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SUMMARY:Quantum Materials beyond Equilibrium
DTSTART:20230508T155500
DTEND:20230508T163500
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Christian Rüegg\, Laboratory for Ultrafast Dynamics of
  Quantum Materials\, EPFL & Director Paul Scherrer Institute\, Villigen 
  \n15:15  Inaugural lecture Prof. A. Läuchli\n15:55  Inaugural lecture
  Prof. Ch. Rüegg\n\nSpins form well-defined lattices in many quantum mate
 rials and serve as model systems to study many-body states such as correla
 ted quantum dimers\, Luttinger liquids\, or magnon Bose-Einstein condensat
 es. Neutrons and photons are unique tools for high-precision studies of su
 ch states in and beyond equilibrium. I am fascinated by many-body quantum 
 phenomena and their exploration and control using the exciting new opportu
 nities that free electron lasers like SwissFEL and ultra-fast lasers e.g. 
 at LACUS offer.\n\nBio\nProf. Dr Christian Rüegg (*1976) is Director of t
 he Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and full professor of physics at ETH Zuric
 h and EPF Lausanne and professor at the University of Geneva. He is a memb
 er of the ETH Board representing the four Research Institutes (PSI\, Empa\
 , WSL\, Eawag).\nChristian Rüegg comes from the canton of Aargau\, studie
 d physics at ETH Zurich and obtained his doctorate in 2005 at the Laborato
 ry for Neutron Scattering at ETH Zurich and PSI. He then worked at the Lon
 don Centre for Nanotechnology of University College London (UCL) and Imper
 ial College London from 2005 to 2011. He was a Royal Society University Re
 search Fellow and Assistant and Associate Professor at UCL. Between 2011 a
 nd 2016 he headed the Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging in the
  Research Division Neutrons and Muons at PSI and from 2017 to 2020 he was 
 head of the division. Since April 2020\, he has been leading PSI as direct
 or.\n\nChristian Rüegg is a solid-state physicist working on quantum phen
 omena in magnetism. He has received prestigious science awards for his wor
 k\, including the Lewy Bertaut Prize and the Nicholas Kurti Science Prize 
 for Europe\, as well as an ERC Grant. He played a decisive role in the use
  and further development of the instrumentation at large-scale research fa
 cilities in Switzerland and Europe\, e.g. at the Swiss Spallation Neutron 
 Source SINQ and at the European sources ILL and ESS and represents this fi
 eld of research in numerous international committees. Furthermore\, he rep
 resents PSI in important initiatives to promote innovation such as the Par
 k Innovaare\, Technopark Aargau and Switzerland Innovation.
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