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Critical Phenomena on a Quantum Fuzzy Sphere: Uncovering Conformal Symmetry in the 3D Ising Transition [Updated - Change of Time & Venue, see below]
Speaker Prof. Wei Zhu, Westlake University
Date 6 October 2023 (Friday)
Time 16:00 - 17:30
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Beyond Closed Wave Systems: Non-Hermiticity and Mesoscopic Casimir Effect
Speaker Dr. Kun Ding, Fudan University
Date 27 September 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 14:30 - 16:00
Venue Room 2405, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 17-18)
Topological Photonic Quasiparticles of Free Space-time
Speaker Prof. Yijie Shen, Nanyang Technological University
Date 25 September 2023 (Monday)
Time 16:00 - 17:30
Venue Room 5510, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Expert Sharing Seminar (This talk is for members of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology only)
Speaker Dr. Patrick Chan, Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C.
Date 22 September 2023 (Friday)
Time 16:05 - 17:30
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Aggregation of Dipolar Chains
Speaker Prof. René Messina, Université de Lorraine
Date 19 September 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 14:00 - 15:30
Venue Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Nonthermal Electronic Orders in Photo-doped Mott Systems [Updated - Zoom Talk is arranged due to Black Rainstorm Warning]
Speaker Prof. Philipp Werner, University of Fribourg
Date 8 September 2023 (Friday)
Time 11:00 - 12:30
Venue Zoom (online)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/96552973875?pwd=ZEIzazg2REhGaEcwaDJBdE5zZlo0UT09
Meeting ID: 965 5297 3875
Passcode: 623900
Center for Metamaterials Research Seminar Series: Metaphotonics and Resonant Metasurfaces
Speaker Prof. Yuri Kivshar, Australian National University
Date 7 September 2023 (Thursday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Exact Asymptotics with Approximate Message Passing and a Study of the Type 1-Type 2 Error Trade-off for SLOPE
Speaker Prof. Cynthia Rush, Howard Levene Assistant Professor of Statistics, Columbia University; HKUST Red Bird Visiting Scholar
Date 29 August 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Tensor Network Simulation in Strongly Correlated Systems: Past, Present and Future
Speaker Prof. Zhengcheng Gu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date 28 August 2023 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Construction of Exotic Electronic States in the Two- or One-dimensional Limit
Speaker Prof. Wei Ji, Renmin University of China
Date 15 August 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 10:00 - 11:00
Venue Room 2504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
金剛石納米尺度電磁探測技術及應用 (This talk will be delivered in Mandarin)
Speaker Prof. Ya Wang, University of Science and Technology of China
Date 14 August 2023 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Nonlinear Exceptional Point
Speaker Prof. Meng Xiao, Wuhan University
Date 11 August 2023 (Friday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Room 4503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Atomic Structure-properties Study of Defects in Emerging 2D Materials [Updated - Room changed from 2302 to 1409]
Speaker Prof. Junhao Lin, Southern University of Science and Technology
Date 3 August 2023 (Thursday)
Time 14:30 - 16:00
Venue Room 1409, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Sticky Bacteria are Hot
Speaker Prof. Xinliang Xu, Beijing Computational Science Research Center
Date 2 August 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Room 2304, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 17-18)
Active Zero-Index/Meta-Optics and “Meta”-Optical Fibers
Speaker Prof. Howard (Ho Wai) Lee, University of California, Irvine
Date 27 July 2023 (Thursday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Room 2504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Physical Learning and Collective Memory of Adaptive Immunity [Updated - Date changed from July 18 to July 19]
Speaker Prof. Shenshen Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
Date 19 July 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 14:00 - 15:30
Venue Room 2304, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 17-18)
Locomotion of Flagellated Bacteria: From the Swimming of Single Bacteria to the Collective Motion of Bacterial Swarm
Speaker Prof. Xiang Cheng, University of Minnesota
Date 12 July 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 16:00 - 17:30
Venue Room 4502, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
CHEM-PHYS Seminar - Computational Electrochemistry from AIMD to AI²MD
Speaker Prof. Jun Cheng, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Date 10 July 2023 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 2504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Self-organization of Bacterial Living Matter
Speaker Prof. Yilin Wu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date 27 June 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Physics of Functional Protein Phase Separation in Biomolecular Condensates
