Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

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Past talks: 202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009200820072006

2020

  • Nanotexture and non-thermal photoinduced insulator-to-metal transition in quantum materials. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    April 23 2020. Invited seminar at Quantum Matter Institute, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.

2019

  • Nanoscale dynamics across the Mott transition in V2O3. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    September 30- October 4 2019. Contributed talk at the Italian national conference on the physics of matter, Catania, Italy.
  • Ultrafast optical spectroscopy of strongly correlated materials and high-temperature superconductors: a non-equilibrium approach. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    September 8-13 2019. Invited talk at the XXVI International Summer School Nicolás Cabrera "Driving the road towards room temperature superconductivity with electronic interactions", Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, Spain.
  • Nanotexture and early-stage metallization dynamics of the Mott insulating phase in V2O3. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    July 15-17 2019. Invited talk at the International Conference on "Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Correlated Quantum Materials", Liyang, Jiangsu, China.
  • Electron-boson coupling in correlated materials: a non-equilibrium perspective. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    March 31- April 5 2019. Invited talk at the DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany.
  • Nanoscale dynamics across the Mott transition in V2O3. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    January 29 2019. Invited talk at the workshop "Aberration-Corrected PEEM", Diamond Light Source, Didcot, UK.

2018

  • Early-stage dynamics of metallic droplets embedded in the nanotextured Mott insulating phase of V2O3. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    December 16-19 2018. Invited talk at the international workshop "Non-equilibrium Quantum Dynamics and Relaxation Phenomena in Many Body Systems", Kravec, Slovenia.
  • Non-equilibrium spectroscopies for quantum materials: snapping and controlling superconductivity on ultrafast timescales. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    May 21-22 2018. Invited talk at the international symposium "Superconductivity and Pressure: A Fruitful Relationship on the Road to Room Temperature Superconductivity", Fundación Ramón Areces, Madrid, Spain.
  • Emerging ultrafast properties of correlated materials. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    May 16-19 2018. Invited talk at the workshop on "Correlated electron systems-novel developments", Center for Quantum Materials at the University of Minnesota, USA.
  • Ultrafast orbital manipulation in copper oxides: evidence of Mottness at finite doping. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    January 27- February 1 2018. Invited talk at the symposium: ”Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXII”, PHOTONICS WEST 2018, San Francisco, USA.

2017

  • Non-equilibrium spectroscopy of correlated materials. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    December 11-15 2017. Invited lecture at the International School "Ultrafast Quantum Control of Matter: the Path to Solids", UBC Vancouver, Canada.
  • Ultrafast orbital manipulation in copper oxides: evidence of Mottness at finite doping. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    October 16-19 2017. Invited talk at the International Conference ”Cutting-Edge Topics in Quantum Materials”, ParisEdge2017, ESPCI Paris, France.
    October 1-6 2017. Invited talk at the Italian National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, FISMAT2017, Trieste, Italy.
    September 18-22 2017. Invited talk at the international workshop "Non-Linear Effects and Short-Time Dynamics in Novel Superconductors and Correlated Spin-Orbit Coupled Systems", Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, Daejeon, South Korea. 
    June 4-10 2017. Invited talk at the International Conference SUPERSTRIPES 2017: "Quantum physics in Complex Matter", Ischia, Italy.
    June 19 2017. Invited Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München, Germany.

2016

  • Emergent ultrafast phenomena in correlated oxides and heterostructures. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    December 17-21 2016. Invited talk at the international workshop "Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Quantum Systems", Kravec, Slovenia.
  • Probing the local charge and spin dynamics in correlated materials via high-energy electronic excitations. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    October 10-12 2016. Invited talk at the second workshop on ”Ultrafast Dynamics in Strongly Correlated Systems”, UDSCS2016, Villigen, Switzerland.
    June 7-8 2016. Invited talk at the International workshop ”Unveiling complex phenomena in Functional OXides”, UFOX2016, Salerno, Italy.
  • The room temperature prodrome of charge order in copper oxides. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    September 11-16 2016. Invited talk at the 11th International Conference on "New Theories, Discoveries, Applications of Superconductors and Related Materials”, New3SC-11 2016, Bled, Slovenia.
    June 19-24 2016. Invited talk at the 11th International Conference on ”Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors”, SNS 2016, Stuttgart/Ludwigsburg, Germany.
  • Snapshots of the retarded electron-boson coupling interaction in cuprates. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    March 14-18 2016. Invited talk at the APS March Meeting 2016, Baltimore, USA.

