Journal Club 2023
on Condensed Matter Theory
The Journal Club is an event organized jointly with the Belzig and Zilberberg groups. It takes place in P1138 and via Zoom on Tuesdays at 12:00 noon. Below you find the list of proposed speakers. If you have any complaints about this schedule, feel free to write an email.
Please find more information on the procedure and the Journal Club calendar at the bottom of this page.
Date | Speaker | Topic | Paper |
| April 11 | No JC | ||
| April 18 | Lorenzo Bernazzani | ||
| April 25 | Daniel Boneß | ||
| May 2 | Christian Carisch | ||
| May 9 | no JC | ||
| May 16 | Sebastian Diaz | ||
| May 23 | Balázs Gulácsi | ||
| May 30 | No JC | ||
| June 6 | No JC | ||
| June 13 | Mahsa Heydari | ||
| June 20 | No JC | ||
| June 27 | Regina Finsterhölzl | ||
| July 4 | Wolf-Rüdiger Hannes | ||
| July 11 | Matthias Hübler | ||
| July 18 | Michael Hein | ||
| July 25 | Emanuel Hubenschmid | ||
| August 1 | Irina Heinz | ||
| August 8 | Violeta Ivanova | ||
| August 15 | no JC | ||
| August 22 | Stephen McMillan | ||
| August 29 | No JC | ||
| September 5 | No JC | ||
| September 12 | Sourabh Patil | ||
| September 19 | Panch Ram | ||
| September 26 | no JC | ||
| October 3 | No JC | ||
| October 10 | Kilian Seibold | ||
| October 17 | No JC | ||
| October 24 | Soumya Sanjay Kumar | ||
| October 31 | Yetkin Pulcu | ||
| November 7 | Alexandr Svetogorov | ||
| November 14 | Lavi Upreti | ||
| November 21 | Benedikt Tissot | ||
| November 28 | No JC | ||
| December 5 | Greta Villa | ||
| December 12 | Dennis Wuhrer | ||
| December 19 | Lin Wang | ||
| December 26 | Yuhao Zhao (assuming this is the next date in sequential order) |
How to journalclub?
Pick three recent papers from the arXiv (cond-mat or quant-ph), PRL, PRB, PRA, PRX, PRX Quantum, Phys. Rev. Research, Quantum, EPL, Nature, Nature Phys, Nat. Commun., or Science (no review articles).
Preferably, the paper should not be older than three weeks when presented, or from the current issue in case of a monthly journal. Exception can be made in special cases.
The paper has to be of a theory flavour. If in an exceptional case an experimental work is presented, then the theoretical background must be thoroughly explained.
Send these papers until Tuesday the week before to Guido, Wolfgang, Oded and David, and indicate your preferences.
Prepare a talk of 20-30 minutes. Including questions from the audience, the total duration of the presentation should not exceed 30 minutes.
Pay special attention to a proper introduction and motivation of the underlying concepts. Half of the talk should cover the basics (at least 10 min). To help others understand your slides, try to put a short summary at the end of each slide which answers the question "What is the main takeaway from this slide?". In general, focus on the most important results. It might not be necessary to show every single figure from the paper.
Announce the paper you will be presenting by writing to the mailing list on Friday.
Upload the slides of your talk to the university cloud.
Please bring a Meeting Owl to your talk.
Subscribe to the Journal Club calendar:
Import this URL into your preferred calendar application to have a list of Journal Club appointments: "https://theorie.physik.uni-konstanz.de/burkard/sites/default/files/journal_club/journal_club.ics"
Examples: In macOS calendar, go to "File > New Calendar Subscription" and paste the above URL. Configure as you want but I suggest to refresh weekly. In KDE's KOrganizer calendar, right click on the calendars list, choose "Add Calendar" and select "ICal Calendar File". In the filename entry paste the above URL, check the "Read only" box and refresh from time to time to stay updated. Note that you must be connected to the university VPN in home office for the calendar to work properly.