Join us for these exciting upcoming seminars featuring:
23 March 2026 - Jorg Schmiedmayer (Vienna University of Technology)
13 April 2026 - Kamran Behnia (ESPCI Paris)
**Participants are kindly requested to register for each talk individually via the respective links provided below.
Past Seminars:
8 Sept 2025 (Monday) - Shuyun Zhou (Tsinghua University) Read More.
6 Oct 2025 (Monday) - Paul Skrzypczyk (University of Bristol) Read More.
3 Nov 2025 (Monday) - Mohammad Hafezi (University of Maryland) Read More.
1 Dec 2025 (Monday) - Alberto Morpurgo (University of Geneva) Read More.
12 Jan 2026 (Monday) - Prof Valla Fatemi (Cornell University) Read More.
9 Feb 2026 (Monday) - Prof Haruki Watanabe (University of Tokyo) Read More.
These seminars are part of the IAS Frontiers Seminars: Quantum Horizons series, jointly organised and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS).
UPCOMING SEMINARS
About the talk "What Atomtronics Experiments Teach Us About Many-Body Physics"
About the talk "Propagation of Heat in Liquid 3He and Metallic Fermi Liquids"
Landau’s Fermi liquid has proved extremely influential in the treatment of strongly correlated electrons in metals. Historically, the theory was inspired by another fermionic quantum liquid, namely the normal liquid 3He. Thermal conductivity of 3He conforms to this theory but, contrary to a common belief, only at very low temperatures. The deviation from the expected temperature dependence can be explained by assuming that in addition to Landau’s quasi-particles, there is another contribution to heat transport by a collective sound mode with a T1/2 temperature dependence. In the hydrodynamic limit, the celebrated zero sound cannot be distinguished from the first sound. The empirical expression for this second channel of heat transport is equivalent to a quantum version of the Bridgman equation for thermal conductivity of classical liquids. The presence of such collective mode in strongly correlated metallic Fermi liquids may explain the mystery of a downward deviation from the canonical quadratic behavior below the Fermi degeneracy temperature.