Fortnightly Seminars
Condensed Matter & Materials Physics (CMMP Group)
CMMP Fortnightly Seminars
Next Seminar: Dr Nur Unal (Birmingham)
“Topology in multi-level systems far from equilibrium”
Date: Wednesday 11 February 2026
Time: 15:00-16:00
Location: Room 225 Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place WC1
followed by CMMP Tea/Coffee/Biscuits in The Housman Room at 16:00
Abstract: please see poster directly below
Special Seminar: Prof Arthur Ernst (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)
“Topological Materials and Magnetism from First Principles: defects, exchange engineering, and emergent textures”
Date: Monday 16 February 2026
Time: 15:00-16:00
Location: Physics Building Room A1/3 [fourth floor lecture theatre]
Abstract: please see poster directly below
Upcoming seminars:
- Wed-25-Feb-2026 - Helena Knowles (Cambridge)
- Wed-11-Mar-2026 - Shuqiu Wang (Bristol)
- Wed-25-Mar-2026 - Jess Wade (Imperial)
- Wed-8-Apr-2026 - Clifford Hicks (Birmingham)
- [Date TBC] - Christoph Renner (Geneva)
- [Date TBC] Alexander Altland (Cologne)
Previous seminars (2025/26):
- Wed-14-Jan-2026 - Dr Qian Yang (Manchester), “Water and ionic transport inside van der Waals nanocapillaries”
- Wed-19-Nov-2025 - Ulrich Schneider (Cambridge), “Ultracold atoms in optical quasicrystals”
- Wed-5-Nov-2025 - Chris Hooley (Coventry), “An electron on a plane near a magnetic monopole: classically bound and quantum quasi-bound states”
- Wed-29-Oct-2025 - Michael Flatte (Iowa), “Dopants in Semiconductors - ‘Artificial Atoms’ for Quantum Technologies?”
- Wed-22-Oct-2025 - Keith McKenna (York), “Electronic Properties of Extended Defects in Polycrystalline Semiconductors”