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The Saturday Online Seminars are the core activity of LAFMAT. Held weekly, they bring together Latin American researchers and invited international speakers to present recent advances and foster scientific discussion and collaboration.

Each seminar consists of a 50-minute talk followed by an open discussion with panelists and the audience. The seminars take place every Saturday at:

  • 7:30 am – El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Mexico

  • 8:30 am – Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

  • 9:30 am – Bolivia and Venezuela

  • 10:30 am – Argentina, Brazil, and Chile

Broadcast online and organized collaboratively by the affiliated institutions, the series provides an active platform to promote research in condensed matter physics and materials science across the region.

For previous seminars, please visit the Video Gallery.
To watch the seminars live via broadcast, please access our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@Lafmatnetwork.

Upcoming LAFMAT Saturday Online Seminars

 

February

Saturday, 21st February
From Structure Prediction to Combatting Heavy Metal Pollution
Prof. Neil L. Allan – University of Bristol (UK)
Moderator: Sergio Conejeros

Saturday, 28th February
Experimental Band Gap Prediction from Semiconductor Oxides to Thousands of Crystallographic Structures: Systematic Comparison of Eight Machine Learning Methods
Gabriel Garcia Zambrano – CINVESTAV, México
Moderator: Arturo Martinez

March

Saturday, 7th March
Óxido de cobalto para la oxidación de amoniaco
Bryan Lozano – Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Moderator: Felipe Mondaca

Saturday, 14th March
Supramolecular Architectures as Platforms for Solar Photon Capture and Energy Storage
Dr. Reinaldo Atencio – IVIC, Venezuela
Moderator: Alexander Briceño

Saturday, 21st March
Turbulencia en paredes magnéticas impulsadas
Alejandro Kolton – Instituto Balseiro, Argentina
Moderator: Alexander Hernández

Saturday, 28th March
Interplay of Superconductivity and Charge Density Wave in Intermetallic Compounds
Eduardo Bittar – CBPF, Brazil
Moderator: Mario Reis

April

Saturday, 4th April
Estudio de la estabilidad de un par de skyrmion en un material antiferromagnético sintético
Juan Carlos Piña – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Moderator: David Landinez Tellez

Saturday, 11th April
De la ciencia básica a la aplicación: Diseño de dispositivos magnéticos para la industria aeroespacial
Eduardo Saavedra – Santiago de Chile
Moderator: Gabriela Grad

Saturday, 18th April
Tecnologia Sustentável: Como os Carbon Dots estão transformando a Ciência dos Materiais
Prof. Marco Antonio Schiavon – DCNAT-UFSJ
Moderator: Mario Reis

Saturday, 25th April
Análisis estructural y cuantitativo de la composición de materiales geológicos por difracción de rayos X sincrotrón y refinamiento Rietveld: investigando la procedencia de materiales arqueológicos
Mag. Frank Moya
Moderator: Melvin Godoy Chepe
(Recommended by Henry Moncada)

May

Saturday, 2nd May
Holiday – No Seminar

Saturday, 9th May
Jose Barba – Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Saturday, 16th May
Alejandro Trujillo – Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru

Saturday, 23rd May
Dibya Prakash Rai – Mizoram University, India

Saturday, 30th May
Miguel Arbelaez
Moderator: David Landinez

 

June

Saturday, 6th June
Liliana Arrachea
Moderator: Leandro Tosi

Saturday, 13th June
Armando Aligia
Moderator: Leandro Tosi

Saturday, 20th June
Invited speaker of Edgar Cardenas

Saturday, 27th June
(To be confirmed) Dra. Yendry Corrales – LANOTEC/CENAT, Costa Rica
Moderator: Sergio Paniagua

July

Saturday, 4th July
Tien T. Nguyen – College of Natural Science, Can Tho University, Vietnam

Saturday, 11th July
Miguel Ángel Gracia Pinilla – Tecnológico de Monterrey

Saturday, 18th July
Amangeldy Zhunusbekov – L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan

Saturday, 25th July
Magnetismo em nanoparticulas magneticas interatuantes/Magnetism in interacting magnetic nanoparticles
Diego Muraca – Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW), Brazil
Moderator: Mario Reis

August

Saturday, 1st August
VUV Synchrotron-Excited Luminescence of Phosphors for Advanced UV and Scintillation Applications
Prof. Karipbaev Zhakip – L. N Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan. (Friend of Amangeldy Zhunusbekov and Jumat Kargin)
Moderator: …

Saturday, 8th August
Invited speaker of Felipe Mondaca

Saturday, 15th August
Invited speaker of Augusto Moreira

Saturday, 22nd August
To be announced

September

Saturday, 05th September
Hydrogels.
Arnaldo Ramírez – Universidad de Oriente (UDO), Venezuela.
Moderator: Jose Fermin

Saturday, 12th September
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Dra. Débora Rodrigues – Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Moderator: Isaias Gonzaga de Oliveira

Saturday, 19th September
Non-monotonic roughness evolution in film growth on weakly interacting substrates
Prof. Fabio Reis – Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil.
Moderator: Mario Reis.

Saturday, 26th September
M…
Dra. Graciela Díaz de Delgado – Vicepresidente de la Unión Internacional de Cristalografía (POR CONFIRMAR)
Moderator: Alexander Briceño