External conferences/workshops, and invited talks by QuSpin researchers
2026
NTNU Kveld: Kvanteteknologi – Forstå teknologien før den endrer verden.
Dokkhuset, Trondheim, Norway. April 29, 2026.
Talks:
- Senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Kvantefenomenet sammenfiltring har på spektakulært vis omveltet vår virkelighetsforståelse, og er grunnpilaren i fremvoksende kvanteteknologier. La oss gå sammen(filtret) inn i fremtiden!
- Professor Jacob Linder. Title: Det kaldeste stedet i universet er ikke i verdensrommet — det er i et laboratorium nær deg, og det kan lytte til tankene dine.
Realfagsbygget, April 14, 2026
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen.Title: Superconducting Quantum Technology.
2025
JANUARY
Mini-Symposium Cavity QED with many-body systems, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Strong Cavity Coupling to High-Frequency Antiferromagnetic Magnons.
University of Seville Physics and Material Science Doctoral Day, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Into the Light: Towards unified quantum optics and condensed matter computation.
NV Fakultetsdag 2025
Title: Fundamental Research and Disruptive Quantum Technologies
FEBRUARY
Advances in Magnetics (IEEE), Italy.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Controlling superconductivity with curvilinear magnetism.
International Day for Women and Girls in Science outreach event, Grete Hermann Network, Ct.Qmat Excellence Cluster, Dresden/Würzburg (online), Germany.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: My route into theoretical quantum physics
MARCH
DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM), Regensburg, Germany.
Talk by PhD candidate Kristoffer Leerand. Title: Phonon-mediated unconventional superconductivity in altermagnets: A solid-state analog of the A_1 phase of superfluid Helium 3.
NTNUs møte med Kunnskaps- og Høyere Utdanningsminister Sigrun Aasland, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
Talk by senior reseracher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Kvantefysikk – briefing.
APRIL
19th Capri Spring School, Italy.
Talk by PhD candidate Kristoffer Leerand. Title: Phonon-mediated spin-polarized superconductivity in altermagnets.
International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism 2025 (Keynote presentation), ICSM, Fethiye, Tyrkey.
Talk by senior reseracher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Bending-strain effects in superconducting spintronics.
International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism 2025, ICSM, Fethiye, Tyrkey.
Talk by postdoctoral fellow Morten Amundsen. Title: Dynamical spin-orbit coupling in superconducting hybrid structures
Theoretical quantum matter seminar, The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stockholm, Sweden.
Talk by PhD candidate Erlend Siljyåsen. Title: Inverse Faraday effect in quantum Hall states.
MAY
Hybrid Workshop on Collective Phenomena in Crystalline Materials, IPM (online), Iran.
Talk by researcher professor Alireza Qaiumzadeh. Title: Exploring Topological Magnons and Hybrid Magnonic Systems in Layered van der Waals Magnetic Materials.
JUNE
Fysikermøte 2025, Norwegian Physical Society, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
Talk by associate professor Christoph Brüne. Title: Antiferromagnetic thin films grown via MBE.
Fysikermøte 2025, Norwegian Physical Society, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
Talk by PhD candidate Kristoffer Leerand. Title: Phonon-mediated spin-polarized superconductivity in altermagnets.
Fysikermøtet 2025, Norwegian Physical Society, Trondheim, Norway.
Talk by PhD candidate Sondre Duna Lundemo, Title: Quantum criticality of altermagnetism.
Fysikermøtet 2025, Norwegian Physical Society, Trondheim, Norway.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Interacting with superconductors.
Fysikermøtet 2025, Norwegian Physical Society, Trondheim, Norway.
Talk by PhD candidate Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen. Title: Large tunable thermoelectric effects in superconducting spin valves.
Mini lecture series on superconductivity, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Introduction to Superconductivity - mini-series.
3 lectures on the introduction to superconductivity.
JULY
4th Sino-German Workshop on 2D materials & Topological Spintronics, Mainz July 16-18, 2025
Title: Phonon-mediated spin-polarized superconductivity in altermagnets
4th Sino-German Symposium on 2D materials and topological spintronics, Helmholz Institut, Mainz, Germany.
