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SUMMARY:Inaugural lecture: Creating Dynamic Quantum Materials
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Gregor Jotzu\nChanging the properties of materials on de
 mand is crucial both for understanding the conditions which allow for the 
 appearance of emergent order and for generating new functionalities. Using
  laser light for this purpose is a particularly interesting approach: It p
 rovides control on femtosecond time scales\, and may lead to the creation 
 of non-equilibrium steady states without static equivalents. Strongly driv
 en materials essentially become light-matter hybrids\, where photons can d
 etermine the the symmetries and the collective modes of the system. \nPro
 gress in this research direction is benefitting from current breakthroughs
  in experimental techniques for generating long-wavelength laser pulses an
 d extending new observables to the ultrafast regime\, but also from theore
 tical advancements in the simulation of quantum many-body systems. I will 
 introduce some of the key concepts and techniques for creating such "dynam
 ic quantum materials\," present recent experiments showing the tremendous 
 changes achievable in laser-driven quantum materials\, and look into the f
 uture of this emerging field of research.\n\nBio: Gregor Jotzu is heading 
 the Dynamic Quantum Materials Laboratory (DQML) at EPFL. His research conc
 erns the control of quantum materials using intense low-frequency laser pu
 lses and the dynamics of order formation in strongly correlated quantum sy
 stems.\nAfter reading physics at the University of Oxford\, he became the 
 2009/2010 Michael von Clemm Fellow at the Physics and History of Science d
 epartments at Harvard University. He received his doctorate from ETH Zuric
 h\, where he studied quantum magnetism and driving-induced order using ult
 racold atoms in optical lattices in the group of Tilman Esslinger. His wor
 k on Haldane’s proposal for a topological insulator using Floquet engine
 ering was recognized with the Prize in General Physics by the Swiss Physic
 al Society and was cited by the Nobel Prize committee.\nIn 2017 he became 
 a researcher in Andrea Cavalleri’s laboratory at the Max Planck Institut
 e for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg\, Germany. His work 
 there focused on creating novel states of matter in solids using periodic 
 driving with ultrafast lasers\, such as inducing non-trivial topology and 
 high-temperature superconductivity.\n 
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