QuMat 2024 Yearly meeting in Twente
The second QuMat yearly meeting will take place 11 – 12 November in Twente at the Grolsch Veste!
The Yearly meeting is a two-day meeting where all QuMat scientists, and associated members as well as the two advisory boards (SAC / ISOAC) come together to share scientific results, discus challenges and opportunities within the consortium and find new cross-pillar collaborations.
Registration
The registration is closed on Tuesday 15 October. If you still would like to register, please contact Mikael Fremling.
Program
Below is a draft of the schedule. Please note that the exact times of the sessions are subject to change.
| Mo – 11/11 | Tu – 12/11 | |
| 09:00 – 9:30 | Plenary session (Guest speaker) | |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | ||
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Walk in | Break |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Plenary session Guest speaker: Silke Bühler-Paschen Pillar Updates | Plenary session 3 |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | ||
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Stadium tour | |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | ||
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Parallel session (1A / 1B) | Parallel session (4A / 4B) |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | ||
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Break | |
| 14:30 -15:00 | Break + Group photo | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Parallel session (2A / 2B) | Bus to site visit |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Site Visit / EB Meeting | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Poster Pitch | |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Poster session + Refreshments | |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | ||
| 17:30 – 18:00 | ||
| 18:00 – 18:30 | Dinner | |
| 18:30 – 19:00 | ||
| 19:00 – 19:30 | ||
| 19:30 – 20:00 | Walk/Bus to activity | |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Evening activity Snooker & Pool Enschede | |
| 20:30 – 21:00 | ||
| 21:00 – 21:30 |
Joint and parallel sessions
Day 1
Parallel session 1A: Topological Superconductivity
- Marieke Altena – Pushing transport to the edge in WTe2
Parallel session 1B: Topological Theory
- Lumen Eek – tba
- Diego Felipe Muñoz Arboleda – Thermodynamics and entanglement entropy of the non-Hermitian SSH model
- Anouar Moustaj – Topological phase of the interacting SSH model
- Bowy La Riviere – $mathbb{Z}_4$ transitions in quantum loop models on a zig-zag ladder
Parallel Session 2A – Photons & Spin
- Lucas Maisel Licerán – High-temperature unconventional excitonic insulators from band geometry
- Cedric Cordero Silis – Van der Waals Materials for Polarization-Sensitive All-2D Photodetectors
- William Huddie – Entropic magnetic interactions
Parallel Session 2B – General advancements
Poster Pitch
As part of this Yearly meeting, we will begin the poster session with a short poster pitch round.
For the 1-minute pitch, you are allowed to show ONE STATIC slide (PDF or JPEG/PNG). You will be called individually to the stage to pitch your poster. All slides will be collected by the QuMat office in advance and shown from a central computer. We look forward to reeving your slide and poster title, no later than Monday November 6th.
Poster Session
- Krishnaraajan Sundararajan – Alternative injector/detector platform for magnons: WTe2
- Esther van de Logt – Transport measurements in hexagonale Silicon geranium nanowires
- Viktoriia Radovskaia – Ultrafast control of magnetism via orbital excitation in Ni-doped 2D-antiferromagnet MnPS3
- Chrystalla Knekna – Chemical-potential tuning in the type-II Dirac semimetal PtTe2-xBix
- Padraig Maderson – Magnetism in Rare Earth Metal Oxides
Day 2
Plenary Session 3
- Matthieu Verstraete – First-principles transport including magnetic and spin-orbit effects
Parallel Session 4A – Topology Experiments
Parallel Session 4B – Topology Theory
- Robert Cañellas Núñez – Topological edge and corner states in bismuth fractal nanostructures
- Marcus Bäcklund – Topological Classification of Multifold Exceptional Points
- Montserrat Navarro Espino – First-principles study of Bi(trimer) on a Ge(111) surface
Site visit - University of Twente
On the second day of the program we will organizing a site visit of the facilities in Twente University.
A bus will pick up up for transportation between the Grolsch Veste and the UT. During the site visit, you can leaver your luggage in the bus.
After the visit, the bus till bring everyone to the Enschede central station.
Evening social activity
After the dinner on day 1, we are planning an evening activity at the Snooker & Poolcentrum Enschede, in the center of Enschede.
We will travel as a group from the stadium to the event.
Stadium tour
There will be a stadium tour. It will be available in both English and Dutch.
Hotels
Below is a list of hotels within reach of the Grolsh Veste. The stadium is easily reached from the city center of Enschede.
If you wish to take part in the evening activity, we recommend you book a hotel near the Enschede city center.
Intercity hotel Enschede, in the center of Enschede, ideal if you are taking part in the evneing activity.
Fletcher hotel de Broeierd, within walking distance from the Grolsch Veste.
Hospitaliteit, a small scale B&B in an old military hospital. www.hospitaliteit.nl
Van der Valk, for those that come with a car.
‘t Lansink Hengelo, a somewhat higher-end hotel
Local organizers
The yearly meeting is organized locally by Alexander Brinkman, Thijs Roskamp, Feike van Veen, Esther van de Logt together with the QuMat office.