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Sunday, July 12 | |
18:00 - 21:00 | Registration |
19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome banquet |
Monday, July 13 | |
08:45 - 09:00 | Opening |
Roderich Moessner (Director MPIPKS and Organizer) and Simon Trebst (Organizer) | |
09:00 - 09:45 | Charlie Kane (University of Pennsylvania) |
Majorana Fermions on Topological Insulators | |
09:45 - 10:30 | Laurens Molenkamp (Universität Würzburg) |
Spin Hall Effects in HgTe Quantum Well Structures | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00 - 11:45 | Andreas Ludwig (University of California) |
Classification of Topological Insulators and Superconductors | |
11:45 - 12:30 | Claudio Chamon (Boston University) |
Electron Fractionalization in Graphene | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00 - 14:45 | John Chalker (University of Oxford) |
Classical Phase Transitions in Highly Constrained Systems | |
14:45 - 15:30 | Tao Xiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
Topological Quantum Phase Transition and Charge Fractionalization | |
15:30 - 16:15 | Simon Trebst (Microsoft Research, Station Q) |
Topology Driven Quantum Phase Transitions | |
16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee break |
16:45 - 17:30 | G. Baskaran (The Institute of Mathematical Sicences Chennai) |
Kitaev Model as an Exemplifier of Resonating Valence Bond Notions and Techniques | |
17:30 - 18:15 | Kai Schmidt (Universität Dortmund) |
Anyons as Landau Quasi-Particles - Kitaev's Toric Code in a magnetic field | |
18:15 - 19:00 | Claudio Castelnovo (Oxford University, UK) |
Quantum and Thermal Phase Transitions in Topologically Ordered Systems | |
19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner |
20:30 - 22:00 | Poster Session I |
Tuesday, July 14 | |
09:00 - 09:45 | Ady Stern (Weizmann Institute) |
Interferometry in Quantum Hall States - from Ideality to Reality | |
09:45 - 10:30 | Kirill Shtengel (University of California) |
The Non-Abelian Interferometer: Theory and Experiment | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00 - 11:45 | Merav Dolev (Weizmann Institute) |
Quasiparticle Charge at v=5/2 Quantum Hall Effect | |
11:45 - 12:30 | Sankar Das Sarma (University of Maryland) |
Topological Quantum Computation using Quantum Hall States and Superconductors | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00 - 14:45 | Andrei Bernevig (Princeton University) |
The Anatomy of Fractional Quantum Hall States: The Properties of Topological Order | |
14:45 - 15:30 | Eddy Ardonne (Nordita) |
Collective States of Interacting Anyons and the Formation of new Quantum Liquids | |
15:30 - 16:15 | Jung Hoon Han (Sungkyunkwan University) |
Skyrme Crystal Phases and Anomalous Hall Conductivity in a Model for MnSi | |
16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee break |
16:45 - 17:30 | Bernd Rosenow (MPI for Solid State Research) |
Bulk-Edge Coupling in the Non-Abelian v=5/2 Quantum Hall Interferometer | |
17:30 - 18:15 | Anders Karlhede (Stockholm University) |
The Quantum Hall System: Exact Solutions and Limiting Cases | |
18:15 - 19:00 | Eric Yang (Korea University Seoul) |
Effects of Non-Abelian Matrix Berry Phase on Pumping and Many Body Physics Dots | |
19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner |
Wednesday, July 15 | |
09:00 - 09:45 | Hidenori Takagi (University of Tokyo/RIKEN) |
Ir Oxides - a Quantum Spin Liquid to a possible Topological Insulator | |
09:45 - 10:30 | Yong Baek Kim (University of Toronto) |
Novel Quantum Phases in Frustrated Magnets | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00 - 11:45 | Satoru Nakatsuji (University of Tokyo) |
Unconventional Phase Formation and Chiralities of Frustrated Spins | |
11:45 - 12:30 | Matthew Fisher (Microsoft Research, Station Q) |
Spin Bose-Metals in Weak Mott Insulators | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 - 14:45 | Hans-Peter Büchler (Universität Stuttgart) |
Coherent and Dissipative Quantum Simulations of Many Body Interactions with Cold Rydberg Atoms | |
14:45 - 15:30 | Nigel Cooper (University of Cambridge) |
Topological Superfluid Phase of Polar Fermionic Molecules | |
15:30 - 16:15 | Walter Hofstetter (Universität Frankfurt) |
Magnetic Order and Transport in Bose Gases with Spin | |
16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee break |
16:45 - 17:45 | Colloquium: Michael Freedman (Microsoft Research, Station Q) |
Topology, Physics, and Complexity: The Birthing of the Quantum Computer | |
18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner |
19:30 - 22:00 | Poster Session II |
Thursday, July 16 | |
09:00 - 09:45 | Alois Loidl (Universität Augsburg) |
Frustrated Lattices in Spinel Compounds | |
09:45 - 10:30 | Leon Balents (University of California) |
Spin-Orbit Physics in the Mott Regime | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Group photo (to be published on the web), thereafter Coffee break |
11:00 - 11:45 | Andreas Läuchli (MPI PKS Dresden) |
Dimerization Patterns in Kagome Based Heisenberg Models | |
11:45 - 12:30 | Hirokazu Tsunetsugu (University of Tokyo) |
Strongly Correlated Electrons with Geometrical Frustration | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00 - 14:45 | Kedar Damle (Tata Institute) |
Impurity Induced Spin-Texture in the Pyrochlore Slab Magnet SCGO | |
14:45 - 15:30 | Roser Valenti (Universität Frankfurt) |
Frustration in the Charge Transfer Salt Superconductors | |
15:30 - 16:15 | Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT) |
Tensor Network Renormalization Approach to Strongly Correlated Systems | |
16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee break |
17:00 - | Excursion and Conference Dinner |
Friday, July 17 | |
09:00 - 09:45 | Paul Fendley (University of Virginia) |
Duality and Topological Order | |
09:45 - 10:30 | Steve Simon (University of Oxford) |
Geometry of Topological Lattice Models | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00 - 11:45 | Kareljan Schoutens (University of Amsterdam) |
Quantum Phases of a Supersymmetric Model of Lattice Fermions | |
11:45 - 12:30 | Fabien Alet (IRSAMC Toulouse) |
Entanglement and Fidelity of Quantum Spin Systems: A Valence Bond Approach | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00 - 14:45 | Masaki Oshikawa (University of Tokyo) |
Hidden Symmetry and Edge States in Quantum Spin Chains Revisited | |
14:45 - 15:30 | Joel Moore (UC Berkeley) |
Topological Insulators and Magnetoelectric Coupling in Solids | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
16:00 - 16:45 | Jiannis Pachos (University of Leeds) |
Non-Abelian Braid Statistics as a Holonomy in an Exactly Solvable Lattice Model | |
16:45 - 17:30 | Martin Greiter (Universität Karlsruhe) |
Non-Abelian Statistics in Higher Spin Antiferromagnets | |
Last updated: July 25, 2009