The Pat and Tony Houghton Condensed Matter Seminar Series Spring 2026 |
Date | Speaker | Institution | Faculty Host | Talk Title |
| 1/29/26 | Alexei Kananenka | U of Delaware | Matthias Kuehne | Studying ion channels with two-dimensional vibrational spectroscopy |
| 2/5/26 | Sheng Chen | Yale University | Jay Tang | Decoding the Physics of Intracellular Patterns: A Pathway to Predictive Cell Biology |
| 2/12/26 | Egor Kiselev | Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems | Aaron Hui | Dynamical breaking of inversion symmetry, strong second harmonic generation, and ferroelectricity with nonlinear phonons |
| 2/19/26 | Vadim Oganesyan | CUNY College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center | Aaron Hui | Ordered phases of non-unitary Floquet quantum "matter" |
| 2/26/26 | Johannes Geurs | Columbia | Matthias Kuehne | Supersonic electron flow and hydraulic jump in bilayer graphene |
| 2/27/26 | Yiming Xu | APS/Physical Review X | Dmitri Feldman/Vesna Mitrović | The Character of PRX: Editorial Insights from the First 15 Years and Beyond |
| 3/5/26 | Pat Clancy | McMaster University | Kemp Plumb | Exploring Spin-Orbit-Driven Physics in Ru-based Quantum Magnets |
| 3/12/26 | Ciarán Hickey | University College Dublin | Kemp Plumb | Probing Quantum Magnets via Nonlinear Spectroscopy |
| 4/2/2026 | Jonathan Friedman | Amherst College | Vesna Mitrović | Clock Transitions and Dynamical Decoupling in Molecular Nanomagnets and Silica Defects |
| 4/9/26 | Petia Vlahovska | Northwestern | Vesna Mitrović/Matthias Kuehne | The Physics of Active Fluids |
