Events During the 2026 Spring Semester
January 2026
- Thursday, January 22nd
- Mingyang Zheng, University of Florida
- Coulomb Drag Studies of Interacting Luttinger Liquids
- 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Tiancheng Song
February 2026
- Thursday, February 12th
- Oskar Vafek , UMN-FTPI
- Orbital magnetism and flat bands in magnetic field
- 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Thursday, February 26th
- Students , UW-Madison
- APS March Meeting Practice Talks
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
March 2026
- Thursday, March 5th
- Egor Kiselev , MPIPKS
- Dynamical breaking of inversion symmetry, strong second harmonic generation, and ferroelectricity with nonlinear phonons
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Elio König
- Thursday, March 12th
- John Toner, University of Oregon
- Only the ambidextrous can flock: chirality destroys order in polar active matter
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Thursday, March 19th
- Open
- Monday, March 23rd
- John Martinis, QoLab, UCSB
- Engineering the Quantum Future — A Donald Kerst Lecture Series
- 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm; Shannon Hall, Memorial Union, hosted by Wisconsin Union Directorate Distinguished Lecture Series
- Thursday, March 26th
- Dafei Jin, University of Notre Dame
- Quantum Information on Quantum Matter
- 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Ilya Esterlis
April 2026
- Thursday, April 9th
- Sheng Ran, Washington University in St Louis
- Title to be announced
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Tiancheng Song
- Thursday, April 16th
- Maxim Khodas , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Title to be announced
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Alex Levchenko
- Thursday, April 23rd
- Open
- Thursday, April 30th
- Aditi Mitra, NYU
- Title to be announced
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Elio König
May 2026
- Thursday, May 7th
- Shimon Kolkowitz, Berkeley
- Title to be announced
- 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Mark Eriksson
- Thursday, May 14th
- Roman Kuzmin , UW-Madisoon
- Title to be announced
- 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Victor Brar
- Thursday, May 21st
- Open
- Thursday, May 28th
- Open
June 2026
- Thursday, June 4th
- Open
- Thursday, June 11th
- Open
- Thursday, June 18th
- Open
- Thursday, June 25th
- Open
July 2026