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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
Speaker Prof. Ryohei Seto, Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Date 13 June 2023 (Tuesday)
Time 10:00 - 11:30
Venue Room 4504, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 25-26)
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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