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IAS Program on Fundamental Physics (January 13-17, 2025)
Date 13 - 17 January 2025
Time 09:00 - 18:00
Venue HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Linker-mediated Assembly: from Colloidal LEGOs to COVID Testing
Speaker Prof. Ran Ni, Nanyang Technological University
Date 20 December 2024 (Friday)
Time 14:30 - 16:00
Venue Room 1409, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Towards Quantum Internet Using Hybrid Quantum Technology
Speaker Dr. Zeyang Li, Stanford University
Date 20 December 2024 (Friday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Room 1409, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Meet the Editor of Physical Review X – An Editorial View of Physical Review Journals
Speaker Dr. Yun Li, Editor of Physical Review X
Date 25 November 2024 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 11:30
Venue Room 2303, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 17-18)
Magnetic Exciton in Van der Waals Antiferromagnet NiPS3
Speaker Prof. Je-Geun Park, Seoul National University
Date 22 November 2024 (Friday)
Time 14:30 - 16:00
Venue Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
IAS / School of Science Joint Lecture - Leveraging Protein Dynamics Memory with Machine Learning to Advance Drug Design: From Antibiotics to Targeted Protein Degradation
Speaker Prof. Xuhui Huang, Director of Theoretical Chemistry Institute; Hirschfelder Chair in Theoretical Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date 22 November 2024 (Friday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Expert Sharing Seminar (For Students of Master of Science (MSc) Program in Data-Driven Modeling, Undergraduate and Postgraduate students in Mathematics and Physics )
Speaker Dr. Monica Cheng, CEO, DataMIMO LLC
Date 21 November 2024 (Thursday)
Time 15:10 - 16:10
Venue Zoom (online)
Polymer-free Assembly of van der Waals Heterostructures
Speaker Dr. Wendong Wang, University of Manchester
Date 20 November 2024 (Wednesday)
Time 14:30 - 15:30
Venue Room 5564, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Phase Diagram and Spectroscopic Evidence of a Supersolid
Speaker Dr. Tong Chen, Johns Hopkins University
Date 18 November 2024 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Zoom (online)
Condensed Matter Seminar - From Chiral Electronics to Mottness in Momentum-Space
Speaker Dr. Niels B.M. Schröter, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Date 14 November 2024 (Thursday)
Time 16:30 - 18:00
Venue Room 2405, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 17-18)
Isotope Effects in Liquid Water at CCSD(T) Accuracy with
Coupled Cluster Molecular Dynamics
Speaker Dr. Nore Stolte, Ruhr-University Bochum
Date 11 November 2024 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 2302, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 17-18)
Topological Material Database and Machine Learning on It
Speaker Prof. Hongming Weng, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Date 4 November 2024 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Expert Sharing Seminar (for members of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology only)
Speaker Dr. Jones Wan, Senior Data Scientist, Shell UK
Date 1 November 2024 (Friday)
Time 16:15 - 17:15
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Nonlinear Hall Effect from Spin-Valley Locking and Nonreciprocal Hall Effect via Asymmetric Scattering at Room Temperature
Speaker Prof. Zhiqiang Mao, Pennsylvania State University
Date 30 October 2024 (Wednesday)
Time 14:30 - 16:00
Venue Room 5562, Academic Building, HKUST (Lift 27-28)
Bulk-boundary Correspondence in Topological Electrodynamics: From 1D to Higher Dimensions
Speaker Prof. Igor Tsukerman
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Akron;
Visiting Professor, Physics Department, HKUST
Date 21 October 2024 (Monday)
Time 11:00 - 12:30
Venue Room 4582, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Strongly-interacting Bosons in a Quasiperiodic Potential or at Dimensional Crossover
Speaker Dr. Hepeng Yao , University of Geneva
Date 15 October 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Integer and Fractional Quantum Spin Hall Effects in TMD Moiré Superlattices
Speaker Dr. Kaifei Kang, Cornell University
Date 8 October 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4502, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Fireside Chat: Insights from Quantitative Trading & Research at Hedge Fund Industry (This talk is for members of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology only)
Speaker • Dr. Ben LAU, a Quantitative Researcher and Portfolio Manager at Alphadyne Asset Management
• Mr. Michael CHAN, a Quantitative Researcher at Alphadyne Asset Management
Date 4 October 2024 (Friday)
Time 16:15-17:15
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Online Fireside Chat: Exploring Quantitative Insights with a Leading Expert from Goldman Sachs (This talk is for members of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology only)
Speaker Dr. Patrick CHAN, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C.
