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Topological States of Matter

Workshop | Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Directors: Reinhold Egger, Leonid Glazman, Roman Lutchyn, Charles Marcus, Pasquale Sodano, Felix Von Oppen
Date Time Speakers Name Talk Title

Tuesday

March 21, 2017

09:15 am - 10:00 am

REGISTRATION

10:00 am - 10:40 am

Gleb Finkelstein
Invited speaker

Duke University (United States of America)

Supercurrent in the quantum Hall regime

10:40 am - 11:20 am

Yuval Oreg
Invited speaker

Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)

Topological phases in superconducting lattices

11:20 am - 12:00 pm

Joseph Maciejko
Invited speaker

University of Alberta (Canada)

Superconducting quantum criticality on the surface of 3D TIs

12:00 pm - 02:30 pm

LUNCH BREAK

02:30 pm - 03:00 pm

COFFEE BREAK

03:00 pm - 03:40 pm

Rui-Rui Du
Invited speaker

Rice University (United States of America)

Large Gap Quantum Spin Hall Effect Observed in Strained-Layer InAs/GaInSb

03:40 pm - 04:20 pm

Bela Bauer
Invited speaker

University of California Santa Barbara (United States of America)

Ising Anyons in Frustration-Free Majorana-Dimer Models

04:30 pm - 06:00 pm

POSTER SESSION

Wednesday

March 22, 2017

10:00 am - 10:40 am

Erez Berg
Invited speaker

Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)

Detectable signatures of fractionalization in quantum spin liquids

10:40 am - 11:20 am

Dima Pikulin
Invited speaker

UBC Physics & Astronomy (Canada)

Pseudomagnetic fields in Weyl semimetal

11:20 am - 12:00 pm

Skyrmion lattices and topological insulators in ordinary noninteracting 2DEGs

12:00 pm - 02:30 pm

LUNCH BREAK

02:30 pm - 03:00 pm

COFFEE BREAK

03:00 pm - 03:40 pm

Gennady Gusev
Invited speaker

USP Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Thermoelectric transport in 2D topological insulator in HgTe quantum well

03:40 pm - 04:20 pm

Manuel Houzet
Invited speaker

CEA (France)

Non-trivial Chern numbers in three-terminal Josephson junctions

04:30 pm - 05:00 pm

COFFEE BREAK

05:00 pm - 06:00 pm

Gerard 't Hooft
Invited Lecturers

Utrecht University (Netherlands)

Special Colloquium - Black holes as essential ingredients of a quantum gravity theory

Thursday

March 23, 2017

10:00 am - 10:40 am

Alexander Altland
Invited speaker

University of Cologne (Germany)

Large Conformal Goldstone Mode Fluctuations in the SYK Model

10:40 am - 11:20 am

Eran Sela
Invited speaker

Telaviv University, Israel ()

Majorana States in the Coulomb Blockade Regime - Signatures and Applications

11:20 am - 12:00 pm

Jay Sau
Invited speaker

University of Maryland (United States of America)

AC and DC conductance of topological SNS junctions

12:00 pm - 01:30 pm

LUNCH BREAK

01:30 pm - 02:10 pm

Karsten Flensberg
Invited speaker

Niels Bohr Institutet (Denmark)

Majorana Box Qubits

02:10 pm - 02:50 pm

Jelena Klinovaja
Invited speaker

University of Basel (Switzerland)

Destructive interference of direct and crossed Andreev pairing in a system of two nanowires coupled via an s-wave superconductor

02:50 pm - 03:20 pm

COFFEE BREAK

03:20 pm - 04:00 pm

Peter Krogstrup
Invited speaker

University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Superconductor Hybrid Materials for Topological Superconductivity

04:00 pm - 04:40 pm

Jaroslav Fabian
Invited speaker

University of Regensburg (Germany)

Spin-orbit coupling in zinc-blende and wurtzite nanowires

07:00 pm - 09:30 pm

WORKSHOP DINNER

Friday

March 24, 2017

10:00 am - 10:40 am

Simon Trebst
Invited speaker

University of Koeln (Germany)

