| 08/21 | N/A | Wonhee Ko | Introduction to PHYS 599 | |
| 08/28 | Soumendu Bagchi (ORNL) | Arpan Biswas | Autonomous scale-bridging frameworks to probe materials dynamics via extreme-scale atomistics | Soumendu is currently a research scientist at ORNL. His work focuses on scale-bridging atomistic simulations to study material behavior at the extremes with AI/ML-driven approaches. His expertise on developing autonomous lab for material discovery will be an interesting topic in this seminar |
| 09/04 | Guang Bian (U Missouri) | Yang Zhang | Designer Quantum States in Epitaxial Atomic Layers | Guang is an expert on low dimensional topological systems, with MBE, ARPES and STM techniques. |
| 09/11 | Adrian Feiguin (Northeastern University) | Johnston & Batista | Time-dependent scattering approach to non-equilibrium and core-hole spectroscopies | Adrian is an excellent speaker and expert in DMRG methods applied to theoretical spectroscopy. He is also working on integrating these methods into AI workflows. This date is a placeholder until I can confirm a good window. |
| 09/18 | Penghao Zhu (OSU) | Ruixing Zhang | TBA | Penghao is an expert on general topological phases of matter. His recent research spans topological insulators & superconductivity, Floquet & non-Hermitian topology, optical response, etc. He will talk about a new Majorana phase in a chiral spin liquid. |
| 09/25 | Heda Zhang (ORNL) | Yang Zhang | TBA | Heda is an expert on transport experiments of magnets. He will talk about the measurement of phonon angular momemtum. |
| 10/02 | Kab-Jin Kim (KAIST) | Joon Sue Lee | Spin dynamics and transport in emerging magnetic materials | Kab-Jin is an expert in spintronics. His research spans magnetism in general, logic/memory devices, and topology (skyrmions). |
| 10/09 | Lucile Savary (UCSB) | Cristian Batista | Lucile is an expert in quantum magnetism, currently focusing on spin dynamics, quantum spin liquids, and anomalous transport in quantum magnets. I will cover the expenses for this visit from my own grant. | Lucile is an expert in quantum magnetism, currently focusing on spin dynamics, quantum spin liquids, and anomalous transport in quantum magnets. I will cover the expenses for this visit from my own grant. |
| 10/16 | Carlos Wexler (UMissouri) | Adrian Del Maestro | Analytical formulas for the anomalous Hall conductivity in itinerant magnets | Carlos is the Co-Director, MU Materials Science & Engineering Institute and is an expert on adsorption phenomena in strongly interacting systems. |
| 10/23 | Mihir Pendharkar (Stanford) | Joon Sue Lee | TBA | Mihir is an expert in growth of low-dimensional topological materials and in-vacuo fabrication of device heterostructures. |
| 10/30 | Dmitrii Maslov (U Florida) | Cristian Batista | TBA | Dmitrii Maslov is a world recognized expert in transport properties. https://www.phys.ufl.edu/wp/index.php/people/faculty/dmitrii-maslov/ |
| 11/06 | Zhen Bi (Penn State) | Ruixing Zhang | TBA | Zhen Bi was a CM speaker for the 2024 spring but he couldn’t make it. We agreed that his talk will be rescheduled in the fall. |
| 11/13 | Daniel Kaplan (Rutgers) | Cristian Batista | TBA | Daniel Kaplan is a PD associate of Rutgers University with extensive experience in computational physics, who works with experimentalists in an interdisciplinary environment. |
| 11/20 | Jakub Zelezny (Czech Academy of Sciences) | Yang Zhang | TBA | Jakub is an expert on antiferromagnetic spintronics, and he is currently working on high throughput magnet screening with machine learning. |
| 11/27 | No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday |
| 12/04 | Elio Konig (University of Wisconsin) | Cristian Batista | TBA | https://www.physics.wisc.edu/directory/konig-elio/ |
