Program Schedule - Condensed Matter

Updated as of 14 Dec 2015


11 Dec | 12 Dec | 13 Dec | 14 Dec | 15 Dec

11 Dec (Fri)



Time Program Venue
08:50-09:00 Opening Remarks
Patrick A. Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Visiting Professor of HKUST IAS)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
Session One
Session Chair: Fuchun Zhang (The University of Hong Kong & Zhejiang University)
09:00-09:55 “Topology and Superconductivity, a Road to Reality” [Abstract]
Carlo Beenakker (Leiden University)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
09:55-10:25 “Yet Another Way to Measure Majorana Nonlocality” [Abstract]
Anton Akhmerov (Delft University of Technology)
10:25-10:45 Coffee Break Lobby, G/F
10:45-11:15 “Engineering Topological States: from 1D to 2D”
Jelena Klinovaja (University of Basel)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
11:15-11:45 “Search for Additional Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Semiconductor Nanowires Coupled to Superconductors” [Abstract]
Sergey Frolov (University of Pittsburgh)
11:45-12:05 “Ising Superconductivity and Majorana Fermions in Transition Meal Dichalcogenides”
Kam Tuen Law (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
12:05-14:00 Lunch Open Area, 1/F
Session Two
Session Chair: Patrick A. Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Visiting Professor of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
14:00-14:30 “Topological Superconductivity in Chains of Magnetic Atoms”
Felix von Oppen (Freie Universität Berlin)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
14:30-15:00 “Physical Architecture for a Universal Topological Quantum Computer Based on a Network of Majorana Nanowires” [Abstract]
Jay Deep Sau (The University of Maryland)
15:00-15:30 “Modular Anomalies in (2+1) and (3+1)-D Edge Theories” [Abstract]
Matthew Gilbert (The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)
15:30-15:40 Coffee Break Lobby, G/F

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12 Dec (Sat)



Time Program Venue
Session Three
Session Chair: Tai-Kai Ng (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
09:00-09:55 “New Forms of Matter: Weyl Fermions, Fermi Arcs and Topological Nodal Metals” [Abstract]
Suyang Xu (Princeton University)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
09:55-10:25 “Topological Semimetals and Weyl Fermions” [Abstract]
Zhong Fang (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
10:25-10:45 Coffee Break Lobby, G/F
10:45-11:15 “Search for Two-dimensional Topological Insulators with Large Gap” [Abstract]
Xi Dai (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
11:15-11:45 “Searching for New Excitations in Topological Places” [Abstract]
Kenneth Burch (Boston College)
11:45-12:05 “Landau Levels and Zeeman Splitting of Three-dimensional Massless Dirac Fermions in ZrTe5” [Abstract]
Fa Wang (Peking University)
12:05-12:15 Photo Taking
12:15-14:00 Lunch Open Area, 1/F
Session Four
Session Chair: Ziyang Meng (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
14:00-14:30 “Hidden Order in a Perovskite Iridate Revealed by Nonlinear
Optics” [Abstract]
David Hsieh (The California Institute of Technology)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
14:30-15:00 “Interaction Effects in Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulators” [Abstract]
Arun Paramekanti (University of Toronto)
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break and Poster Session Lobby, G/F

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13 Dec (Sun)



Time Program Venue
Session Five
Session Chair: Xiongjun Liu (Peking University)
09:00-09:55 “Two Types of Weyl Semimetals” [Abstract]
Andrei Bernevig (Princeton University)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
09:55-10:25 “Andreev Bound State in Topological Superconductors” [Abstract]
Yukio Tanaka (Nagoya University)
10:25-11:00 “Emergent Spacetime Supersymmetry in 3D Weyl Semimetals and 2D Dirac Semimetals”
Hong Yao (Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University)
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break Lobby, G/F
11:15-17:00 Free Time & Excursion

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14 Dec (Mon)



Time Program Venue
Session Six
Session Chair: Renbao Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
09:00-09:30 "Dirac Composite Fermions in the Half-filled Landau Level" [Abstract]
Roger Mong (University of Pittsburgh)
IAS1038, 1/F
09:30-09:55 “Coupled Wire Model of Symmetric Majorana Surfaces of Topological Superconductors” [Abstract]
Jeffrey Teo (The University of Virginia)
09:55-10:25 “Topological Quantum Field Theory Approach for Bosonic Symmetry-Protected-Topological Phase with Abelian Symmetry in Three Dimensions”
Zhengcheng Gu (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
10:25-10:45 Coffee Break Open Area, 1/F
10:45-11:15 “Topology and Magnetism in Vanadium and Iridium-based Frustrated Magnets”
Yong Baek Kim (The University of Toronto)
IAS1038, 1/F
11:15-11:45 “Quantum Oscillations in Kondo Insulator SmB6” [Abstract]
Lu Li (University of Michigan)
11:45-12:05 “Bulk Topological Proximity Effect” [Abstract]
Timothy Hsieh (University of California at Santa Barbara)
12:05-14:00 Lunch Open Area, 1/F
Session Seven
Session Chair: Bohm Jung Yang (Seoul National University)
14:00-14:30 “Topology of Crystalline Insulators and Superconductors” [Abstract]
Masatoshi Sato (Kyoto University)
IAS1038, 1/F
14:30-15:00 “Magnetic Moments in Superconfuctors: from Shiba to Majorana Bound States”
Pascal Simon (Paris-Sud University)
15:00-15:30 Talk title to be confirmed
Eugene Demler (Harvard University)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break Open Area, 1/F
16:00-17:20 IAS / School of Science Joint Lecture [Abstract]
“Detecting and Coupling Quantum Objects with Quantum Light”
Dan Stamper-Kurn (University of California at Berkeley)
IAS2042, 2/F
17:20-18:00 Free Time
18:00-20:30 Conference Dinner (For Invited Participants Only)

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15 Dec (Tue)



Time Program Venue
Session Eight
Session Chair: Zidan Wang (The University of Hong Kong)
09:00-09:30 "Topological Phenomena in Periodically Driven Systems: The Role of Disorder and Interactions" [Abstract]
Erez Berg (Weizmann Institute of Science)
IAS1038, 1/F
09:30-09:55 “Detecting Weyl Fermions in Condensed Matter” [Abstract]
Titus Neupert (Princeton University)
09:55-10:25 “Interplay between Kondo and Majorana Interactions in Quantum Dots” [Abstract]
Roman Lutchyn (Microsoft Station Q)
10:25-10:45 Coffee Break Open Area, 1/F
10:45-11:15 "Topological Modulated Superconductivity in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides" [Abstract]
Eun-Ah Kim (Cornell University)
IAS1038, 1/F
11:15-11:45 “Classification of Nodal Topological Superconductors and their Flat-band Surface States” [Abstract]
Andreas Schnyder (The Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research)
11:45-12:05 “Topological Semi-metals with Line Nodes and Drumhead Surface States”
Ching-Kai Chiu (The University of Maryland)
12:05-14:00 Lunch Open Area, 1/F
Session Nine
Session Chair: Wei Yi (University of Science and Technology of China)
14:00-14:30 “Synthetic Gauge Flux, Weyl Points and Geometric Phases in Acoustic Systems” [Abstract]
Che Ting Chan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
IAS1038, 1/F
14:30-15:00 “Topological Nonsymmorphic Crystalline Superconductors” [Abstract]
Chaoxing Liu (The Pennsylvania State University)
15:00-15:30 "Fractional Topological States in Lattice Systems" [Abstract]
Kai Sun (University of Michigan)
15:30-15:40 Closing Remarks
Carlo Beenakker (Leiden University)
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break Open Area, 1/F

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