Speaker Prof. Hue Sun Chan, University of Toronto
Date 21 June 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 11:00 - 12:30
Venue Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Tunable Excitons and Phonons in Semiconductor Moire Systems
Speaker Prof. Xiaoqin Li, University of Texas at Austin
Date 20 June 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 14:00 - 15:30
Venue Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Pressure Driven Flow of Dense Suspensions: Pressure, Normal Stress, and Migration [Update - Pure Zoom Talk]
Speaker Prof. Ryohei Seto, Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Date 13 June 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Zoom (online)
• Join Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/91624422940?pwd=K3lPRER2SXpRM3hzM2lwZDNIUmRHQT09
• Meeting ID: 916 2442 2940
• Passcode: 716531
Recent Development on Measurement-device-independent Quantum Key Distribution
Speaker Prof. Xiongfeng Ma, Tsinghua University
Date 12 June 2023 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
How Myxococcus Xanthus Controls Colony Morphology with Physics
Speaker Prof. Endao Han, Nanyang Technological University
Date 2 June 2023 (Friday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Room 4503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Airy Beams and Their Applications in Optical Imaging
Speaker Prof. Ping Yu, University of Missouri
Date 2 June 2023 (Friday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Imaging Microscopic Deformation in Soft Materials: Micro-mechanics Experiments and Applications
Speaker Pro. Ye Xu, Beihang University
Date 30 May 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Modelling Hydrodynamically Mediated Collective Responses of Active Matter - Active Turbulence and Cilia Synchronisation
Speaker Prof. Fanlong Meng, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Date 29 May 2023 (Monday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Topological Phase Engineering, from Electronics to Phononics [Updated - Time changed from 14:00 - 15:30 to 15:00 to 16:30]
Speaker Dr. Qicheng Zhang, University of Pennsylvania
Date 24 May 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Room 1410, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Metamaterials 2.0
Speaker Prof. Guancong Ma, Hong Kong Baptist University
Date 24 May 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 5583, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 29-30)
Spintronics in the age of ChatGPT
Speaker Prof. Lior Klein, Bar-Ilan University
Date 22 May 2023 (Monday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Room 5583, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
IAS-PHYS Seminar - Magnetic Orders, Stripes, and Superconductivity - Insights from Computations on the Hubbard Model
Speaker Prof. Shiwei Zhang
Senior Research Scientist of Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute; Senior Visiting Member of the HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study
Date 12 May 2023 (Friday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Excitons and Correlated Physics in TMDC Moiré Superlattice
Speaker Prof. Sufei Shi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Date 11 May 2023 (Thursday)
Time 10:00 - 11:00
Venue Zoom (online)
• Join Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/95294528560?pwd=MG5RNDg4UURKVUdpNG5tVlpkc3Jkdz09
• Meeting ID: 952 9452 8560
• Passcode: 881504
Nonreciprocal Interactions - Drops of Activeliquids and Arrested Coarsening
Speaker Prof. Dr. Uwe Thiele, University of Muenster
Date 8 May 2023 (Monday)
Time 16:30 - 18:00
Venue Room 4475, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Towards Quantum-enhanced Sensing and Imaging
Speaker Prof. Lijian Zhang, Nanjing University
Date 8 May 2023 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Room 4503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Optical Characteristics of Coupled Nano-cavities – a Non-Hermitian System
Speaker Prof. Kok Wai Cheah, Hong Kong Baptist University
Date 4 May 2023 (Thursday)
Time 11:00 - 12:30
Venue Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Large Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Several Metals and Semimetals
Speaker Prof. Wu Li, Shenzhen University
Date 2 May 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 14:00 - 15:30
Venue Mr and Mrs Lee Siu Lun Lecture Theater (Lecture Theatre K), HKUST (Lifts 31-32)
Flat Bands in Geometrically Frustrated Lattices
Speaker Prof. Ming Yi, Rice University
Date 27 April 2023 (Thursday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Zoom (online)
• Join Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/95043557212?pwd=YWFVNjY3Wmd5QkJTR0taQlI0b3JOQT09
• Meeting ID: 950 4355 7212
• Passcode: 966963
Expert Sharing Seminar
Speaker Dr. Chun Zhang, ASTRI
Date 26 April 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 15:00-16:00
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
VdW Heterostructures: A New Route to Quantum Matter
Speaker Dr. Xiaomeng Liu, Princeton University