Talk by professor Asle Sudbø. Title: Unconventional superconductivity in altermagnets.
International Workshop on Unconventional Magnetism in Quantum Materials, IFW Leibnitz Institut Dresden and Kyiv Academic University, Kyiv, Ukraina.
Talk by professor Asle Sudbø. Title: Phonon-mediated spin-triplet superconductivity in altermagnets.
School outreach seminar and discussion, Australian Institute of Physics, Launceston College, Tasmania, Australia.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: What does it take to be a quantum physicist?
School outreach seminar tour, Australian Institute of Physics, Rosny College and Elisabeth College, Tasmania, Australia.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: What does it take to be a quantum physicist?
School presentation, Australian Institute of Physics, Devonport College, Tasmania, Australia.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: What does it take to be a quantum physicist?
Marie Curie Lecture Hobart, Tasmanian Branch of Australian Institute of Physics, Hobart, Australia.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Your Quantum Future.
AUGUST
Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA), Trondheim, Norway
Talk by professor Asle Sudbø. Title: Fundamental Research and Disruptive Quantum Technologies.
Presentation to the Ministry of Education and Research, Trondheim, Norway
Talk by professor Asle Sudbø. Title: Center for Quantum Spintronics at NTNU.
Computational multi-scale materials society (COSY) Gemini Center event, Trondheim, Norway.
Talk by researcher professor Alireza Qaiumzadeh. Title: Atomistic vs. micromagnetic spin dynamics simulations.
International Workshop on Innovation for Quantum Sensing Technologies, Svolvær, Norway.
Talk by researcher professor Alireza Qaiumzadeh. Title: Light-matter interactions: spintronic-based cavity QED and Floquet engineering.
IOP Conference on Quantum Geometry in Quantum Material, IOP, Bath, UK.
Talk by researcher professor Alireza Qaiumzadeh. Title: Uncovering the Microscopic Origin and Engineering of Topological Magnons in Layered van der Waals Magnets.
Claire Corani Memorial Lecture/Marie Curie Public Lecture, South Australia branch of Australian Institute of Physics, Adelaide, Australia.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Your Quantum Future.
Marie Curie Public Lecture, Queensland branch of Australian Institute of Physics, Brisbane, Australia.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Your Quantum Future.
Marie Curie Lecture Canberra, Australian Capital Territory branch of Australian Institute of Physics, Canberra, Australia.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Your Quantum Future.
Marie Curie Public Lecture and Women In Physics Award Ceremony, Australian Institute of Physics, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Your Quantum Future.
School outreach seminar tour, Australian Institute of Physics, Canberra, Adelaide, Brisbane and Gold Coast schools and colleges, Australia.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: What does it take to be a quantum physicist?
School of Mathematics and Physics Research Colloquium, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Superconductivity for computation and communication _using magnetism, light and strain.
Joint AIP-ANU Physics Director's research colloquium, Australian National University, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Investigating superconductivity for computation and communication using magnetism, light and strain.
Marie Curie Girls in Physics Breakfast, University of Queensland, University of Queensland, St.Lucia campus, Australia.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Sol Jacobsen: Marie Curie Lecture.
SEPTEMBER
XIII International Conference on Magnetic and Superconducting Materials (MSM25), Yerevan, Armenia.
Talk by researcher professor Alireza Qaiumzadeh. Title: Electrically Controlled Crossed Andreev Reflection in Two-dimensional Antiferromagnets.
Nordic Conference on New Trends in Condensed Matter Physics, University of Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Instituttet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Talk by professor Asle Sudbø. Title: Unconventional superconductivity in altermagnets.
Physics Seminar, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany.
Talk by senior researcher Sol Jacobsen. Title: Proximity-effects of curvilinear magnetism and strain on conventional superconductivity.
OCTOBER
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA)
Symposium “Kvantemekanikken 100 år: Fra usikkerhetsrelasjonen til høyteknologi”.
Talk by professor Asle Sudbø. Title: Quantum Physics and First Generation Quantum Technologies.
