Second Grete Hermann Network Workshop
Date & Facts
30 Jun – 02 Jul 2025
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Grete Hermann Network Workshop
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June 30–July 2
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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Lecture Hall of the Graduate School of Life Sciences Campus Hubland Nord Beatrice-Edgell-Weg 21 97074 Würzburg
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| What about travel and accommodation? |
We are happy to provide accommodation from June 29 to July 3 at the Melchior Park hotel as well as to cover the travel costs (economy class) for all invited speakers.
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| Whom can I contact in case I have questions? |
Please reach out to Katharina Klugor Alina Markova if you have any questions regarding the event.
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The conference dinner, wine tour, catering, and workshop are free of charge. Additionally, we have a limited number of accommodation rooms and travel grants available upon application. If not needed, these funds will be reallocated to support additional participants. |
Summary
The Grete Hermann Network (GHN) is an international network of female researchers in condensed matter physics that is comprised of both junior researchers and experienced professors, and is associated with the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter, which is funded by the German federal government. At the heart of the network's mission is the goal to promote excellent female-led research and support the recruitment and careers of female scientists within the field. To achieve this, the GHN provides networking and mentoring opportunities, increases visibility of female senior scientists as role models, and creates a comprehensive pool of female researchers in view of future hirings.
The GHN workshop is an excellent opportunity to further these goals. It will encompass scientific talks and events for a general audience of condensed matter physicists (of all genders) with broad research interests and involving all career levels; furthermore, dedicated social meetings will offer the network’s members a chance to connect in a less formal setting. We invite you to join us and contribute to the GHN's mission of bringing together and raising the profile of female condensed matter physicists, and are looking forward to your participation!
Invited speakers
Dr. Julia Hannukainen (University of Cambridge)
Prof. Sangeeta Sharma (FU Berlin & Max-Born-Institut)
Dr. Emma Minarelli (Chalmers University of Technology)
Prof. Andrea Sandoval (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile)
Prof. Cristiana Morais-Smith (Utrecht University)
Prof. Olena Fedchenko (GU Frankfurt/Main)
Prof. Martina Erlemann (FU Berlin)
Prof. Martina Hentschel (TU Chemnitz)
Prof. Setsuko Tajima (Osaka University)
Prof. Ewelina Hankiewicz (JMU Würzburg)
Dr. Andrea Eschenlohr (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Agenda
| Mon, June 30 |
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| 09:00 |
Opening remarks — Prof. Johanna Edmenger (JMU Würzburg) |
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A microscope for the reciprocal space — Prof. Olena Fedchenko (GU Frankfurt/Main) |
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| 10:00 | Broadband paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy as a powerful tool for material characterization — Dr. Nadezhda Kukharchyk (WMI der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) | |
| 10:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Insight into electronic correlations on femtosecond timescales with ultrafast x-ray absorption spectroscopy — Dr. Andrea Eschenlohr (Uni Duisburg-Essen) | |
| 11:45 | Theory of unconventional magnetism in a Cu-based kagome metal — Anja Wenger (JMU Würzburg) | |
| 12:00 | Spin and charge criticality in the pseudogap two-impurity Anderson model — Charlotte Beneke (TU Dresden) | |
| 12:15 | Lunch at Mensa | |
| 13:45 | tba — Prof. Ewelina Hankiewicz (JMU Würzburg) | |
| 14:30 | Superconductor-Insulator transition in a two-orbital attractive Hubbard model with Hund’s exchange — Laura Torchia (SISSA) | |
| 14:45 | Edge zeros in topological Mott insulators and topologically enabled superconductivity — Dr. Francesca Paoletti (JMU Würzburg) | |
| 15:00 | Coffee break | |
| 15:45 | Women physicists in the Asia Pacific region — Prof. Setsuko Tajima (Osaka University) | |
| 16:30 | Short break/discussion | |
| 16:45 | tba — Prof. Martina Erlemann (FU Berlin) | |
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Dinner - Buffet |
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Poster Session |
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| Tue, July 1 |
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| 09:00 | Strain-enhanced altermagnetism in Ca3Ru2O7 — Prof. Andrea Sandoval (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria) | |
| 09:45 | Pressure-induced structural phase transitions in the van der Waals multiferroic CuCrP2S6 — Dr. Swarnamayee Mishra (TU Dresden) | |
| 10:00 | Van der Waals epitaxy of magnetic transition metal dihalides — Dr. Amina Kimouche (University of Potsdam) | |
| 10:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Complex dynamics in phase space — Prof. Martina Hentschel (TU Chemnitz) | |
| 11:45 | Stringy complexity through the Heisenberg spin chain — Dr. Saskia Demulder (Ben Gurion University) | |
| 12:00 | Phases and phase transitions of an S = 3/2 chain on two-dimensional solid surfaces — Dr. Bimla Dan (JMU Würzburg) | |
| 12:15 | Lunch at Mensa | |
| 13:45 | tba — Prof. Sangeeta Sharma (FU Berlin/ MBI) | |
| 14:30 | Tuning superconducting properties in 3D nanoarchitectures — Dr. Elina Zhakina (MPI CPfS Dresden) | |
| 14:45 | Reflections of topology in magnetoconductivity of nodal-point semimetals — Dr. Ipsita Mandal (Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence) | |
| 15:00 | Coffee break | |
| 15:45 | Local topological markers: characterising topology beyond perfect crystals — Dr. Julia Hannukainen (University of Cambridge) | |
| 16:30 | Accessing Anti-de-Sitter spacetime using optical lattices — Coraline Bacq (JMU Würzburg) | |
| 16:45 | Best Poster Award | |
| 17:00 | Conference Dinner | |
| Wed, July 2 |
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| 09:00 | Optical Hopfion quantizes inverse Faraday effect — Dr. Emma Minarelli | |
| 09:45 | Creation and control of valley currents in graphene by few cycle light pulses — Dr. Deepika Gill | |
| 10:00 | Resistively detected electron spin resonance and g factor in few-layer exfoliated MoS2 devices — Dr. Chithra Harihara Sharma | |
| 10:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | tba — Prof. Cristiana Morais-Smith | |
| 11:45 | Dipolar excitons in van der Waals heterobilayers — Edith Wietek (TU Dresden) | |
| 12:00 | Continuum theory for topological phase transition in exciton systems — Xiaochan Cai (JMU Würzburg) | |
| 12:15 | Lunch at Mensa | |
| 13:45 | Final remarks + group foto | |
| 14:00 | Wine tour & networking | |