Thursday March 19 at 2:00 pm (Paris time),Room Holweck, building C, 1st floor, 10 rue Vauquelin, ESPCI, at LPEM in hybrid format:The power of flatness: an ab initio guide to tunable flat bands in 2D materials by Ludovica Zullo, Wuerzburg University.Abstract: In condensed matter, flatness is anything but boring: when a band's energy dispersion becomes nearly flat, electrons…

Strain-responsive mechanical properties of polymeric materials, Koichi Mayumi The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan Polymeric materials that exhibit strain-responsive mechanical properties are attracting increasing attention as a class of adaptive and functional materials capable of dynamically adjusting their behavior under external deformation. In such systems, mechanical characteristics…

Friday April 3 at 2:00 pm (Paris time),  Room Charpak, entrance building, ground floor: Magneto-optical spectroscopy on van-der-Waals antiferromagnets and topological semimetals, by F. Le Mardelé, Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses, Toulouse.  Magneto-optical spectroscopy focuses on the interaction between light and matter,with the magnetic field acting as a continuously adjustable external parameter. The magneto-optic response offers valuable information…

 Monday,  8th of June at 11:30, we have the pleasure to listen to Laura Alvarez from CRPP, Université de Bordeaux. The title of Mark's talk is:** Non-equilibrium soft matter: from active colloids to synthetic cells **and the abstract is below.This seminar will take place at the seminar room of Gulliver C1.62  at 11:30. Living cells operate…

Thursday June 11 at 2:00 pm (Paris time), Room Boreau, building C, 2nd floor, 10 rue Vauquelin, ESPCI, at LPEM in hybrid format. :  Nanophotonic Metasurfaces: VO2 Phase Control and qBIC-Enhanced Non-Reciprocity by Antonio García-Martín, Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología IMN-CNM, CSIC (CEI UAM+CSIC), Isaac Newton 8, E-28760 Tres Cantos,  Madrid, Spain. ‎In this presentation I will address engineered…

Paul Chaikin, professor at NYU, with the support of the Joliot Chair. Paul will give a seminar Thursday, June 11, in amphi Charpak at 3:00 p.m. On Some small steps toward artificial Life. Abstract: Self-replication and evolution under selective pressure are inherent phenomena in life, but few artificial systems exhibit these phenomena. We have designed a process and a system of DNA origami tiles that exponentially replicate a seed pattern, doubling (or more) the copies in each diurnal-like…