Condensed Matter Theory Group Meetings: Michaelmas 18/19

This term will see the return of a some regular talks, perhaps some dice seminars, and who knows what! (To be discussed on the first meetings back). This term, meetings will take place from 1pm to 2pm on Thursdays.

Dice Seminars:
Sometimes we run Dice Seminars, which occur over the course of 5 weeks or so, and consist of us collaboratively learning about a given topic, by reading a paper or paper section, and rolling a dice to determine who will talk about what they’ve read. The previous topic was “Topological Insulators”, and ran for an extended period. The topic before that was “Weyl Semimetals”.

Other Meetings:
​There are ~weekly condensed matter seminars at 3pm on Fridays, which will be interesting for anyone attending our group meetings.  These are advertised internally.

Mailing List:
If you would like to be added to the mailing list for these meetings, please subscribe or contact Ryan or Marcin (addresses at page footer).

Week	Presenter	Talk	Venue
1 Thurs. 11 Oct.	Ryan Hunt	Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of energy gaps from first principles	C36
2 Thurs. 18 Oct.	Ed McCann	Rhombohedral graphene and the SSH model	C36
3 Thurs. 25 Oct.	???	“Coffee and a Chat”	C36
4 Thurs. 1 Nov.	Lewis Williamson	Phase ordering dynamics in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates	A007
5 Thurs. 8 Nov.	???	???	C36
6 Thurs. 15 Nov.	Marcin Szyniszewski	Fermionic phases and their transitions induced by competing finite-range interactions	C36
7 Thurs. 22 Nov.	Alessandro Romito	Topologically protected heat pumping from braiding Majorana zero modes	C36
SPECIAL Tues. 27 Nov.	Ilja Makkonen & Kristoffer Simula	I. M. – “Defect identification in semiconductors with positron annihilation: Experiment and theory” K. S. – “Quantum Monte Carlo for positrons in periodic solids”	3pm – 4pm A007
8 Thurs. 29 Nov.	???	???	C36
9 Thurs. 6 Dec.	Neil Drummond	Single hole in a 2D electron gas: crossover from a collective exciton to an isolated trion	C36
10 Thurs. 13 Dec.	???	???	C36