Simons Program: CONDMAT 2017 (Conference On New Directions in Condensed Matter)

21 May 2017, 17:00 → 24 May 2017, 20:00 Europe/Copenhagen

Auditorium A (Niels Bohr Institute)

Mark Rudner, Poul Henrik Damgaard (Niels Bohr Institute), Steve Simon

 

The workshop is designed to bring together condensed matter physicists from a broad range of areas at the forefront of the field.  The program will feature invited talks by field leaders in both experiment and theory, with plenty of time for active discussions.
 
Invited speakers:

Dmitri Abanin (Geneva) 
Jens Bardarson (Stockholm)
Xie Chen (Caltech)
Wojciech de Roeck (Leuven)
Maria Hermanns (Cologne)
Roni Ilan (Tel Aviv)
Shahal Ilani (Weizmann)
Jonathan Keeling (St. Andrews)
Michael Kohl (Bonn)
Corinna Kollath (Bonn)
Netanel Lindner (Technion)
Andy Mackenzie (Max Planck Institute, Dresden)
Julia Meyer (Grenoble)
Dmytro Pesin (Utah)
Frank Pollmann (TU Munich)
David Schuster (Chicago)
Gunter Stolz (UA Birmingham)

The workshop is sponsored by the Simons Foundation.

Sunday, 21 May

17:00 → 19:00 Welcome reception + discussions

Monday, 22 May

09:00 → 09:45 David Schuster

09:45 → 10:30 Julia Meyer: Non-equilibrium quasi-particles in disordered superconductors

10:30 → 11:45 Discussions/Coffee Break

11:45 → 12:30 Andy Mackenzie: Physics opportunities in ultra-pure delafossite oxide metals

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:15 NBI Tour

14:30 → 15:15 Xie Chen: Matrix Product Representation of Locality Preserving Unitaries

15:15 → 16:15 Discussions/Coffee Break

16:15 → 17:00 Dmytro Pesin: Geometric theory of nonlocal transport in metals

19:00 → 22:00 Conference Dinner

More info will be provided

Tuesday, 23 May

09:00 → 09:45 Frank Pollmann: Dynamical signatures of quantum spin liquids

09:45 → 10:30 Shahal Ilani: Imaging the Quantum Wigner Crystal of Electrons in One-Dimension

10:30 → 11:45 Discussions/Coffee Break

11:45 → 12:30 Roni Ilan

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 Maria Hermanns: Kitaev spin liquids — from topological order to material synthesis

14:45 → 15:30 Jens Bardarsson: Natural orbital occupations in many-body localized eigenstates and dynamics

15:30 → 16:30 Discussions/Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:15 Dmitry Abanin

Wednesday, 24 May

09:00 → 09:45 Michael Kohl

09:45 → 10:30 Jonathan Keeling: Quantum Many-Body Physics with Multimode Cavity QED

10:30 → 11:45 Discussions/Coffee Break

11:45 → 12:30 Corinna Kollath: Dissipative dynamics in ultracold atoms

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 Gunter Stolz: Many-body localization of the droplet spectrum in the random XXZ spin chain

14:45 → 15:30 Wojcieh de Roeck

15:30 → 16:30 Discussions/Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:15 Netanel Lindner

17:15 → 18:00 Wrap-up