Date 27 September 2024 (Friday)
Time 16:15 - 17:15
Venue Zoom (online)
Quantum Nanophotonics and Plasmonics
Speaker Prof. Haoliang Qian, Zhejiang University
Date 24 September 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 2405, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 17-18) (venue changed from Room 3598 to Room 2405)
Magnetoelectric Meta-atoms and Magnetoelectric Metamaterials
Speaker Prof. E. O. Kamenetskii, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Date 23 September 2024 (Monday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Zoom (online)
• Zoom Link: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/99628873300?pwd=o2tM3WUBS1oPuFc2BmjWGUx7s8GTLJ.1
• Meeting ID: 996 2887 3300
• Passcode: 031045
Searching for Unconventional Superconductivity in Artificial Heterojunction
Speaker Dr. Zhong Wan, UCLA
Date 28 August 2024 (Wednesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Quantum Chaos and Phase Transitions
Speaker Dr. Nitin Gupta, University of Cape Town
Date 14 August 2024 (Wednesday)
Time 13:00 - 14:30
Venue Room 4503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Hidden Dimension and Topological Mode Shapeshifting Enabled by Nonlinearity
Speaker Prof. Meng Xiao, Wuhan University
Date 2 August 2024 (Friday)
Time 14:30 - 16:00
Venue Room 4502, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Odd-frequency Pairing in Topological Superconductors -Theory of Anomalous Proximity Effect-
Speaker Prof. Yukio Tanaka, Nagoya University
Date 2 August 2024 (Friday)
Time 10:00 - 11:00
Venue Room 2504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Interfacing Spin Qubits and Phonons for Future Quantum Applications
Speaker Dr. Yiqi Wang, Harvard University, Cambridge, US
Date 1 August 2024 (Thursday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Zoom (online)
• Zoom Link: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/91870508659?pwd=tm9AOF2VHPltVb2TOCaIzOBFz7aZ3r.1
• Meeting ID: 918 7050 8659
• Passcode: 739156
Finite Size Gaps and Low-energy Excitations in Gapless Frustration Free Systems
Speaker Prof. Haruki Watanabe, University of Tokyo
Date 30 July 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Room 4503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Emergent Electronic and Excitonic Quantum Phenomena in Two-dimensional Semiconductors
Speaker Dr. Jue Wang, Harvard University
Date 23 July 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Mixed-Mode
• Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
• Zoom (online)
Multipolar Condensates and Tensor Gauge Fields
Speaker Prof. Qi Zhou, Purdue University
Date 9 July 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 14:30 - 16:00
Venue Room 2504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Topological Structures in Polar Fluids
Speaker Prof. Qi-Huo Wei, Southern University of Science and Technology
Date 5 July 2024 (Friday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Room 4502, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Topological Spin Memory of Antiferromagnetically-coupled Skyrmions
Speaker Prof Xuemei Cheng, Bryn Mawr College
Date 19 June 2024 (Wednesday)
Time 14:30 - 16:00
Venue Room 2463, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Electronic Structure Calculation with Neural Network Quantum Monte Carlo
Speaker Prof. Ji Chen, Peking University
Date 19 June 2024 (Wednesday)
Time 16:00 - 17:30
Venue Room 2504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Quest for Novel States of Quantum Matter
Speaker Prof. Gang Cao, University of Colorado at Boulder
Date 13 June 2024 (Thursday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Room 5508, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Quest for Infinity - Opportunities at Tsung-Dao Lee Institute
Speaker Prof. Jie Zhang, CAS Academician, President of the Chinese Physical Society, Chair Professor and Director of Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Former President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Date 7 June 2024 (Friday)
Time 16:30 - 17:30
Venue Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theatre (Lecture Theatre G), HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Exploring van der Waals Ferromagnetism: Early Perspectives and Puzzles
Speaker Prof. Maciej Koperski, National University of Singapore
Date 22 May 2024 (Wednesday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Room 5583, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Hierarchical Self-assembly: Crystals of Crystals of Nanocrystals
Speaker Prof. Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University
Date 13 May 2024 (Monday)
Time 14:00 - 15:00
Venue Room 4502, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Computing with Charged Colloids?
