Monday, June 20: Butler Auditorium, Ne’eman Inst., Technion
9:00-9:30 Opening Words
Session 1: Quantum Matter 1
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9:30-10:00 |
Steve Kivelson |
What I know about the solution of the Hubbard model that will still be true at Assa’s 80th birthday |
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10:00-10:30 |
Dan Arovas |
Quantum nucleation of skyrmions in chiral magnets |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Session 2: Quantum Matter 2
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11:00-11:30 |
Amit Keren |
The stiffnessometer; a magnetic-field free superconducting stiffness meter, and its application to the cuprates |
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11:30-12:00 |
Aharon Kapitulnik |
The magnetic field tuned superconductor to insulator transition |
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12:00-12:30 |
Aviad Frydman |
Specific heat measurements through the superconductor-insulator quantum phase transition |
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
Session 3: Unconventional superconductivity
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14:00-14:30 |
Amir Yacoby |
A New Spin on Superconductivity |
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14:30-15:00 |
Amit Kanigel |
The electronic structure of Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy in the presence of a super-current: Flux-flow, Doppler shift and quasiparticle pockets |
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15:00-15:30 |
Gad Koren |
Quantum vortex tunneling in YBCO thin films, and supercurrents in c-axis junctions of the cuprates under magnetic fields |
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Session 4: Topological phases 1
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16:00-16:30 |
Yuval Gefen |
A New Paradigmatic Picture of the Edge of Fractional Quantum Hall Systems |
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16:30-17:00 |
R Shankar |
Equality of certain bulk wave functions and edge correlations in d=2 and 3. |
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17:00-17:30 |
Eric Akkermans |
Measuring Chern numbers with waves in quasicrystals |
Tuesday, June 21: Butler Auditorium, Ne’eman Inst., Technion
Session 5: Quantum Magnetism 1
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9:00-9:30 |
Ganapathy Murthy |
The Hubbard Model on Bilayer Graphene: A Second Look |
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9:30-10:00 |
Snir Gazit |
Confinement transition of Ising lattice gauge theory coupled to fermions. |
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10:00-10:30 |
Sylvian Capponi |
A brief history of Contractor Renormalization |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Session 6: Quantum Matter 3
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11:00-11:30 |
Subir Sachdev |
Quantum matter without quasiparticles: graphene, random fermion models, and charged black holes |
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11:30-12:00 |
Herb Fertig |
Floquet’s Theorem as a Route to Topology in Graphene |
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12:00-12:30 |
Yigal Meir |
Spontaneous Time-Reversal Breaking and Edge Reconstruction in Quantum Hall and Topological Insulators |
12:30-18:00 Conference trip to the old city of Caesarea
19:00 Conference Dinner
Wednesday, June 22: Lecture Hall 323, Physics Department, Technion
Session 7: Quantum Matter 4
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9:00-9:30 |
Mohit Randeria |
A simple fermion model for a direct transition from an insulator to a superconductor |
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9:30-10:00 |
Dror Orgad |
Enhanced pairing in inhomogeneous Hubbard models |
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10:00-10:30 |
James Analytis |
Anomalous scaling in the transport as a function of magnetic field and temperature in a high Tc superconductor |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Session 8: Quantum Magnetism 2
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11:00-11:30 |
Thierry Giamarchi |
Quantum Spins as quantum simulators |
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11:30-12:00 |
Patrick Azaria |
Bound-States Dynamics in One-Dimensional Multi-Species Fermionic Systems |
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12:00-12:30 |
Ophir Auslaender Technion |
Local Characterization of Superconductivity in Iron Pnictides |
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
Session 9: Quantum Transport
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14:00-14:30 |
Kathryn Levin |
Commonalities of the pseudogap in high Tc superconductors and ultracold Fermi superfluids |
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14:30-15:00 |
Phil Allen |
Electrical and Thermal Conductivity with Questionable Quasiparticles |
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15:00-15:30 |
Efrat Shimshoni |
Emergence of helical edge conduction in graphene at the n = 0 quantum Hall state |
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00 Poster Session
Thursday, June 23: Butler Auditorium, Ne’eman Inst., Technion
Session 10: Quantum Dynamics
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9:00-9:30 |
Sebastian Huber |
Single Vortex Dynamics: old puzzles and new insights |
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9:30-10:00 |
Eugene Demler |
Dynamical Copper pairing in non-equilibrium electron-phonon systems |
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10:00-10:30 |
Daniel Podolsky |
Excitations of a quantum solid |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Session 11: Quantum Dynamics 2
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11:00-11:30 |
Matthew Fisher |
Quantum rotations and entanglement of symmetric molecules in solvent |
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11:30-12:00 |
Yuval Oreg |
From an array of quantum wires to three-dimensional fractional topological phases |
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12:00-12:30 |
Amnon Aharony |
Spin-orbit effects on mesoscopic junctions |
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
Session 12: Quantum Matter 6
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14:00-14:30 |
Dan Shahar |
Superconductor-insulator transition far from equilibrium |
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14:30–15:00 |
Assa Auerbach |
What does the Hall number measure? |
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
Session 13: Student session
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15:30-15:50 |
Erez Berg |
Bad metals and more of Assa’s good friends |
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15:50-16:10 |
Ilia Khait |
Spin transport of weakly disordered Heisenberg chain at infinite temperature |
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16:10-16:30 |
Ehud Altman |
Large N, large S, large mess: a solvable model for a dynamical transition to quantum chaos |
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16:30-16:50 |
Netanel Lindner |
Universal chiral steady states violating the first and second Auerbach rules |
Friday, June 24: Students Union Building, Technion
Session 14: Quantum and Classical Matter
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9:00-9:30 |
Uri Sivan |
The elusive Hydrophobic Interaction |
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9:30-10:00 |
Ady Stern |
Magneto-transport and disorder in Weyl semi-metals. |
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break Break
Session 15: Fractional Quantum Hall effect
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10:30-11:00 |
Bert Halperin |
Perspectives on the half-filled Landau level |
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11:00-11:30 |
Joseph Avron |
Braiding magnetic fluxes in Pauli Hamiltonians |
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11:30-12:00 |
Duncan Haldane |
Geometry of flux attachment to composite bosons and fermions in the FQHE |
12:00-12:30 Concluding Remarks