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Please note

we have a last minute change for the location of the talks on Friday.
The talks on Friday, June 24, will be held at the STUDENT UNION BUILDING, which is located at the center of campus.
Please see the attached map for details.

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Monday, June 20: Butler Auditorium, Ne’eman Inst., Technion

9:00-9:30 Opening Words

Session 1: Quantum Matter 1

9:30-10:00

Steve Kivelson
Stanford

What I know about the solution of the Hubbard model that will still be true at Assa’s 80th birthday

10:00-10:30

Dan Arovas
U.C. San Diego

Quantum nucleation of skyrmions in chiral magnets

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Session 2: Quantum Matter 2

11:00-11:30

Amit Keren
Technion

The stiffnessometer; a magnetic-field free superconducting stiffness meter, and its application to the cuprates

11:30-12:00

Aharon Kapitulnik
Stanford

The magnetic field tuned superconductor to insulator transition

12:00-12:30

Aviad Frydman
Bar Ilan U.

Specific heat measurements through the superconductor-insulator quantum phase transition

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

Session 3: Unconventional superconductivity

14:00-14:30

Amir Yacoby
Harvard

A New Spin on Superconductivity

14:30-15:00

Amit Kanigel
Technion

The electronic structure of Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy in the presence of a super-current: Flux-flow, Doppler shift and quasiparticle pockets

15:00-15:30

Gad Koren
Technion

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

16:00-16:30

Yuval Gefen
Weizmann

A New Paradigmatic Picture of the Edge of Fractional Quantum Hall Systems

16:30-17:00

R Shankar
Yale

Equality of certain bulk wave functions and edge correlations in d=2 and 3.

17:00-17:30

Eric Akkermans
Technion

Measuring Chern numbers with waves in quasicrystals

Tuesday, June 21: Butler Auditorium, Ne’eman Inst., Technion

Session 5: Quantum Magnetism 1

9:00-9:30

Ganapathy Murthy
U. Kentucky

The Hubbard Model on Bilayer Graphene: A Second Look

9:30-10:00

Snir Gazit
U.C. Berkeley

Confinement transition of Ising lattice gauge theory coupled to fermions.

10:00-10:30

Sylvian Capponi
U. Toulouse

A brief history of Contractor Renormalization

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Session 6: Quantum Matter 3

11:00-11:30

Subir Sachdev
Harvard

Quantum matter without quasiparticles: graphene, random fermion models, and charged black holes

11:30-12:00

Herb Fertig
Indiana U.

Floquet’s Theorem as a Route to Topology in Graphene

12:00-12:30

Yigal Meir
Ben-Gurion U.

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

9:00-9:30

Mohit Randeria
Ohio State U.

A simple fermion model for a direct transition from an insulator to a superconductor

9:30-10:00

Dror Orgad
Hebrew U.

Enhanced pairing in inhomogeneous Hubbard models

10:00-10:30

James Analytis
U.C. Berkeley

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

11:00-11:30

Thierry Giamarchi
U. Geneve

Quantum Spins as quantum simulators

11:30-12:00

Patrick Azaria
Jussieu

Bound-States Dynamics in One-Dimensional Multi-Species Fermionic Systems

12:00-12:30

Ophir Auslaender

Technion

Local Characterization of Superconductivity in Iron Pnictides

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

Session 9: Quantum Transport

14:00-14:30

Kathryn Levin
U. Chicago

Commonalities of the pseudogap in high Tc superconductors and ultracold Fermi superfluids

14:30-15:00

Phil Allen
SUNY Stony Brook

Electrical and Thermal Conductivity with Questionable Quasiparticles

15:00-15:30

Efrat Shimshoni
Bar Ilan U.

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

9:00-9:30

Sebastian Huber
ETH Zurich

Single Vortex Dynamics: old puzzles and new insights

9:30-10:00

Eugene Demler
Harvard

Dynamical Copper pairing in non-equilibrium electron-phonon systems

10:00-10:30

Daniel Podolsky
Technion

Excitations of a quantum solid

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Session 11: Quantum Dynamics 2

11:00-11:30

Matthew Fisher
U.C. Santa Barbara

Quantum rotations and entanglement of symmetric molecules in solvent

11:30-12:00

Yuval Oreg
Weizmann

From an array of quantum wires to three-dimensional fractional topological phases

12:00-12:30

Amnon Aharony
Ben-Gurion U.

Spin-orbit effects on mesoscopic junctions

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

Session 12: Quantum Matter 6

14:00-14:30

Dan Shahar
Weizmann

Superconductor-insulator transition far from equilibrium

14:30–15:00

Assa Auerbach
Technion

What does the Hall number measure?

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

Session 13: Student session

15:30-15:50

Erez Berg
Weizmann

Bad metals and more of Assa’s good friends

15:50-16:10

Ilia Khait
Technion

Spin transport of weakly disordered Heisenberg chain at infinite temperature

16:10-16:30

Ehud Altman
Weizmann

Large N, large S, large mess: a solvable model for a dynamical transition to quantum chaos

16:30-16:50

Netanel Lindner
Technion

Universal chiral steady states violating the first and second Auerbach rules

Friday, June 24: Students Union Building, Technion

Session 14: Quantum and Classical Matter

9:00-9:30

Uri Sivan
Technion

The elusive Hydrophobic Interaction

9:30-10:00

Ady Stern
Weizmann

Magneto-transport and disorder in Weyl semi-metals. 

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break Break

Session 15: Fractional Quantum Hall effect

10:30-11:00

Bert Halperin
Harvard

Perspectives on the half-filled Landau level

11:00-11:30

Joseph Avron
Technion

Braiding magnetic fluxes in Pauli Hamiltonians

11:30-12:00

Duncan Haldane
Princeton

Geometry of flux attachment to composite bosons and fermions in the FQHE

12:00-12:30 Concluding Remarks

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