Karl Franzens University Graz

Graz University of Technology 

Tuesday 07 October 2025      TUG HS P2

Ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy of correlated materials
Prof. Martin Weinelt, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Halle-Berlin-Regensburg Cluster of Excellence CCE

We use time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to follow the signature of quasiparticle dynamics in the electronic structure and reveal fundamental couplings of electron, spin, and phonon subsystems in correlated materials. In the prototype 3d ferromagnet iron p ...more

Tuesday 14 October 2025      

CANCELED
(Mostly) Quantum Optics with Structured Light
Robert Fickler, Tampere University of Applied Sciences

Structured light, i.e. light fields with a non-trivial shape in time, space, and polarization, has become a versatile approach to explore fundamental optics effects and develop novel applications in fields such as microscopy, imaging, optical communications, and quantum technolog ...more

Tuesday 21 October 2025      TUG HS P2

Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Quantum Many Body Systems: from Fundamental Aspects to Material Properties
Prof. Salvatore Manmana, University of Goettingen

This year celebrates the 100th anniversary of the advent of quantum mechanics, which opened the path to a new and deeper understanding of microscopic physics. Particularly fascinating behavior is obtained, if many quantum mechanical particles interact with each other. In such a s ...more

Tuesday 28 October 2025      KFU

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Tuesday 04 November 2025      

cancelled

Tuesday 11 November 2025      TUG HS P2

Quantum simulator to study electronic structure - from molecules to lattices to the Hofstadter butterfly
Prof. Daniel Wegner, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud Universiteit

Quantum simulators are a pathway to study novel physical phenomena which are difficult to predict or observe in synthesized materials. To this end, the physical behavior of materials ranging from gasses to superconducting qubits has been used to emulate Hamiltonians. A promising ...more

Tuesday 18 November 2025      TUG HS P2

Magnetic Buoyancy – Learning from Satellite Observations of Magnetosphere
Dr. Evgeny Panov, Institut für Theoretische Physik - Computational Physics, TU Graz / Institut für Weltraumforschung, ÖAW

Magnetic buoyancy has been known to play a role in the solar atmosphere, where it brings slender flux tubes with reduced density up through much of the convective zone. Magnetic buoyancy does operate in planetary magnetospheres, where field line curvature takes the role of gravit ...more

Tuesday 25 November 2025      TUG HS P2

Advances in Broadband Saturation Spectroscopy: Towards Probing New Physics in the Mid-Infrared
Prof. Oliver Heckl, Fakultätszentrum für Nanostrukturforschung, Universität Wien

Broadband precision spectroscopy of rovibrational transitions holds promise for tracking periodic variations in fundamental constants. Such variations may offer evidence supporting the existence of ultralight dark matter and indicate new physics. This seminar provides an overview ...more

Tuesday 02 December 2025      TUG HS P2

Discovery of Excited State Pathways in the Ultrafast Photochemistry of Heavy-Atom Systems
Prof. Krupa Ramasesha, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, USA Fulbright & NAWI-Graz Visiting Professor

The coupled electronic and structural dynamics on excited states are fundamental to photoinduced chemical transformations that underpin processes such as photocatalysis, photovoltaic activity, atmospheric chemistry, and luminescence. Of particular interest is the propensity for c ...more

Tuesday 09 December 2025      TUG HS P2

Scanning Strategies and Lens Designs for the (S)TEM
Lewys Jones, School of Physics - Trinity College Dublin, Advanced Microscopy Laboratory - CRANN - Dublin, turboTEM Ltd - Dublin

A new state-of-the-art scanning TEM (STEM) instrument with accompanying cameras/spectrometers may exceed €5 million. As a result, many instruments cannot be updated as often as hoped, or entire regions or countries cannot participate at all. As these flagship instruments are ...more

Tuesday 16 December 2025      TUG HS P2

Ab initio simulation of laser-matter interaction: From microscopic to macroscopic
Prof. Kazuhiro Yabana, Center for Computational Sciences - University of Tsukuba, Guest Professor at TU Graz

Theories and calculations of interaction between light and matter have traditionally developed along two separate paths: calculations of linear susceptibilities such as dielectric function based on quantum mechanics, and calculations of light propagation using macroscopic Maxwell ...more

Tuesday 13 January 2026      TUG HS P2

Physics of the heart: understanding the dynamics of cardiac electrophysiology
Prof. Jordi Heijman, Medizinische Universität Graz

Tuesday 20 January 2026      TUG HS P2

Diagrammatic treatment of spatial correlations beyond an interacting reference system: the D-TRILEX approach
Dr. Evgeny Stepanov, Ecole Polytechnique, France

Local approximations to electronic correlations, such as those provided by dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT), are a standard approach for addressing correlated multi-orbital systems. However, attempts to go beyond this local picture are often associated with expensive numerical ...more

Tuesday 27 January 2026      KFU

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