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BIG Ideas in Nano-imaging of Quantum Materials

August 10, 2026 - August 12, 2026
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
America/New_York
Faculty House, 64 Morningside Dr., New York, NY 10027 Skyline Dining Room
Join us for a two-day workshop to discuss recent breakthroughs and future directions in this vibrant field.

Featured Speakers:

Ali Yazdani, Princeton University

Opportunities for nanoscale characterization of correlated and topological phases in 2d materials

Beena Kalisky, Bar-Ilan University

Scanning SQUID view of quantum materials

Markus Raschke, University of Colorado

Ultrafast nano-imaging of optical, electronic, and quantum coherence—what’s the difference and what does it mean?

Eli Zeldov, Weizmann Institute of Science

Reconfigurable chiral superconductivity

Zhurun (Judy) Ji, MIT

LASCOPE: Automated Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Imaging

Shahal Ilani, Weizmann Institute of Science

Imaging the flat bands of magic-angle graphene reshaped by interactions

Nathalie De Leon, Princeton University

Multi-qubit nanoscale sensing with entanglement as a resource

Aaron Lindenberg, Stanford University

New forms of calorimetry at the atomic scale

Frank Koppens, ICFO

Cryogenic near-field microscopy of superconductors and out-of-equillibrium criticalities in moiré systems

Ido Kaminer, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

The extremes of quantum optics and their prospects for many-body quantum systems

Mengkun Liu, Stonybrook University

Big Ideas in Quantum Materials Nanoscopy: From Magneto-Polaritons to Superconducting Vortices.

Moshe Ben Shalom, Tel Aviv University

The Sliding Ferroelectric Resonant Tunnel Junction

Sarah King, University of Chicago

Electron nanoimaging of hyperbolic plasmon polaritons in the quasi 1D metal MoOCl₂

Milan Delor, Columbia University

Visualizing quantum dynamics in asymmetric media

Raquel Queiroz, Columbia University

Seeing Lattice Interference: Quantum Geometry from the Perspective of Local Probes

Ben Feldman, Stanford

New capabilities for nanoscale thermodynamic imaging of 2D materials


This workshop is supported by the Moore Foundation.


Campus is open to affiliate Columbia University ID (CUID) holders and approved guests only. 

Contact Information

Columbia Quantum Initiative