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SUMMARY:IMX Colloquium - Switching the Quantum World
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Alessandra Lanzara\, UC Berkeley\, USA\nThe ability to 
 create sustainable\, energy-efficient materials whose functionality can be
  dynamically controlled represents a central frontier of 21st-century quan
 tum science and technology. Rather than relying on chemical substitution o
 r static design\, ultrafast light and current pulses provide reversible kn
 obs that transiently reshape electronic interactions and reveal phases ina
 ccessible at equilibrium. In this talk\, I will show how non-equilibrium c
 ontrol of screening and short-range correlations enables the emergence of 
 metastable metallic states and light-driven topological excitonic quasipar
 ticles in two-dimensional quantum materials. These results demonstrate how
  microscopic interactions can be steered in real time to induce collective
  behavior\, establishing a pathway toward dynamically programmable quantum
  matter.\n\nBio: Alessandra Lanzara is a Professor of Physics at the Univ
 ersity of California\, Berkeley\, where she has been on the faculty since 
 2002\, and the Director of Berkeley Discovery\, a UC Berkeley wide initiat
 ive aimed at reimagining education and research in the age of artificial i
 ntelligence.\nHer research focuses on superconductivity and quantum materi
 als exploring electronic and topological phase transitions and emergent st
 ates of matter in and out of equilibrium. Her group also apply ultrafast t
 ools to biological systems to study protein dynamics and cellular heteroge
 neity. \nShe is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sci
 ences\, the European Academy of Sciences\, the American Physical Society\,
  and the Italian Physical Society\, and a recipient of numerous honors\, i
 ncluding the Fibonacci Prize and the Bakar Prize.
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