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 |
| 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
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