Date 25 April 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Zoom (online)
• Join Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/98217956957?pwd=TnZITHFBZlBrbHFlbmI2Tm56cUxJQT09
• Meeting ID: 982 1795 6957
• Passcode: 5678
Quantum Wavefunction Measurement Using Delta-quench Method
Speaker Prof. Shanchao Zhang, South China Normal University
Date 25 April 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 15:30 - 16:30
Venue Room 4503 Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Quantum Geometric Control of Material Phases
Speaker Prof. Qiong Ma, Boston College
Date 20 April 2023 (Thursday)
Time 09:00 - 10:30
Venue Zoom (online)
• Join Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/99352420590?pwd=Wk5COHBCYWV6cFNJbjlvdW5aK2VCUT09
• Meeting ID: 993 5242 0590
• Passcode: 685590
Terahertz Antennas and Reconfigurable Intelligent Metasurfaces for 6G and Beyond Communications
Speaker Dr. Gengbo Wu, City University of Hong Kong
Date 14 April 2023 (Friday)
Time 14:00 - 15:30
Venue Room 4472 Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Moiré Modification of Graphitic Thin Films
Speaker Prof. Matthew Yankowitz, University of Washington
Date 13 April 2023 (Thursday)
Time 11:00 - 12:30
Venue Zoom (online)
• Join Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/99958613074?pwd=N0pDNHZLOEpNZTJsR0JjZHJFdlA1dz09
• Meeting ID: 999 5861 3074
• Passcode: 277637
Expert Sharing Seminar
Speaker Dr. Jones Wan, Shell UK
Date 12 April 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 15:00-16:00
Venue Zoom (online)
• Join Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/99010558981?pwd=NlVCZlhlanU4T09qR21ydlNKbHpFdz09
• Meeting ID: 990 1055 8981
• Passcode: 541764
Hyperbolic Spaces Underlying Some Hermitian and Non-Hermitian Quantum Dynamics
Speaker Prof. Qi Zhou, Purdue University
Date 11 April 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 11:00 - 12:30
Venue Room 4502, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Current-control of Chiral Orbital Currents in a Colossal Magnetoresistance Material (Cancelled)
Speaker Prof. Gang Cao, University of Colorado at Boulder
Date 29 March 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Complex Transition Metal Compounds as Quantum Material Candidates
Speaker Dr. Lun Jin, Princeton University
Date 27 March 2023 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Zoom (online)
• Join Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/96829190112?pwd=dGpnbnZOV08vaU92WVdaZkV5SnlSUT09
• Meeting ID: 968 2919 0112
• Passcode: 5678
Designing 2D Materials: Superconductivity and Fractionalization
Speaker Dr. Xue-Yang Song, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date 24 March 2023 (Friday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Zoom (online)
• Join Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/96994121102?pwd=VlFpd0JmWGVkQUVwRkRQVy8zbHRnZz09
• Meeting ID: 969 9412 1102
• Passcode: 5678
Optical Spectroscopy of Wigner Nano-crystals in 2D Semiconductors
Speaker Prof. Chun Hung (Joshua) Lui, University of California Riverside
Date 23 March 2023 (Thursday)
Time 14:00 - 15:30
Venue Room 2463, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Using Anisotropic Strain to Probe Multipolar Order Parameters
Speaker Dr. Linda Ye, Stanford University
Date 21 March 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Zoom (online)
• Join Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/94528519096?pwd=N1AyOWw4RDIwWjArekR1WDZwTGkzdz09
• Meeting ID: 945 2851 9096
• Passcode: 839624
Quantum Simulation of Artificial Non-Abelian Gauge Fields Using an Ultracold Gas
Speaker Prof. David Wilkowski, Nanyang Technological University
Date 20 March 2023 (Monday)
Time 15:30 - 17:00
Venue Room 4475, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Transport Evidences of Excitonic Condensate in CrOCl-coupled Bernal Bilayer Graphene
Speaker Prof. Zheng Vitto Han, Shanxi University
Date 17 March 2023 (Friday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Room 1409, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Diamond-based Quantum Sensor for Molecular Analytics
Speaker Dr. Mouzhe Xie, University of Chicago
Date 16 March 2023 (Thursday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Expert Sharing Seminar
Speaker Dr. Shuyu Chen, Acoustic Metamaterials Group
Date 15 March 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 15:00 - 16:00
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
IAS-CQT Seminar Series - New Platforms for Quantum Sensing and Quantum Computing
Speaker Prof. Nathalie De Leon, Princeton University
Date 14 March 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 9:30 - 10:30
Venue Zoom (online)
• Zoom Link: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/92503111371
• Meeting ID: 925 0311 1371
• Passcode: 475970
CHEM-PHYS Seminar - AI Empowered Molecular Simulations
Speaker Prof. Yi Qin Gao, Peking University
Date 14 March 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 14:30 - 16:00
Venue Room 4503, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
(Group) Symmetry: A Designing Principle of Neural Information Processing in the Brain?
