Monthly Archives: May 2023

19May/23

Condensed Matter Physics in the City 2023: “Quantum Materials: Information and Technology” 10-14 July

Registration now open for Condensed Matter Physics in the City 2023: “Quantum Materials: Information and Technology

Who: This conference is open to all PhD researchers and early career postdocs

What: Condensed Matter Physics in the City 2023: “Quantum Materials: Information and Technology

When: 10-14 July 2023Hybrid mode, with talks delivered in-person at our London venue (Roberts Building, Room 508, UCL) and online on Zoom.

Where: University College London,  WC1E 6BT, Roberts Building, Room 508

We acknowledge gratefully funding from ICAM and Institute of Physics.  We proudly announce a great line-up of confirmed Speakers: 

  • Sasha Balatsky (Nordita/U Connecticut)
  • Erez Berg (Weizmann)
  • Tony Carrington (Bristol)
  • Amalia Coldea (Oxford)
  • Oliver Dial (IBM Yorktown)
  • Shuqiu Wang (Oxford)
  • Pablo Jarrillo-Herrero  (MIT)
  • Vidya Madhavan (UIUC)
  • Jegeun Park (Seoul National University)
  • Aline Ramires (PSI)
  • Joaquín Fernández Rossier (INL, Portugal)
  • Frank Schindler (Imperial College and Princeton)
  • Steve Simon (Oxford)
  • Ashvin Vishwanath (Harvard)

A provisional schedule for the meeting is now available here. In addition to the scientific program, there will be a public evening lecture on 12 July (speaker: Oliver Dial; venue Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley Building, Imperial College London). More details later.

Register here:  https://research.kent.ac.uk/pqm/cmpcity23/comic-23-registration/

Please note that there is a registration fee of £10 to complete the registration (see above website for more info). Junior Scientists (PhD students and early career postdocs – within 5 years of getting the PhD) may request financial support, with preference for participants from ICAM nodes. Deadline for funding applications (part of registration process) will be on 9 June 2023. More details are on the registration webpage linked above.

We will consider contributed submissions from Junior Scientists made by 19 June 2023 for contributed talks. Please have an abstract and a short one-slide presentation to hand should you wish to apply for one. Please look for more details on the registration webpage linked above.

You can find further information on confirmed speakers and other useful information on our conference website: https://research.kent.ac.uk/pqm/cmpcity23/

03May/23

Topological states in solid-state devices as a resource for quantum computing workshop 4-5 May 2023

The Topological states in solid-state devices as a resource for quantum computing workshop is taking place on 4-5 May 2023 in Oak Suite 1 & 2, Stag Hill Campus, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey. This workshop is in collaboration with the University of Surrey and Imperial College London and funded by SEPnet.

Dr Malcom Connolly, Imperial College London and Dr Eran Ginossar, University of Surrey will be hosting a dinner for the invited speakers on 3 May in central London.  Malcom will be giving a tour of his laboratory the following morning and all the speakers will join the student delegates at lunchtime in Guildford.

The 2-day event will include the following talks and workshop dinner for both invited speakers and student delegates:

Thursday, 4 May:

  • Jaewoo Joo & Eran Ginossar: Ice breaker followed by Introductory talks
  • Steven Simon: Topologically Ordered Matter and Why You Should Be Interested
  • Andrew Higginbotham: Routes and challenges for engineering exotic superconductivity in hybrid structures
  • Kristof Moors: Modelling topological material-based hybrid devices for quantum applications
  • Craig Knox: Where’s the surface? Topological Insulator materials and devices
  • Erwann Bocquillon: Microwave transport in HgTe topological insulators

Friday, 5 May

  • Eytan Grosfeld: Signatures of Andreev and Majorana Excitations in Hybrid Superconducting Circuits
  • Guanzhong Wang: Minimal Kitaev chains using coupled quantum dots in nanowires
  • Delegates 2-minute presentations
  • Beatriz Perez: Engineering topological phases with classical and quantum light
  • Mathieu Delbecq: Zero energy states clustering in an elemental nanowire coupled to a superconductor
  • Malcolm Connolly and Eran Ginossar: Research themes at ICL and Surrey

Thank you to Dr Eran Ginossar, University of Surrey and Dr Malcolm Connolly, Imperial College London for organising such a comprehensive programme on behalf of GRADnet.