Program
last update: 04/03/2013
| Tuesday, March 5 | |
| ARRIVAL DAY | |
| 08:00 - 16:30 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Supper |
| Wednesday, March 6 | |
| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast |
| 08:00 - 16:30 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Discussions |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Discussions |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Tutorial: Nicolas Regnault (ENS Paris & Princeton University) |
| Fractional topological insulators: 2D and beyond | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 19:00 | Poster session |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome reception |
| Thursday, March 7 | |
| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast |
| 08:00 - 16:30 | Registration |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Christopher Mudry (Paul Scherrer Institute) |
| Fractional topological insulators: A progress report | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Rahul Roy (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Fractional Chern insulators: The role of band geometry | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Emil Bergholtz (Free University Berlin) |
| Fractional Chern insulators: Aspects beyond conventional Landau level physics | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Kai Sun (University of Michigan) |
| Adiabatic continuity between Hofstadter and Chern insulator states | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Grigori Volovik (Aalto University) |
| Weyl semimetals: From standard model to flat band | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Dario Bercioux (Freiburg University) |
| Flat bands in quasi-one- and two-dimensional lattices | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Zsolt Gulacsi (University of Debrecen) |
| Exact results via positive semidefinite operators relating bare and effective flat bands | |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Mykola Maksymenko (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Flat-band ferromagnetism as a Pauli-correlated percolation | |
| 18:00 - 21:30 | Poster session |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Supper |
| Friday, March 8 | |
| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast |
| 08:00 - 15:30 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Nigel Cooper (University of Cambridge) |
| Designing topological bands for ultracold atomic gases | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Lindsay J. LeBlanc (National Institute of Standards and Technology) |
| Engineering dispersion relationships for ultracold atoms with Raman transitions | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Philip Brydon (Technical University Dresden) |
| Zero-energy flat bands in noncentrosymmetric superconductors | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Andrea Damascelli (University of British Columbia) |
| Layer-by-layer entangled spin-orbital texture of the topological surface state in Bi2Se3 | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Martin Hohenadler (University of Würzburg) |
| Quantum Monte Carlo approach to the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Dan Stamper-Kurn (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Ultracold atoms in an optical superlattice | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Chris Laumann (Harvard University) |
| Fractional Chern insulators in dipolar systems | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Ronny Thomale (EPFL Lausanne) |
| Pseudopotential formalism for fractional Chern insulators | |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Maria Daghofer (IFW Dresden) |
| Spontaneous fractional quantum-Hall state in strongly correlated multiorbital systems | |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Social Dinner |
| Saturday, March 9 | |
| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Sebastian Huber (ETH Zürich) |
| Bose condensation and its suppression in flat bands | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Andreas Mielke (University of Heidelberg) |
| Characterization of ground states in fermionic Hubbard models with flat bands | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Layla Hormozi (National University of Ireland) |
| Fractional quantum Hall effect of lattice bosons near commensurate flux | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Milica Milovanovic (Institute of Physics, Belgrade) |
| On the geometrical description of fractional Chern insulators based on static structure factor calculations | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Ganpathy Murthy (University of Kentucky) |
| Hamiltonian theory of fractionally filled chern bands | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Benoit Doucot (CNRS & University of Paris) |
| Multicomponent skyrmion lattices and their excitations | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Masaki Oshikawa (University of Tokyo) |
| Ground-state energies of spinless free Fermions and hard-core Bosons | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Henri Godfrin (CNRS Grenoble) |
| Experimental evidence for flat bands in strongly interacting 2D liquid 3He | |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | John Chalker (Oxford University) |
| Anderson localisation in flat bands | |
| 17:45 - 18:30 | Hari Manoharan (Stanford University) |
| Designer Dirac fermions, topological phases, and Gauge fields in molecular graphene | |
| 18:30 - 18:45 | Closing |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Supper |
| Sunday, March 10 | |
| DEPARTURE DAY | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | Breakfast |
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