Program
5th Workshop Condensed Matter Highlights
Physics Department "Aldo Pontremoli" - University of Milan
Lecture Room A, 19th-20th February 2025
Image Credits: Andrea Falqui
5th Workshop Condensed Matter Highlights
Physics Department "Aldo Pontremoli" - University of Milan
Lecture Room A, 19th-20th February 2025
Image Credits: Andrea Falqui
Wednesday, February 19th
9:30 - 9:45
Welcome and Introduction
Head of Physics Department Prof. Paolo Milani &
Condensed Matter group Coordinator Prof. Nicola Manini
9:45 - 10:30
Stephan Roche
(Catalan Institute of Nanosciences and Nanotechnology - ICN2)
"Artificial Intelligence enabling disruptive materials design and engineering"
10:30 - 10:50
Roberto Guerra
"Understanding friction in 2D material surfaces: background and perspectives"
10:50 - 11:10
Simona Achilli
"Towards design and functionalization of 2D materials: theory hand in hand with experiments"
11:10-11:40
Coffee Break
11:40 - 12:00
Guido Tiana
"Sampling the energy profile of complex systems: from protein evolution to artificial neural networks"
12:00 - 12:20
Marco Marino
"Understanding molecular functionalization of magnetic surfaces by first principles"
12:20 - 12:40
Pietro Carrara
"Coherent and dissipative coupling in magnon-phonon hybridization"
12:40 - 13:00
Poster Pitch
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Poster Session
14:30 - 15:15
Corentin Coulais
(Institute of Physics - University of Amsterdam)
"Active mechanical metamaterials: from wave guiding to robotics"
15:15 - 15:35
Mirko Vanzan
"Predicting the chiroptical properties of monosubstituted [6]-helicenes"
15:35 - 15:55
Arabinda Bera
"Clustering of negative topological charges precedes plastic failure in 3D glasses"
15:55-16:20
Coffee Break
16:20 -16:40
Marco Potenza
"Integrated Platform for Global Space and Ground Telecomputation (INSPIRED)"
16:40 - 17:00
Alberto Casu
"The revolution of in situ TEM"
17:00 - 17:20
Alessandro Podestà
"Nanoscale investigation of systems and interfaces by atomic force microscopy"
Thursday, February 20th
9:45 - 10:30
Emre Ozer
(Senior Director of Processor Development at Pragmatic Semiconductor)
"Stretching the Boundaries of Computing with FlexIC Technology"
10:30 - 10:50
Francesca Borghi
"Brain-like hardware, do we need it?"
10:50 - 11:10
Francesco Monzani
"Leveraging non-unital noise for gate-based quantum reservoir computing"
11:10-11:40
Coffee Break
11:40 - 12:00
Stefano Castellini
"Non-Equilibrium Phenomena Experiments and Educational Projects at Complex Fluids Research Laboratory"
12:00 - 12:20
Davide Sangalli
"Modelling electronic excitations in material science"
12:20 - 12:40
Marcel Di Vece
"Nanoparticles for sustainability: Hydrogen and CO2"
12:40 - 13:00
Poster Pitch
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Poster Session
14:30 - 15:15
Giacomo Roati
(CNR-INO e LENS)
"Ultracold matter for quantum technologies"
15:15 - 15:35
Apostoli Christian
"Describing quantum many-body correlations with variational approaches"
15:35 - 15:55
Sebastiano Corli
"Photonic quantum transpiling, compiling and computing"
15:55-16:20
Coffee Break
16:20 -16:40
Vinay Vaibhav
"Timescale Bridging in Polymer Mechanics Through Non-affine Deformation theory"
16:40 - 17:00
Lorenzo Migliorini
"Electro-active polymeric materials materials for soft robotics and surgical simulators"
17:00 - 17:20
Mirko Siano
"Nanostructured targets for advanced beam diagnostics"