friday, Special Chez Pierre Seminar)

Giorgio Sangiovanni– Universitaet Wuerzburg
“Emergent honeycomb physics from chiral atomic orbitals on a triangular lattice”
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Giorgio-Sangiovanni_announcement-poster-3.pdf
Hosted: Riccardo Comin

December 6, 2021 (Virtual Zoom Seminar)

Yang Zhang – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Catalysis and topology in moiré semiconductor and metal“
https://physics.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Yang-Zhang_Chez-Pierre_announcement-poster-3.pdf
Host: Liang Fu