Program

SEMINAR WEEK 1 (June 29 - July 3)
SEMINAR WEEK 2 (July 6 - 10)
WORKSHOP WEEK (July 13 - 17)
SEMINAR WEEK 4 (July 20 - 24)


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SEMINAR WEEK 1 (June 29 - July 3)

Monday, June 29  
   
11:00 - 12:00 George Jackeli (MPI Stuttgart)
  Mott insulators in the strong spin-orbit coupling limit: From Heisenberg to a quantum compass and Kitaev models
   
Tuesday, June 30  
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Ribhu Kaul (Microsoft Research, Station Q, Santa Barbara)
  Interlay of quantum criticality and geometric frustration in columbite
   
15:00 - 17:00 Alexei Kitaev (Caltech, Pasadena)
  Gapped edges and Bose condensation in anyonic systems
   
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
   
Wednesday, July 1  
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Xin Wan (APCTP, Pohang)
  Quantitative analysis toward understanding quasiparticle interference in the Moore-Read state
   
15:00 - 16:30 Frank Verstraete (University of Vienna)
  A real-space RG study of quantum spin systems exhibiting topological quantum order
   
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
   
Thursday, July 2  
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Todradi Senthil (MIT, Cambridge/USA)
  Quantum spin liquids and the Mott transitions
   
15:00 - 16:00 Vincent Pasquier (CEA/IPhT, Gif-sur-Yvette)
  Shannon and entanglement entropies of one- and two-dimensional critical wave functions
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
Friday, July 3  
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Ulrich Rössler (IFW Dresden)
  Skyrmionic textures in condensed matter systems
   



SEMINAR WEEK 2 (July 6 - July 10)

Monday, July 6  
   
11:00 - 12:00 Lukasz Fidkowski (Caltech, Pasadena)
  The effects of interactions on the topological classification of free fermion systems
   
16:30 - 17:30 TOPO09 Colloquium:
  Hans-Peter Büchler (Universität Stuttgart
  Strongly correlated quantum phases with cold polar molecules
   
Tuesday, July 7  
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Masud Haque (MPIPKS Dresden)
  Entanglement measures used to probe topological order in quantum Hall states
   
15:00 - 16:30 Chris Henley (Cornell University, Ithaca)
  Spin order of the classical Kagome antiferromagnet: Via effective Hamiltonians
   
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
   
Wednesday, July 8  
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Frank Pollmann (University of California, Berkeley)
  Theory of finite-entanglement scaling at one-dimensional quantum critical points
   
15:00 - 16:00 Gil Refael (Caltech, Pasadena)
  Infinite randomness phases in disordered anyon chains
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
Thursday, July 9  
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Wolfram Brenig (Universität Braunschweig)
  Plaquette order in the J1-J2-J3 model: A series expansion analysis
   
15:00 - 16:30 Oleg Tchernyshyov (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
  Fermionic spin excitations in two- and three-dimensional antiferromagnets
   
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
   
Friday, July 10  
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Ehud Altman (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot)
  Probing topological order and non local order parameters in systems of ultracold atoms
   
15:00 - 16:00 Jason Alicea (Caltech, Pasadena)
  Interlayer coherent Halperin-Lee-Read phase in quantum Hall bilayers
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   



WORKSHOP WEEK (July 13 - 17)

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 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 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 11:45 Matthew Fisher (Microsoft Research, Station Q)
  Spin Bose-Metals in Weak Mott Insulators
   
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 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 (University of Oxford)
  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 - 16:00 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 16:45 Bernd Rosenow (MPI for Solid State Research)
  Bulk-Edge Coupling in the Non-Abelian v=5/2 Quantum Hall Interferometer
   
16:45 - 17:30 Anders Karlhede (Stockholm University)
  The Quantum Hall System: Exact Solutions and Limiting Cases
   
17:30 - 19:00 Dinner
   
19:00 - 19:45 Christian Pfleiderer (TU Munich)
  Skyrmion Lattices in Magnetic Metals and Semiconductors
   
19:45 - 20:30 Jung Hoon Han (Sungkyunkwan University)
  Skyrme Crystal Phases and Anomalous Hall Conductivity in a Model for MnSi
   
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 Andreas Läuchli (MPI PKS Dresden)
  Dimerization Patterns in Kagome Based Heisenberg Models
   
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 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 Group photo (to be published on the web), thereafter 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 Roser Valenti (Universität Frankfurt)
  Frustration in the Charge Transfer Salt Superconductors
   
14:45 - 15:30 Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT)
  Tensor Network Renormalization Approach to Strongly Correlated Systems
   
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 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
   
17:30 - 18:15 Eric Yang (Korea University Seoul)
  Effects of Non-Abelian Matrix Berry Phase on Pumping and Many Body Physics Dots
   



SEMINAR WEEK 4 (July 20 - July 24)

Monday, July 20  
   
15:00 - 16:00 Milica Milovanovic (Institute of Physics, Belgrade)
  Topological phases in the quantum Hall bilayer
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
Tuesday, July 21  
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Nicolas Regnault (CNRS/ENS Paris)
  Topological entanglement and clustering of Jain hierarchy states
   
15:00 - 16:30 Eun-Ah Kim (Cornell University, Ithaca)
  Topological quantum criticality
   
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
   
Wednesday, July 22  
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Didier Poilblanc (CNRS/University of Toulouse)
  Quantum dimer model approaches to frustrated magnets
   
15:00 - 16:00 Amalia Coldea(University of Bristol)
  Topological changes in the Fermi surface of iron pcnitides
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
Thursday, July 23  
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Emil Bergholtz (MPIPKS Dresden)
  One-dimensional theory of the quantum Hall system
   
15:00 - 16:00 Hans Hansson (Stockholm University)
  Abelian and non-Abelian QH hierarchies from conformal field theory
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
Friday, July 24  
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 12:00 Mike Zhitomirsky (CEA/INAC Grenoble)
  Fractional topological excitations in classical Kagome antiferromagnet
   


Last updated: July 17, 2009