Speaker Prof. Wenhao Zhang, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Date 7 March 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 11:00 - 12:30
Venue Zoom (online)
• Zoom Link: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/99908202610?pwd=SG5HSFNlZGdrRVYyWisxeUZVYTdjUT09
• Meeting ID: 999 0820 2610
• Passcode: 013172
Topological-cavity Surface-emitting Laser
Speaker Prof. Ling Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Date 2 March 2023 (Thursday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Mixed-Mode
• To join the talk in person: Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
• To join the talk online: Zoom Link: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/99895849945?pwd=dTJEZTlaTUJmR2dZQ2RyditQeVY4dz09
Meeting ID: 998 9584 9945, Passcode: 210453
IAS-CQT Seminar Series - Quantum Sensing of Quantum Materials
Speaker Prof. Chunhui Du, University of California, San Diego
Date 24 February 2023 (Friday)
Time 10:00 - 11:00
Venue Zoom (online)
• Zoom Link: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/92503111371
• Meeting ID: 925 0311 1371
• Passcode: 475970
Condensed Matter Seminar: Correlated Electronic States in TMD Moiré Superlattices Probed by Microwave Impedance Microscopy
Speaker Prof. Yongtao Cui, UC Riverside
Date 23 February 2023 (Thursday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Zoom (online)
• Zoom Link: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/93723316946?pwd=bklhWDFUNmxZMjkwblptd0tRMDVUUT09
• Meeting ID: 937 2331 6946
• Passcode: 114111
Quasivoid-Induced Structural Relaxation in Colloidal Glass Formers: Microscopic Origin of Stringlike Motions
Speaker Prof. Cho Tung Yip, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)
Date 22 February 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 15:15 - 16:45
Venue Mixed-Mode
• To join the talk in person: Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST
(Lifts 27-28)
• To join the talk online: Zoom Link: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/98194361713?pwd=dG41MDdkQ3JiWmNxU2NLM1AxRUxQUT09
Meeting ID: 981 9436 1713, Passcode: 539317
Rational Synthesis of Graphene Molecules with Non-Alternant Topologies
Speaker Prof. Junzhi Liu, The University of Hong Kong
Date 22 February 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Room 4475, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Quantum Diamond Magnetometry at Extreme Pressures
Speaker Prof. Jean-François Roch, ENS Paris-Saclay
Date 13 February 2023 (Monday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
PHYS-CHEM Colloquium - Quantum Mechanics of Open Systems: Dissipaton Theories
Speaker Prof. Yijing Yan, University of Science and Technology of China
Date 13 February 2023 (Monday)
Time 16:30 - 18:00
Venue Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
Expert Sharing Seminar
Speaker Prof. Shuo-Yen Robert Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Date 8 February 2023 (Wednesday)
Time 15:00-16:30
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Improved Algorithms for Statistical Inference with Complex Network Data: Loopy Graphical Models and Parameter-free Regionalization
Speaker Prof. Alec Kirkley, The University of Hong Kong
Date 7 February 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 15:00 - 16:30
Venue Mixed-Mode
• To join the talk in person: Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
• To join the talk online: Zoom Link: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/94596099350?pwd=ZVYrRUNmNXN0NlN0RUxva05TTzlwQT09
Meeting ID: 945 9609 9350, Passcode: 158149
Determination of Spin-triplet Superconductivity with Phase-sensitive Methods
Speaker Dr. Xiaoying Xu, Johns Hopkins University
Date 30 January 2023 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
Engineering Novel Magnetic Interfaces
Speaker Dr. Hang Chi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date 9 January 2023 (Monday)
Time 10:30 - 12:00
Venue Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (Lecture Theatre H), HKUST (Lifts 27-28)
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