Scientific Program
Thursday, January 14th
8:00 AM Breakfast and Registration
8:55 AM Greeting – Welcome
Topological Insulators:
9:00 AM S.-C. Zhang: Topological insulators and topological superconductors
9:30 AM Charles Kane: Topological Insulators and Majorana Fermions
10:00 AM Zahid Hasan: Experimental discovery of two classes of Topological Insulators and related Superconductors using Spin-sensitive methods
10:30 AM Break
Topological Insulators (continued):
11:00 AM Yulin Chen: Experimental Realization of a Large Gap 3D Topological Insulator with a Single Dirac-Cone on the Surface
11:30 AM Ali Yazdani: Visualizing Topological Surface States with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy & Spectroscopy
12:00 PM Joe Orenstein: Optics as a probe of spin and charge dynamics in 2D metals
12:30 PM Lunch (Posters go up)
Superconductivity in reduced dimensions:
1:45 PM Jean-Marc Triscone: Tuning the Electronic Properties at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interface (CANCELED DUE TO GENEVA BLIZZARD)
2:00 PM Gil Refael: The thin film Giaever transformer – vortex drag in a superconductor thin-film bilayer
2:30 PM Sambandamurthy Ganapathy: Transport behavior near phase transitions in quasi-1D systems
3:00 PM Break
Building exotic states in cold-atom systems:
3:45 PM Brian DeMarco: Disordered Insulator in an Optical Lattice
4:15 PM Tudor Stanescu: Light-induced vector fields, spin-orbit coupling and topological phases in cold atom systems
4:45 PM Ian Spielman: Synthetic electromagnetic fields created with light
5:15 PM Congjun Wu: Exotic orbital band and Mott insulating states in optical lattices
Public Lecture
6:30 PM Philip Phillips: From the Vulcanization of Rubber, to Quarks and High-Temperature Superconductivity: Physics at Strong Coupling
7:30 PM Dinner on own
Friday, January 15th
8:00 AM Breakfast
Higher-Tc superconductors:
9:00 AM Zlatko Tesanovic: Correlated superconductivity in cuprates and pnictides
9:30 AM Andrei Bernevig: Nodal and nodeless superconductivity in the iron based superconductors
10:00 AM John Tranquada: Striped Superconductivity in La2-xBaxCuO4
10:30 AM Break
Unusual superconducting and insulating phases in disordered systems:
11:00 AM Allen Goldman: The Insulating States of Ultrathin Superconducting Films Tuned by Perpendicular Magnetic Fields
11:30 AM Nandini Trivedi: Local density of states and response functions for the disorder-driven superconductor-insulator transition
12:00 PM Frank Kruger: Anomalous suppression of the Bose glass at commensurate fillings in the disordered Bose-Hubbard model
12:30 PM Lunch
Unusual superconducting and insulating phases in disordered systems (continued):
1:45 PM Benjamin Sacépé: “Evidence of localized Cooper pairs in disordered superconductors
2:15 PM Boris Altshuler: Finite temperature superfluid-“insulator” phase transition for
disordered bosons in one dimension
2:45 PM Jongsoo Yoon: Transport Phase Diagram of Homogeneously Disordered Superconducting Tantalum Thin Films
3:15 PM Jim Valles: Experiments on a Cooper Pair Insulator
3:45 PM Break
Topological phases:
4:15 PM Sankar Das Sarma: Topological Quantum Computation using Non-Abelian Anyons
4:45 PM Iuliana Radu: Quasiparticle tunneling in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Experiments at filling fraction 5/2
5:15 PM Cenke Xu: Fractionalization in Josephson Junction Arrays Hinged by Quantum Spin Hall edges
5:45 PM Anton Burkov: Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and Featureless Mott Insulators
6:15 PM Poster Session
7:30 PM Reception and Conference Dinner at Azafran Cafe
Saturday, January 16th
8:00 AM Breakfast
Novel States:
9:00 AM Moses Chan: Is supersolid a superfluid?
9:30 AM Matthew Fisher: Spin Bose-Metals in Weak Mott Insulators
10:00 AM Leon Balents: Spin-orbit physics in the Mott regime
10:30 AM Break
Transport in Topological Insulators:
11:00 AM Ashvin Vishwanath: Topological Defects and Entanglement in Topological Insulators
11:30 AM Phuan Ong: Transport Experiments on topological insulators Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3
12:00 AM Yoichi Ando: Anomalous Magnetotransport in a Topological Insulator Bi1-xSbx
12:30 PM Lunch
Dirac Materials:
1:30 PM Michael S. Fuhrer: Charge Transport in Dirac Materials
2:00 PM Eugene J. Mele: Commensuration and Interlayer Coherence in Twisted Bilayer Graphenes
Novel States (continued):
2:30 PM Liang Fu: Odd-Parity Topological Superconductors
3:00 PM Joel Moore: Topological insulators in applied fields: magnetoelectric effects and exciton condensation
3:30 PM Subir Sachdev: Scaling theory of the nematic ordering transition in two-dimensional metals.