QuSpin Collaboration workshop, Øyna, Norway
Talk by PhD candidate Sondre Duna Lundemo. Title: Quantum criticality of altermagnetism.
QuSpin Collaboration workshop, Øyna, Norway
Talk by PhD candidate Johanne Tjernshaugen. Title: Designing lattice spin models and magnon gaps with supercurrents.
QuSpin Collaboration workshop, Øyna, Norway
Talk by PhD candidate Anders Mathisen. Title: Peierls-induced topological Weyl Semimetal in PtBi2.
QuSpin Collaboration workshop, Øyna, Norway
Talk by PhD candidate Hans Gløckner Giil. Title: Spin Seebeck Effect and Magnonic USMR: Spin Transport in the van der Waals Antiferromagnet CrPS4.
NOVEMBER
Soft xray workshop, Hamburg, Germany.
Talk by PhD candidate Anders Mathisen. Title: Peierls-induced topological Weyl Semimetal in PtBi2.
SPICE-SPIN + X Seminar (Digital)
Talk by profesor Jacob Linder. Title: Superconducting spintronics with magnetically compensated materials.
DECEMBER
Friday Colloquim, Department of Physics, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Talk by professor Asle Sudbø. Title: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025.
Trondhjem Polytechnic Society (TPF), Trondheim, Norway
Talk by professor Asle Sudbø. Title: Kvantedatamaskiner
2024
JANUARY
2D Quantum Materials for Spintronics: 2DQMS 2024, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
Talk by senior researcher Alireza Qaiumzadeh. Title: Crossed Andreev Reflection in AFM-SC-AFM heterostructures.
Talk by PhD candidate Verena Brehm. Title: Topological magnon gap engineering in 2D van der Waals CrI3 ferromagnets.
Tubingen physics seminar series, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Talk by senior researcher Sol H. Jacobsen. Title: New directions for combining superconductivity and magnetism, from spintronics to remote sensing.
MARCH
APS March meeting, Minneapolis, USA.
Talk by professor Asle Sudbø. Title: Topological superconductivity induced by quantum spin fluctuations.
Talk by PhD candidate Niels Henrik Aase. Title: Multiband strong-coupling superconductors with spontaneously broken time-reversal symmetry.
DPG Spring Meeting, Berlin, Germany.
Talk by senior researcher Alireza Qaiumzadeh. Title: Tunable topological magnon-polaron states and intrinsic anomalous Hall phenomena in 2D ferromagnetic insulators.
Talk by PhD candidate Verena Brehm. Title: Topological magnon gap engineering in 2D van der Waals CrI3 ferromagnets.
Talk by PhD candidate Stefanie Brinkman. Title: Orbital-momentum locking in chiral topological semimetal CoSi’.
Talk by PhD candidate Hans Glöckner Giil. Title: Superconductor-altermagnet memory functionality without stray fields.
Talk by Postdoc Henning Goa Hugdal. Title: Dichroic cavity mode splitting and lifetimes from interactions with a ferromagnetic metal.
Talk by PhD candidate Christian Svingen Johnsen. Title: Nonlocal Spin Dynamics Arising From Induced Interactions at the Interface of a Topological Insulator and a Ferromagnet.
Talk by PhD candidate Kristian Mæland. Title: TT 36.7: Exceeding the Chandrasekhar-Clogston limit in flat-band superconductors: A multiband strong-coupling approach.
Talk by PhD Jacob Benestad. Title: Machine-learned tuning of artificial Kitaev chains to Majorana sweet spots.
APRIL
International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism - ICSM2024, Fethiye, Turkey.
Talk by senior researcher Alireza Qaiumzadeh. Title: Engineering of topological magnons and magnon-polarons in CrI3 ferromagnets
Condensed matter seminar, York, United Kingdom
Invited talk by PhD candidate Verena Brehm. Title: Magnon dispersions and spin transport in 2D materials.
MAY
IOP Magnetism, Sheffield, UK.
Talk by PhD candidate Verena Brehm. Title: Topological magnon gap engineering in 2D van der Waals CrI3 ferromagnets.
