Seminar of Doctoral College for the Statistical Physics of Complex Systems

The seminar starts at 13:30 (Coventry) = 14:30 (Nancy, Leipzig) = 15:30 (Lviv)

The seminar occurs every third Thursday in the month, except where otherwise noted, on zoom (Meeting ID: 820 4523 5333     Passcode: 304076) - please note that this link is new! - don't use the old one...

We usually stay online for half an hour or so after the seminar for an informal chat over coffee and biscuits (which, it being online, the participants must supply for themselves) - please do join us for that too if you can.

16.01.25 - Critical and tricritical behaviour of the Blume-Capel model through the partition function zeros. Leïla Moueddene (Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Théoriques, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France)

20.02.25 - Precise determination of the 3D Ising model critical exponents: what is known and why it is a challenge?  Dmytro Shapoval (Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine)

*10.03.25* (note earlier date) - A thermodynamic framework for exploring and controlling quantum trajectories on quantum computers.  Federico Carollo (Statistical Physics group, Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems, Coventry University, U.K.)

*10.04.25* (note earlier date) - Fast, hierarchical and adaptive Metropolis Monte Carlo simulation - basics, applications, and outlook.  Fabio Müller (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, Germany)

15.05.25 - replaced by Ising lectures

*12.06.25* (note earlier date) - Altermagnetism from a symmetry perspective.  Paul McClarty (Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France)

*04.09.25* (note earlier date) - A review of the book: R. Folk, B. Berche, R. Kenna, and Yu. Holovatch, "Ernst Ising's doctoral thesis - one hundred years on" (World Scientific, Singapore, 2025).  Yurij Holovatch (Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine)