Participants at the FLEET-EU 2023 Conference
The FLEET-EU 2023 Conference : Transport in exciton condensates and exciton insulators took place on September 11, 2023 in San Benedetto del Tronto, the art-deco resort town known as the Riviera of the Palms situated on the Italian Adriatic coast.
The conference was jointly organised by University of Camerino (Italy), University of Antwerp (Belgium), and FLEET, and covered a range of exciton physics, including:
- Electron-hole superfluidity in vdW heterostructures and semiconducting double quantum wells
- Exciton polaritons, and excitons in Moirè superlattices
- The quest for supersolidity with exciton condensates
- Spatially-indirect excitonic condensation and exciton insulators
- Transport and collective phenomena in exciton condensates
- Ultracold atoms: perspectives and first experiments.
Scientific Committee members David Neilson (Antwerp), Sara Conti (Antwerp), and Andrea Perali (Camerino) welcome participants to the conference
FLEET presentations included Research Fellow Zeb Krix (UNSW), Associate Investigator Dmitri Efimkin (Monash), Chief Investigators Oleh Klochan (UNSW) and Christopher Vale (Swinburne/CSIRO), Partner Investigators David Neilson (Antwerp) and Andrea Perali (Camerino), Deputy Director Alexander Hamilton (UNSW) and Director Michael Fuhrer (Monash).
“It was a good opportunity for me to talk at the FLEET-EU 2023 Conference, with a variety of disciplines represented among attendees,” said FLEET Research Fellow Zeb Krix . “It’s always good to present your work to people from different fields as they can ask questions you wouldn’t normally think of.”
See the program online for topics covered.
Thanks to the Conference Scientific Committee: Sara Conti (Antwerp), Stefania De Palo (CNR, Trieste), Alexander Hamilton (UNSW, Sydney), Milorad Milosevic (Antwerp), David Neilson (Antwerp), and Chairperson Andrea Perali (Camerino).
Forging and strengthening links between Australia and Europe’s research communities has been an ongoing focus at FLEET.
Stefania De Palo (CNR-IOM, Trieste) presents on excitonic condensation in an electron-hole bilayer (quantum Monte Carlo study)
Conference co-organiser the University of Camerino in Italy has a dynamic and successful research partnership with FLEET researchers, formalised via a partnership agreement. The University’s Andrea Perali and David Neilson are FLEET Partner Investigators, studying the theory of exciton superfluids with FLEET CI Prof Alex Hamilton (UNSW) and others.
Other European FLEET partner organisations are the Max Plank Institute of Quantum Optics (Germany), University of Wurzburg (Germany) and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland).
FLEET’s Trans-Pacific Colloquium series which has encouraged links between physics communities in Australia and North America, was expanded in 2023 to include European-based speakers, and has now hosted 35+ speakers , with gender-mix an ongoing focus, and 50% of the 2022-23 speakers being women.
In 2019, FLEET co-organised the Conference on Signature of Topology in Condensed Matter in Italy, with partner organisation the MacDiarmid Institute (NZ), working closely with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
A number of FLEET alumni have moved on to take up research positions in Europe, forging even stronger links between their new European institutions and their existing colleagues in Australia. This includes two of last year’s three Women in FLEET Fellows who subsequently secured academic positions at top European research institutions.