Chalmers physics seminar series, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.Chalmers
Talk by senior researcher Sol H. Jacobsen. Title: Tuning and sensing superconductivity with magnets.
Theory of Nanoscale Systems seminar, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Invited talk by PhD candidate Verena Brehm. Title: A glimpse into atomistic spin simulations in 2D magnetic insulators: Spin transport and magnon condensates
Applied Spin Phenomena Group Seminar Kaiserslautern, Germany
Invited talk by PhD candidate Verena Brehm. Title: Atomistic spin simulations of antiferromagnetic magnon BECs.
Pint of Science Cologne, Germany
Talk by PhD candidate Verena Brehm. Title: Das Labor im Computer und wie magnetische Wellen vielleicht die Welt verändern werden.
Condensed matter seminar Leeds, United Kingdom
Talk by PhD candidate Verena Brehm. Title: Simulation of magnon dispersion rations and magnonic transport in 2D magnetic insulators.
JUNE
Quantum Spintronics International Conference 2024, NTNU, Norway.
Talk by senior researcher Sol H. Jacobsen. Title: Into the light: How cavity photons can reveal new physics in old materials.
Talk by senior researcher Alireza Qaiumzadeh. Title: Engineering of topological magnons and magnon-polarons in CrI3 ferromagnets.
Talk by Pavlo Sukhachov. Title: Thermoelectric Effect in Altermagnet-Superconductor Junctions.
JULY
International Conference on Magnetism, Bologna, Italy.
Talk by senior researcher Sol H. Jacobsen. Title: Tuning superconductivity with curved magnets.
AUGUST
New Avenues for Quantum Materials, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Talk by senior researcher Sol H. Jacobsen. Title: Microwave coupling, sensing and cavity engineering with magnets and superconductors.
SEPTEMBER
Magnons on an Island, Texel Island, the Netherlands.
Talk by senior researcher Sol H. Jacobsen. Title: Tuning and sensing with magnet-photon interactions in cavities.
OCTOBER
Magtop, Warzaw, Poland.
Talk by professor Jacob Linder. Title: Superconducting transport in altermagnets.
Neuromorphic computing: problems and prospects, Østfold University College, Norway.
Talk by senior researcher Alireza Qaiumzadeh. Title: Spintronic-Based Neuromorphic: A Proposal for LIF Neurons by Magnetic Textures.
DECEMBER
Colloquia in the Wuhan University of Technology in Wuhan and Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
Talk by senior researcher Alireza Qaiumzadeh. Title: Engineering of topological magnons and magnon-phonon hybrid modes in magnetic vdW layers.
Talk by senior researcher Alireza Qaiumzadeh. Title: Engineering of Topological Magnons and
NTNU, Researchers Night 2024 (Ungdommens forskernatt)
Trondheim, Norway. September 27, 2024.
Oslo, Norway. June 6-8, 2024
Loughborough, UK. March 25-26, 2024.
Berlin, Germany. March 17-22, 2024.
Minneapolis, USA. March 3-8, 2024.
2023
The Joint European Magnetic Symposia (JEMS)
Madrid, Spain. August 27th- September 1st, 2023.
The abstract submission deadline is March 9th at 23.59 (CET time).
Berlin, Germany. September 21-23, 2023.
NTNU, Researchers Night 2023 (Ungdommens forskernatt)
Trondheim, September 29.
- Associate Professor Hendrik Bentmann and his team. SFF QuSpin participating with inviting students to our ARPES lab. Title: Kom og se hvordan vi jobber med kvantefysikk i lab’en vår på QuSpin. Der forsker vi på hvordan elektroner oppfører seg i nye materialer eller superledere gjennom å se på dette i mikroskop. Dette er viktig i utviklingen av nye energieffektive løsninger for et «grønnere» samfunn.
Stockholm, Sweden. May 7-10.
- Professor Asle Sudbø. Title: Spin-fluctuations and unconventional superconductivity in heterostructures of magnetic insulators and gapless fermion systems.
Trondheim, Norway. March 20-23, 2023.