2015

  • Ultrafast magnetization dynamics in relativistic Mott insulators. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    October 19-23 2015. Invited talk at the Ultrafast Magnetism Conference, UMC-2015, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
  • Ultrafast snapshots of the fundamental interactions in cuprates. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    September 28- October 2 2015. Invited talk at the Italian National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, Palermo, Italy.
  • Snapshots of the retarded interaction of charge charriers with ultrafast fluctuations in cuprates,. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    October 5-9 2015. Invited talk at the V International Conference ”Fundamental Problem of high-temperature superconductivity (FPS'15)”, Malakhovka, Russia.
    August 23-28 2015. Invited talk at the International Conference M2S 2015 ”Materials & Mechanisms of Superconductivity”, Geneva, Switzerland.
    July 13-17 2015. Invited talk at the International Workshop on ”Quantum Design” at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.
    June 13-18 2015. Invited talk at the International Conference Superstripes2015 ”Quantum in Complex Matter: Superconductivity, Magnetism and Ferroelectricity”, Ischia, Italia.

2014

  • Unfolding the ultrafast relaxation processes in correlated materials by non-equilibrium spectroscopies. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    December 1-2 2014. Invited talk at the International Workshop "Light pulses for investigating the time dimension across the fs-ns scales: an integrated users facility of complementary table-top laser, seeded Free Electron Laser and storage ring sources for time-resolved spectroscopies", ELETTRA Trieste, Italy.
  • Snapshots of the retarded electron-boson interaction in high-temperature superconductors. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    December 14-17 2014. Invited talk at the International Workshop "Dynamics of Quantum Many-Body Systems far from Equilibrium", Krvavec, Slovenia.
    October 27-31 2014. Invited talk at the International Workshop on "Probing and Understanding Exotic Superconductors and Superfluids", ICTP Trieste, Italy.
    September 5-10 2014. Invited talk at the International Conference "Correlations and Coherence at Different Scales", Ustron, Poland
    June 29-July 4, 2014. Invited talk at the Low Energy Electrodynamics in Solids, Loire Valley, France.
    June 30-July 4, 2014. Invited talk at the workshop "Towards higher-temperature superconductivity", Lorentz centre, Leiden, the Netherlands.

2013

  • Non-equilibrium optical spectroscopy: a new clue to unravel the properties of correlated materials. (Dr. Claudio Giannetti)
    December 18-20 2013, Invited talk at the workshop: ”Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Correlated Electron Systems”, Krvavec, Slovenia.
    September 23-27, 2013. Invited talk at the XCIX Congresso nazionale SIF, Trieste.
    July 29-August 2, 2013. Invited talk at the International Workshop on Strong Correlations and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (CORPES-13), Hamburg, Germany.
    May 27-June 1, 2013. Invited keynote talk at the international conference ”Quantum in Complex Matter: Superconductivity, Magnetism and Ferroelectricity” (SUPERSTRIPES), Ischia, Italy.
    May 12-17, 2013. Invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Superconductivity, Les Diablerets, Switzerland.
    February 18-21, 2013. Invited talk at the international workshop: ”Short-time Dynamics in Strongly Correlated Systems and Novel Superconductors”, Campus of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. 
  • Impulsively Excited Pseudosurface Acoustic Waves in Hypersonic Phononic Crystals. (Dr. Banfi)
    2-5 May 2013, Invited talk at the international conference: ” International Congress on Ultrasonics”, Singapore.
    June 20 2013, Invited Seminar, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
    July 21-26 2013, Invited talk at the international conference: ” 7th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxation in Complex Systems", Barcelona, Spain.