Speaker Prof. René van Roij, Utrecht University
Date 13 May 2024 (Monday)
Time 15:00 - 16:00
Venue Room 4502, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Intrinsic Mechanisms of Superconducting Diode Effect
Speaker Prof. Akito Daido, Kyoto University
Date 10 May 2024 (Friday)
Time 14:30 - 16:00
Venue Room 6573, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Expert Sharing Seminar (for members of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology only)
Speaker Dr. Shuyu Chen, CEO, Acoustic Metamaterials Group
Date 7 May 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 15:45-16:45
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Expert Sharing Seminar on 30 April 2024
Speaker Dr. Chun ZHANG, Director of Sensing Devices and Integration of ASTRI
Date 30 April 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 15:45-16:45
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Henri Poincaré’s Special Theory of Relativity (Cancelled)
Speaker Prof Xiaofeng Jin, Department of Physics, Fudan University
Date 26 April 2024 (Friday)
Time 10:30-12:00
Venue Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Quantum metrology with entangled spins and squeezed light in large ensemble of atoms
Speaker Prof. Yan-Hong Xiao, College of Physics, ShanXi University
Date 26 April 2024 (Friday)
Time 15:30 - 17:00
Venue Room 2303, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 17-18)
Quantum Magnets studied with µSR
Speaker Dr. Francis Pratt, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, UK
Date 26 April 2024 (Friday)
Time 10:30-11:30
Venue Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Atomic-scale study of the surfaces of delafossite PdCoO2 and PdCrO2
Speaker Prof. Chi-Ming Yim, Tsung Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Date 25 April 2024 (Thursday)
Time 15:00-16:30
Venue Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Terahertz parametric amplification showing signatures of exciton condensate dynamics (Cancelled)
Speaker Dr. Sheikh Rubaiat Ul Haque, Stanford University
Date 23 April 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 15:30 - 17:00
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Treating electron interactions in Moire systems
Speaker Prof. Shiwei Zhang, Flatiron Institute
Date 19 April 2024 (Friday)
Time 15:30 - 17:00
Venue Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Search for new physics beyond the particle Standard Model
Speaker Prof. Yue Zhao, University of Utah
Date 18 April 2024 (Thursday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4580, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Utilization of Hot Carriers in Perovskite Optoelectronic Devices
Speaker Prof. Li Mingjie, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Date 16 April 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 16:00 - 17:00
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Expert Sharing Seminar (The seminar will be conducted in Putonghua)
Speaker Dr. Michael LIN, General Manager at the Digital and AI Innovation Centre, China Unicom (Guangdong)
Date 16 April 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 14:00-15:00
Venue Zoom (online)
IAS-PHYS Seminar: Optics Interference and Quantum Information Processing
Speaker Prof. ZHANG Qiang
Professor of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Date 12 April 2024 (Friday)
Time 16:00-17:00
Venue Room 4475 (4/F via Lifts 25-26), Academic Building, HKUST
Criticality hypothesis examined and extended
Speaker Prof. Ting-Kuo Lee, National Tsing Hua University
Date 11 April 2024 (Thursday)
Time 10:00 - 11:00
Venue Room 5562, Academic Building, HKUST (Lift 27/28)
CrystalFormer
Speaker Prof. Lei Wang, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Date 10 April 2024 (Wednesday)
Time 14:00 - 15:00
Venue Room 5510, Academic Building, HKUST (Lift 25/26)
Understanding New Complexities in Correlated Quantum Materials Using Resonant Photons
Speaker Dr. Jiarui Li, SLAC National Lab
Date 9 April 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 17-18)
Quantum Fault Tolerance: From Practice to Theory
Speaker Dr. Shilin Huang, Yale University
Date 26 March 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 2405, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 17-18)
Iron-based superconductors as a new Majorana playground
Speaker Prof. Hong Ding, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Date 21 March 2024 (Thursday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 2405, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 17-18)
SKL-PHYS Seminar: Near-equilibrium and far-from-equilibrium dynamics of nematic defects in two and three dimensions
Speaker Prof. Žiga Kos, Assistant Professor, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Slovenia
Date 21 March 2024 (Thursday)
Time 11:00 - 12:00