Las Vegas, USA. March 5-10, 2023.
2022
NOVEMBER
Gemini Autumn School on Quantum Computation.
Oslo, Norway. November 16-18.
AVS 68th International Symposium & Exhibition
Pittsburg, USA. November 6-11.
- Associate professor Hendrik Bentmann. Title: Topological States in the van der Waals Magnet MnBi2Te4: from 3D to 2D.
Superconducting spintronics 2022- International workshop on superconducting spintronics
Online (Zoom). November 2-3.
- Professor Jacob Linder. Title: Superconducting spintronics: a review of its present state.
- PhD student Lina Grøvan Johnsen. Title: Spin-triplet superconductivity: Controllable enhancement and coupling to magnon spin currents.
OCTOBER
Linjeforeningen Delta, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
Talk by Senior researcher Dr. Sol Jacobsen. Inspirational talk.
Korea-Nordic co-operation workshop on Quantum Materials, Stockholm, Sweden.
Talk by Senior researcher Dr. Sol Jacobsen. Title: The role of geometric design in superconducting spintronics.
SEPTEMBER
Nordic Quantum Connection Workshop, Scandic Park Hotel Helsinki, Finland. September 28.
Talk by professor Jeroen Danon. Title: Solid-State Spin Qubits.
CRIM2022 - Superconducting spintronics in low dimensions, London, UK. September 19.
Talk by professor Jacob Linder. Title: Complete magnetic control over the superconducting thermoelectric effect.
Materials Science and Engineering Congress (MSE 2022)
Darmstadt, Germany. September 27 – 29.
- Professor Dennis Meier. Title: The third dimension of ferroelectric domain walls
International Workshop on Topological Structures (TOPO 2022)
Mainz, Germany. September 12 – 16
- Professor Dennis Meier. Title: Nanoscale 3D imaging of ferroelectric domain wall networks
Pontresina, Switzerland. September 9.
- Professor Jeroen Danon. Title: Spin blockade and spin-orbit coupling.
Regensburg, Germany. September 4 – 9
- Professor Dennis Meier. Title: Functional ferroics
AUGUST
University of Regensburg PhD Summer School on "Dynamics of Lower-Dimensional Systems"
DJH Jugendherberge Nürnberg, Germany. August 18.
- Professor Jeroen Danon. Title: Solid-State Spin Qubits.(3 hours of lectures)
CMD29 workshop on geometric design in spintronics.
Manchester, England. August 21-26
- Senior researcher Dr. Sol Jacobsen. Title: Superconducting spintronics in curved geometries.
JULY
Santa Barbara, USA. July 7
- PhD student Håkon Røst. Title: Disentangling Rich Many-Body Physics with Modern Photoemission Techniques (flyer)
JUNE
Lyon, France. June 20 - 25.
- Professor Dennis Meier. Title: Improper ferroelectrics – domains, domain walls and emergent functional properties.
MAY
Novel Quantum Phases in Superconducting Heterostructures. 769. WE-Heraeus-Seminar
Bad Honnef, Germany. May 30- June 2.
- Professor Jacob Linder. Title: Breaking the Clogston-Chandrasekhar limit via flat bands and giant anisotropy in antiferromagnetic Josephson junctions.
Workshop on Emergent phenomena in low-dimensional ferroelectric structures.
Berlin, Germany. May 26 – 27.
- Professor Dennis Meier. Title.The third dimension of ferroelectric domain walls
MARCH
Norway - Japan Quantum Computing Webinar
Online. March 9.
- Professor Jeroen Danon. Title: Quantum Computing Technology – Norway.
TRR 80: From Electronic Correlations to Functionality Seminar.
Augsburg, Germany. March 23.
- Professor Dennis Meier. Title: Functional topological solitons in chiral and non-chiral materials.
Trondheim, Norway. March.
- Professor Jacob Linder. Title: Superconductors turn up to the heat.
FEBRUARY
Nordic virtual condensed matter seminar.
Stockholm, Sweden. February 21.
- Professor Jacob Linder. Title: Magnon spin-current induced by a triplet Cooper pair supercurrent.