[7/12] THE 29TH AIMR TEA TIME TALK
Speaker
Prof. Qian Niu
(Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin)
Title
Topology and Geometry of Bloch Electrons
Date
July 12 (Fri.), 2019 16:00-17:00
Venue
Combination Room, 5th floor, AIMR Main Bldg.
Abstract
The 2016 Nobel prize for physics was a grant celebration of our understanding of topological phases and transition, part of which dates back to pioneering work of David Thouless and his collaborators when I became a graduate student of him 37 years ago. I was fortunate to be able to wetness and even participate the development of this topological theory of Chern insulators at the beginning of my career. In this talk, I will give an `inside look' of the topological Chern numbers, not only from my personal perspective, but also concentrating on its physical content, the Berry curvatures, to see how such topological and geometrical concepts have transformed our view of solid state physics.
About Tea Time Talk
AIMR’s Tea Time Talk is a kind of seminar aiming to promote exchange between world’s eminent researchers and young researchers at AIMR, held in a relaxed atmosphere at AIMR’s Friday Tea Time. The following researchers from around the world have given talks at this event so far, and participants have enjoyed discussion over a cup of tea.
| 29th | July 12, 2019 | Prof. Qian Niu (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin) |
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| 28th | May 17, 2019 | Prof. Damien Fabrègue (INSA Lyon, France / ELyT MaX Lab at Tohoku University) |
| 27th | Dec. 14, 2018 | Prof. Yukitoshi Motome (Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Japan) |
| 26th | July 13, 2018 | Dr. Shimpei Ono (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan) |
| 25th | May 11, 2018 | Dr. Pierre-Antoine Geslin (Mateis lab, INSA Lyon/CNRS / ELyTMaX Lab at Tohoku University / Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University) |
| 24th | Apr. 27, 2018 | Prof. Masaru Tsukada (AIMR, Tohoku University) |
| 23rd | Dec. 8, 2017 | Prof. Jean-Yves Cavaillé (INSA Lyon, France / ELyT MaX Lab at Tohoku University) |
| 22nd | July 28, 2017 | Prof. Nicolas Mary (INSA Lyon, France / ELyT MaX Lab at Tohoku University) |
| 21st | July 21, 2017 | Prof. Gael Sebald (INSA Lyon, France / ELyT MaX at Tohoku University) |
| 20th | July 7, 2017 | Prof. Arun Bansil (Northeastern University) |
| 19th | June 30, 2017 | Dr. Takeshi Nakanishi (AIST-Tohoku U Mathematics for Advanced Materials Open Innovation Laboratory (MathAM-OIL)) |
| 18th | June 23, 2017 | Prof. Denis Arčon (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) |
| 17th | Apr. 28, 2017 | Prof. Ayumi Hirano (AIMR, Tohoku University) |
| 16th | Nov. 29, 2016 | Dr. David Guy Austing (National Research Council Canada, Canada) |
| 15th | Sept. 30, 2016 | Prof. C. Suryanarayana (University of Central Florida, U.S.A.) |
| 14th | June 17, 2016 | Prof. Tomoteru Fukumura (AIMR, Tohoku University) |
| 13th | May 13, 2016 | Prof. Jean-Yves Cavaillé (ELyT MaX (Joint Lab at Tohoku University), University of Lyon, France) |
| 12th | June 26, 2015 | Dr. B. Muralidharan (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India) |
| 11th | June 27, 2014 | Prof. Michael B. Santos (The University of Oklahoma, U.S.A.) |
| 10th | Nov. 19, 2013 | Dr. Pawel Hawrylak (National Research Council Canada, Canada) |
| 9th | Oct. 1, 2013 | Dr. Yuan T. Lee (Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Academia Sinica of Taiwan) |
| 8th | June 28, 2013 | Dr. Bjorn Mysen (Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, U.S.A.) |
| 7th | Apr. 12, 2013 | Prof. Yiming Li (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) |
| 6th | Jan. 18, 2013 | Prof. Tomasz Dietl (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) |
| 5th | Aug. 31, 2012 | Prof. John H. Perepezko (University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.) |
| 4th | Aug. 17,2012 | Prof. Alain Reza Yavari (Grenoble Institute of Technology, France) |
| 3rd | Aug. 10, 2012 | Prof. Alan Lindsay Greer (University of Cambridge, U.K.) |
| 2nd | July 6, 2012 | Prof. Winfried Teizer (Texas A&M University, U.S.A.) |
| 1st | May 25, 2012 | Prof. Thomas P. Russell (The University of Massachusetts Amherst, U.S.A.) |
Contact
International Affairs Center (IAC), AIMR
| Address : | 2-1-1, Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577 |
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| TEL : | +81-22-217-5971 |
| E-MAIL : | iac@grp.tohoku.ac.jp |