Venue Room 5510, Academic Building, HKUST (Lift 25/26)
High-order harmonic generation and spectroscopy of condensed matter
Speaker Prof. Tran Trung Luu, Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong
Date 19 March 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 15:30-17:00
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Integer and Fractional Chern insulators in moiré MoTe2
Speaker Dr. Yihang Zeng, Cornell University
Date 19 March 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Zoom (online)
IAS-PHYS Seminar: Time-dependent Metamaterials - Challenges and Prospects for Experiments
Speaker Sir John PENDRY
Chair Professor in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College London; IAS Senior Visiting Fellow
Date 12 March 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
New Physics Beyond the Standard Model and Cosmology
Speaker Prof. Mark Hertzberg, Tufts University
Date 12 March 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4621, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 31-32)
Metamaterials: from Invisibility Cloak to Future Smart Labelling Technology
Speaker Prof. Jun Suk Rho, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Date 11 March 2024 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Expert Sharing Seminar
Speaker Dr. Jones Wan, Senior Data Scientist and Analyst Developer, Shell UK
Date 5 March 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 15:45-16:45
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Quantum Annealing of a Programmable Spin Glass
Speaker Prof. Anders Sandvik, Boston University
Date 29 February 2024 (Thursday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Machine Learning Meets Quantum Many-body Physics
Speaker Dr. Di Luo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Harvard University
Date 27 February 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Zoom (online)
Expert Sharing Seminar
Speaker Mr. Francis Kwok, Founder and CEO of Radica System Limited
Date 27 February 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 15:45 - 16:45
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Optimize Diffractive Neural Networks by controlling the Fresnel Number
Speaker Prof. Lei Shi, Fudan University
Date 23 February 2024 (Friday)
Time 14:30 - 16:00
Venue Room 2405, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 17-18)
Static and Ultrafast Engineering of Low-dimensional Quantum Materials
Speaker Dr. Ryo Noguchi, California Institute of Technology
Date 20 February 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Acoustic Metamaterials: from Topology to Applications
Speaker Prof. Zhi Hong Hang, Soochow University
Date 8 February 2024 (Thursday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 2503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Spin-orbit-free Topological Insulators and Superconductors
Speaker Dr. Shingo Kobayashi, RIKEN
Date 7 February 2024 (Wednesday)
Time 14:00 - 15:30
Venue Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Property Analysis and Simulation Package for Materials (PASP) and Its Applications to Ferroic Materials
Speaker Prof. Hongjun Xiang, Fudan University
Date 30 January 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4502, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Programmable Active Matter
Speaker Prof. Chenhui Peng, University of Science and Technology of China
Date 29 January 2024 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4502, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Manipulating Elementary Excitations with Microwaves: Towards Atomic Scale Qubits
Speaker Dr. Christian R. Ast, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research
Date 23 January 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 14:00 - 15:30
Venue Room 2503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Low Symmetry Van der Waals Photonic Materials and Advanced Ultrafast Imaging
Speaker Prof. Han Wang, The University of Hong Kong
Date 15 January 2024 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Characterization and Optimized Engineering of Bosonic Quantum Interfaces under Single-mode Operational Constraints
Speaker Mr. Pak Tik Fong, Simon Fraser University
Date 10 January 2024 (Wednesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Quantum Computation with Spins in Silicon — Coherence, Integration, and Scaling
Speaker Dr. Xiao Xue, Delft University of Technology
Date 5 January 2024 (Friday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Overcoming Nature's Limitations with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter
Speaker Prof. Ivan Smalyukh, University of Colorado, Boulder
Date 2 January 2024 (Tuesday)
Time 14:30 - 16:00
Venue Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
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