The
DIPC Community Seminars series aims to strengthen the internal communication within the center and
to provide a complete view of our scientific activity. Within this series, all junior (Fellows) and senior
scientists of DIPC will have the opportunity to share their science with the rest of the DIPC community.
Speakers are encouraged to convey a broad context of their work, in order to maximize the engagement in the ensuing
discussion. We encourage in particular the attendance of PhD students and postoctoral researchers, as a way to
get a broader picture of the local scientific activity and learn about scientific topics aside from their own
research work.
Seminars will take place every other Thursday at noon in the DIPC Lecture Hall (and for time being also accessible
via Zoom). The format will be about 45 min (+15 min discussion). The series started
in 2022 and we plan to run it for several years, thus enabling talks by all DIPC scientists.
The next scheduled talks can be found here and the
archive of past talks here.
The seminar series is organized by Marek Grzelczak,
Geza Giedke and David De Sancho.
If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us via e-mail.
Upcoming events
30 Oct, 2025 (Thursday) at Josebe Olarra Seminar Room
Topology and Geometry Beyond Perfect Crystals
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Adolfo G. Grushin (DIPC)
Topological and geometrical properties of wave functions are becoming an indispensable tool with which to understand quantum phenomena in materials. These concepts are relevant to numerous fields including optics, electronics, metamaterials, superconductivity and quantum computation. However, the progress is somewhat biased and perhaps limited by the tempting assumption of perfect crystalline symmetry. In this talk I will give a pedagogical overview of how our group has extended and used these concepts to predict novel phenomenology in systems where crystalline symmetries... Read more!
