Prof. Nikita Kavokine's Inaugural Lecture: What is Quantum Plumbing?
Event details
| Date | 22.05.2025 |
| Hour | 16:30 › 18:30 |
| Speaker | Professor Nikita Kavokine Quantum Plumbing Lab (LNQ) |
| Location | Online |
| Category | Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture |
| Event Language | English |
In this lecture, I will explain why nanoscale plumbers need quantum tools. My lab works in the field of nanofluidics – we study liquids flowing through channels so tiny that fluid and electron dynamics become intertwined. I will explain how we leverage quantum theory to illuminate the consequences of this coupling: ionic memory, quantum friction, flow tunneling… and discuss some of the experiments we are building to probe these effects. I will argue that there are very practical consequences to nanofluidics being the meeting point of the classical and quantum worlds.
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Background Information:
Nikita joined EPFL as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in October 2024. He graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS, Paris) in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a master’s degree in theoretical physics. He then completed a PhD at ENS, in the group of Prof. Lydéric Bocquet, where he did both theoretical and experimental work on many-body effects in nanoscale fluid transport, graduating in 2021. Nikita then spent a year as a Research Fellow in the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics, working with Prof. Antoine Georges on numerical approaches to disordered quantum systems. In 2022, he joined the Department of Molecular Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, where he was a Group Leader until his appointment at EPFL.
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Practical information
- General public
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Organizer
- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering - (ISIC)