FY2013 Visitors

13th - 15th November 2013

Shigeki Onoda, Senior Research Scientist, RIKEN

• Seminar: “Emergent quantum electrodynamics and magnetic Higgs phase in quantum spin ice"

27th - 29th October 2013   

Masafumi Udagawa, Research Associate, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo             

• Seminar: "How electron decides its direction in a solid: going left or right?" 

15th September - 7th October 2013

Gunner Möller, Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge

• Seminar: “Creating Novel Quantum Phases by Artificial Magnetic Fields”

12th - 14th September 2013 

Yang-hao Chan, Graduate Student Research Assistant, University of Michigan               

• Seminar: “A cold atom simulator of a spin liquid"

9th - 11th September 2013

Karim Essafi, Postdoc, Pierre and Marie Curie University

• Seminar: "Nonperturbative Renormalization Group Approach to Anisotropic Systems"

15th - 17th July 2013 

Karlo Penc, Professor, Institute for solid state for physics and optics, Wigner RCP of the H.A.S and Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo

• Seminar:“Spin liquid phases in the SU(4) and SU(3) Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattic"

8th - 17th July 2013                                                                                      

Olga Sikora, Postdoc, National Taiwan University

• Seminar “Variational Monte Carlo method with tensor product wave function"

28th - 29th May 2013 

Ken Harada, Chief Scientist, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.

• Seminar: "Observation of Vortices in Superconductors by Transmission Electron Microscopy"

21st - 25th May 2013

Sir Michael Berry, Professor Emiritus, University of Bristol              

• Seminar: “Superoscillations and weak measurement”
• Public Lecture: "Seven Wonders of Physics"

18th April 2013 

Paul Attfield, Professor, University of Edinburgh

• Seminar: “Chemistry on a background - new orders in simple solids”

4th - 6th April 2013

Yoshitomo Kamiya, Los Alamos National Laboratory                                                                          

Seminar: “Magnetic vortex crystals in frustrated Mottinsulator”

1st - 17th March 2013 

Philippe Sindzingre, Professor, Condensed matter theory laboratory, UPMC Paris

• Seminar: “Investigation of the T=0 phase diagram of some 2D quantum antiferromagnets by means of exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian”

24th February - 4th March 2013

George Jackeli, Keimer's department, MPI-FKF Stuttgart

• Seminar: “Spin-Orbit Coupling in Mott Insulators: Unusual Interactions and Possible Exotic Phases”

27th - 28th February 2013 

Hidenori Takagi, Professor at University of Tokyo and Director at MPI-FKF Stuttgart   

27th February - 17th May 2013

Luis Seabra, Postdoc, MPI-PKS Dresden　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

• Seminar: “Exotic Ising dynamics in a 1D Bose-Hubbard model”

11th - 14th February 2013  

Hiroaki Ueda, Postdoc, Tokyo Metropolitan University

• Seminar: “Topological charge pumping effect due to the parity anomaly on the Surface of Three-Dimensional Topological Insulators”

7th - 10th January 2013

Roderich Moessner, Professor and Director of Condensed Matter Department, MPI-PKS Dresden

• Seminar: "Magnetic monopoles in spin ice"

6th - 8th January 2013   

Zenji Hiroi, Professor, ISSP, University of Tokyo

• Seminar: "Searching for novel compounds in the strongly correlated electron system"