2012

  • In search for the pairing glue in cuprates by non-equilibrium optical spectroscopy. (Dr. Giannetti)
    December 17-19 2012, Invited talk at the workshop: ”Nonequilibrium phenomena in complex matter: new observations and new theories”, Krvavec, Slovenia.
  • Probing Thermomechanics at the Nanoscale: Impulsively Excited Pseudosurface Acoustic Waves in Hypersonic Phononic Crystals. (Dr. Banfi)
    September 10 2012, Invited seminar at the Department of Physics, Universita di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.  
    July 8-12 2012, contributed talk at the international conference: ” PHONONS 2012-14th International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter”, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  • Temperature dependence of the thermal boundary resistivity of glass-embedded metal nanoparticles. (Dr. Banfi and Dr. Nardi)
    June 24-29 2012, contributed talk at the international conference: ”18th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties”, Boulder, CO, USA.
    July 8-12 2012, contributed talk at the international conference: ” PHONONS 2012-14th International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter”, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  • Disentangling the electronic and phononic glue in a high-Tc superconductor by time-resolved optical spectroscopy. (Dr. Giannetti)
    July 29-August 3 2012, Invited keynote talk at the conference: ”Materials & Mechanisms of Superconductivity”, Washington, DC, United States. 
    June 25-29 2012, Invited talk at the conference: ”The New Generation in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2012”, Portoroz, Slovenia.
  • Understanding the complex dynamics of superconducting cuprates by broadband ultrafast spectroscopy. (Dr. Giannetti). 
    February 25-27 2012, Invited talk at the Workshop: ”New theory and methods in quantum research”, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 
    February 19-24 2012, Invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference: ”Ultrafast Phenomena in Cooperative Systems”, Galveston, Texas, United States.
    December 6 2011, Invited seminar at the Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Berkeley, USA. 
    November 24 2011, Invited seminar at the Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

2011

  • Revealing the high-energy electronic excitations underlying the onset of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates. (Dr. Giannetti)
    October 28 2011, Invited seminar at the Department of Physics of the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
    September 29 2011, Invited seminar at the The Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenja
    January 26 2011, Invited seminar at the Institute of Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    February 10 2011, Invited seminar at Department of Physics, Università degli Studi di Padova.

2010

  • How superconductivity modifies the high-energy optical properties in Bi2212. (Dr. Giannetti)
    October 6-8 2010, Invited talk at the International Conference ”Emerging Trends in Advanced Correlated Materials”, Anacapri, Italy.
  • Ultrafast dynamics of the interband spectral weight in superconducting cuprates. (Dr. Giannetti)
    July 5-10 2010, Contributed talk at the International Conference on Low-Energy Electrodynamics in Solids 2010, Les Diablerets, Switzerland.
  • Probing metals and metal-based nanostructures with short laser pulses.(Dr. Banfi)
    June 28 2010, Invited seminar at the  Zernike Institute-University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
  • All-optical Time-Resolved Nanocalorimetry. (Dr. Banfi)
    April 19-23 2010, Contributed talk at the " PHONONS 2010-13th International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter", Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Thermomechanics of Hypersonic Surface Phononic Crystals. (Dr. Nardi)
    April 19-23 2010, Contributed talk at the " PHONONS 2010-13th International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter", Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Superconductivity-induced modification of the dielectric function at high energy scales in Bi2212.(Dr. Giannetti)
    April 13 2010, Invited seminar at the Département de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Genève, Switzerland.

2008

  • Coherent acoustic excitation of arrays of nanostructures. (Dr. Giannetti)
    December 11 2008, Invited seminar at the Department of Physics, University of Konstanz, Germany
    October 30 2008, Invited seminar at LASIM, Université Lyon 1, France.
  • Thermo-mechanics of a phononic Crystal investigated by pump-probe Optical techniques. (Dr. Banfi)
    December 17 2008, Invited seminar at the Sincrotrone ELETTRA, Trieste, Italy
    December 2 2008, Invited seminar at  SFB Augsburg, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
  • Thermomechanical Behaviour of surface acoustic waves in ordered  arrays of nanodisks studied by NIR pump-probe diffraction experimnet. (Dr. Banfi)
    October 22-23 2008, Invited talk at the International Conference ” Nanoscience and Nanotechnology”, Frascati, Italy.
  • Thermomechanical excitation of arrays of nanostructures. (Dr. Giannetti)
    September 1-13 2008, Invited lecture at: Son et Lumiére: ”phonon dynamics in nanostructures” Cargése, France.
  • Thermomechanical behavior of ordered arrays of nanostructures studied by pump-probe diffraction experiments. (Dr. Giannetti)
    June 29-July 4 2008, Contributed talk at Acoustics’08, Paris, France.

2007

  • Coherent Optical Excitation of Two-Dimensional Surface Acoustic Waves in Lattices of Metallic Nanostructures on a Silicon Substrate. (Dr. Giannetti)
    July 17-20 2007, Contributed talk at Phonons2007, Paris, France.

2006

  • Magnetoelastic Effects in Permalloy Nanodots Induced by Laser-Driven Acoustic Standing Waves. (Dr. Giannetti)
    February 9 2006, Contributed talk at the Gordon Research Conference: ”Ultrafast Phenomena in Cooperative Systems”, Santa Ynez Valley Marriott Buellton, CA.