Machine learning quantum phases of matter

10:40 am - 11:20 am

Cristiane Morais Smith
Invited speaker

Utrecht University (Netherlands)

Universalities of thermodynamic signatures in topological phases

11:20 am - 12:00 pm

Raquel Queiroz
Invited speaker

Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)

Dimensional Hierarchy of Fermionic Interacting Topological Phases

12:00 pm - 01:30 pm

LUNCH BREAK

01:30 pm - 02:10 pm

Matthew Gilbert
Invited speaker

UC Berkeley Physics (United States of America)

Unconventional Superconductivity in Topological Heterostructures

02:10 pm - 02:50 pm

Peter Schmitteckert
Invited speaker

University of Würzburg (Germany)

The discovery of slowness - dynamics of Majorana bound states

02:50 pm - 03:20 pm

COFFEE BREAK

03:20 pm - 04:00 pm

Eduardo Cantera Marino
Invited speaker

Department of Theoretical Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Brazil)

Emerging Quantum Hall Phases and Exciton Spectrum in Planar Dirac Materials

04:00 pm - 04:40 pm

Warlley Campos
Invited speaker

Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil)

Topological insulator particles as optically induced oscillators: towards dynamical force measurements and optical rheology

Monday

March 27, 2017

11:00 am - 11:30 am

Stephan Plugge
Invited speaker

Düsseldorf University (Germany)

Majorana Box Qubits: From mammals and insects to Majorana code networks

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Arturo Tagliacozzo
Invited speaker

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Incipient Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in coplanar graphene Josephson junctions

12:00 pm - 01:30 pm

LUNCH BREAK

01:30 pm - 02:10 pm

Kirill Shtengel
Invited speaker

University of California (United States of America)

Fractional chiral metals

02:10 pm - 02:50 pm

Francesco Toppan
Invited speaker

CBPF (Brazil)

Chains of topological oscillators and observables

02:50 pm - 03:20 pm

COFFEE BREAK

Tuesday

March 28, 2017

10:20 am - 11:00 am

Ara Sedrakyan
Invited speaker

Yerevan Physics Institute (Armenia)

Geometrically disordered network models, quenched quantum gravity, and critical behavior at quantum Hall plateau transitions

11:00 am - 11:30 am

Silas Hoffman

University of Basel (Switzerland)

Spin Dependent Coupling between Quantum Dots and Topological Quantum Wires

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Andrey Antipov
Invited speaker

Microsoft Station Q (United States of America)

Modeling superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures in the presence of gate-induced electric fields

12:00 pm - 02:30 pm

LUNCH BREAK

03:00 pm - 03:30 pm

COFFEE BREAK

03:30 pm - 04:30 pm

Giuseppe Mussardo
Invited speaker

Laboratorio Interdisciplinare Scienze Naturali e Umanistiche, SISSA, Trieste, Italy (Italy)

Special Colloquium - Prime Suspects and Coprime Accomplices: Quantum Tales In Number Theory

Wednesday

March 29, 2017

10:20 am - 11:00 am

Rodrigo Pereira
Invited Lecturers

International Institute of Physics - UFRN (Brazil)

Gapless chiral spin liquid from coupled chains on the kagome lattice

11:00 am - 11:30 am

Francesco Buccheri
Invited speaker

Heinrich-Heine University Dusseldorf (Germany)

Interplay between the topological Kondo effect and superconductivity

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Ryan Thomgren
Invited speaker

UC Berkeley (United States of America)

Space group symmetries, SPT phases, and equivariant cohomology

12:00 pm - 02:30 pm

LUNCH BREAK

Thursday

March 30, 2017

11:00 am - 11:30 am

Klaus Ziegler
Invited speaker

University of Augsburg ()

Edge modes in photonic crystals

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Edson Vernek
Invited speaker

Federal University of Uberlândia (Brazil)

Leaky Majorana sneaking up on Kondo in an interacting dot coupled to a topological wire

12:00 pm - 02:30 pm

LUNCH BREAK