Haining Pan - Rutgers University

Wednesday 11 Feb 2026, 08:00 → 20:00 US/Eastern

IAMM

Ruixing Zhang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee Knoxville)

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=00Qqcn8AAAAJ&hl=en

09:00 → 09:30 Pick up at hotel

Travel to IAMM.

Speaker: Ruixing Zhang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee Knoxville)

09:30 → 10:10 Research Meeting

Speaker: Ruixing Zhang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee Knoxville)

10:20 → 11:20 AI as a Research Assistant for Quantum Materials and Information

The rapid progress of artificial intelligence is creating new opportunities to address long-standing theoretical and experimental challenges in condensed matter physics. In this talk, I will present an AI-driven framework in which machine learning is integrated into the scientific workflow, from hypothesis formulation to theoretical modeling and experimental interpretation.

I will first show how large language models (LLMs) can act as structured theoretical assistants rather than simple text generators. I will introduce a multi-step agentic pipeline that autonomously derives mean-field Hamiltonians for interacting quantum many-body systems, along with CMT-Benchmark, an expert-curated benchmark for evaluating reasoning reliability in AI-assisted condensed matter research.

I will then discuss discovery-oriented applications at the intersection of quantum materials and quantum information. I will demonstrate how unsupervised analysis of 4D-STEM data uncovers hidden charge-density-wave phases in 1T-TaS2, and how machine learning can identify topological phases in disordered Majorana nanowires, aiding the search for robust platforms for topological quantum computation.

Speaker: Dr Haining Pan (Rutgers University)

11:30 → 12:00 Research Meeting

Speaker: Jian Liu (University of Tennessee)

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

Ruixing Zhang, Jian Liu, ...

14:00 → 14:30 Research Meeting

Speaker: Prof. Adrian Del Maestro (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

14:30 → 15:00 Research Meeting

Speaker: Angkun Wu

15:00 → 15:30 Research Meeting

Speaker: Yishu Wang (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

15:30 → 16:00 Research Meeting

Speaker: Wonhee Ko (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

16:00 → 16:30 Research Meeting

Speaker: Zachary Nicolaou

16:30 → 17:00 Research Meeting

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Ruixing Zhang, ...