## Condensed Matter Theory

Held in SCI 328.

###### August 1st, 2017 to July 31st, 2018. Previous/next year.
 Aug08 Garry Goldstein University of Cambridge Pseudoparticle approach to strongly correlated systems Host: Claudio Rebbi Aug10 Marcus Muller Paul Scherer Institute, Villigen Switzerland The many body localization transition: A dynamical phase transition triggered by a quantum avalanche Host: Claudio Rebbi Aug11 Riccardo Zecchina Out-of-equilibrium states and quantum annealing speed up in non-convex optimization and learning problems Aug16 Sho Sugiura University of Tokyo Entanglement entropy of finite-temperature pure quantum states and thermodynamic entropy as a Noether invariant Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov Sep13 Michiel Wouters University of Antwerp Correlations in driven-dissipative quantum systems Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov, Dries Sels Sep15 Stefanos Kourtis Boston University, Physics Department "Resonant x-ray spectroscopy of topological semimetals" Sep22 Christopher Baldwin Boston University, Physics Department "Interfering directed paths & the sign phase transition" Sep25 Cenke Xu  University of California - Santa Barbara "Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem and its generalizations from the Perspective of the Symmetry Protected Topological Phase" Host: Anders Sandvik Sep27 Zhicheng Yang Boston University, Physics Department "Iterative Compression-Decimation Scheme for Tensor Network Optimization" Oct04 Walter Hahn Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow "Stability of quantum statistical ensembles with respect to local measurements" Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov Oct06 Kartiek Agrawal Princeton University "Diabatic approach to creating ground states of certain critical models" Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov Oct13 Roman Mankowsky Paul Scherrer Institute "Coherent optical control and nonlinear probing of strongly correlated materials" Host: Wanzheng Hu Oct18 Louis Pecora United States Naval Research Laboratory "Cluster Synchronization of Chaotic Systems in Large Networks" Host: David Campbell Oct20 Tamiro Villazon Boston University, Physics Department "Kibble-Zurek Dynamics of a Driven Dissipative System: Universality Beyond the Markovian Regime" Oct24 Ivar Mar Argonne National Lab "Exciting dynamics in multiple time dimensions" Oct25 Hui Shao Beijing Computational Science Research Center "Nearly deconfined spinon excitations in the square-lattice spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet" Host: Anders Sandvik Oct27 Kin Chung Fong Raytheon BBN Technologies and Harvard University "Putting hydrodynamic into solid state" Host: Scott Bunch Nov06 Masaki Oshikawa University of Tokyo "Polarization, Large Gauge Invariance, and Quantum Hall Effect on Lattice" Host: Anders Sandvik Nov08 Zhen Bi Pappalardo Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Instabilities of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model" Host: Zhicheng Yang Nov17 Carlos Bolech University of Cincinnati "A Bosonization Puzzle in Non-linear Transport" Dec01 Alexandre Day Boston University, Department of Physics "Learning and optimizing quantum control landscapes" Dec04 Ganpathy Murthy University of Kentucky "Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in $\nu=0$ Bilayer Graphene" Host: Anushya Chandran Dec08 Jonathan Wurtz Boston University, Department of Physics "The Cluster Truncated Wigner Approximation in Strongly Interacting Quantum Systems" Dec15 Xi Dai Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Properties of Topological semimetals: Chiral magnetic effect and instability under magnetic field" Host: Wanzheng Hu Dec20 Mikhail Zvonarev LPTMS, CNRS, Orsay, France "Propagation of an impurity through a quantum medium"

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