QuMat 2026 Pillar meeting in Nijmegen

The QuMat pillar meeting 2026 will take place 4 – 5 June in Nijmegen at the Van der Valk Hotel.

Venue - Van der Valk Hotel Nijmegen - Lent

Van der Valk Hotel Nijmegen – Lent
Hertog Eduardplein 4,

6663 AN Nijmegen

Please note that the Van der Valk Hotel is on the north side of the river. It can easily be reached by public transport from the Nijmegen station.

Program

Day 1 - June 4
10:00 - 11:00Walk-in & registration
11:00 - 11:10Intro
11:10Erik van Loon (Radboud University ← Lund University) - Modelling electronic correlations in quantum materials
11:35Pim Witte (Utrecht University) - TBA
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
13:50Chrystalla Knekna (University of Groningen) - Chemical-potential tuning in the type-II Dirac semimetal PtBixTe2-x
14:15 - 14:55 -- Coffee Break --
14:55Talieh Sadat Ghiasi (TU Delft) - TBA
15:20Marieke Altena (University of Twente) - A low-temperature transport study on the superconductivity in PtBi2
16:10 - 16:50 -- Coffee Break --
16:50Auke Vlasblom (Utrecht University) - Moiré Effects in Twisted Topological Insulator Heterostructures
17:15Pim Lueb (Eindhoven University of Technology) - PbTe Nanowires on CdTe: Growth and Structural Characterization
17:40Mazhar Ali (TU Delft) - TBA
18:05 - 19:35Dinner
19:35 - 20:00Break
20:00 - 21:30Evening Activity at Hotel
Day - June 5
09:25Mohamad Farhan Tanzim (University of Amsterdam) - Relativistic GW for magnetic materials: Application to MnTe2 and MnSb2Te4
10:15 - 10:55 -- Coffee Break --
10:55Max van der Schans (Eindhoven University of Technology) - Investigating the chirality of all-optically generated magnetic textures using SEMPA
11:20Kevin Vonk (University of Twente) - Topologically trivial states at the edges of Bi(110) on Ge(111)
12:10 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 15:30PHD afternoon / EB Meeting

PhD afternoon day 2

Our PhD students are nearing the end of their projects and are looking towards the future. To give a helping hand, on day 2 the PhD council will organize a PhD-only session focused on job-market and similar. (Postdocs are also welcome)

More information will follow.

Evening Activity

The PhD council is preparing the evening activity. Details will follow later.

Hotels

If you wish to book your stay directly at the van der Valk, this can be done with 10% discount by using the links below:

Book before May 27th.

Registration

The registration has now closed.

Local organizers

This pillar meeting is organized by Andrey Bagrov together with the QuMat office and the PhD council.

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